Spencer Magnusson

Numbers don't define your worth, keep creating ❤️

Nice work!! Love the atmosphere.

The issue I'm still seeing with Eevee is memory usage. Eevee uses way more VRAM, at least all at once, than Cycles does.

Cycles's noise threshold tends to calm the GPU down as time goes on. Hopefully Eevee gets some texture optimization love like Cycles will get.

Blender 4.1 splash screen, rendered in Eevee

Experimented with Eevee realism, learning light probes (experimenting with "Smart Light Volume Probe" add-on, coded a bunch on top of it). Tried it on the same splash screen as my last tutorial. Really cool!

Indirect lighting is definitely darker than Cycles. But I did manage to get it close.

Congrats!! 🙌🥳🥳

Yeah I've been procrastinating mine too 🫣 too many tasks to choose from atm

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Optimization in Blender - Better Samples, Faster and Less Noisy Renders YouTube video by Spencer Magnusson

New video about optimizing samples

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Check my "paid products" dropdown on my links page for all my Blender products: spencermagnusson.com

Or my second favorite, "Link pls"

Former Burnout AND Need For Speed devs?

I'm listening.

Meme, with Ryan from "Whose Line." Labeled as if he's saying, "The good news is my optimization tutorial is fully recorded. / The bad news is the edit is the size of Drew Carey."

#b3d #blender3d #meme

Please don't panic to the devs, they already fixed it, just not to 5.0 (it's fixed for 4.5 LTS and 5.1, where it matters):
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But yeah, if you're getting weird denoise artifacts or using up half your RAM, swap to a different version.

I know non-LTS releases of Blender are unstable, but my goodness: beware the denoise node in 5.0. It has a bad memory leak. I thought my graphics card was dying again, I was so scared of my memory usage shooting up.

#Blender3D #b3d

Please be willing to ask for help. And if you're an expert, offer to help.

To me, that's far better usage of social platforms than sharing what I'm working on. Especially for those who may not be able to do it (or just uncomfortable doing it) on their own.

I mentioned to this person about wanting to move over to Linux, my struggles figuring that out. They said (they're local to me), "If you need help, let me know, you can come to my place to set Linux up."

One of my favorite parts of communities, online and in-person, is helping each other.

I got to talk to someone about the Discord news, #FOSS, my slow process of migrating apps/platforms/workflows over to it.

I felt so glad many apps I regularly use are FOSS. I'm no purist, and I don't think most can attempt it "cold turkey." But it has definitely simplified my computer usage.

I've seen two AAA game trailers now with the fine print, "Camera angles adjusted for trailer use."

Who the heck scared companies into adding that? It's a trailer. Of course it's adjusted. I'm not watching a trailer thinking, "Yeah this is absolutely where I expect the game camera to be." #gamedev

marathon has the same sauce brink had during its promotional period

*Me bursting into the National Skeptics Convention and shouting

“GUYS YOU’RE NOT GONNA BELIEVE THIS”

Recorded half of my next "Optimization in Blender" tips video. But then forgot to make my screen visible in the recording 🙈 so I recorded it twice. Now editing it.

It's about samples/(de)noise, really excited for it. #b3d

Default Cube: The Game The default cube finally has its revenge. From the moment you delete it, it begins to haunt you as you continue to work.

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"What movie moment makes you exclaim, "THIS IS CINEMA"
✋😐🤚

One of my favorite opening sequences. Takes the "sequel that starts with your favorite character in shambles" and handles it so perfectly. Hoffman's intensity is so perfect for this.

Something I thankfully learned early on: great ideas won't deteriorate with time. But the bad ones will.

So don't worry if a great idea comes in the middle of another one. Jot the idea and notes down, just enough so it can jog your memory later, and finish what you're currently doing.

Finally pushed myself to write this morning, despite being under the weather (flu/cold going around). I'm also resisting the "you have a draft to finish, but you could start these other cool ideas instead" disease. #scriptsky

Cops vs racers, but "30 Seconds to Mars" plays in the background (a reboot, but not the remaster of the reboot)

Youve Got GIF Alt: Youve Got Mail, Meg Ryan in a movie trailer: "I went to get a manicure, and forgot to vote."

Most notably "You've Got Mail", but quite a few I saw as a kid (Lion King, Pirates of the Caribbean 1, Signs, The Incredibles)

If you are a disgruntled Adobe Animate user you can always reach out to me for help on how to use Grease Pencil in Blender.

Man satisfyingly pulling his hands across his face. Labeled, "Writing out a side character"

Finally got back to my draft this weekend after a busy month. Nothing like a good scene and character polish. #scriptsky #meme #writingsky

Fair, I was having a hard time finding one I've watched that's only winter 😅