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
One Big Game is soon (August 13th-14th)! 24 hours of livestreamed footie played by games industry folk of varying skill! Raising money for @specialeffect.org.uk! But don't just take our exclamations for it, squidge your peepers around this video for a look at what it's all about:
Slides for SIGGRAPH 2026 Advances in Real-Time Rendering in Games course's talk on SMOLDER — REAL-TIME VOLUMETRIC EFFECT RENDERING IN GLACIER AND 007 FIRST LIGHT by @lexdev.net from IO Interactive are now online - enjoy!! advances.realtimerendering.com/s2026/index....
Slides for SIGGRAPH 2026 Advances in Real-Time Rendering in Games course's talk on SPEEDING UP PATH TRACING VIA ORCA (ONLINE RADIANCE CACHE ACCELERATION) by @jontology2.bsky.social from EA SEED are now online - enjoy!! advances.realtimerendering.com/s2026/index....
Used to be even "economy" seats on overseas flights were comfortable. Now they have those same damn cheap ass plastic seats with no cushion that are on the domestic flights. I mean really, a cushion does not take up any space and barely weighs anything. I now require chemical help to fly overseas.
I will eat all the normal garbage food it's fine please just let me feel like the seat in front of me is not pushing my femurs out of my hip sockets.
After a very painful experience flying economy from Berlin to LAX many years ago I decided that all continent-spanning flights had to be premium economy and it's cool that airlines decided having 6" of extra legroom is equal to 250% ticket price.
www.hdtvtest.co.uk/news/disney-... 11 European nations are affected Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Romania and Sweden
Disney+ drops all 4K UHD and HDR10 content in some Euro markets
The features were removed just a month after the streaming giant dropped support for Dolby Vision and 3D content. Premium subscribers in many European countries now get next to no benefits, despite pa...
hdtvtest.co.uk
MAK@makramd.bsky.social · 5d agoPSA: Disney is officially scamming Disney+ Premium subscribers in Europe! They've quietly dropped all 4K, HDR10/DV content without notice or any sign of refund which is fucking illegal. www.hdtvtest.co.uk/news/disney-...
PSA: Disney is officially scamming Disney+ Premium subscribers in Europe! They've quietly dropped all 4K, HDR10/DV content without notice or any sign of refund which is fucking illegal. www.hdtvtest.co.uk/news/disney-...
Disney+ in Europe drops all 4K UHD and HDR10 content
The features were removed just a month after the streaming giant dropped support for Dolby Vision and 3D content. Premium subscribers in Europe now get next to no benefits, despite paying higher price...
hdtvtest.co.uk
40 years of adventures. Here's to the worlds we've built together... and those still to come. We're marking the occasion with a logo inspired by our roots.
If you're an artist or developer in the #XR or immersive experience space, please create builds of your work. It's staggering to see how many public experiences rely on someone starting Unity/Unreal and hitting play. It just looks bad and risks losing a ton of performance to in-editor overhead.
Glacier is our in-house engine at IO Interactive, and we sat down with Technical Director Henrik Schlichter and Senior Product Manager Andy Touch to discuss how it was enhanced to bring Bond's world to life in 007 First Light. Watch the full episode: youtu.be/dhnamJOhqco #EarnTheNumber
However, countless websites are using this image without my permission. Worse, several 'extended' background versions exist, clearly created with some AI bullshit, also unauthorized
This is a Dark Souls dodge roll, Jimothy has got i-frames
Razzball@razzball.bsky.social · last wk.Jimothy inspired me to take karate lessons in a suburban strip mall. Thank you, Jimothy.
Well, it finally happened! After 9 years of Unity dominance, Godot was the most used game engine for GMTK Game Jam 2026 submissions. 🤖 Godot - 47% 🎮 Unity - 34% 🛠️GameMaker - 5% 🚀 Unreal Engine - 3% ✨ Other - 11%
SIGGRAPH 2026 links: blog.selfshadow.com/2026/07/26/s.... I'll continue to add to the list as more things show up online.
SIGGRAPH 2026 Links
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Masters Of the Univers just dropped on Prime Video & besides being goofy as hell that thing was... Awesome 👀 (I'm 44 & played with He-man toys while watching the cartoons religiously so I may be a bit biased..) One more reason to never care about review scores. app.primevideo.com/detail?gti=a...
Watch Masters of the Universe online – Prime Video
Fifteen years after tracking down the Sword of Power, Adam is whisked back to his home planet of Eternia, now under Skeletor's rule. With Teela and Duncan at his side, he must unlock his true power, e...
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This paper won 3rd-place Wolfgang Straßer Award (Best Paper) at @HPG_Conf! 🏆 Watch the presentation ⬇️ www.youtube.com/live/h2V8Yyf... #HPG2026 #GPU #RayTracing
HPG 2026: Day 1 - July 17th
YouTube video by High-Performance Graphics
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Regarding the new Esoterica Engine update. The renderer has been completely rewritten by Kirill Bazhenov. You can find more information about it here: docs.esotericaengine.com
Learnings from an Unreal Shared Technology Group at XBOX youtu.be/Jwf5zwj67nY?...
Learnings from an Unreal Shared Technology Group at Xbox | Unreal Fest Chicago 2026
YouTube video by Unreal Engine
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Today at Pixar's Open Source BoF at SIGGRAPH I'll be introducing USD Web View: an OSS webapp built for meaningful OpenUSD stage access and interaction. The project enables OpenUSD inspection, composition arc access, MaterialX support, Gaussian Splats and more, in one web-native environment:
Wow! Instagram’s AI just inflated my resume! This is why you should never believe these AIs on facts, it’s just a guessing machine (I did used to work at Pixar, I have been an art director, but I was never an art director at Pixar)
Well.... As today's events have shown.. There's no way Russell's car is identical to Kimi's. Toto is absolutely full of shit.
MAK@makramd.bsky.social · 3w agoBeen watching F1 since 1985 & I'm not into conspiracy theories but there definitely seems to be something fishy going on at Mercedes. Russell is getting screwed because there's no way Kimi should be that fast compared to him. There's some shady energy deployment shenanigans trickery going on
Been watching F1 since 1985 & I'm not into conspiracy theories but there definitely seems to be something fishy going on at Mercedes. Russell is getting screwed because there's no way Kimi should be that fast compared to him. There's some shady energy deployment shenanigans trickery going on
I keep seeing arguments for games being expensive due to hyper realistic expectations for art, or simply lots of art. What I don’t see is the actual most costly reason: Indecision Iteration is good, but the yearly rebuilding of entire characters, storylines, and levels, is the most expensive thing
Arvy@arvy.bsky.social · 7mo agoMany factors at play here - not the least of which is higher-ups (in their infinite wisdom) not being able to commit to anything, or knowing good from bad All the while the economy at large expects the profit line go infinitely up, absolutely ignoring its undeniable tendency to do the opposite
Happy to share that I'll be joining the Advances in Real-Time Rendering in Games course at Siggraph next week to talk about how we render volumetric effects in our Glacier engine & 007 First Light with Smolder! Take a look at all the cool presentations that are lined up!
@ceruleite.bsky.social · 3w ago2026 Advances in Real-Time Rendering in Games course line up is here - check it out! advances.realtimerendering.com
