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@nnnenov.bsky.social

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Sheffield based Sr. Motion designer / multimedia Artist, freelance mainly with Moment Factory, specialising in projection mapping, vfx, real time visuals, creative coding, microcontrollers, TiXL, VCV rack, Max MSP, etc. https://linktr.ee/nnenov

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Nik @nnnenov.bsky.social · 1d

pixtur showed me how the SDF shader nodes work under the hood in C#, so thanks to him I was able to make my own custom SDF spatial distortion effect by sampling simplex noise with xyz offsets, the stairs in my scene look so much better now
#tixl

a dark grainy gothic looking scene, the view is just above a warped stairway with columns to the right and distorted fibrous surfaces to the left, the stairway leads to a dark opening in the fibrous structure

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jb @jbakergraphics.bsky.social · 23d

introducing some spectrally varying behavior

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Nik @nnnenov.bsky.social · 11d

houdini tip:
Did you know you can set specific sops how they are displayed in the opengl viewport?
Or you can use the 'Visualize Properties' SOP and set it there, it will carry over in OBJ level
#houdini #tip

Nik @nnnenov.bsky.social · 11d

its going to be a short music video, im almost done blocking out the cameras for the first pass

a vast scene of pillars enshrouded in fibrous abstract structures highly contrasted dark and grainy

Nik @nnnenov.bsky.social · 13d

seamless looping little flame spritesheet I made in TiXL for my SDF scene

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Nik @nnnenov.bsky.social · 13d

It's all raymarching SDFs (a lot of combined basic functions and some more heavy mixed fractal functions) in TiXL (it used to be called TOOLL3) but I am adding a lot of grain in post as well

Nik @nnnenov.bsky.social · 14d

thank you! Hoping to get some animation out of it at some point

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Nik @nnnenov.bsky.social · 14d

this scene made entierly out of (too many) signed distance field functions and rendered barely in real time with TiXL, I love exploring it.

a vast scene of pillars enshrouded in fibrous abstract structures highly contrasted dark and grainy, the camera perspective is wide and looking down onto some distant ascending stairway occluded by the pillars

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ΜΑΝΟΣ ΤΡΑΧΙΑΣ™ @trahias.bsky.social · 14d

The Triomphal Arch of Titus in Rome
By : Franz Von Lenbach (1836-1904)
German Painter
#art #painting #painters #BlueSkyArt

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Nik @nnnenov.bsky.social · 14d

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Nik @nnnenov.bsky.social · 15d

the merge packed node will automatically assign names to each merged packed prim based on its node name in the network view #houdini #tip

houdini viewport showing HUD panels of different nodes being merged into the merge packed node

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Curzon Film @film.curzon.com · 15d

This is your chance to watch the all-time classic ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST on the
big screen in a new 4K restoration. Milos Forman's dramedy won five Academy Awards in 1976, including Best Picture. Now showing in select cinemas across the UK and Ireland.

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Nik @nnnenov.bsky.social · 16d

More messing with SDFs with #tixl

Nik @nnnenov.bsky.social · 24d

screenshot of geometric intersected objects in TiXL viewport

Nik @nnnenov.bsky.social · 25d

homage to the old abstract art pics I used to make in C4D when I was a teenager

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ΜΑΝΟΣ ΤΡΑΧΙΑΣ™ @trahias.bsky.social · 25d

Quint Buchholz (German Artist, born 1957)
"The Cat's Assembly", 1995.
Ink, Pen on Paper, 21.5 × 13.5 inches.
Private Collection.
#art #painting #painters #BlueSkyArt

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Nik @nnnenov.bsky.social · 25d

not freezing each growth stage can result in some pretty interesting results too

Nik @nnnenov.bsky.social · 25d

Dendritic sort of setup I started messing with, inspired after the TiXL meetup on discord last night

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Nik @nnnenov.bsky.social · 26d

I removed a bunch of nodes and the frame rate is crazy good now, and the look is pretty much the same
#tixl

Nik @nnnenov.bsky.social · 26d

this comp test is definitely not real-time friendly

Nik @nnnenov.bsky.social · 27d

getting so cool, tweaked normal sampling distance, wrapped point space for endless vertical offset, i want to try and make a carbonated underwater look

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Nik @nnnenov.bsky.social · 27d

Was messing about a bit today with this node in TiXL, MoveToSDFsurface, which i can adjust to be relative to individual point scale, the result technique is really cool, excited to mess with it further

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ΜΑΝΟΣ ΤΡΑΧΙΑΣ™ @trahias.bsky.social · 28d

Eyvind Earle (American, 1916–2000)
"Grazing in Peace", 1970.
Serigraph on Paper, 55.6 × 69.2 cm.
Private Collection.
#art #painting #painters #BlueSkyAr

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Michael Whelan @michaelwhelan.bsky.social · 29d

NIGHTMARE IN RED (1981)
Acrylic Over Pastels - 25 ½” x 20”

Tales from the Nightside is a collection of macabre stories by Charles L. Grant. I accepted a commission to do the cover art in the gloomy winter of 1980-81. 1/4

Angled view down on a horror montage set upon a red tinted, textured skull topped by a trio of rose blooms. Low in the immediate foreground one orbital reflects the glint of light on an eyeball. Nested low on the forehead a bat opens its maw wide in a scream. Set to the side is a tile with the number 3 and a creeping spider. Opposite rests a small stack of coins, the topmost decorated with a triangle. Smoke wafts out of a crack at the top back of the skull while tendrils of roots grow off the opposite side.

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Nik @nnnenov.bsky.social · Oct 1

My submission to this year's minute MAPP Festival:
It was my first time animating for video/laser projector and I'm really happy with how it turned out. Also, my friend Simon Girard did an incredible job on the sound design www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wybf...
#houdini #projection #mapping #3D #lazers

Intersection [ subission for MAPP Festival 2025 ]

This was a quick but fun 1 minute animation I created for the Minute MAPP 2025 festival in Montreal this year. It was my first time designing content for video/laser projector and I'm really happy…