Tim is Recovering from GDC
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My annual demo reel update, 2 years late! I blame the pandemic for not putting one together last year. I have a lot more that I am proud of, but gotta keep that reel brief, y'all.
#gamedev
#animation
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This mother fucker has been groping & grabbing women at the Golden Gate Tap Room tonight, including our scholars.
Upon asking him to stop, he used the tried & true method of insisting they grabbed him first & told me to fuck off.
I don’t stand for that. No one should.
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I was today years old when I realized how easy it is to reverse an anim in Maya's graph editor. I'm ashamed to say I've been eyeballing it manually my entire life (and consequently swearing at the keys on ticks).
#animtip
#gamedev
#animation
*=-1, enter
+(frame range), enter
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Possibility Space was just shut down. From what I heard they cut off access in the middle of meetings for some & sent an absolutely unhinged email blaming the Kotaku article for the cancellation of PS’ project.
A masterclass on how to never run a company or treat employees. 🗑️🔥
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I have a joke about animators, but the timing just isn't right.
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OK! Here is the live-updating Google sheet link for the Unofficial
#Gamedev
WFH/Remote Studio List!
Please note the "info" tab has contact info for any change requests. It also has a link to the form to submit more entries:
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I finally get to do one of these! Excited to join
@undeadlabs
today as the People Manager for Tech Art, Tech Anim, & Animation. Looking forward to helping this amazing team with their career goals, maintaining a healthy relationship with work, and building a diverse environment.
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I asked the bar to remove him and they are on it.
Our industry doesn’t need this bullshit. No one is entitled to another person’s bodily autonomy and freedom.
I’m fuming and waiting near him to make sure it doesn’t happen again while I wait for security to escort him out.
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Update: security removed him. I am currently attempting to calm down.
This is not about me at all, but holy fuck does this behavior infuriate me.
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Everyone’s favorite CEO to RT and quote on Twitter is, shockingly, a milkshake duck.
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Why does this dumb, inaccurate excuse seem to come up every console generation or so.
But there will be no playable female characters because of game lore and more importantly - the huge amount of work needed with animations, gear fitting etc
#EscapefromTarkov
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A little over 15 years ago, we brought this tiny blur or floof home. Today we said goodbye.
We will miss you Vino. Thank you for being in our lives. We hope you are at peace, pain free, and hanging out with all of your friends who left before you.
We love you.
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In 1986, this was unreasonably high poly. Like I don’t know how to explain this to you kids, but I modeled a 16 poly chicken that had to be reduced to 12. In 1993. For performance.
A low poly Link as depicted in a 1986 issue of Shonen Captain magazine~
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I see the argument of "it's too costly to pay speakers or make the conference more affordable" has come up, re: GDC. Here's a graphic I put together for an estimated profit of GDC 2018.
It's almost $24 million US.
Don't tell me it can't be more affordable.
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Are we talking about rejection letters? Because boy gee howdy do I still have all of mine from 1998 as I graduated college and wanted to get into film animation.
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Every studio I’ve started at during my 25 year career has required I learn something new. As a hiring manager now, I cannot imagine having this convo with a junior.
IMO the proper Q is “if you require I learn new software, will I be given the appropriate time/support to do so?”
Today a student told me they will negotiate in the interview to use Blender, even if the company's pipe goes through Maya. I'm sorry as a student going for a jr role, you really don't have that bargaining power. They will simply pick another jr
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When I first met my now wife, I was crunching on Saints Row 1. 80-100 hour weeks, sometimes 7 days a week. During that time, we moved in together and never saw each other. When we shipped that game, and I was home at normal hours, we had to literally re-learn each other.
Hi I see we're talking about crunch again.
I lived with someone who crunched at That Studio and let me tell you a fun story.
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Hey recruiters, don't do this. Don't fucking shame people if they don't get back to you, and don't try guilt trips. It makes you look petty, immature, and unprofessional.
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Now that
#SuperMash
is out, here is some of my favorite
#animation
work on the frog, rendered at the framerate used in-game. These were a fun challenge with limited frames!
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Sometimes you just gotta add a little sass to your pants. Er, robe.
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That time during GDC 2013 where I almost got banned from Pixar (that thing is… not attached as firmly as you’d think)
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'Some days it feels like the whole world is being held hostage to male fragility. Sometimes it seems that there’s no limit on what women, girls, and queer people are expected to tolerate in order to protect men'
THIS. Read this.
