David Santiago

I invented XR, the hardware stack for the metaverse, in it's current itteration, & I challenge any of you to prove me wrong, because I have receipts(NDAs, email correspondence) with plenty John Hancock's & letterheads. Mark Zuckerberg acquired this company where I first publicly disclosed to, just to unalive my one pager from the internet. https://lnkd.in/eBjFEM6V & this was another company acquisition, to unalive vouches given to me by almost every component manufacturer that I was collaborating with to build it at the time. So who are they? What components are they? What corporate entity acquired them? Top tier of coarse. Do your own due diligence. https://lnkd.in/e3NP_jQn Is there no justice for misappropriation? At this point I want my Nobel Prize. Come at me bro.

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Bootstrapping (Acoustic R&B Version 1)’ by Liam Bear Brown is on #SoundCloud https://lnkd.in/eQ_k4sFW Artist: Liam Bear Brown Lyrics: Nik Bear Brown Release Date: April 13, 2024 Genre: Acoustic R&B Dive into the rhythm of statistics with "Bootstrapping," a unique acoustic R&B track that brings the world of data analysis to life through music. Created by the talented Liam Bear Brown with insightful lyrics by Nik Bear Brown, this song explores the innovative statistical method known as bootstrapping. "Bootstrapping" begins with a vivid description of a researcher out in the field, grappling with limited data but armed with a powerful technique. The song weaves through the process of bootstrapping—using random samples with replacement to estimate properties of an estimator (like the mean or variance). It's both an educational tool and a catchy tune that makes complex concepts accessible and engaging. With its smooth melodies and clever lyrics, this song is perfect for anyone interested in data science, statistics, or just looking for a fresh musical experience. Liam Bear Brown delivers a track that not only entertains but enlightens, making "Bootstrapping" a standout piece in any music collection. Listen, groove, and let the numbers speak to you! #Bootstrapping #AcousticRnB #DataScience #Statistics #LiamBearBrown #NikBearBrown #EducationThroughMusic #Bootstrapping #SamplingStatistics

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Check out Tony Lyons Latest Stamps Workflow with Deep Renders you will learn so much about Script Management, Optimization etc. it's a really great tutorial Highly Recommend to Watch. Thanks for the Amazing Tutorial Tony Lyons #nuke #compositing #deep #workflow

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Animating with Cascadeur: Physics-based animation software is pretty wild. That’s 8 keyframes there. The one on the right is my first rough animation “Keyframe prompt” and the green dude on the left is the interpretation.

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Throwback to one of the many realtime client pitch demo's I put together while at Beyond Capture Studios. To this day, this one was one of my favorite demo's because it allowed me to showcase the power of live realtime in Unreal Engine, the 1 to 1 VCAM setup (which I am driving, with Vandy Sok pulling cables), and how mocap can be used not only for actors performance, but for puppeteering as well. In this scene, Graham Qually is puppeteering a markered wood block to control the car in realtime, guiding it on a set path on the table. He then uses a markered prop lever to open the "automatic doors". 🔥 This was all done with Vicon Optical System streamed into Autodesk MotionBuilder, where I setup the character solve, VCAM, prop car, and door rigs, then LiveLink'd them into Epic Games Unreal Engine with a scene I put together using assets from the Unreal Marketplace. 🤙 #Mocap #Realtime #Unreal #VCAM

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Houdini ships with the new Linear Solver SOP since H20. The new node can process dense and sparse matrices without numpy dependencies or the C++ HDK. I've been playing around with it lately and used it in these tools. The ARAP deform is based on the 2007 ARAP paper, using the Houdini example scene as a base and extending its functionality to support Tetrahedral topology. https://lnkd.in/eSsczaqp The RBF interpolate node allows you to deform geometry with control points using various Radial basis functions. https://lnkd.in/es-Mjm-J ARAP paper: https://lnkd.in/euQ-FBTn

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Here is how we created Lego assets back in the 90s in Lightwave. Modo | Convert a Mesh into Stacked Legos This video shares a quick technique to convert a mesh into stacked Legos in Modo. https://lnkd.in/gPFWM3zq

