MAK
@makramd.bsky.social
⚠️Actively looking for work⚠️
Freelance & Consulting work.
Photogrammetry
Environmental tech artist
GFX & rendering historian
http://www.artstation.com/makram
https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@makram
Freelance & Consulting work.
Photogrammetry
Environmental tech artist
GFX & rendering historian
http://www.artstation.com/makram
https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@makram
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MAK
@makramd.bsky.social
· Dec 17
Been a while since I did some photogrammetry based work & man was I rusty. No fancy Structured light/Photometry setup. Just n old Sony ILC-E6000 with its 16-50 kit lens in horrendous lighting conditions and everything else done by hand (cleaning/sculpting, materials creation etc).
@mimus.bsky.social I hope that many of your fellow on the Alien: Isolation 2 team members are playing (or have played) Routine 🙏🏼
December 17, 2025 at 12:50 PM
@mimus.bsky.social I hope that many of your fellow on the Alien: Isolation 2 team members are playing (or have played) Routine 🙏🏼
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You can make things really weird by stacking a symmetry or twist operator on top of the fractal warp.
December 16, 2025 at 7:50 PM
You can make things really weird by stacking a symmetry or twist operator on top of the fractal warp.
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Threw together a collection of gameplay animations of our bird companion, Twig. Thanks @doublefine.com and @leepetty.bsky.social for giving me this opportunity to work with such cool character designed by @leviryken.bsky.social.
#animation
#animation
December 16, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Threw together a collection of gameplay animations of our bird companion, Twig. Thanks @doublefine.com and @leepetty.bsky.social for giving me this opportunity to work with such cool character designed by @leviryken.bsky.social.
#animation
#animation
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My "No Graphics API" blog post is live! Please repost :)
www.sebastianaaltonen.com/blog/no-grap...
I spend 1.5 years doing this. Full rewrite last summer and another partial rewrite last month. As Hemingway said: "First draft of everything is always shit".
www.sebastianaaltonen.com/blog/no-grap...
I spend 1.5 years doing this. Full rewrite last summer and another partial rewrite last month. As Hemingway said: "First draft of everything is always shit".
No Graphics API — Sebastian Aaltonen
Graphics APIs and shader languages have significantly increased in complexity over the past decade. It’s time to start discussing how to strip down the abstractions to simplify development, improve pe...
www.sebastianaaltonen.com
December 16, 2025 at 6:52 PM
My "No Graphics API" blog post is live! Please repost :)
www.sebastianaaltonen.com/blog/no-grap...
I spend 1.5 years doing this. Full rewrite last summer and another partial rewrite last month. As Hemingway said: "First draft of everything is always shit".
www.sebastianaaltonen.com/blog/no-grap...
I spend 1.5 years doing this. Full rewrite last summer and another partial rewrite last month. As Hemingway said: "First draft of everything is always shit".
IMO Ubisoft's Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora (& it's DLC) is leagues better that the movie franchise it's based on.
a bald man with glasses says " i need you to believe me " to another man
ALT: a bald man with glasses says " i need you to believe me " to another man
media.tenor.com
December 16, 2025 at 3:04 PM
IMO Ubisoft's Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora (& it's DLC) is leagues better that the movie franchise it's based on.
One of the best movie of all time turned 30 today.
Time for my yearly re-watch !
Time for my yearly re-watch !
December 16, 2025 at 2:30 AM
One of the best movie of all time turned 30 today.
Time for my yearly re-watch !
Time for my yearly re-watch !
Just started watching season 3 of Prehistoric Planet on Apple TV boy does it look good. @framestore.bsky.social 's work is magnificent. The iced out fur/groom on those mammoths (& all other animals) is wild 😳
tv.apple.com/en/show/preh...
tv.apple.com/en/show/preh...
Watch Prehistoric Planet - Apple TV
Experience the wonders of our world like never before in this epic series from Jon Favreau and the producers of Planet Earth. Travel back to a time wh…
tv.apple.com
December 15, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Just started watching season 3 of Prehistoric Planet on Apple TV boy does it look good. @framestore.bsky.social 's work is magnificent. The iced out fur/groom on those mammoths (& all other animals) is wild 😳
tv.apple.com/en/show/preh...
tv.apple.com/en/show/preh...
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My absolute favorite (and hands-down the most used) spatial warp in Keeper is the fractal. Our morph tech supports both Mandelbulb and Quaternion fractals. It's addictively cool and I could play with this all day long. :)
December 15, 2025 at 7:43 PM
My absolute favorite (and hands-down the most used) spatial warp in Keeper is the fractal. Our morph tech supports both Mandelbulb and Quaternion fractals. It's addictively cool and I could play with this all day long. :)
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Over 4 years ago I wrote an article about trying to solve the texture seam you often get in shader generated UVs. Especially in things like equirectangular UVs, though any kind of discontinuity will cause them.
bgolus.medium.com/distinctive-...
bgolus.medium.com/distinctive-...
Distinctive Derivative Differences
Pesky Problems with Procedural UVs
bgolus.medium.com
December 14, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Over 4 years ago I wrote an article about trying to solve the texture seam you often get in shader generated UVs. Especially in things like equirectangular UVs, though any kind of discontinuity will cause them.
bgolus.medium.com/distinctive-...
bgolus.medium.com/distinctive-...
