Owen Richards @owenrichardscgi.bsky.social · 3hNew character for A Dog Named Fate. One of two policemen who are going to have the worst days of their lives. Normally, I create a character with a full production workflow. I start in ZBrush and create a sculpted high poly and then bake down to a low poly. I tried just poly-modelling it. 020
Owen Richards @owenrichardscgi.bsky.social · 15hJacob should be in prison for either fraud or treason. 000
Owen Richards @owenrichardscgi.bsky.social · 15hNah indeed. There is always that one plug-in that only works with Blender 2. 49b that you swear you'll never need again then suddenly... 010
Reposted by Owen RichardsJay Gunn/Wilson @gunnwriter.bsky.social · 17hI had the absolute pleasure over the weekend to visit Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin’s SmallFilms museum in Canterbury. Utter delightful to see such artistry and unbound creativity from the analogue world of animation. Where low budgets and imagination and a mend-make-do attitude triumphs. 6424
Owen Richards @owenrichardscgi.bsky.social · 15hI do a lot of 3D design and printing and I've found it a pain because of Nvidia driver issues and certain proprietary software that I need to get my work done. I've got around a lot of it, but it's not been easy. Saying that, I think that 90% of people could switch to linux painlessly. 010
Owen Richards @owenrichardscgi.bsky.social · 15hI own Photoshop, but it's a version that is old enough to go to High School and Adobe could turn off the verification servers at any time. Krita is awesome. I'm learning to tolerate GIMP. Inkscape is great for vector stuff. I'm on Kubuntu. 010
Owen Richards @owenrichardscgi.bsky.social · 15hYou need to do some complaining about Windows and it should fill up your inbox. 010
Owen Richards @owenrichardscgi.bsky.social · 15hWhen you figure in Netanyahu and Trump into that list, they are nowhere near the top. The real question is: Did he go onto X to rubbish Bluesky? 010
Owen Richards @owenrichardscgi.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I know how you did this - to the same degree that I can 'know' how to play the flute - you blow in one end and move your fingers up and down the barrel. But that is the same level of understanding of what you are doing. It is like magic. 080
Owen Richards @owenrichardscgi.bsky.social · 04/10/2026It would be a great achievement, but I keep thinking of travelling millions of miles in a vehicle the size of a compact car and not even being able to stretch your legs when you get there. 000
Owen Richards @owenrichardscgi.bsky.social · 04/10/2026We really shouldn't have to even say this. That it's neck and neck in Paxton's constituency is just mind boggling. You guys are going to have to clean house when this is all over. I have no confidence in the Democrats to do what is required to re-establish the Republic. 010
Owen Richards @owenrichardscgi.bsky.social · 04/10/2026This is the thing. Once you are registered, they are trying to change that whole 'allowing' thing. 000
Owen Richards @owenrichardscgi.bsky.social · 04/10/2026While we might not legally be slaves, it sure feels like it from this end. They have all the power, all the money and are exempt from any requirements that us serfs have to fulfill. 000
Owen Richards @owenrichardscgi.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I had no idea that it was the birthday of the Space Age today. 110
Owen Richards @owenrichardscgi.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Made this for the 'Nail and Crescent' mod. 020
Owen Richards @owenrichardscgi.bsky.social · 04/10/2026The Expanse has some of the most bodacious space battles committed to film. 020
Owen Richards @owenrichardscgi.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I had no idea it was the birthday of the space age! 010
Owen Richards @owenrichardscgi.bsky.social · 04/10/2026This is a vision of what Duke Nukem's Pig Cops would look like with a lot of extra pixels. 000
Owen Richards @owenrichardscgi.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I love old Soviet space architecture. Now see if someone has attached a model of the Millenium Falcon to the back of it (reference to 'The Empire Strikes Back'). 000
Owen Richards @owenrichardscgi.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Digital slaves are just a means to the end of organic slaves. 130
Owen Richards @owenrichardscgi.bsky.social · 04/10/2026People like Musk and Altman are much more interested in making promises to control people and make money and the actual tech is just a means to an end for them. 010