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This game was a defining game of my HS years, so much that I made my own version of the island for a senior year project in 1993.
I am super excited to say that 27 years later, I am working on this version of it- rigging & animation.
I hope I don't fuck it up, for past me. 😬
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not the sexiest of
#animation
tasks, but
#gamedev
locomotion animators will feel this in their bones- I spent way too much time getting this turn sequence to look and blend smooth.
haha get it, bones.
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Hey y'all! are there any lists of all of the game companies allowing remote/WFH floating out there? If not, I may start one up...
#gamedev
#remotework
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Gonna try to sign off for the day after everything going on. I just want to say this:
I see a lot of men in power in the industry saying we need to be better, we need to make this a safe place, we need to believe, etc.
Y'all are the literal ones in power. Lead by example. Now.
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This is an excellent proof of concept of how animators take not only reference footage, but also motion capture, and change it for better timing, appeal, and yes, acting overall.
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5 years ago, I joined
@Thekla_inc
. Today is my last day (by choice!)
The team is amazingly talented, & I’m sad that I won’t get to ship what we are working on. I’ll also miss being the Slack mascot :)
For now, it’s time for a much needed break before I start my next role. 🧘🧘
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Well, I did not have “It’s important to go on record as a misogynist” on my gamedev CEO bingo card for Labor Day weekend…
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Spent the past 4 hours in the ER because why the fuck not on a Saturday night. Two blood tests and a CT scan later and it’s confirmed that I have no death inside my chest, at least.
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This birb’s rig and anims have been a blast to work on. 🐦🐦🐦
So this is (codename) Project Wander, our next game.
You're the bird who manages the impossibly huge mail room in a teenager's brain. It's a walking/hiking sim!
I'm working on the stumble and trip mechanics lately. Half-Life sounds purely placeholder because they're rad.
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Lol how fitting.
At least 3 people were hospitalized while making this game. Multiple mental health breakdowns. For a short time, project managers walked the floor in the AM to make sure people, who had likely been there till at least midnight, were at their desks.
PASSION!
15 years ago today a little game called "Saints Row" came out... nothing was the same since.
#SR15thAnniversary
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IT HAS BEEN QUITE THE YEAR THIS WEEK HUH EVERYBODY
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Just saw an animation job posting that has this line in it and I’ve never decided to not share a job posting so fast:
“Our studio's mantra is "TV speed, movie quality."”
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Today I wrote a Maya tool by copy/pasting functions from 3 tools I found on the internet & immediately wondered "did these get copy/pasted from somewhere too?"
Then I realized I actually wrote one of the functions like 3 years ago and someone copy/pasted it from me.
#techart
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Studio heads who expect everyone to have the same level of passion as they do is an infinitely unachievable goal and unrealistic, unreasonable expectation. No one should have the same passion for a studio as the person who STARTED THE STUDIO. You should never, ever expect this.
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I rigged a birdie and it go bouncy
I don't know what animators are whining about birds are easy to animate
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70% of game animation is identifying cool animations that serve the overall experience, no matter where the ideas came from, and all without shitting on other animators' work
the other 30% is posting Maya crash reports with fun lyrics
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My name is Tim, and I suffer from depression, anxiety, and a panic disorder- all of which sometimes drive me to dark places. I go to therapy, weekly, and those trips to the dark places have become much, much less frequent.
I hope that others are able to do the same.
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These two killed it this week, running the
#GDCANIM
roundtables!
@efparkery
and
@junovia_
don’t need my validation or approval because they are badasses, but I was super stoked to see my baby in great hands. I also very much enjoyed just being a citizen and clown all week :)
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Officially unemployed.
I’m now a detriment to society, or something.
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Y’all. We just put in an adoption request for this adorable 12 year old girl. Look at her.
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OK, I made a google form to submit companies! Please only submit companies that you know allow
#remotework
#WFH
.
It'll auto-populate a google sheet whose link I'll share once there are a good number of entries.
Feel free to share this around!
#gamedev
Hey y'all! are there any lists of all of the game companies allowing remote/WFH floating out there? If not, I may start one up...
