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Brian Pilgrim

@startingframe.bsky.social
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Brian Pilgrim @startingframe.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
spent a day naming a tool and killed about twenty candidates. every good word — splice, slate, composite, montage — is already someone's trademark. which is why the tools you use are called Resolve and Nuke and Flame. they describe nothing on purpose. it's what's left.
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Brian Pilgrim @startingframe.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
spent a morning designing the handoff between two of my own tools. export a graphic with an alpha channel, import it into the editor, line it up. then worked out they should be one tool, and the whole handoff deleted itself. best thing i built that week was nothing.
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Brian Pilgrim @startingframe.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
same length, same edit, two exports 8x apart — and the newer laptop was the slow one. what predicts it is what's on the timeline. b-roll makes the export decode a second video on every frame it covers. cards and type decode nothing. so my length warning is measuring the wrong thing.
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Brian Pilgrim @startingframe.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
make backgrounds for your edit for free. Startingframe.com
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Brian Pilgrim @startingframe.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
my robot has a name now. Bracy. tv for a head, because the face is a screen and the screen is the only part i actually wanted to animate.
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Brian Pilgrim @startingframe.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
put an error reporter in the app. first real catch, within a day: firefox on windows was saving videos that stopped partway. its encoder hands frames back out of order and the file ended where the order broke. exports there now retry in a format that can't reorder. report to fix, same day.
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Brian Pilgrim @startingframe.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
measured what my own materials cost to render instead of guessing. plain sidewalk was free. wet asphalt with markings ran 53% slower. nobody publishes that number and i don't know why. it's the first thing you'd want to know before putting it in a scene.
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Brian Pilgrim @startingframe.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
spent a week on concrete and asphalt that generate their own road markings and panel joints, so one flat plane reads as a whole street. the joints only land on up-facing surfaces. so it does ground, and it does not do walls. i'd rather say that than let you find out.
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Brian Pilgrim @startingframe.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
shot some b-roll of myself working from the recliner. i'm not a talking-head guy and probably never will be. but the hands doing the work — that i can film.
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Brian Pilgrim @startingframe.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I made a plugin for blender to after effects
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Brian Pilgrim @startingframe.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
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Brian Pilgrim @startingframe.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
a slider you can move is worth ten presets you can pick. i believe this more every year.
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Brian Pilgrim @startingframe.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
a deck fell apart on me mid-presentation — scrolling for the one slide someone just asked about. so i built what replaces it: a game you can't win, then one button, and one source feeds every surface at once. the deck is dead. long live the data. brianpilgrim.com/the-deck-is-dead
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the deck is dead. long live the data.
Billions of decks lie stale in drives, speaking one tone to no one. With agentic AI, one source of truth adapts itself to every person. An interactive argument in two acts — play the chase, then enter...
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Brian Pilgrim @startingframe.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
We put a real video editor in a browser tab. Cut, b-roll, burned-in subtitles, graphics you can retype at any point — and the export is a flat MP4 with no watermark, ever. Nothing is uploaded. Your footage never leaves your machine. startingframe.com/tools/free-video-editor-no-watermark/
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Brian Pilgrim @startingframe.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
put a little tool up as open source this week. it batches a messy folder of footage into edit-ready HD and never upscales anything. the whole decision table is a json file you can open and edit. no model, no network. it just reads the rules.
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Brian Pilgrim @startingframe.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
unpopular opinion for the 3d people: EEVEE is enough for most of what i make. i spent years thinking i needed a render farm. what i needed was to stop waiting.
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Brian Pilgrim @startingframe.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Oh the anticipation
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Brian Pilgrim @startingframe.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
SF Ground is up — procedural concrete, sidewalk and asphalt for Blender. $15. the markings and panel joints are generated in the material, so one flat plane is a whole street. it does ground, not walls. i'd rather say that up front. startingframe.com/tools/blender-road-concrete-materials/
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Brian Pilgrim @startingframe.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
the pith is the centre of a log. move it off-centre and the growth rings re-arc across the board. one number. it's the difference between "a wood texture" and "a specific plank of wood."
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Brian Pilgrim @startingframe.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
made a media-release signer and it's free to start. your wording, your logo, a QR code. they sign on their phone and you get back a flat PDF with the signature and a timestamp. no app for them, no account, they never pay anything. frame.startingframe.com/release #filmmaking #videoproduction
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Brian Pilgrim @startingframe.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
learned something dumb building a wood shader: if you make the grain a volume instead of a surface, end grain just shows up on a cut face. no extra work. it's how timber actually is. i'd been faking that for years.
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Brian Pilgrim @startingframe.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
made a 60-second answer to "what does starting frame do?" short version: every tool started as a search that failed. so i built them, and most of them are free — no account, no watermark. the whole thing is at startingframe.com
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Brian Pilgrim @startingframe.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
built a field of flat drifting shapes, then flipped them into tumbling 3d solids in one click. 2D → 3D. free browser tool for motion backgrounds — alpha + depth export for OBS or Resolve. Level 2 of the series → youtu.be/Nw1nKsAdmAI #motiongraphics
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Brian Pilgrim @startingframe.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
i started a little series. one free browser tool per level, and each video is me actually making something with it — no polish, just the thing getting built. Level 1 was Typo. Level 2 (animated backgrounds) is up now. new tool, new level. subscribe to level up → youtube.com/@startingframestudio
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Brian Pilgrim @startingframe.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Unpopular opinion. I love film. I don’t care about imax. I grew up with 4/3 now you want me to go back to it? If it’s a good story that’s all that matters.
