You guys are working hard to keep your community .. hehe.   Ithat's not sarcasm)

reallusion joins blender development fund

Still .. if i do upgrade i will need to wait because i have to buy a new fridge and a new chest freezer and then there is a supply shortage.   

p.s. I like never ever start threads but this news was super interesting.

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see ?  they do listen.

another tip-  1 NFTs haven't gone full VR yet -  Im going to try an experiment to see if I can get that ball rolling on opensea -  but it would be wise for RL to find a way to incorporate their footprint in the Metaverse,  where RL is a go to software for animated VR environments.....no one likes these new buzzwords because no one really trusts FB anymore,  and the crypto space is currently over run by hackers -  but in reality,  hackers always flock to the hottest new trends,  so it's not a danger as much as it is a signal of a major new trend...  -  none the less all the deep pockets are supporting it so they can take the nft trend to the next phase.  again,  no one likes the NFT buzzword,  but it doesn't change the fact how much money is being poured into it ....not because of art,  but because of it's virtual contract system, eventually the 1% wants to create a sustainable financial workflow using nfts ...to sell real property like cars, houses and life insurance etc...  -

aside from 3D assets,  RL needs to figure out how to capitalize on the render side of iclone.    I've been saying that for years  -  VR and NFT is the new virtual real estate and if RL can figure out how to sell imagination and art as real estate.......

https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/15/22834652/spatial-vr-nft-virtual-world-galleries-pivot

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Interesting news indeed, these meaningful associations of RL with other technology players, which I hope will help the longevity of the company.

@PSD: We all agree and have been saying for years that rendering needs improvement, but I also hope that RL sticks to the basics and doesn't run after each new techno fad, like DAZ (https://nfp.daz3d.com/). Why does "fungible" makes me think of "fungus" :sick: ?

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actually -  I've been reallly enjoying the basic render engine from Iclone lately -  it's really a matter of digging into the visual panel and lighting ( and plug in effects )

and the reason that RL should pursue it,  is because it's still the wild west and no one has claimed that king of VR renders yet.  Not many artists use it,  if they let the artists dominate the space first,  then many competitors will be thrown into that ring for the go to king of renders in the virtual real estate place. 

This is the time to do what google did after aol fell off the map and be that go to guy.    the future is coming whether we agree with it or not.

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Indeed i'm very happy to see them giving back to the blender community.    We are for the most part hardcore geeks who love art.   I started noticing the entire iclone 8 stuff when they announced that CC4 would accomodate non -standard character designs (i had no use for CC before this because well i'm not into hyperrealistic stuff and nothing i make is anywhere close to a borring old human ^^).     But I will have to look at the rest of the info's as it filters out.    There might be an actual point to me using iclone 8.   

About the only thing i rarely make is the motion files that was by big money sink for iclone since there stuff was always safe to use etc etc.   With the abililty to bring that into blender and use their motion edit system this is like motion builder on sterioids ^^.

Yes I also agree about the metaverse stuff.. the reason i fell down this 3d rabbit hole in the first place when i was like 25 years younger was due to such applications and i needed to figure out how to do my own stuff... 


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It looks like we are getting the equivalent of a live link to Blender according to an email I just received from Reallusion.

And no....RL should not following DAZ down that retarded NFT path.

Daz ( owned by Tafi)
is completely realigning their business model over to an NFT CRYPTO hub.

The Metahumans crushed  Daz's last hope of becoming a major provider of realistic Characters for the gaming market so it's understandable that they are seeking new market in NFT/ Crypto.

They have not even updated thier official bridge to work with Blender 3.
Reallusion is Wise to further develop its Blender pipeline tools

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they are not losing tho,  look at the volume traded on their opensea account,  and that revenue doesn't represent potential commission on a 2ndary market....and they have other nft accounts on other sites. Bitcoin is predicted to hit the 100k mark, and ethereum is predicted to take over bitcoins position in crypto -  so if daz plays it like a smart investor they can potentially make a fortune.

https://opensea.io/collection/daz

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Dr. Strange.  Although he cheated.. we did it the hard way :cool:

In reading it i was happy to see they recognized the render capabilities of Blender and when Evee was created it was great day for me lol.   Its like magic all of a sudden they string a bunch of numbers, letters and symbols together.. and out pops a realtime render engine.   They had a usable render engine brand new pretty fast.   

Anyhow ever since i read that announcement the wheels have been going around in me head.    Probably means i will cave and spend lots of money at some point.  :Whistling:



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@PSD, I don't doubt that they will make money but will those who buy have a tradeable commodity? I'm not so sure. It's always the gullible who pay the price...:unsure: 

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