Posts by yiningkarlli@mastodon.gamedev.place
(DIR) Post #AT9IWKgPY7uBXMR03U by yiningkarlli@mastodon.gamedev.place
2023-02-28T18:44:51Z
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Granted, not a totally fair comparison since the older codebase is also far more feature-rich, but it’s worth noting that the accumulation of many complex features over time really just spaghettifies code, and the “clean” style starts with a lot more initial spaghetti IMO.
(DIR) Post #ATA2MePBxnLfhThZEu by yiningkarlli@mastodon.gamedev.place
2023-03-01T04:43:24Z
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Been sick all week with a horrendous cough, but fortunately spirits remain high due to constant accompaniment by our family’s Chief Morale Officer:
(DIR) Post #ATA2MgEz8iN9OOwRbk by yiningkarlli@mastodon.gamedev.place
2023-03-01T04:45:24Z
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He’s also a great debugging partner! Doesn’t speak up much, but a great listener when puzzling through difficult computer graphics problems.
(DIR) Post #AXfO8BGO5dnV5zrLn6 by yiningkarlli@mastodon.gamedev.place
2023-07-06T05:26:00Z
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Oh look, Marcos Fajardo made himself a website. Of course it's packed with good stuff:https://sushideathrobots.github.io
(DIR) Post #AXfO8Cz5gv9MQvmZ6m by yiningkarlli@mastodon.gamedev.place
2023-07-06T05:28:12Z
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I love this page Marcos links to with really early renders from when he was just getting started on what eventually became Arnold. Everyone doing rendering made pictures like these when they first started; good to know Marcos is just like the rest of us. :)http://www.3dluvr.com/marcosss/indexb.html
(DIR) Post #Ad650AsW5ZVyc9vbSS by yiningkarlli@mastodon.gamedev.place
2023-12-23T07:48:27Z
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Finished out the year at work by accelerating a previously slow system by a little under 20x, allowing that system to now be enabled by default. Not a bad way to end the year. 😀
(DIR) Post #AdSnWdDvRLEZNyaDYG by yiningkarlli@mastodon.gamedev.place
2023-11-28T07:07:19Z
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My entire career as a programmer so far has just been learning the ideals of the Grug Brained Developer the hard way:https://grugbrain.devThe best programmers I know all subscribe to the tenents of the Grug Brained Developer, whether they know it or not. Be like Grug.
(DIR) Post #AhptelDky2J4iO5Qsi by yiningkarlli@mastodon.gamedev.place
2024-05-06T07:18:29Z
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@aras @mattpharr I believe @levork has a lot of familiarity with this magazine. ;)
(DIR) Post #AhtK2Sre361b10aTrs by yiningkarlli@mastodon.gamedev.place
2024-05-04T09:32:45Z
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Okay, this meme has been floating around and I really dislike it. I'm not a big fan of gatekeeping programming based on what editor/tools someone uses. I care about what code actually does and couldn't care less about what tool was used to write it. Use whatever works for you.Some of the best programmers I've met use rando editors like Sam/Acme and Slickedit. Some of the other best programmers I've met use Visual Studio or Xcode. The editor has little to do with why they're great programmers.
(DIR) Post #AhysGPWBeejuvKAiGW by yiningkarlli@mastodon.gamedev.place
2024-05-06T04:33:02Z
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I grew up in Philadelphia and live in LA now, so I root for both the Phillies and the Dodgers, and let me tell you what, I had a fantastic weekend.
(DIR) Post #Akhaxl3xcXvfwhoqps by yiningkarlli@mastodon.gamedev.place
2024-08-06T17:24:08Z
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Teenage Engineering is absolutely insane and continues to be my favorite hardware company by a country mile. Their new synthesizer is... medieval instrument themed:https://teenage.engineering/products/ep-1320
(DIR) Post #AnLWNh2dVsjnXfRXo8 by yiningkarlli@mastodon.gamedev.place
2024-10-24T17:16:27Z
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Here's a cool new paper on an energy-preserving version of the Oren-Nayar model for a rough diffuse BRDF. By Jamie Portsmouth, Peter Kutz, and @self_shadow https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.18026
(DIR) Post #ApC20jzaINb35W0AkK by yiningkarlli@mastodon.gamedev.place
2024-12-18T21:14:31Z
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The first Moana was my first credit at Disney Animation, so working on Moana 2 was a cool opportunity to revisit and reflect over how much I've learned and worked on over the past decade. Here's a short blog post with some thoughts from working on Moana 2:https://blog.yiningkarlli.com/2024/12/moana-2.html
(DIR) Post #ArfQjnFSMlojn8kmjg by yiningkarlli@mastodon.gamedev.place
2025-03-03T04:48:43Z
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A huge congrats to Flow for winning the Oscar for Best Animated Feature! It was made by a tiny crew entirely using Blender and rendered entirely using Eevee. A lot of folks are trying to figure out what lessons there are to be learned from Ne Zha 2 right now, but IMO Flow is actually the movie that everyone should be paying attention to and studying to learn lessons from.https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/flow-wins-best-animated-feature-film-oscar-2025-03-03/
(DIR) Post #AsNR6BrHcErNfFaHJo by yiningkarlli@mastodon.gamedev.place
2025-03-24T06:24:27Z
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TIL that because the FFmpeg project has gained so much experience in hand-writing assembly code to provide huge speedups, they now are putting together a series of lessons for learning assembly:Vibe coding is fun and all, but this is probably a better use of time!https://github.com/FFmpeg/asm-lessons
(DIR) Post #AtgAP9Paio0dM53Cdc by yiningkarlli@mastodon.gamedev.place
2025-05-02T08:10:38Z
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Does anyone know of a keyboard with really durable keys (or just key caps) that don’t wear down quickly? For some reason my fingers are like sandpaper to every keyboard I’ve ever used and the keys get worn down and shiny really quickly.
(DIR) Post #AuK8rZX9NqfaWTpmlc by yiningkarlli@mastodon.gamedev.place
2025-05-20T16:20:29Z
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Teaser trailer is out for Zootopia 2! I’ve been working on this one for a while now, and I love that we made a weirdo custom teaser trailer that contains exactly zero footage from the final movie but does show off how insanely good the character animation is in this movie.Fun fact: the snake’s animation rig is a highly modified version of… the rope rig used for the ropes on Moana’s canoe, kind of like how the Space Shuttle is a descendant of the Wright Flyer. 🤣https://youtu.be/xo4rkcC7kFc?feature=shared
(DIR) Post #AwfL17dc2mNtFn2TD6 by yiningkarlli@mastodon.gamedev.place
2025-07-30T16:45:17Z
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New Zootopia 2 trailer! You have no idea how hard it was to get those water tubes to look just right. Engineering for that was like three months of my life right there.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjkIOU5PhyQ
(DIR) Post #B0U0hkOQ7lseThI0Uy by yiningkarlli@mastodon.gamedev.place
2025-11-21T21:38:55Z
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Here's a wonderful new independent short film that was made using Disney's Hyperion Renderer. It's a really cool hand-made wood-carved look to it. The whole short is on Youtube now- check it out!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4EPW7JUMTM
(DIR) Post #B22Vz9Y1psmSmffI1o by yiningkarlli@mastodon.gamedev.place
2026-01-07T09:17:52Z
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Zootopia 2 took hundreds of artists, TDs, and engineers to make; I was lucky enough to be a small part of it all! Here are some of my personal thoughts/notes from working on Zootopia 2, along with some pretty pictures.https://blog.yiningkarlli.com/2025/12/zootopia-2.html