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Brian Pilgrim @startingframe.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
watch a whole city grow from one building — shape a tower, hit Make City, skyline. that's Sprawl, EEVEE-first so it runs on a laptop. → youtu.be/U81N-6MPEs4 #b3d #blender
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Brian Pilgrim @startingframe.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
i hate that generated stuff feels final the second it's made. so Sprawl keeps a door open both ways — drop back to one building, change it, and the whole city updates to match. it stays soft until it's the city you actually saw. → startingframe.com/tools/blender-city-generator/ #b3d #blender
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Brian Pilgrim @startingframe.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
i wanted a glowing anime city and didn't want to model a thousand buildings to get one. so i built Sprawl — shape one tower with sliders, hit Make City, and there's a skyline. runs on a laptop in EEVEE. → startingframe.com/tools/blender-city-generator/ #b3d #blender
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Blender City Generator — Sprawl — Starting Frame
Sprawl is a Blender add-on that builds a stylized anime night city — towers from sliders, a day/night sky with distance haze, and one-click Make City that arrays them into an endless glowing skyline. ...
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🖤💋SammieSam💋🖤 @sammiestsam.sheshed.rocks · 20/07/2026
ICE has STOLEN an Indigenous Tribal ELDER from NM, who was on her way to CHEMO. She stopped for gas, ICE then approached her, she showed all of her proper, legal documentation. They still stole her away. They're denying her of life saving CHEMO. When will it be enough. #ShedShed #ViVaHerAlliance
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New York Attorney General Letitia James @newyorkstateag.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
We just won a court order stopping the merger of Paramount and Warner Bros. while our lawsuit continues.     We’re going to keep fighting to keep costs down for consumers, protect jobs, and stop this illegal merger.
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Brian Pilgrim @startingframe.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
What’s up Bracy!
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Brian Pilgrim @startingframe.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
built a free thing: Blip turns a subtitle file into a talking LED robot face. paste an .srt, pick a look, watch it lip-sync, export the clip. give any robot or screen-character a voice — free, in your browser, no install → frame.startingframe.com/blip #b3d #blender
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Blip — LED robot face
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Brian Pilgrim @startingframe.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Blip robot face generator. Check it out at Startingframe.com
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Brian Pilgrim @startingframe.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
four maps out of Facadr, one building: height for the window relief, normal for the fine detail, emission for the glow, color for the base. same maps work in Blender or DaVinci. free → frame.startingframe.com/facadr #b3d #blender
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Brian Pilgrim @startingframe.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
the trick to a city that reads at night: a separate emission map. Facadr gives you one — flip it on and just the lit windows glow, everything else stays dark concrete. free, in your browser → frame.startingframe.com/facadr #b3d #blender
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Brian Pilgrim @startingframe.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
built a free thing: Facadr makes building-facade textures in your browser — ordered floors, streaky lit windows, a clean 3-level displacer, and a glow map. grab the four maps and light up your city in Blender or DaVinci. free, no install → frame.startingframe.com/facadr #b3d #blender
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Brian Pilgrim @startingframe.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Fun times while no sun shines #blender Model by Blendforge
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Brian Pilgrim @startingframe.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Test footage from an upcoming blender addon
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Brian Pilgrim @startingframe.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Blender testing
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Brian Pilgrim @startingframe.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
new: Tumbol — a Blender add-on that rolls any object to a mark the way its shape would: boxes tumble edge over edge, balls arc, cylinders roll + steer like a tire. floors, walls, ceilings. directed animation baked to real keyframes, not a sim. $29 → startingframe.com/tools/tumbol/ #b3d #blender
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Blender Roll Animation Add-on — Tumbol — Starting Frame
Tumbol is a Blender add-on that rolls and tumbles any object to a point you mark — the way its shape would actually roll: boxes tumble edge over edge, balls roll in an arc, cylinders roll and steer li...
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Brian Pilgrim @startingframe.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
new: Tumbol — a Blender add-on that rolls any object to a mark the way its shape would: boxes tumble edge over edge, balls arc, cylinders roll + steer like a tire. floors, walls, ceilings. directed animation baked to real keyframes, not a sim. $29 → startingframe.com/tools/tumbol/ #b3d #blender
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Blender Roll Animation Add-on — Tumbol — Starting Frame
Tumbol is a Blender add-on that rolls and tumbles any object to a point you mark — the way its shape would actually roll: boxes tumble edge over edge, balls roll in an arc, cylinders roll and steer li...
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Brian Pilgrim @startingframe.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Just read it already!
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Brian Pilgrim @startingframe.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Tumbol addon for #blender to make things rock and roll and tumble and go.
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Brian Pilgrim @startingframe.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
new: Studio Stage: product-photography studio inside Blender. one click builds the set: seamless sweep, a calibrated four-light rig, a full-frame camera with real DOF presets. then you light it and shoot your own product, phone to car. $39 once, no subscription. startingframe.com/tools/studio-stage/
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Blender Product-Photography Studio Add-on — Studio Stage — Starting Frame
Studio Stage is a Blender add-on that builds an instant product-photography studio — a seamless sweep, a calibrated four-light softbox rig, and a full-frame camera — then lets you color, light, and sh...
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Brian Pilgrim @startingframe.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Coming soon. Rock and roll. Blender
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Brian Pilgrim @startingframe.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
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Brian Pilgrim @startingframe.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
I love Claude. It has opened a whole new world to me.
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Brian Pilgrim @startingframe.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
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Brian Pilgrim @startingframe.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
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Brian Pilgrim @startingframe.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Blender day 2. Moving the camera around. 50mm.
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