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Dhruv Govil

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I love how motivated folks get this running so quickly

06.06.2025 13:01 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Announcing OpenUSD v25.05: Key Features and Improvements OpenUSD v25.05 is now available on GitHub, and its core non-imaging libraries can be installed via PyPI with the command line. pip install usd-core This release expands support in many...

I’m happy to share that OpenUSD now supports accessibility annotations, opening the way for more people to enjoy 3D experiences.

It will take a while for assistive technologies to support this but I think it’ll be great for the future.

aousd.org/blog/announc...

07.05.2025 16:33 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Snow Patrol at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre - Bright Noise Snow Patrol at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre, Vancouver, Mar 21 2025. Dhruv Govil photos.

My photos from Snow Patrol are up on Bright Noise

brightnoise.ca/2025/03/21/s...

22.03.2025 06:17 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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β€˜Tiana’ Disney+ Series Shelved as Walt Disney Animation Abandons Longform Streaming Content (Exclusive) First announced in 2020, the Disney+ show was envisioned as a musical featuring Anika Noni Rose reprising her role as Tiana, Disney's first Black princess, from 'The Princess and the Frog.'

Saddened to hear that Disney is moving to a low risk model of content

www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

When movies like Flow are winning awards, the big animation studios really need to figure out how to get back to making content that inspires rather than capitulates to the mainstream

03.03.2025 20:14 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Congratulations to #Flow for winning Best Animated Feature at the #oscars.

What an achievement for independent animation to beat out an incredibly strong year from the powerhouses of animation.

For a fraction of the budget , with open source software. Also to @blender.org

03.03.2025 00:52 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

#WinOrLose is such a weird show. It’s well made, but it feels like a #Pixar take on Euphoria.

Each episode is so bleak. So far it’s been debilitating anxiety, extreme loneliness, childhood poverty and struggling single mom.

I’m really not sure who the target audience is…

02.03.2025 05:51 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Severance Season 2 opens with one of the best pieces of camera choreography that I’ve seen.

I legitimately went back to watch it multiple times to try and break it down, because there’s a lot of impossible shots in there.

19.01.2025 04:48 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Apple opposes investor calls to end its DEI efforts: 'We strive to create a culture of belonging' - 9to5Mac Apple filed its annual proxy report for shareholders today ahead of its annual shareholders meeting next month. The report reveals...

I’m glad we’re putting our values first in this case when so many others are bending their knee instead

9to5mac.com/2025/01/10/a...

11.01.2025 22:57 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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β€˜It’s Total Chaos Internally at Meta Right Now’: Employees Protest Zuckerberg’s Anti LGBTQ Changes Meta's decision to specifically allow users to call LGBTQ+ people "mentally ill" has sparked widespread backlash at the company.

I’m glad Meta’s employees are pushing back on their leadership.

Mark is bereft of any sense of morality and the latest change to their allowed content is a heinous green light for bigotry.

www.404media.co/its-total-ch...

10.01.2025 01:05 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Mufasa is some of the worst camera work I’ve seen. No static shots, every camera is always moving.

It’s not the worst part of the film, but cameras are performances too and need texture and contrast.

06.01.2025 05:09 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I’ve long said that while Meta has fantastic engineers, the company has no vision for a better future. That starts with Mark himself who has for years taken the route of throwing stuff at the wall to see what might help amass an empire.

03.01.2025 18:03 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Wicked Director Jon M. Chu Makes Movie Magic with Apple Vision Pro | Apple TV
Wicked Director Jon M. Chu Makes Movie Magic with Apple Vision Pro | Apple TV YouTube video by Apple TV

#Wicked is probably my favourite film this year, and I love this quote from Jon Chu about #VisionPro.

β€œSteve jobs said computers were a bicycle for the mind, and this felt like a rocket ship for my imagination”

youtu.be/QIrgcD0IWcI?...

02.01.2025 23:29 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Ex-Pixar Staffers Decry β€˜Win or Lose’ Trans Storyline Being Scrapped: β€œCan’t Tell You How Much I Cried” One consultant on the episode says the company is "asking someone to play someone they're not" by changing a character voiced by trans actress Chanel Stewart to cisgender.



www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

28.12.2024 04:50 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Disney Pulls Transgender StorylineΒ from Pixar’s β€˜Win or Lose’ Streaming Series (Exclusive) The original animated show about a co-ed high school team debuts on Disney+ in February.

It’s depressing that creatives can’t talk about identity without walking on eggshells. Disney proving yet again that they’re a fair weather ally and ready to throw anything under the bus to be as safe as possible.

www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/d...

