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on February 14, 2014

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Idea Friday # 1, Neural networks for animation and acting

Hello everyone !
I'm constantly busy thinking about many things, and there's only 24 hours in a day.
This means that a lot of the ideas I have will be abandoned on the workbench.

Idea Friday is an attempt to solve this problem by simply writing and sharing these ideas.

Okay, for this article I'm assuming you ( the reader) have a basic understanding of what is a Neural Network and how it works :)
2 minutes summary (just in case)A neural network is a series of operations placed in a network configuration. Each one of the "cells" or "nodes" or "neurons" does it's thing and passes it to the next one.
The idea is that each cell can have a very simple function, the simplest of which is a neuron that gets "exited" given a certain threshold of input, and then passes the info to his friends.
These networks are very good for automating tasks that would be impossible to program in regular code and math operations.

Let's say we have a 2D spa…

From high school to Hollywood in 2,5 years

When I started out, nobody really told me it was possible, all the success stories I've heard where over two decades old and hardly relatable, so I feel that's it's a good moment to share this story before time passes and I forget that I actually didn't have a plan till the very end . :)

A while ago I filled a piece of paper with two columns with stuff I really wanted to do, the freelance/studio path and "the great unknown ", then drew a box for the title and wrote as a joke "the great 2015-2016 strategy".

I now achieved every single one of my goals on the first column.
But that's what I tell people about, the easy part, the tip of the iceberg, now let's go back 2,5 years in time!

PART 1: clueless, fresh outta high-school (Graduated from a 3 years industrial design high-school program in Britanny, France).

The plan didn't really go as intended : I just heard online that the 3D school I wanted to apply to had major administration change…

ALL HAIL TO REDSHIFT

R E D S H I F T
I was searching for new technical solutions to my creative problems (it works the orther way around too) Previously I was struggling rendering because I had to stop using my machine for a long time or render at night, and the process was really slow because I was basically rendering at night, checking for debug, re rendering, and loosing days and days for really huge scenes (wich i never did because of that). Yesterday, I stumbled upon a new render engine, I already used Arnold and modo, wich are both considered as the fastest/felxible renderers out there, so I wasn't really exited about (another) GPU engine, but I gave it a try:

WHAT IS REDSHIFT?

Redshift is a GPU-accelerated biased renderer offering the utilmate in flexibility and control at incredible speeds.

FIRST IMPRESSION

-the installer is lightweight

-the installer installs fast
-clear interface -PLENTY of useful shaders -FAAAAASSSST ! -"where is the trap?" effect
AFTER SOME TESTING

-There are a lot of useful s…

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