Hello there!I used to be a full time VFX artist working as compositor, 3D artist, producer and supervisor.
These days I am mostly home-bound due to health reasons, so my focus is mostly on tending to my family as the resident cook and doing the occasional remote work for film and TV projects.
You can find my work history on IMDB or LinkedIn and I do have a rather old showreel on Vimeo. Apart from that, this is my online home. Feel free to get in touch via email or on Micro.blog.
A Difference of Opinion
I always find it utterly baffling how people see the world totally different when presented with the same set of facts. (I had a discussion with my wife this morning and we both drew completely different conclusions.) The important thing when encountering that is to stay calm and acknowledge that the other person has a right to their opinion. Not every discussion should devolve into a mud slinging contest. In fact, it‘s best when most don‘t.
Off to the optometrist to get a pre-surgery checkup. Cataract is no fun. Let me tell you.
Has anyone else‘s constitution gone down in the last few years? It seems like me and my family are in a constant state of not quite well in the last 2-3 years. Not really sick, but constantly on the verge of. It is really annoying.
I’m really bad at multitasking social connections. Contact to other people goes out the window first when things get busy at home. I can’t even hold an online conversation for weeks at a time. And yet I value my friends. I do hope they know that.
It’s really weird to see someone you only know as an actor explain visual effects and production logistics and make it actually make sense. Huge props to Ben Stiller and Adam Scott.
I really enjoy vibe coding as it has become to be known. Claude Code to be specific. It really helps me push along my iOS app nicely. Not very cheap, but also not outrageously expensive for the amount of productivity I get from it.
Quick question to all iOS developers. I want to add iCloud Drive to my app. How do I best test this? It seems to write the correct files in Simulator, but Simulator doesn‘t seem to sync properly. Should I go straight to TestFlight and test on my real device?
Finally heard back from a support request I sent in January. About time. That’s a six or seven weeks response time.
When you run out of of two spools in one print.
Also der Rheinmetall Beitrag in den Tagesthemen vom 26.02.26 war ja wohl eher eine Werbesendung als ein ernsthafter Tagesthemen-Bericht. cc @tagesschau@ard.social
3D printing a tiny rose for my wife’s birthday. I set up two with differently settings so I can pick the one that comes out nicer. I’ve also got some mini paint at the ready to finish it off.
I started listening to a couple of days ago: Wind and Truth by Brandon Sanderson 📚
It feels good to be back.
3d printing is addictive. I got my printer on Thursday and it’s been running non-stop except nights.
I’m playing with how far I can push Cursor AI to build an iOS app. 2 views down and it worked great. Still all basic stuff, but works nicely. On the third view it fell over though. I had a calendar on the left and the day’s data on the right. Cursor couldn’t get the data to update based on the date.
I just clicked erase and install fresh on our iMac. Soon it will be ready for re-sale.
My new Mac mini arrived yesterday. I haven’t had time to set it up yet. So instead I spent the evening reading up on what has changed in macOS since OS X 10.11, which is the last version my old iMac ran.
I think I figured out what I don’t like about Tapestry. It makes me scroll up. So I’m scrolling past the whole articles from the bottom and if I want to read it I have to scroll down again. And then when I’m finished with an article I have to scroll up past it again. That’s a whole lot of back and forth.
Testing out Tapestry. I’m still not sure the combined timeline is for me.
After about two years of sitting in the closet, I finally reconnected my Promise Pegasus R6. It is now running a hardware check across six 2TB disks. It’s going to take a while.
I’m taking a deep dive into 3D printing to prepare for a Bambulab printer we are going to get in a few weeks. Fun topic.