17.12.2024 20:09 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

That slide is so bizarre. She knows what’s wrong with the implication but still dove headfirst into it.

I imagine someone who reviewed it must have mentioned the optics given how tacked on it feels.

14.12.2024 18:29 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Congratulations, Team Asobi, on a well deserved GOTY win.

Astro Bot was one of the most intensely delightful games I’ve played. Even without the excellent nostalgia, it’s just such a tight and well designed platformer.

In a sea of serious, adult focused games it stands out as a bundle of joy.

13.12.2024 07:08 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Also really excited for visionOS 2.2 today with the new Ultrawide virtual display.

This has been so useful for me when traveling. My Vision Pro plus a 14” laptop makes for a really portable workstation.

If only I had a portable Glove 80 keyboard to boot.

12.12.2024 04:33 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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WebKit Features in Safari 18.2 Today marks the arrival of Safari 18.2.

Very excited for the spatial media and WebXR support in today’s Safari release.

I’m curious to see if our concert media website will allow me to host converted spatial photos without converting them.

webkit.org/blog/16301/w...

12.12.2024 04:20 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Alex Garland at the BFI - The VFX in Civil War | Framestore
Alex Garland at the BFI - The VFX in Civil War | Framestore YouTube video by Framestore

Love to see such a great director call out the film industry for virtue signaling about not using VFX

At the end of the day, it’s about artistry one way or another. Civil war was a masterpiece and shows how great artists come together.

youtu.be/_MYzGaKlaLE?...

11.12.2024 06:23 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Rendering Tiny Glades With Entirely Too Much Ray Marching
Rendering Tiny Glades With Entirely Too Much Ray Marching YouTube video by Graphics Programming Conference

Here's a recording of my Tiny Glade presentation from the Graphics Programming Conference 2024:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=jusW...

It's an any% speedrun of our GPU-driven rendering, shadows, global illumination, water, and DoF, involving a few weird tricks.

05.12.2024 02:19 πŸ‘ 456 πŸ” 109 πŸ’¬ 15 πŸ“Œ 9

If anything, #SecretLevel is highlighting how exceedingly generic a lot of games are.

You could replace the skins and slap a new title on them, and I don’t think most people would notice.

Though maybe it’s by design? A lot of the writing feels like what β€œteenage gamer boy” would be into.

08.12.2024 07:26 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I think fans of the respective games will get a little nostalgic buzz for each #SecretLevel episode, but if you’re not well versed in each world, they’re all kind of generic?

It doesn’t feel as interesting as Love, Death and Robots did.

08.12.2024 07:20 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Not a huge fan of #SecretLevel so far.

A lot of it feels like the kind of cinematic trailers you’d get at E3 or TGS for well established franchises. Not really trying to do anything really interesting with the world beyond fan service.

Visually it’s about that level too. It’s good but not great.

08.12.2024 07:18 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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I finally received my GPU Zen 3 book. My first order was stolen from my porch and I imagine there’s some vagrant who’s either really unhappy with their thievery or…they’re starting a fulfilling career in graphics programming, and will be unhappy later when debugging cryptic GPU behaviour.

03.12.2024 02:56 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
A table of contents for GPU Zen 3, Chapter 7: The Evolution of the Real-Time Lighting Pipeline in Cyberpunk 2077

A table of contents for GPU Zen 3, Chapter 7: The Evolution of the Real-Time Lighting Pipeline in Cyberpunk 2077

GPU Zen 3 is out!

I want to draw attention to the 96(!) page article I was a small part of detailing all the work from tooth-to-tail we put into making ray tracing a reality in Cyberpunk 2077. It is exhaustive and should be a reference for anyone looking to make RTX a reality in their own engines.

25.11.2024 16:24 πŸ‘ 90 πŸ” 18 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 2
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I also had a great time shooting #Lawrence on their Family Business tour. A really fun group.
You can hear their stuff at music.apple.com/ca/album/fam...

24.11.2024 01:08 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Beyond software engineering, I also shoot #concerts, and folks keep telling me to share more so here goes.

Here’s a shot from #Plini a couple weeks ago when he was opening for #AnimalsAsLeaders

24.11.2024 01:04 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

After a few minutes on Blue Sky I think it has figured out the success metrics that Twitter had which Threads and Mastodon don’t quite do.

Being snappy, and allowing people to follow broad subjects, while still allowing for very specific searches when desired.

Maybe this one will resonate more.

24.11.2024 00:55 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0