God, this bubble burst is going to be so brutal

In 1953, Iran had a democratically elected prime minister, Mohammad Mossadegh, who committed what, in the eyes of the British Empire and the United States, was an unforgivable sin: he nationalized Iran’s oil industry.

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RIP AdventureGamers 1998 – 2025 https://virtualmoose.org/2025/06/13/rip-adventuregamers-1998-2025/

Our open source game project has a Steam page!
Wishlist it now to get notified once it releases:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3775050/DOGWALK/

Learn more and get the production assets on Blender Studio website:
https://studio.blender.org/blog/steam-page-is-live/

#b3d #godotengine #gamedev #BlenderStudio #dogwalk

I feel like an idiot but after several years, I only now realized you can drag Aseprite tabs to have side-by-side images xD

As Deluxe Paint as it gets. https://www.stef.be/dpaint/

The EU is still ignoring the requests from creatives to protect their rights. This initiative https://creators-for-europe-united.eu/ has written an open letter ready to be signed by all of us (so far 5411 signatures).
They ask for:
- full transparency about which works were and will be trained on
- adequate remuneration
- enforcement of copyright laws, especially against big tech companies
- involvement in AI regulations

Let's protect our creative soul 💚 .

#openletterCFEunited #art #mastoart #fediart

Also uploaded the revised version to YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5dOqKlu_mA

It especially focuses on the things that would be confusing to people coming from #Maya or #3dsmax, and some weird quirks of Blender that are easy to miss or misunderstand.

Recently uploaded a slightly updated version of my "Intro to Blender" talk (originally put together for Animation Exchange 2021) to Peertube. It was recorded in 2.9 but 90% of it still applies even to current version 4.x, though I added a few text notes and made some small edits to clarify recent changes.

Should still be helpful to those coming to Blender from other software.

https://makertube.net/w/sgQFqFKhWnyJDor9kPbieK

#blender #b3d

Hidden optical secrets of the Parthenon revealed by Oxford archaeologist

In a remarkable breakthrough blending archaeology and advanced 3D technology, Oxford University archaeologist Professor Juan de Lara has shown how the ancient Greeks used advanced lighting techniques to transform the inside of the Parthenon into a stage of divine spectacle...

More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2025/05/hidden-optical-secrets-of-the-parthenon-revealed/

Follow @archaeology

#archaeology #archeology #ancientgreece #greekart #GreekArchitecture #parthenon

@Johns_priv My point with the French example (which is actually a great example in this context), is you're mistakenly using relative percentages as definite markers of national political alignment and this country and its unusually high percentage due to other factors (active promotion) demonstrates how that is misleading.

@Johns_priv You've entirely misunderstood on several levels.

You're drawing wild (clearly highly prejudiced) conclusions from percentages of votes when those percentages are influenced by *several* factors, not just average local politics.

You're also mistaken in assuming only people from Mastodon are voting. People can find this petition from anywhere. It's promoted on Bsky also.

"Eastern European countries showing what we already know about them" Maybe check your xenophobia there, buddy.

This is an updated workflow for turning Grease Pencil strokes into a base mesh that can then be used for sculpting. The previous workflow used the Convert to Path option, which is now gone. #B3D #Blender3D #Blender

@Johns_priv Wouldn't be too quick to draw conclusions from that.

France having 1100% votes doesn't mean France is 1100x the most LGBTQ-friendly, it just means the campaign was promoted the best on French social media AND people are inclined to participate in EU petitions.

There was an earlier EU petition for taxing the rich that only made the threshold in France mainly because it was only promoted in French, not cause others wouldn't support it if they knew about it.

hey, EU citizens: you could sign this petition to ban conversion therapies in the EU.

edit: success! but it still makes sense to sign. the more the better!

please boost

https://eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#/screen/home

You noticed how google search became unusably shit a few years ago?
Turns out that was on purpose

@tomgrochowiak Other interesting books in that direction include "Acting for Animators" (Hooks), "Peoplewatching" (Morris) and "Impro : Improvisation and the Theatre" (Johnstone).

What are your "required readings" for a game designers, that are not design books.

For instance, I think any systemic designer benefits from knowing the rules of DnD and MtG, including how they evolved and (most importantly) why.

@tomgrochowiak "The Animator's Survival Kit" and ideally also "The Illusion of Life", the two bibles of animation... because (too often forgotten) it is *essential* for designers to understand visual communication and how movement works, especially if they work at all on player movement or NPC behaviour, or anything visual or feel-related.

If you want the long(ish) version of why and how, read this: https://www.gamedeveloper.com/design/why-designers-should-learn-animation