Notices by Chameleon Scales (chameleonscales@mastodon.art), page 2

@ChrisTalleras https://mastodon.art/web/statuses/102544351117180203

@sybren Very cool image. Looks like from a more dramatic and grounded movie.
Some hair particle issue with her eyebrows. Vertex weight slightly above zero?

@unfa Did you know Blender has an official Peertube instance with all of its open movies and other videos?
https://video.blender.org/videos/watch/3d95fb3d-c866-42c8-9db1-fe82f48ccb95

Generously managed by @sybren and @LPS
Just making sure.
Otherwise the one on Vimeo has a noticeably better video quality which plays much nicer with the smoke effects, so I would rather share this one than the YT one:
https://vimeo.com/325910798

There is so much visual detail. This sound and pictures belong in a theater.

@clacke You mean me or Andrew?

@clacke My bad, I was mistaken.
It became open source 7 years after the project started.
https://www.blender.org/foundation/history/

Still, when Andrew came in in 2008, it had been open source for 6 years already, so I still don't see your point.

@sybren Proog in Eevee. That's the beauty of the open movies.
If Pixar used Blender from the beginning, we could re-render Toy story. Maybe even improve the rigs.
Remasters of movies in general would require much less work hours and be much cleaner.

@clacke it's been open source for 25 years and proprietary for the first 1 or maybe 2 years so I don't think that's relevant.

Watched Andrew Price's 2.80 announcement/top6 video.
It hurt.
He's an 8 year long Blender tutor who was my entry door to Blender as he was for a great part of the community and somehow, more than ever, he sounds like a long time commercial software user who's just starting to realize "free" doesn"t mean worse. Maybe I'm overreacting but some things he said truly sounded wrong.
#blenderguru #b3d #b280 #blender28

@KnowPresent @Gargron in every instance I'm in, I have a column showing a feed of multiple hashtags at once (different for each instance). I find it very useful.

@sybren I can't yet believe what I'm seeing on the home page. It's going to take me some time to process...
beep!
ok, give it to me !!!

May creative freedom rise
#blender28 #b3d
🎉 🎉 🎉 🎉 🎉 🎉 🎉 🎉 🎉

@sybren I prefer "Creative freedom starts here".
What does it say under "Warning! free software" ?

@pablovazquez have you looked on the counter? Maybe someone finished preparing the smoothie.

@LPS just notifying you that your hashtag is broken. You can't have a dot in it.
Anywho, Blender coupled with Animation Nodes is far superior to After Effects for motion graphics but for video effects (speed control, keying and other video processing), I still haven't found algorithms as powerful as those AE offers in the open source world.

GWWWWD I LOVE 2.8 SO MUCH I GET ALL TENSED EVERY TIME ITS POWER ALLOWS ME TO DO SOMETHING AWESOME I COULDN'T DO BEFORE (about every 10 minutes). I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE I HAVE TO GET MY EXCITEMENT OUT SOMEHOW !

#b3d #blender28

@sybren that said, I hope we won't see the media count how many more will. Presenting global temperature evolution in terms of how many - arbitrary - geographical areas of completely different sizes have beaten their record is about as misleading as it is clickbait.

@sybren apparently at least 4 countries in Europe beat their historical record this summer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_weather_records

@monsterjavaguns another thing:
the icons of the properties tabs (e.g. constraints, modifiers) become hard to read when selected. I personally changed the highlight color to C6ECFF.
This color is under User Interface>Tab>Inner Selected

However, this also affects the workspace tabs so I made the "Text Selected" black so it stays readable.

The best would be to keep a dark highlight and make the icon white when the tab is selected (just like the text) but I don't think that's possible.

@mantissa is it lighter than aerogel ?
is it yummy ? it looks yummy.
is it 4 dimensional ?