- The Virtual Production of The Mandalorian, Season One - We finally relented on a Disney+ subscription in order to watch Hamilton but got sidetracked by The Mandalorian. This vid explains the use of an enormous LED screen to display virtual sets created in Unreal Engine that actually light the actors.
- Facial mocap comes to Unreal Engine via new iPhone app - Everything that's difficult and expensive to do in movies, coming soon to an App Store Near You.™
- New Stuff, Fresh from Larson's Lab - New comics from The Far Side creator and personal hero, Gary Larson.
- The Obscuratory review of Obsidian - Obsidian was one of several surreal Myst-inspired computer games that my wife and I played obsessively in the early 2000s. This review talks about the history of the game's development, from an era when playing a computer game meant switching between several CD-ROMs.
- Light and Shadows - A lengthy explanation of how light "works," with cool HTML5 canvas widgets to play with.
Posted July 11, 2020.