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The Pokèmon Planet trailer is official up. Which Pokemon do you want to see get their own episode?
 https://youtu.be/6W8up9i79UA?si=0egHM... 

It's been a very AI inspired week and it shows in this weeks newsletter. AI game design. AI lip sync. And AI feature films.
Hasta la vista baby!

 https://dragonboots.gumroad.com/p/jamie-dunbar-ai-game-design-lip-sync-and-feature-films 

Anyone else going to be at Siggraph next week? Hope to see a few of you there :D 

Okay I'm starting to get pretty happy with this Cel shader 😁
I re-watched the first Spiderverse last night and made a bunch of adjustments.

Can blend between 2D and 3D shading.
Smooth out the blend between shadows and highlights.
Control density of hatching.
Have simple hatching or cross hatching for shadows.
Enabled and disable the outline and change it's colour.
Also added a black and white filter for a 'Film Noir' type look 😅

Tutorial and download coming....soonish 😅 

A funky little guide one of my YouTube members sent me. It's a breakdown of all the various mix node settings. Really helpful if you've got a particular pattern you need to make.

The screenshot alone is pretty useful, but you can download the Blend file here if you want to play with it yourself:

 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1j-qvROxCBkvqpCX8FakwITt6WN-jH4Wm/view?usp=drive_lin 

Definitely liking this new Cel Shading material I'm working on.
Notice the cross hatching in the shadows and highlighs.
Best part is, it renders in Eevee in under 1 second per frame! 🤯 

Yesterday I needed to export 200+ Blender files to FBX.

This could have taken a couple of hours manually, but with the help of ChatGTP I wrote a script to export an entire folder of .blend files to FBX in a few seconds.

Grab a free copy of that script here:

 https://dragonboots.gumroad.com/l/mfbwn 

Last week I was lucky enough to have a holiday involving the Daintree Rainforest and the Great Barrier Reef. I took a ton of video while there with the intention of using it for reference and compositing some 3D creatures into.

If you want a copy of these nature videos, you can grab a free copy here:
 https://dragonboots.gumroad.com/l/qeqnt 

(use the code 'free' at checkout). 

This weekend I finally finished all the cloth simulations on the characters clothing!
A massive milestone - and I think I've earned a marshmallow 😊

To celebrate, here's a shot of Pidgeot I've now had the time to work on. 

Just got myself a copy of 'Tiny Eye' for Blender and...omg I freaking love it!

I'm thinking of swapping out Charmeleon's eyes for one of these varieties. Which one is your favourite?

It's a procedural eyeball with a bunch of controls for eye shapes and materials, with a bunch of presets to get you started. And, bonus points for being completely free!
You can grab a copy here:
 https://tinynocky.gumroad.com/l/tinyeye