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braindump.me – Building an AI game studio: what we’ve learned so far
https://braindump.me/blog-posts/building-an-ai-game-studio
Braindump is an attempt to imagine what game creation could be like in the brave new world of LLMs and generative AI to give you an entire AI game studio, complete with coders, artists, and so on, to help you create your dream game.
How we’ve failed the average worker and instead glorified CEOs
CEO total compensation has outpaced US median annual income by 16,638%, on average.
US median annual income increased by just 4% on average ($2,108/year).
CEO total compensation had an average annual increase of 7% ($676,153/year
Since 1974, CEO compensation has grown 940% while the average worker’s compensation has risen just 12%. Meanwhile, the purchasing power of the dollar over that same period has decreased an average of 3% a year from inflation. As a result, the average worker can afford significantly less goods and services today than they could 50 years ago, including housing, clothes and food. The average worker is losing big time.
And for those who would argue the high cost of social welfare, corporate welfare will cost taxpayers almost $400 billion this year alone, which is 25,000% higher than the $1.6 billion that will be spent on social welfare.
Sources
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/hannahawilliams_eattherich-activity-7198758131538046978-Vr2O
Godot Cheat Sheets
https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/tutorials/scripting/gdscript/gdscript_basics.html
https://www.canva.com/design/DAGBWXOIWXY/hW1uECYrkiyqs9rN0a-XIA/view?utm_content=DAGBWXOIWXY
https://www.reddit.com/r/godot/comments/18aid4u/unit_circle_in_godot_format_version_2_by_foxsinart/
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The Tragic Downfall of DevianArt – the Internet’s Art Gallery
https://slate.com/technology/2024/05/deviantart-what-happened-ai-decline-lawsuit-stability.html
Once a vibrant platform for artists, DeviantArt is now buckling under the weight of bots and greed—and spurning the creative community that made it great.
The Maker of Stable Diffusion, Stability AI Is Collapsing, Considering Sale
https://futurism.com/the-byte/stability-ai-collapsing-considering-sale
According to The Information, the company generated less than $5 million in revenue in the first quarter of this year, while losing more than $30 million.
The ironically-named venture is now reportedly sitting on $100 million worth of outstanding bills
Apple, SpaceX, Microsoft return-to-office mandates drove senior talent away
A study analyzing Apple, Microsoft, and SpaceX suggests that return to office (RTO) mandates can lead to a higher rate of employees, especially senior-level ones, leaving the company, often to work at competitors.
Some company leaders are adamant that remote work can disrupt a company’s ability to innovate. However, there’s research suggesting that RTO mandates aren’t beneficial to companies. A survey of 18,000 Americans released in March pointed to flexible work schedules helping mental health. And an analysis of 457 S&P 500 companies in February found RTO policies hurt employee morale and don’t increase company value.
https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/RTO.pdf
DreamWorks Animation to Release MoonRay as Open Source
https://www.awn.com/news/dreamworks-animation-release-moonray-open-source
MoonRay is DreamWorks’ open-source, award-winning, state-of-the-art production MCRT renderer, which has been used on feature films such as How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World, Trolls World Tour, The Bad Guys, the upcoming Puss In Boots: The Last Wish, as well as future titles. MoonRay was developed at DreamWorks and is in continuous active development and includes an extensive library of production-tested, physically based materials, a USD Hydra render delegate, multi-machine and cloud rendering via the Arras distributed computation framework.
Note: it does not support osl and usd handling is limited. Cycles may still be a fair alternative.
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MoonRay review: DreamWorks Animations’ superb rendering software is free for all
A high-performance Monte Carlo ray tracer that’s capable of both DreamWorks’ trademark stylised look and photorealism.
It has all the required features for that setup, including Arbitrary Output Variables (AOVs), which allow data from a shader or renderer to be output during rendering to aid compositing. Additionally, Deep Output and Cryptomatte are supported.
With support for OptiX 7.6 and GPU render denoising with Open Image Denoise 2, MoonRay is able to deliver particularly impressive results, especially when working interactively.
MoonRay has moved to a hybrid CPU and GPU rendering mode for its default state. It’s called XPU, and in many ways combines the best of both types of rendering workflow.
VFX Reference Platform 2023 is probably the biggest addition because it enables the use of MoonRay directly in Nuke 15.
MoonRay has already achieved great success with an array of feature films. Now the renderer is open source, the CG world can expect to see a whole new swathe of MoonRay-powered animations.
For
- Features for VFX workflows
- Open source
- XPU rendering
Against
- Designed for big studios
- Steep learning curve
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