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Danny Weinbaum @dannyweinbaum.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

🎻🎵 📢 Songs of Glimmerwick, the witch academy RPG where music is magic is AVAILABLE NOW! 📢 🎵 🎻 store.steampowered.com/app/1706510/...

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Michael Becker @michaelbecker.dev · 27/08/2026

I heeded @steveruizok.bsky.social's advice and made a little friend to help me monitor my homelab, plants, fish & integrated drone system. Getting (faux) 3D rendering on a potato was tricky!

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Michael Becker @michaelbecker.dev · 23/07/2026

@yiningkarlli.bsky.social 'a elaborate man-in-the-middle Renderman hackery to simulate scientifically accurate black holes is probably the most mind blowing thing I've seen at SIGGRAPH this year

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Michael Becker @michaelbecker.dev · 20/07/2026

Today at Pixar's Open Source BoF at SIGGRAPH I'll be introducing USD Web View: an OSS webapp built for meaningful OpenUSD stage access and interaction. The project enables OpenUSD inspection, composition arc access, MaterialX support, Gaussian Splats and more, in one web-native environment:

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Michael Becker @michaelbecker.dev · 19/07/2026

Annual PSA: It is, indeed, possible to export the SIGGRAPH session schedule to your calendar. That feature is buried in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory, with a sign on the door saying "Beware of the Leopard" s2026.conference-schedule.org/my-agenda/

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My Schedule - SIGGRAPH 2026 Conference Schedule

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Erin Catto @erincatto.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

I’m happy to announce the release of a new open source 3D physics engine called Box3D. I’ve been working on this project for a few years now, but it represents over 20 years of experience writing physics engines for games. Read more here: box2d.org/posts/2026/0...

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Announcing Box3D

I’m happy to announce the release of Box3D, an open source 3D physics engine. It is now available on GitHub. Box3D repository You can think of Box3D as a fork of Box2D, extended with many features nee...

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Michael Becker @michaelbecker.dev · 23/06/2026

"Take it from studies of over 450 companies and over three million employees: Return-to-office mandates fail to increase financial returns. They succeed only in motivating star employees to quit, reducing the satisfaction of those who stay and discouraging new talent from joining."

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Michael Becker @michaelbecker.dev · 18/05/2026

A few notes on pragmatic synthetic 4DGS (animated splat) pipelines, simultaneous per-frame camera capture, point clouds, and where I think 4DGS tools may need to go next: michaelybecker.com/notes/prelim...

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Preliminary Thoughts About a Practical Synthetic 4DGS Pipeline

Practical notes on synthetic 4D Gaussian Splatting pipelines, flipbook-style capture, synchronized camera rigs, and the tooling gaps around dynamic splat reconstruction.

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MrCheeze @mrcheeze.github.io · 01/03/2025

Do you ever think about the fact that the designers of General Midi were tasked with coming up with the 128 most important instruments in the world, and one of the answers they came up with was "Goblins"

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Michael Becker @michaelbecker.dev · 15/05/2026

Wrote up a quick note on Gaussian splat capture using Blender, Gauss Cannon, Lichtfield, and SuperSplat. Interesting realization: arbitrary mesh geometry becomes a capture instrument. Each face becomes a camera position, directly shaping training coverage! michaelybecker.com/notes/gauss-...

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Ben Houston @ben3d.ca · 27/04/2026

Preparing a major PR to improve #ThreeJS MaterialX support significantly. In order to perfect it, I've written an open source @materialx.bsky.social Fidelity Suite inspired by the @khronos.org / @gltf.bsky.social fidelity tool: material-fidelity.ben3d.ca

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Michael Becker @michaelbecker.dev · 16/01/2026

I downloaded a midi file to my phone. Phone didn't know how to play it. Small everyday signs of Empire collapse

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Yining Karl Li @yiningkarlli.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

At 3:45 PM tomorrow at SIGGRAPH, Lea Reichardt and Marco Manzi will present our part of the "Path Guiding in Production" course. Lea and Marco will talk about how we've been bridging cutting edge research into production in Disney's Hyperion Renderer. s2025.conference-schedule.org/presentation...