That DF best game GFX of 2025 is ridiculous. The fact that what is probably one of the best looking game ever created is not mentioned is insane (@doublefine.com Keeper) among other nonsense like saying that Routine uses Lumen (it does not) 🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️
a man in a suit and tie is sitting at a desk with his eyes closed .
ALT: a man in a suit and tie is sitting at a desk with his eyes closed .
media.tenor.com
December 15, 2025 at 3:20 AM
That DF best game GFX of 2025 is ridiculous. The fact that what is probably one of the best looking game ever created is not mentioned is insane (@doublefine.com Keeper) among other nonsense like saying that Routine uses Lumen (it does not) 🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️
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December 13, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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Big thanks to RenderRam for doing an extended interview with me on the olden days of 3dsmax, my shift to Blender, the SoulburnScripts, GenAI, and so many other topics. Hope some of you find it interesting, & subscribe to Vjekoslav's channel, he's got some good stuff! www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCLH...
Neil Blevins In Da House! Industry Veteran About The State of 3D, AI And The Future
YouTube video by RenderRam
www.youtube.com
December 13, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Big thanks to RenderRam for doing an extended interview with me on the olden days of 3dsmax, my shift to Blender, the SoulburnScripts, GenAI, and so many other topics. Hope some of you find it interesting, & subscribe to Vjekoslav's channel, he's got some good stuff! www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCLH...
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The new Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic game is never seeing the light of day.
a close up of a man 's face with the words `` trust me '' written on it
ALT: a close up of a man 's face with the words `` trust me '' written on it
media.tenor.com
December 12, 2025 at 5:26 PM
The new Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic game is never seeing the light of day.
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We’ve just released a new Hotfix for ROUTINE that fixes the Film Grain effects toggle not persisting between levels.
Check the patch notes for Hotfix 1.9.0.0 here: store.steampowered.com/news/app/606...
Check the patch notes for Hotfix 1.9.0.0 here: store.steampowered.com/news/app/606...
December 12, 2025 at 4:29 PM
We’ve just released a new Hotfix for ROUTINE that fixes the Film Grain effects toggle not persisting between levels.
Check the patch notes for Hotfix 1.9.0.0 here: store.steampowered.com/news/app/606...
Check the patch notes for Hotfix 1.9.0.0 here: store.steampowered.com/news/app/606...
So Remedy have just gone full on Souls-like BS with Control 2? 🤮🤮
December 12, 2025 at 2:16 AM
So Remedy have just gone full on Souls-like BS with Control 2? 🤮🤮
Whatever this award shit is trying to be, it's an embarrassment to the human race. Absolutely dreadful from top to bottom.
December 12, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Whatever this award shit is trying to be, it's an embarrassment to the human race. Absolutely dreadful from top to bottom.
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Currently the job market is cratering and people aren’t going to the theaters or buying stuff. What a time to tell your audience to “imagine” shit yourselves, you fucking plebs.
Disney is making a $1 billion investment in OpenAI and will let the AI platform use its characters to make social-media videos.
Disney to Invest $1 Billion in OpenAI, License Characters for Use in ChatGPT, Sora
The three-year licensing deal will let users generate videos of more than 200 Disney, Marvel, Star Wars and Pixar characters.
on.wsj.com
December 11, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Currently the job market is cratering and people aren’t going to the theaters or buying stuff. What a time to tell your audience to “imagine” shit yourselves, you fucking plebs.
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One giant leap towards no artist ever getting paid to make art ever again.
Disney and OpenAI sign a deal to bring 200+ Disney characters to Sora
Disney makes $1 billion investment in OpenAI and will become a "major" OpenAI customer
openai.com/index/disney...
Disney makes $1 billion investment in OpenAI and will become a "major" OpenAI customer
openai.com/index/disney...
December 11, 2025 at 4:33 PM
One giant leap towards no artist ever getting paid to make art ever again.
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Time is owned by Marc Benioff, the CEO of Salesforce, which is currently trying to sell its AI tool to ICE in order to triple their recruitment. just a thing I think about sometimes while I’m at work, implementing his product for nonprofits.
Time Magazine puts the "architects of AI" on its Person of the Year cover time.com/7339685/pers...
December 11, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Time is owned by Marc Benioff, the CEO of Salesforce, which is currently trying to sell its AI tool to ICE in order to triple their recruitment. just a thing I think about sometimes while I’m at work, implementing his product for nonprofits.
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boycott AI!! Cancel Disney+. I will only ever give money to real creators. People who consume gen AI deserve shame and embarrassment. You are propping up a system that funnels money from creatives straight to the corpos
"Users of the AI video creation platform [Sora] will now be able to create clips of 200 characters from Marvel, Pixar and Star Wars franchises."
"Whether that ultimately destabilizes the production and content creation side of the entertainment industry may be the big question."
"Whether that ultimately destabilizes the production and content creation side of the entertainment industry may be the big question."
Disney to Invest $1 Billion in OpenAI in Major Deal That Boosts Sora In Hollywood
Users of the AI video creation platform will now be able to create clips of 200 characters from Marvel, Pixar and Star Wars franchises.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
December 11, 2025 at 3:46 PM
boycott AI!! Cancel Disney+. I will only ever give money to real creators. People who consume gen AI deserve shame and embarrassment. You are propping up a system that funnels money from creatives straight to the corpos