Notices by Yining Karl Li (yiningkarlli@mastodon.gamedev.place)

Teaser trailer is out for Zootopia 2! I’ve been working on this one for a while now, and I love that we made a weirdo custom teaser trailer that contains exactly zero footage from the final movie but does show off how insanely good the character animation is in this movie.

Fun fact: the snake’s animation rig is a highly modified version of… the rope rig used for the ropes on Moana’s canoe, kind of like how the Space Shuttle is a descendant of the Wright Flyer. 🤣

https://youtu.be/xo4rkcC7kFc?feature=shared

TIL that because the FFmpeg project has gained so much experience in hand-writing assembly code to provide huge speedups, they now are putting together a series of lessons for learning assembly:

Vibe coding is fun and all, but this is probably a better use of time!

https://github.com/FFmpeg/asm-lessons

A huge congrats to Flow for winning the Oscar for Best Animated Feature! It was made by a tiny crew entirely using Blender and rendered entirely using Eevee. A lot of folks are trying to figure out what lessons there are to be learned from Ne Zha 2 right now, but IMO Flow is actually the movie that everyone should be paying attention to and studying to learn lessons from.

https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/flow-wins-best-animated-feature-film-oscar-2025-03-03/

DirectX is moving to using SPIR-V, and hell hath frozen over:

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/directx/directx-adopting-spir-v/

lol if you work on a ray tracing renderer then you definitely know

https://twitter.com/IrevDev/status/1775700517727154563

My entire career as a programmer so far has just been learning the ideals of the Grug Brained Developer the hard way:

https://grugbrain.dev

The best programmers I know all subscribe to the tenents of the Grug Brained Developer, whether they know it or not. Be like Grug.