da_am @anthony@social.da-am.com

Hi I'm Anthony. I'm a freelance Houdini / FX artist near Chicago. Big Linux and self-hosting advocate. Check out my work at da-am.com.

To everyone with a stock / etf based retirement plan. Don't look. ☠️

Blender Studio releases Flamenco 3 | CG Channel
http://www.cgchannel.com/2022/09/blender-studio-releases-flamenco-3/

#blender

Any good hugo themes that are just a bunch of video light-boxes? Or any other static site generators for that matter? Really need to toss my wordpress install. My needs are very simple, all my videos are already hosted on s3 so I just need a frontend.
#hugo #website #static

Love VOIP! It's so simple to weed out fake callers. I set up a whitelist with all the numbers in my family then I filter the rest through an IVR that requires them to press a number to get through. It has stopped 100% of the spam calls so far.

It's like right there in the menubar even... 😭

TIL that virsh can take snapshots. How did I not know this? 🤦

https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7/html/virtualization_deployment_and_administration_guide/sect-managing_guest_virtual_machines_with_virsh-managing_snapshots

How come you can never find a thumb drive when you need one and then find a ton once you order a new one?

Autodesk open sources RV to democratize access
https://adsknews.autodesk.com/news/rv-open-source

Dreamworks announced they are open-sourcing their MoonRay Production Renderer. Freakin' awesome.
https://openmoonray.org/

#MoonRay #fx #MCRT #renderer #rendering #path_tracer #path_tracing #ray_tracer #raytracer #raytracing #rendering #production #vectorized_rendering #vectorization #open_source #DreamWorks_Animation #DreamWorks #animation #hydra_delegate #computer_graphics

This is an amazing promo!
Animal Logic ALab Promo - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxsk7ZKk67I&t=100s

#animal_logic #animal_logic culture #working_in animation #working_in creative industry #creative_industry culture

SMS or email only 2FA is lame.

This album is still 🔥
Rhythm and Stealth — Leftfield | Last.fm
https://www.last.fm/music/Leftfield/Rhythm+and+Stealth

Not only have I built Mac binaries for my current employer's app but now I have successfully built a Windows binary too.
I've sold out and feel dirty 😂

Amazon wants me to replace bouillon cubes with steel cut oatmeal. Seems like the AI takeover is a few years away.

Some vfx I helped with at Turncoat Pictures released a new breakdown reel.
Work In Progress Season 2! https://www.turncoatpictures.com/wips2
Season 1 and 2 available on Showtime. #houdini #vfx #turncoatpictures

Houdini 19.5 Released!
What's New in 19.5 | SideFX
https://www.sidefx.com/products/whats-new-in-195/

#vfx #houdini

https://www.instagram.com/p/CgHba8nufqj/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

Bestseller!

Finally got my copy! Movie night!
It was a lot of fun working in this one.

#vfx #ww2 #movie #Wolfhound

Microsoft Did It Again, SFC Urges Developers to Quit GitHub
https://linuxiac.com/sfc-urges-developers-to-quit-github/

There are sooo many good alternatives out there to Github.

It's hard to believe that git is free sometimes. It's very amazing.