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⚠️Actively looking for work⚠️ 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).

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MAK @makramd.bsky.social · 11h

Finished Keeper (7hrs)
Absolutely incredible experience.
Pure fucking Art in motion.
Genuinely the best looking game ever IMO. Incredible art direction, environments, and animation, sound design..
Also an amazing UE5 showcase.
@doublefine.com
PS: avoid spoilers at all cost

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Michael Bailey @mimus.bsky.social · 15h

With my anticipation of Dispatch and Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 coming out this week I’d completely forgotten about Keeper being released.

Managed to play some tonight and loving it so far, @doublefine.com showing they’re the best at what they do!

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MAK @makramd.bsky.social · 14h

It keeps on getting better and better the more you play. Absolutely insane looking sets...and surprises..

MAK @makramd.bsky.social · 16h

Yooooo😱😳 it just keeps on getting better 😲😲 omg @doublefine.com
Also best usage of UE5 (alongside Senua's & to à lesser extent Avowed)

MAK @makramd.bsky.social · 1d

Finally took the plunge and binged Adolescence (Netflix)
Welp...it's a masterpiece.
www.netflix.com/us/title/817...

Watch Adolescence | Netflix Official Site

When a 13-year-old is accused of the murder of a classmate, his family, therapist and the detective in charge are all left asking: what really happened?

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MAK @makramd.bsky.social · 1d

As a matter of fact it's probably one of the best looking game ever created. Holy smokes the art direction is marvelous 😱😳

MAK @makramd.bsky.social · 1d

Keeper looks incredible. Absolutely no idea what the FPS is on Series X though (looks like 40fps? With some animations at 30fps?).

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AMD GPUOpen @gpuopen.bsky.social · 2d

Get up to speed with our latest advanced graphics research:

📝 GATE (Geometry-Aware Trained Encoding) for neural rendering.
📝 Real-time procedural GPU tree generation.
📝 Neural Visibility Cache for real-time light sampling.

📥 Download the papers: gpuopen.com/learn/public...

A comparison between AMD Neural Light Sampling and ReSTIR.

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MAK @makramd.bsky.social · 2d

LDIP: Long Distance Information Propagation for Video Super-Resolution

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LDIP: Long Distance Information Propagation for Video Super-Resolution

YouTube video by DisneyResearchHub

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MAK @makramd.bsky.social · 2d

Monocular Facial Appearance Capture in the Wild

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Monocular Facial Appearance Capture in the Wild

YouTube video by DisneyResearchHub

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MAK @makramd.bsky.social · 3d

elmo from sesame street is standing in front of a fire

ALT: elmo from sesame street is standing in front of a fire

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Blender @blender.org · 5d

Blender 5.0 is in Beta! 🚀

Featuring artwork by Juan Hernández

Please take a moment to test your files, update your add-ons, and report any issue you may find by going to Help → Report a Bug.

👉 Download builder.blender.org/download/dai...
📖 What's New developer.blender.org/docs/release...
#b3d

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Nick Landry @activenick.bsky.social · 6d

Nice blog post from my friend @corayseifert.com about #StarWarsOutlaws.
I'm "the person who recommended I play it" in this story. 😉
corayseifert.com/blog/my-love...

My Love Letter to Star Wars: Outlaws — Coray Seifert

I was a hater at first, but this is the best interactive realization of the Star Wars universe I’ve played in a long, long time…

corayseifert.com

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passivestar @passivestar.bsky.social · 6d

WAIT! sampling from sdf after fillet basically gives you geometry-independent AO grid 😮

blender 5.0 is bussin 🤯

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European Parliament @europarl.europa.eu · 7d

Young Europeans leave their parents’ home at the age of 26 on average.

However, this varies significantly between EU countries.

According to the latest survey, the youngest Europeans to leave home are, on average, Finnish, at 21.4 🇫🇮 and the eldest are Croatians, at 31.3 🇭🇷

An infographic about the average age when people leave their parental home with a map of the EU countries.

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MAK @makramd.bsky.social · 6d

elmo from sesame street is standing in front of a fire

ALT: elmo from sesame street is standing in front of a fire

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MAK @makramd.bsky.social · 7d

Frankly that still miles better than anything running on UE5. But yeah it sucks

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Philip Hammer @phammer.bsky.social · 9d

Classic Volumetric Cloud Rendering

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Shannon Woods 🖥️💚🎮🕹️👾 @ SIGGRAPH2025 @shannonin3d.bsky.social · 11d

Recordings for all of the Slang-related sessions at this year's SIGGRAPH are now publicly available on YouTube! Check out the Slang blog for links to recordings and session materials here: shader-slang.org/blog/2025/10...

SIGGRAPH 2025 Materials Now Available: Recordings and Resources from Our Events

shader-slang.org

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Obsidian @obsidian.net · 11d

Your destination? The Arcadian System. #TheOuterWorlds2

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JEFF RIDGE @jeffridge.bsky.social · 12d

#ipadpro #procreate #digitalhandrawn #starcruiser

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david goldfarb @locust9.bsky.social · 12d

the outsiders game studio is closing after 10 years because of funcom layoffs

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rtryan98.bsky.social @rtryan98.bsky.social · 13d

After quite a bit of work, I am finally done with the first blog post about ocean rendering! You can find it here: rtryan98.github.io/2025/10/04/o...

I've also decided to create a video to showcase the ocean simulation in motion: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OXm...

Ocean Rendering, Part 1 - Simulation · Robert Ryan - Graphics Programmer

rtryan98.github.io

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MAK @makramd.bsky.social · 15d

Grounded & Avowed are Unreal Engine based games... So...???

a man with curly hair and glasses is making a funny face and saying huh .

ALT: a man with curly hair and glasses is making a funny face and saying huh .

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MAK @makramd.bsky.social · 15d

Avowed: A GPU Technical Retrospective
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Avowed: A GPU Technical Retrospective | Unreal Fest Orlando 2025

YouTube video by Unreal Engine

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