Anatomy of a Good Prompt
I’m learning bit-by-bit that there are certain elements that make for a better prompt. This is my attempt at capturing what those are from my current viewpoint.
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Sunday, 27 August 2023
I’m learning bit-by-bit that there are certain elements that make for a better prompt. This is my attempt at capturing what those are from my current viewpoint.
Sunday, 27 August 2023
A mini project to make sense of my morning pages using LLMs. I cover how I used the OpenAI API to clean up my text, summarise it and add hashtags.
Wednesday, 19 April 2023
I continue to explore USD, looking at layers, transforms, duplicating objects and variants.
Thursday, 10 December 2020
I want to see how much data I can move back and forth between Houdini 18.5 and UE4.26 using USD. In this first part, I prep the bar scene that SideFX provides to bring into UE4. Along the way I: 1. S…
Wednesday, 9 December 2020
As a digital artist, working in 3D, there’s a lot to be excited about. In the future, there will be a shift in the skills that are valued. Technology is changing the world around us at a rapid pace…
Thursday, 26 March 2020
I was at a restaurant the other day, watching a mother across the room, dancing, waving her hands in the air, pulling funny faces. All for the joy and delight of her baby, placed on top of the table i…
Tuesday, 17 March 2020
I get it. You’re new to the industry. There’s so much to learn that it can be overwhelming, from artistic principles to technical skills to a myriad of software packages. And then, when it’s your tur…
Monday, 16 March 2020
This is a follow-up to an article I wrote about the poor state of video training and what we can do better. In that post, I identified key points that I thought needed to be addressed for video train…
Sunday, 8 March 2020
I don’t think Esther Perel’s book, Mating in Captivity would be the first inspirational choice for some. But I found myself captivated and excited with every page. The book explores the conflict betwe…
Sunday, 18 August 2019
Once a year thousands of people, from all over the world, gather in San Francisco for the Game Developers Conference. Every aspect of game development is put on display where the community can share a…
Sunday, 31 March 2019
SideFX invited me to give a quick talk at their booth during GDC 2017. I had already shown most of the work I’d done for Gears of War in a webinar the previous year so I wasn’t too sure what I would s…
Friday, 24 March 2017
Towards the end of 2016 I was fortunate enough to share a lot of the work we did on Gears of War 4 using Houdini through a webinar organized by SideFX. At just under 2 hours there’s a lot of info cram…
Friday, 17 March 2017
I posted this back in 2015 on my old wordpress site. In an effort to consolidate the various bits and bobs I have strewn across the internet I wanted to add this to my self hosted website. Below is th…
Friday, 17 March 2017
One way to get some more variation and interest out of your rbd simulation is to add secondary fracturing. This can be done in a number of ways but the basic idea is to setup your initial sim with a…
Sunday, 12 February 2017
I’m just going to put it out there - the state of video training for a lot of subjects suck. The number of times I’ve almost fallen asleep from a lousy video tutorial or had the excitement for a new t…
Thursday, 9 February 2017
So here’s an idea - what if a new student to Houdini approached the process like learning a language? There are 2 ideas that I think new users to Houdini could benefit from. The first is learning the…
Tuesday, 7 February 2017
Monday, 9 January 2017
Monday, 9 January 2017
My intent for this year is to create more and consume less (or at least be more conscious of what I consume). I see myself as a creator, an artist. My job involves creating visual effects for video g…
Thursday, 5 January 2017