#gamedev
#remotework
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@jwaaaap
I made this, which was a post-credits easter egg, but I also had an easter egg INSIDE the easter egg for the team. The whole time I was making it, I had an imp in place of the RF guard. I swapped in the guard before the last render to surprise everyone.
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Update, I’ve seen the email and they actually blamed the employees for the tire fire that they themselves created.
May those two never run a game studio again.
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22 years ago in the coming month, I will have created this masterpiece.
@DSVolition
, somehow, did not fire me.
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We said goodbye to Shunu on Monday... our little potato.
October sucked.
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Everyone is hanging the American flag this weekend. We refuse to- that flag is meant to represent freedom, for all, & this country has only ever fully guaranteed the freedom of straight white men.
So instead we are flying this flag, as women’s, trans, & LGBTQ+ rights matter too.
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Look at this guy. This was a year or two after we moved to Seattle. I miss him a ton.
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Update: He’s been reported to GDC. The rest of the process is confidential but they are at the least going to see if he’s registered and talk to him.
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This is what happens when you sneeze at age 46 and re-injure your back. (I’m fine, getting some steroids and such)
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Holy. Shit.
Finished another zoetrope. This time I wanted to make a tribute to one of the greatest animators, Hayao Miyazaki.
#StudioGhibli
#totoro
#catbus
#stopmotionanimation
#vfx
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Gentle reminder for all my friends, after the past week and what seems to be bubbling up from the filth in the aftermath.
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hey tim what's it like doing all your cloth sim in Maya on laye... oh
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Everyone, I have important news.
Vino needs attention.
That is all.
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squeezing through a crack in the wall in a tech demo is the new teapot for animators.
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Ah, today is the 10 year anniversary of when I almost got banned from Pixar... That thing is NOT anchored well to the ground.
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Today marks 23 years in the
#gamedev
industry, and 4 at
@Thekla_inc
.
I drove through a tornado to get to my first FT job at
@DSVolition
. Drove over a mountain to get to my second job. Across town for my third.
Now I walk up the stairs to get to my current gig. What a world.
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The vet sent us a sweet condolence card for Vino. I just accidentally opened it again so now I am a disaster. We still haven’t picked up his ashes. I keep looking at this last photo we took of him before we said goodbye. He was ready- We all knew it, but I just miss him so much.
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How. The Fuck. Is It.
#PortfolioDay
. Already. Again.
Anyway here's the animation that helped me get my groove back after a layoff.
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So it's
#WorldMentalHealthDay
. I talk about going to therapy on here a lot (coming up on one year of weekly sessions!), my panic disorder, etc. But I never talked about what spurred me to talk about it so openly. So here goes. (CW- depression, anxiety, suicidal ideation)
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10 years ago, my wife and I decided to move to Seattle, which meant I left my first games job after 12 years at
@DSVolition
. It also meant that this showed up to replace me... and is still there to this day.
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Unfortunately I had to head home early from GDC due to a family emergency. I apologize to all who I’ll miss seeing, but family is more important- and there is always next year!
I’m happy I got to meet a few of our
@AnimDiversity
scholars and hope they have an awesome week!
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This
#pupdate
might be worth your while!
#ue4
#screenshotsaturday
@UnrealEngine
#IndieGameDev
#solodev
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excellent demonstration of collapse zones for knees and elbows
ローポリ関節（Y字割り）の応用編です。
ローポリ関節では、自己交差が気になると思います。これは、90度の曲げまでなら各対応張点をジョイント位置から同心円状に配置することで緩和することができます。
#トポロジー
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If I know you, and you are being abused, mistreated, harassed, by _anyone_, even someone who you think I am more friendly with, I am saying this now- if you are comfortable with telling me, please ask for help.
Whatever is happening to you is NOT your fault.
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I feel like we all need a lil briskey in our feeds right now.
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It is quite possibly the biggest regret of my life, and a main driver in why I'm against crunch and succumbing to the guilt trips of "passion" from studio heads.
People's work is sometimes wrought from internal pain and conflict. Its only fair the world understands and sees it.
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I don’t talk about my involvement with these awards too often, but this year I was really, really excited to be on this panel and push hard to get this game nominated in the Character category. They deserved it SO. DAMN. HONK.
Congratulations to
@house_house_
and
#UntitledGooseGame
for winning the
#DICEAward
for Outstanding Achievement in Character!
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