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Presentation - SIGGRAPH 2025 Conference Schedule

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Erik Horn @erikhorn.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

I can't believe I'm posting our interview with @kentbye.com It was a real treat going on an immersive adventure with him while we were at The Tribeca Creator's Market. Such a thrill to be on this show I've listened to for over a decade. voicesofvr.com/1587-space-t... #AR #VR #Immersive

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#1587: “Space-Time Adventure Tour” AR Guided Tour to NYC Central Park Monuments – Voices of VR Podcast

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Michael Becker @michaelbecker.dev · 18/06/2025

This will be a fun double feature

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Michael Becker @michaelbecker.dev · 19/05/2025

Every few months i log back on here but something immediately emerges as a dealbreaker. No photos/video in DMs is frankly astounding

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Michael Becker @michaelbecker.dev · 15/04/2025

holy taxes, batman. the underwithholding struggle is real and it is painful

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Michael Becker @michaelbecker.dev · 13/04/2025

"Seattlite" has no good, or correct, spelling

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Michael Becker @michaelbecker.dev · 12/04/2025

new Quest 3 for work. What are the must have accessories? Best dock? Best case? (Coming from Pro, I got quite used to the convenience of the dock)

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Michael Becker @michaelbecker.dev · 10/04/2025

this pattern needs to GO. You can autosave on click, outlook. You have the technology

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Michael Becker @michaelbecker.dev · 07/04/2025

Love bogleheads. Such dad jokers

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Michael Becker @michaelbecker.dev · 06/04/2025

I've never had Kimura Fijusan cider but it feels like the perfect beverage to be enjoying during my first FFX playthrough

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befores & afters magazine @beforesmag.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Not gonna lie, seeing the items available for auction from the Technicolor Culver City office is very sad. There are SO many. www.cagp.com/auctions/a-f...

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Michael Becker @michaelbecker.dev · 03/04/2025

for several years I've enjoyed knowing that the Renderman addon for Blender was called Blenderman but I'm beginning to think I hallucinated that word all along

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Michael Becker @michaelbecker.dev · 31/03/2025

new type of rejection unlocked

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Michael Becker @michaelbecker.dev · 30/03/2025

Balatro finally arrived! Never ever using any other deck

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Michael Becker @michaelbecker.dev · 26/03/2025

never a wrong time to post non-LSD Osamu Sato work youtu.be/H-4AEf4cJnQ

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Michael Becker @michaelbecker.dev · 24/03/2025

Help my workers have taken control of the means of production

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Michael Becker @michaelbecker.dev · 23/03/2025

confused by the choices made here

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Michael Becker @michaelbecker.dev · 23/03/2025

The one positive political take of 2025 thus far

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Michael Becker @michaelbecker.dev · 22/03/2025

When visiting ILM thou shall splat the Master to demonstrate your reverence. I don't make the rules

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Michael Becker @michaelbecker.dev · 22/03/2025

Whomst do I or you know that is a fantastic XR dev (specifically Unreal focused) in the LA area?

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Michael Becker @michaelbecker.dev · 22/03/2025

Ain't no party like a Pixar party

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Eternal Wanderer @eternalwanderer.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

approach_to_trench.mpg Apr 1995 Archived Media File 📀 #nasa #1995

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trndytrndy @trndytrndy.com · 20/07/2024

Virtua EP is out now on all platforms! trndytrndy.com/virtua/

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Michael Becker @michaelbecker.dev · 19/03/2025

kind of amazing that keynote, an apple product, can complain about missing fonts, but not offer to install them for you if freely available

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toms_3d @toms3d.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Here's a demo of layering usd files, and working with variants in Solaris. When I receive a new alembic animation cache from Maya, I can process it through this setup to ensure materials are consistent between shots, with the flexibility of variants if needed #Houdini

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Michael Becker @michaelbecker.dev · 19/03/2025

I don't do this on a regular basis but it's nice to do occasionally, esp when you feel crummy about the state of the world, or to celebrate the Autodesk proxy battle

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Michael Becker @michaelbecker.dev · 18/03/2025

happy Criterion 50%'mas for all who celebrate!

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Michael Becker @michaelbecker.dev · 18/03/2025

even a cursory dip into deep compositing challenges everything I thought I knew about 2D and 3D workflows and pipelines

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Michael Becker @michaelbecker.dev · 18/03/2025

Nuke is just so very much my jam. It's like a DAW for VFX. I've worked in AE and own Resolve/Fusion; it's not the same. Nuke is incredible

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Michael Becker @michaelbecker.dev · 16/03/2025

Love to see a mad max war rig in the kids' indoor playground. Tres educational

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Michael Becker @michaelbecker.dev · 16/03/2025

"Meditation app" is inherently an oxymoron

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