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Minty Root

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CG Generalist by day, Brony Fan Animator by night He/him, bi Icon by @crescend.bsky.social https://www.youtube.com/mintyroot

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Minty Root @mintyroot.bsky.social · Feb 23

Updated my Minty ref sheet, finally added a reverse side for the mane.
You can still just flip the original side tho.

Minty Root @mintyroot.bsky.social · 56m

And safely returned home from the Quebec Comiccon. Had a lot of fun.

Minty Root @mintyroot.bsky.social · 3h

Personally I feel like Butterscotch just makes more sense with longer hair. It contrasts well with Rainbow Blitz and seems to fit the feminine color palette.

Minty Root @mintyroot.bsky.social · 4h

My best friend and my mom were exhausted after three panels at Comiccon.
Not sure how they'd survive pony cons.

Minty Root @mintyroot.bsky.social · 8h

Is Flash actually dead? Let's clear out one misconception about it.
youtube.com/shorts/5dSok...

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Minty Root @mintyroot.bsky.social · 11h

And we're in.

Minty Root @mintyroot.bsky.social · 1d

Again, enough with the Vinyl Scratch slander. She's clearly the better musician here.

Minty Root @mintyroot.bsky.social · 1d

Black ones are also pretty fitting, but they're usually a pain to shade in art.

Minty Root @mintyroot.bsky.social · 1d

Interesting. Twitter defaults the BG on a transparent PNG to white, while Bluesky uses black.

Minty Root @mintyroot.bsky.social · 1d

Minty Root @mintyroot.bsky.social · 1d

I got a few, is Discord better suited for it?

Minty Root @mintyroot.bsky.social · 1d

I'm only doing the Saturday of the Comiccon, given the con schedule it didn't make sense for me to travel for both days of the event.

Minty Root @mintyroot.bsky.social · 2d

So I'm done editing this week's short. It should be releasing while I'm at the Quebec Comiccon this Saturday.
Nothing too big, but I'm clearing up some misconceptions about Flash.

Minty Root @mintyroot.bsky.social · 2d

Does it make you feel any better that it's a digital shot?
youtu.be/yHt5-H4Rw6I

Final Destination 2 - Logging Truck VFX breakdown

YouTube video by befores & afters

Minty Root @mintyroot.bsky.social · 3d

So with the injury I ended up not going outside for a whole week. It hasn't been great for my mental health so I think I'll remedy it tomorrow.
I did end up playing a bunch of FFVII Rebirth tho. I barely play video games so that was a change.

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Emily Young @eayoung.net · 4d

Rebecca Heineman is probably best known for coding 3DO Doom from zero in 10 weeks after being told it just needed "polish" - the licensee didn't understand what porting involved.

Since hearing that story, she's someone I've looked up to a lot. Now, she's got a different struggle...

Rebecca Heineman @burgerbecky.bsky.social · 7d

I’ve started a GoFundMe to help with my cancer battle gofund.me/6850175a3

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Minty Root @mintyroot.bsky.social · 4d

In theory yeah, in practice I feel bad making a short that ends on a cliffhanger.

Minty Root @mintyroot.bsky.social · 4d

So good news, I recorded some footage for a YouTube Short I've been meaning to do for a long time.
Bad news, there's so much footage I'll definitely have to split it in parts.

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Baron Engel @baron-engel.bsky.social · 5d

Appropriate for the month October. This is a piece I started during a past picarto.tv/baronengel stream.

It's another of my witch ponies. Princess Luna is a natural candidate for this theme.

www.deviantart.com/baron-engel/...
#mlp #anthro #witch #luna

Minty Root @mintyroot.bsky.social · 5d

Due to the long processing time, I often preview my animation comps at 540p so I know how they look in motion, and I can then tweak effects to my liking. I can then do the final render at 4K by changing a setting, but the 4K version is still the same animation. You can't do that with generative AI.

Minty Root @mintyroot.bsky.social · 5d

$5 for 10 seconds of video may sound cheap, but let's not forget the amount of times people will generate the same clip until they are satisfied.
And that's just 720p clips. Upscaling 720p to 1080p or 4K can be done, but it'll look like shit on a big screen.

Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 8d

Sora 2 is also unbelievably expensive, costing OpenAI at least $5 per 10 second video - and likely more considering Sora 2 also generates synced-up audio. OpenAI loses one subscriber's revenue *every four images generated*. It's unbelievably stupid.
www.wheresyoured.at/sora2-openai...

Sora 2 Is Unbelievably Expensive, With Each Video Costing $5 Of Compute and Users Allowed To Generate 100 Videos Every 24 Hours — Meaning OpenAI Will Lose A Month’s Subscription Revenue Every Four Videos Generated
Let’s establish some facts:

Once you have access to Sora 2, you can generate what appears to be an unlimited amount of videos, at least on a $20-a-month subscription, and OpenAI has promised “generous limits” for a non-specific amount of time.
Every Sora 2 generation is at 1280x704 — a variant of 720p resolution — and every single one is 10 seconds long, even if you ask it to generate a longer one.
Each video appears to have sound, whether or not you asked for it.
It takes about a minute to generate each video.
Now, I’m a curious little critter, so I found that Microsoft actually publishes the prices of using Sora on its Azure AI Foundry page if you select “US East 2” as your region. To be clear, this is the pricing for the first Sora model, rather than Sora 2, which is likely more expensive.

Nevertheless, based on Azure’s pricing, it’s likely that each Sora 2 generation is priced at the “720 Global” rate of 50 cents a second, meaning that each video generated on Sora 2 costs $5 in compute, if not more, because it’s very likely that OpenAI’s costs are more than it charges on an API basis.

Now, according to The Information, OpenAI’s gross margins were projected to be 50% this year, meaning that even in the most kindly, sweet maths of all time, it’s annihilating all of its margin in two generations, and another subscriber’s margins in two more.

I also understand that some may argue that OpenAI’s costs “might not be as bad,” and there’s no evidence that this is the case.

Sora 2, by OpenAI’s own description, is a “video and audio generation model,” suggesting it’s one main model rather than a combination with its audio-generation models it released earlier this year.

Minty Root @mintyroot.bsky.social · 6d

So my back is finally no longer hurting like hell, time to actually animate some ponies.

Minty Root @mintyroot.bsky.social · 6d

Woke dinosaur.

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🍩🍬 Juby Skylines 🍬🍩 @jubyskylines.bsky.social · 6d

Juby's all ready for nightmare night >:3
☁🪽the lil fluffy cowboy ☁🤠

Minty Root @mintyroot.bsky.social · 6d

Permission to yee haw?

Minty Root @mintyroot.bsky.social · 6d

A small glitch on my rig means tiny fang.