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Aras Pranckevičius @aras-p.bsky.social · 8d

Ah, you also got the same? I also got like five emails by now. “Plz reward our serious investigation” lol. I have directory listing enabled because I want them, you doofus!

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Aras Pranckevičius @aras-p.bsky.social · 17d

My completely anecdotal impression is that amount of “large” in-house engines might be decreasing, but amount of “indie” in-house tech is increasing. Ten years ago many large productions were “custom, maybe UE4” while indies were “pretty much just Unity”, now the balance has shifted

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Aras Pranckevičius @aras-p.bsky.social · 17d

Ah, so that’s the “two’s complement” I keep on hearing about

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Aras Pranckevičius @aras-p.bsky.social · 17d

Suprise of the week: perhaps 15 people at Blender Conference said to me how they love Blender video sequencer (VSE) improvements. That is up from two or three people last year! “There’s dozens of us!” 😜 #blender #vse #bcon25

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Aras Pranckevičius @aras-p.bsky.social · 18d

This spontaneous collab was a joy to see!

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jordan @jordan.matelsky.com · 19d

so proud to share @jhuapl.bsky.social neuroscience research at #blenderconference2025 @blender.org ❤️

also shoutout to #microscopynodes by @aafkegros.bsky.social, here's to awesome new collabs born at blendercon!!!

Blending brains: Tales from the neuro department — Blender Conference 2025

YouTube video by Blender

youtu.be

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Aras Pranckevičius @aras-p.bsky.social · 27d

very nice! <3

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Aras Pranckevičius @aras-p.bsky.social · 27d

testing how/if nato will react. next time, send more drones and see what happens then.

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mmalex @mmalex.bsky.social · Sep 8

i put in a vectorscopey type thing into it, im sure subconsciously i was channeling @aras-p.bsky.social (have to edit #define TV to 1 in the shader)

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mmalex @mmalex.bsky.social · Sep 8

i made a quick (silly) 'analog' scope www.shadertoy.com/view/wffBz8

Shadertoy

www.shadertoy.com

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Aras Pranckevičius @aras-p.bsky.social · Sep 8

Hey now, that’s a waveform, not a vectorscope! :P But really cool

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mjp @mjp123.bsky.social · Sep 8

I've got a new blog post for all of you fine folks! It runs through the additions to D3D12 since it was released, and finishes up with some of the things that have changed for me personally in my code.

(And yes it's really been 10 years 👴).

therealmjp.github.io/posts/ten-ye...

Ten Years of D3D12

For those of us that have been using it from the start, it can be hard to believe that Direct3D 12 has been around for nearly ten years now. Windows 10 was released on July 29th 2015, and D3D12 has be...

therealmjp.github.io

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baldurk @baldurk.bsky.social · Sep 5

RenderDoc v1.40 is now available! This version includes support for VK_EXT_descriptor_buffer, and vulkan 1.4, as well as some other bug fixes an quality of life improvements.

Full release notes: github.com/baldurk/rend...

Binary builds: renderdoc.org/builds

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Aras Pranckevičius @aras-p.bsky.social · Sep 4

Nice!

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Aras Pranckevičius @aras-p.bsky.social · Sep 2

My wife did try a “take 100 photos of strangers” thing ten years ago (ten years?! where did time go?!), she says it was one of the scariest things. But, many people actually like being pictured. photo.smeliadeze.lt/category/100...

100 nepažįstamųjų – Smėliadėžė

photo.smeliadeze.lt

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Aras Pranckevičius @aras-p.bsky.social · Sep 1

Is it slower on a more recent version of Maya? :P

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Aras Pranckevičius @aras-p.bsky.social · Aug 26

Ha, I had forgotten about this article of yours! Should add a link to it...

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Aras Pranckevičius @aras-p.bsky.social · Aug 25

blender has been requiring compute shaders since late 2023, so that's not a problem there, yay

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Aras Pranckevičius @aras-p.bsky.social · Aug 25

btw, VSE got some updates since... checks lower right corner... 4.2.0 beta :)

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Aras Pranckevičius @aras-p.bsky.social · Aug 24

Woohoo! Someone is using VSE! ;)

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Aras Pranckevičius @aras-p.bsky.social · Aug 24

"This many points is surely out of scope!", a blog post about moving #blender scopes to GPU, and point rendering performance in general. aras-p.info/blog/2025/08...

This many points is surely out of scope! · Aras' website

aras-p.info

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Aras Pranckevičius @aras-p.bsky.social · Aug 24

Thanks! Someone just provided the Qualcomm devkit results, I just have not updated the page yet.

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Aras Pranckevičius @aras-p.bsky.social · Aug 24

thanks!

Aras Pranckevičius @aras-p.bsky.social · Aug 24

thanks a lot!

Aras Pranckevičius @aras-p.bsky.social · Aug 23

Thanks everyone! ❤️ Got data from 30 different GPUs, that will do :)

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