The journal · 4 notes
Notes from the four o'clock shift.
Working notes on topology, look development and the unglamorous pipeline decisions that decide whether an object survives its second use. Written in the studio, published when it is finished.
- colour
- look-dev
- modelling
- motion
- pipeline
- process
- studio
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All-intra, and why our hero scrubs instead of plays
Every frame a keyframe costs eight times the bytes and buys you the one thing a scroll-scrubbed hero needs: an instant, exact seek.
2026
Topology before beauty
A mesh that renders once only has to survive one render. A mesh that ships has to survive three agencies, a rebrand, and whoever opens it in 2029.
- modelling
- process
- 1 min
Why the studio opens at four
The farm is quiet, the licences are free, and a frame that fails at 4am can be fixed twice before a client is awake.
- studio
- process
- 1 min