Owen Richards @owenrichardscgi.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I do believe that we can eventually make a machine that is in at least some way 'conscious'. I also believe that we are nowhere near doing this with what we call 'AI'. Also, I think that that the current crop of tech bros have as much likelihood of delivering this as would a medieval blacksmith. 110
Owen Richards @owenrichardscgi.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Got some stuff done on my little animated film project. Blocked out some shots and got one of my sets up to where it can be shot. 081
Owen Richards @owenrichardscgi.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Thank you! How's your next project coming along? 100
Owen Richards @owenrichardscgi.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I love how it's the kid who is the only one who notices what is strange about the unbilled duck. I'm trying to make my own silly animation at the minute after 20 years of procrastination. I got into modelling to make my own pixar films back in the 2000s. Now I'm properly animating my silly idea. 120
Owen Richards @owenrichardscgi.bsky.social · 04/10/2026More Severance stuff. Here's a link to the ModDB page: www.moddb.com/mods/severance 010
Owen Richards @owenrichardscgi.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I did this fan for a long deceased Doom 3 mod called 'Severance'. There was a cryo-pod and and some critters as well. Yet another game mod project that evaporated leaving me with load of half-finished assets on my hard drive. Sigh. 021
Owen Richards @owenrichardscgi.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Sorry, that's 'Breakfast of Champions'. My apologies. 010
Owen Richards @owenrichardscgi.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Also, the mask body that protects the face might be a good mounting point for the silksong headpiece. I looked on amazon and you can grab them for about 25UKP, which might not be a really good respirator, but you aren't using it for that. You just need the head straps. 020
Owen Richards @owenrichardscgi.bsky.social · 04/10/2026LOL, explain how this is a a bad thing! 😂 Seriously though, choose one maybe where the filter is removable. Another option is CPAP masks. They have straps on the side of the face and are probably more moddable. 130
Owen Richards @owenrichardscgi.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I thought of getting a head mask like a respirator. They are tightly attached to the head with straps around the side and over the top of the head. You then attach the mask and it shouldn't wobble. 110
Owen Richards @owenrichardscgi.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I was just thinking that this looks like some of the areas in Dark Souls. 120
Owen Richards @owenrichardscgi.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Hard to believe this is Quake. Stellar work. 032
Owen Richards @owenrichardscgi.bsky.social · 03/10/2026To think that is Quake is just gob-smacking. It's just next-level. 050
Reposted by Owen RichardsElement115Art @element115.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Qian Xuesen's 1949 concept for a commercial spaceplane, designed to carry 10 passengers from New York to LA in 45 minutes. (Render made with Blender, backgrounds NASA public domain) 36318
Owen Richards @owenrichardscgi.bsky.social · 03/10/2026This is like the German hypersonic bomber, but carrying people rather than munitions. 1949. Wow. 010
Owen Richards @owenrichardscgi.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I would rather had my taxes at the time spent on space rather than wars and oil. I think that Star City's Russia isn't supposed to be inspirational. I think it's a way to tell a cool cold war tale in a version of Russia that 1850's American people *thought* existed. wonderment isn't on the table. 100
Owen Richards @owenrichardscgi.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Quake Rooftop Jam is out! Looks like some spectacular and different takes on the subject. I mean, just look at that! www.slipseer.com/index.php?re...slipseer.comRooftops JamQuake Rooftops map jam, ran from August 4th to September 15th. The theme is "Rooftops", and mappers were free to interpret it however they wanted. There are 19 maps by mappers: Adorne Sibley Atziri ... 010
Owen Richards @owenrichardscgi.bsky.social · 03/10/2026A long term view by setting everything on fire. 000
Owen Richards @owenrichardscgi.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Dragon works and flies. Starliner - not so much. 010
Owen Richards @owenrichardscgi.bsky.social · 03/10/2026This is how you do it. Superb treatment of pose, facial expression and colour. Top tier. 0292