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- face_melter3
You can download the 3D model of the island from Disney's Moana, along with a volume grid of the clouds they use.
The cloud is 2GB (which contains lower-res versions) and the island data is 45GB (90GB+ unpacked), with the pbr materials another 6GB (40GB+).
https://www.disneyanimation.com/…
The clouds are neat and you can get interesting fx by changing the channel mapping - smoke, fire etc. Tempted to try the island, but I fear my work machine may burst into flames and melt down to the earth's core just attempting to open the fucking thing.
- "...may only be used for
research or software development..."SimonFFM - interesting. nice._me_
- ^^ yeah, Disney/Pixar are big on Open Source systems, they occasionally drop stuff like this so people can test their own tech.face_melter
- Looking forward to the Moana sequel made by China.shapesalad
- This guy talks in depth about the technical details in trying to render this dataset. https://schuttejoe.g…monNom
- Neat to read that, it's rendering on an entirely industrial level. Our scenes (occasionally) top out at 7-10Gb, so 100+ with lighting is the stuff of madness.face_melter
- "...may only be used for
- utopian4
Download beautiful gradients for a web-site, photoshop or social networks in PNG
- PhanLo8
Free preset for After Effects
https://www.obispost.com/fleko
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FLEKO is a free preset for After Effects that allows you to stretch pixels and distort them geometrically. Create perfect loops, unique abstract patterns and keyframe-less animations.
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- Salarrue5
Ad-free youtube player for android tv box and android phones
- grafician0
- see it's getting easier to survive, every day.sted
- https://www.youtube.…sted
- but you need a plastic bottle and a coke can on a remote island in the first place to do it!grafician
- but yeah, pretty common these days on remote islandsgrafician
- Needs to be a 1l bottle to fit. Also need hair dryer to soften plastic in order to roll it inside out.webazoot
- 5.5 WAIT for days while dying of thirst for the contraption to deliver an ounce of water.SteveJobs
- try or dieimbecile
- The illustration shows no cap but I assume you need a cap to make this work no?_niko
- Need a cap for sure - but look like it’s thereGnash
- You will certainly die of dehydration before it makes enoughGnash
- just hope its turtle egg laying season and drink turtle bloodmoldero
- Turtles are chuck-full of bacteria. I’d stay clear of themGnash
- Gardener2
- Can you move the result upstairs to the original position for reincarnation?CyBrainX
- hahaha as ifnb
- Hey this is the useful thread not the dumb ideas thread :)nb
- saves candles, that is useful, I think...Gardener
- endless source of energy has been foundBeeswax
- fuck fossil fuel, finally!utopian
- Paraffin refinery owners hate himdrgs
- If this worked (physically) then the 4th pic would burn forevernb
- Beeswax3
Useful for some entertainment.
You can listen to local radios while traveling inside a car around the world.
https://driveandlisten.herokuapp…- Just drove across the Bosphorus, no radio, just street noise. A nice wee trip! :)Nairn
- cool :) If you open Izmir, that car is driving in the neighborhood where I grew up and where my mom still lives.Beeswax
- fuck that's so cool. and BTW it's Smyrna ;)_niko
- Pretty awesomenbq
- just check tokyo. of course there are bunch of mario karts on the road. why wouldn't there be. lolpango
- Nutter1
Just found http://www.psdcovers.com
Basically its a lot of photoshop actions for adding your design into magazines, laptops, ipads, smartphones or onto cans, milk cartons chips bags and more. All of it free.Here is an example:
becomes
- IRNlun64
Good webdev tip I just learned.
Typing document.designMode = 'on' in dev console lets you click on any piece of text to edit instead of having to poke around the DOM tree manually.
Create a new bookmark with this code:
javascript:(function(){document... = 'on';})();
Then click the bookmark when you're on any page to enter design mode.
- trooperbill2
another one http://services.google.com/fh/fi…
- + the healthcare one:
http://services.goog…uan - thx any more?trooperbill
- @uan nice! tnxKrassy
- oh nice, yeah, keep em' coming...whatthefunk
- Thanks for these, the healthcare one is particularly useful for a project I am working on at the moment!dee-dubs
- Sweet cheers for those guys - very useful for a project at the moment!pedromendez
- + the healthcare one:
- Nairn5
Oh my! This is great - particularly the ability to cache everything into the browser for offline/instantaneous use..
- skeptically clicking this like "i bet they don't have anything i use" - it's all there, handy AF.kingsteven
- ooh this is nicefadein11
- Sweet Jesus... thanks manfyoucher1
- shapesalad5
Good free app to stick a bunch of reference images on the screen/2nd monitor when you're sketching/designing/3d ing:
http://kruelgames.com/tools/kuad…
"Kuadro is an image viewer that allows you to open as many windows as you want, lay them out as you need them and store those layouts for later.
It was designed to stay out of your way, and work around you."
- sweet, tas are muchmugwart
- < just found this identical app, which seems a bit better: https://www.pureref.…shapesalad
- www.pureref.comshapesalad
- This is great - Just what I needed - thanks for posting!antimotion
- and works under linux - thanksmugwart
- jagara5
- I fixed 3 zippers, works :)jagara
- now i need pencils... only pens here!futurefood
- YKK hates her!_niko
- Krassy0
Instantly see a list of all your subscription emails. Unsubscribe easily from whatever you don’t want.
https://unroll.me/has anyone used this?
- has anyone used this?Krassy
- wouldn't dive in immediately, need more feedback, thx for the link ^helloeatbreathedrive
- yep. I've used it for a while...works greatdbloc
- There was a bunch of shit that came out recently about this company copying your emails and shit....google it.ArmandoEstrada
- they scoop and sell your data. don't use it.lvl_13
- they scoop and sell your data. It's finefuturefood
- Don't.garbage
- https://www.nytimes.…imbecile
- hans_glib0
- AdBlockPlus still works like a charm ;)nbq
- yes, but now yt allow 3 videos, then block you. or so they say...hans_glib
- I just skipped 4-5 times and nothing happenednbq
- just get YouTube Premium and stop being poorNBQ00
- Just Imagine being nbq00.Nairn
- uBlock started working again after a couple of weekskingsteven
- I've used uBlockOrigin, the trick was to disable it on one yt tab, and enable it back on another yt tab, while keeping the first one open, and it worked :)rzu-rzu
- quit browser, re-login into YouTubeutopian
- utopian2
- Hey, just what you see pal.MrT
- This will fix and repair most screen burn-in on TVs and computer displays if played for at least 1 hour.utopian
- This can fix image retention on TVs and computer displays if played for at least 1 hour. Fixing screen burn-in with a video is a myth.sted
- but anyway, look for one with RGB flashing, it is much more efficient.sted
- https://www.youtube.…imbecile
- Liesthumb_screws