Live Stream of “Pirate Appreciation Day” *UPDATED
September 12, 2024
This will be a video presentation compiled from Blueprint Masquerades’s outstanding April show run at the Unversity of Zurich, Switzerland.
Tutorial: “Animation Tips & Tricks: Rokoko Studio and Unreal Engine”
July 17, 2024
I have a bunch more of my dubious wisdom to pass along.
UE 5.2 Tutorial: “Eliminate Light Artifacts”
July 13, 2024
While I’m still a white belt at all this, I am a teacher at heart and enjoy helping others when I can.
Live Stream of “Pirate Appreciation Day” *UPDATED
September 12, 2024
This will be a video presentation compiled from Blueprint Masquerades’s outstanding April show run at the Unversity of Zurich, Switzerland.
Tutorial: “Animation Tips & Tricks: Rokoko Studio and Unreal Engine”
July 17, 2024
I have a bunch more of my dubious wisdom to pass along.
Please join me on International Talk Like a Pirate Day — September 19, 2024 — at 1 p.m. Eastern Time for Blueprint Masquerades’s live stream of “Pirate Appreciation Day” on their YouTube channel.![]()
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This will be a video presentation compiled from their outstanding April show run at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. Deena and I attended the opening night, and it was awesome.![]()
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This will be a live stream because a YouTube chat room will run concurrently with the presentation, where I will be on hand as a guest to answer questions.![]()
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“Pirate Appreciation Day” is a slapstack comedy about pirates on a cruise ship, where hairy chest contests, Lovecraftian humor, romance, and more mash together in an unforgettable experience brought to life by some terrific college actors. This two-act stage play is available from Off The Wall Plays.
The iPhone spacer I 3D printed from DropPunk's schematics holds my phone at the proper distance from my face when bolted to my Rokoko Headrig. It's improving the quality of my facial mocap for "The Cryonic Pharaoh," which makes me happy. This morning, I shot scene 65, in which Gerald receives some bad news.
While filming some scenes for “The Cryonic Pharaoh,” I realized I have a bunch more of my dubious wisdom to pass along. Follow along to learn something, or just watch it to laugh at my bad audio quality.
As production of The Cryonic Pharaoh moves along, I’ll periodically share what I’m doing and create some tutorials to help others. While I’m still a white belt at all this, I am a teacher at heart and enjoy helping others when I can. Here’s a new video on my YouTube channel, “Eliminate Light Artifacts in Unreal Engine 5.2.”
I’ve been in a mild state of fight-or-flight all day, even as early as last night, around 2:30, when I woke up and was unable to get back to sleep for an hour. The reason, of course, was the first presidential debate last night between Joe Biden and Donald Trump.![]()
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The debate was—no way to whitewash this—an absolute shit show. Biden had weeks of debate coaching at Camp David, but it didn’t make a difference. He bumbled and trailed off and mixed up his words and didn’t make a hell of a lot of sense at times. He was getting over a cold, so he spoke in a raspy monotone and generally sounded old as hell. Trump, on the other hand, came off all ruddy-faced and vigorous—probably hopped himself up on Viagra and amphetamine an hour beforehand—and played better to the camera.![]()
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This was all expected, I suppose, but it was still a grave disappointment. As for the substance of what they talked about, it should go without saying—but of course it doesn’t anymore—that every fucking word out of Trump’s mouth was an irresponsible lie. Biden, on the other hand, while confused and meandering at times, at least tried to actually answer the questions he was asked in a meaningful and truthful way.![]()
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The debate won’t change the votes of people like me, but it might sway the fickle swing voters who value style over substantive truth. And it’s sad. It’s sad because Trump, if elected, will be completely unbound by a Congress full of sycophants and a Supreme Court he has packed, and he will be unbound by the public because he will be a second-term president. The only person he will serve will be himself. His first agenda item will be to use the presidency to save his own ass from all the federal felonies for which he’s been indicted by ordering the Justice Department to cease its prosecution. And that will only be the beginning because crazy fucks like Stephen Miller will use him to push their ultra-conservative Christian fascist agenda, which will include pulling us out of NATO and any climate-control treaties that they can. Russia will roll over Ukraine within a year because he will hang them out to dry. He will cozy up to the dictators in Russia, North Korea, and China and shit all over our allies in Europe, which will push the world ever closer to World War III nuclear annihilation.![]()
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The fiscal objectives that Republicans claim to hold sacred, such as reducing our umpty-trillion-dollar national debt, will be laid by the wayside as Trump returns to his old habits of using the federal government to enrich himself. This while he will spend every weekend having taxpayer-funded vacations at his own golf clubs, just like he did during his first term. He will do whatever he can to repeal the Affordable Care Act, which makes my family’s health insurance coverage possible, but he won’t have a coherent replacement plan. Meanwhile, LBGTQ+ minorities and women will suffer under onerous new legislation. Trans people will continue to see their civil liberties curtailed, and women will find it even more difficult to get abortions in order to save their own lives.![]()
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It will be fucking nightmare.![]()
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So, given the choice between a bumbling old man who means well, but who is experienced and who has surrounded himself with a competent apparatus, and an amoral psychopath who yearns to replace our democratic republic with a fascist temple to his own bottomless ego, I will choose the bumbling old man.
Please join me on International Talk Like a Pirate Day — September 19, 2024 — at 1 p.m. Eastern Time for Blueprint Masquerades’s live stream of “Pirate Appreciation Day” on their YouTube channel.![]()
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This will be a video presentation compiled from their outstanding April show run at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. Deena and I attended the opening night, and it was awesome.![]()
![]()
This will be a live stream because a YouTube chat room will run concurrently with the presentation, where I will be on hand as a guest to answer questions.![]()
![]()
“Pirate Appreciation Day” is a slapstack comedy about pirates on a cruise ship, where hairy chest contests, Lovecraftian humor, romance, and more mash together in an unforgettable experience brought to life by some terrific college actors. This two-act stage play is available from Off The Wall Plays.
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The iPhone spacer I 3D printed from DropPunk's schematics holds my phone at the proper distance from my face when bolted to my Rokoko Headrig. It's improving the quality of my facial mocap for "The Cryonic Pharaoh," which makes me happy. This morning, I shot scene 65, in which Gerald receives some bad news.
