Founder @BLKBXINF : Vision x Design for New Problems. Co-Founder @lapz_io : Spatial Motorsports Design: 1B-user products, iconic cars , 25+ MCU films.

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Joined July 2008
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Replying to @flyosity
Do not disturb
gonna do some light reading on my iPhone Duo...
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Depth-aware light injection in TypeGPU I got a 448x448 monocular depth model down to ~8 ms on my M4 Pro across ~250 dispatches, which is fast enough to use in realtime :D Since the inference is written directly in TypeGPU, I can just feed the depth buffer straight into the lighting pass. It never has to leave the GPU or go through any extra synchronization/interop step Inference, lighting and draw all go through the same command encoder.
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One of my favorite artifacts from designing Wakandan tech for Black Panther. I loved this layout & color scheme, so I made a cyan alternate just so I could say "this is what any other movie would do". Sometimes 'proof-of-non-concept' is very persuasive tool.
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Iron Man 2 was the very first film I worked on. It started as a request for a single animated loop and ended with over 100 vfx shots(!). A pivotal moment for myself and my former colleagues at Perception— here's how we pulled it off: (1/10)
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.@kenburns shares how iMovie's 'Ken Burns effect' led to a deep friendship with Steve Jobs that lasted until he passed away: "It ended up giving me a way too short, really good friendship with one of the five most important people in the United States in the last 150 years."
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Nothing hits quite like a good sticker sheet
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2025 in film and tv.
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feature request for linkedin
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enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits
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Yes indeed. One of the best examples is a Fresnel lens in many old light houses. Thanks for an interesting introduction into optics. Our augmented reality glasses have tiny mirrors that do similar things inside structures called Waveguides. I know many who are building them were influenced by seeing a lens like this as a child and getting interested in studying how light refracts and reflects.
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“Weird A.I. Yankovic”
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Pragmatic vision. Cinematic execution. Production-ready experiences as soon as you think of them. BlackBox x Rive. More soon.
The Rive team partnered with @BLKBXINF to explore how we can improve the design of everyday objects through better Human Machine Interfaces. HMI created with Rive is production-ready, which means it's ready to run on final hardware but also easy to integrate with 3D prototypes in Unreal Engine and Unity.
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When worlds collide - @JohnnyMotion X @rive_app showing the future!
Infinitely cool feeling when @JohnnyMotion shows our @rive_app concepts on DDD
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Infinitely cool feeling when @JohnnyMotion shows our @rive_app concepts on DDD
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Tomorrow’s newsletter will show subscribers what’s been going on behind the curtain at BlackBox, including: 🌎 Our current tour from Chicago ➡️ Milan ➡️ Taipei 🎙️ A peek at our keynote for Digital Design Days 🚀 A glimpse of 2024 as a whole
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👉🏼 Don't miss @guidorosso from @rive_app and @JohnnyMotion from @BLKBXINF exploring how we can use design to break the cultural addiction to dystopia at DDD. 🎟️ Grab your ticket on Eventbrite: https://ddd24milan.eventbrite #DDD24 #DigitalDesignDays #Milano #DigitalEvents
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First off, where the hell has everybody been! I've only seen the greater design community interested in automotive HMI (Human Machine Interface) in the last two years/post-tech layoffs. (2/14)
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Many product designers asking about getting into Automotive UI Design. Some insight into the space: (1/14)
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Does Apple’s new CarPlay have enough flexibility for automakers? We redesigned 7 iconic cars instruments to find out:
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