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Wooden Buddha head scanned with a Creality 3D Otter. Various materials applied and rendered in KeyShot, you know, because pretty 😉 This is straight out of the scanning software - auto-filled the holes and closed the mesh inside CrealityScan, so you could just import this directly into a slicer for 3D printing or any package you liked to render/remesh/retopo etc. direct from the scanner with no post-editing. Creality Otter: http://shrsl.com/4kkha #3dscan #3dscanning #3dscanner #creality #creality3d #keyshot

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🔊 One for the Breaking Bad fans! Today’s sound design is of “The Last Batch”, a concept Breaking Bad game by Piotr Tatar. There are a lot of layers going on here. The V8 was recreated using Leon Beilmann’s techniques in Kilohearts Phase Plant. I'm not 100% happy with it, but this week I decided to just share things as I make them. It's been quite refreshing to "expose" things that have only been worked on for a few hours without iteration. I think sometimes as artists we are scared to share things unless they are perfect. Audio, just like visual art, should be seen as a multi-stage process. By working with assets at the concept stages, you can receive constructive feedback from your team (and sometimes interesting new angles from other departments) that will help you push your design to the next level. Far too often audio is seen as an after-thought to slap on a project at the end. This leaves no space for the creative process. Collaborative iteration, that's what it's all about! Let me know what you think. #sounddesign #gameaudio #breakingbad #thelastbatch #kilohearts #phaseplant

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Here is a new tutorial. It's a big one. ADVANCED CHARACTER RIGGING IN AFTER EFFECTS. Hope you all will like it. https://lnkd.in/dxrf8yCF #animation #tutorial #design #motiongraphics

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I've updated the customGPT that has proved very useful to me (and quite popular for others) to learn Houdini. Amazingly, its possible to take screen shots of any part of the Houdini workspace, including node networks, and GPT will gracefully explain where you f*-ed up :) As GPT4 is now/soon public, this should be accessible to everyone now ! https://lnkd.in/d4GPqfcP #houdini #sidefx #3dartist

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User feedback and user requests are very important! We are constantly improving the software for the artists who use the tool. Take a look at the latest developments of the video player. #vfx #assetmanagment #videoplayer #daselement

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Writing shaders made a lot more sense to me than using a node based shader editor. "NORMAL_MAP = vec3(0,10);" Really helps with foliage in an isometric style, especially if it's moving and is lit by a dynamic light source. it helps keep the lighting consistent and avoids back face discoloration.

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In this video, I show a way to place foliage procedurally within Unreal. I use the Landscape material layers to limit where certain types of foliage will appear. The next step is to add more layers to further vary the environmental foliage and add character interaction with the grass. #3DEnvironment #3DArtist #3DArt #EnvironmentArtist #3Model

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Chain up! 🌊⛓🎈 No #keyframes, no #tyflow, just #phoenixfd active bodies! I'd like to start the week with a new Chaos PhoenixFD #RnD scene. It really takes me into uncharted territory, i never thought Phoenix Active Bodies are capable of this. After i discovered the concave collision feature, it was obvious to try it with a whole chain, to see how far i can go with the collision system. With a bit of fiddling and understanding of the individual parameters, et voilà! It's working! The #buoy is correctly constrained to the concrete block via the chain, while at the same time is interacting with the fluid. #Buoyancy force is pushing it up and makes it floating correctly on the surface. Pretty cool i think! 🤗 I'm planning to create a few more of these RnD scenes, it's fun! Would you like me to share the 3d scenes in the future? (i.e. #patreon ) Just let me know in the comments 👇 #artgineering #fluidsim

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Testing out the new font and asset store integration for #Substance3DPainter 10 release. I recorded a little of my process in this video when texturing the speaker with materials from the #Substance3DAssets store.  I used a displacement workflow in Painter and nanite tesselated displacement in #UnrealEngine. This made the rope and the speaker mesh holes simple with no object modelling needed. Shot realtime with Lumen in #UE5 using sequencer on an RTX 4090 using the new #MotionDesign mode in 5.4 More: https://lnkd.in/eKxDN5wv #MadeWithSubstance #MadeWithUnreal

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