#perfect timing

[blu27nature]

There are many kinds of ghosts, which kind are you? Taken with Sony RX100

#street photography #black and white #shadows #sony rx100 #digital camera #bnw mood #cat #birds #aesthetics #silhouette #perfect timing #urban photography #original photography #photographers on tumblr #blu27nature

[david-tennant-in-chairs]

His feet not touching the ground!

#david tennant #david tennant in chairs #crowley #good omens #anthony j crowley #legs for days #just like all the limbs #anthony crowley #perfect timing #ineffable husbands #ineffable idiots #they're so cute #michael sheen #aziraphale

[swamp-chicken]

Bdubs calling (timid, perenially lost) Etho pet names during OOGE - Kaizo Caverns, 10 years ago

#ethoslab #bdoubleo100 #ethubs #etho #bdubs #the great ooge rewatch #i've been rewatchign this all week and then etho was on bdubs's stream talking abt how timid he was lol #perfect timing #my vids #ethubs herstory

[oldfarmhouse]

☕𝐠𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐢𝐭 𝐢𝐬?

// [email protected]

#chamomile time #perfect timing #hot tea

[justalittlebluetiefling]

I am still holding out hope we see Exandria's Sexiest Man this campaign. We all know who I am speaking of.

I am always holding out hope that we see Exandria's Sexiest Man. If he shows up on screen though I'm not going to be able to react because I'll be too busy screaming.

#anonymous #erin answers things #YOU ALL KNOW WHO WE'RE TALKING ABOUT #getting this ask right after i changed back to my jester url though #perfect timing

[kindasleepycryptid]

Captain Anderson, my man

#PERFECT timing #hes like the commander dad #his time in the game has passed but itll be a cold day in hell before he watches the normandy get grounded lmao #cryptid talks #mass effect

[oasis-springs-resident]

Ariel Hair by MiikoCC

https://www.patreon.com/posts/78404977?utm_campaign=postshare_fan

#not mine #im playing the disney princess legacy challenge and i just got to the ariel generation #perfect timing #ts4cc #sims 4 #the sims 4 #sims 4 custom content #s4cc #thesims4cc #sims 4 cc finds #sims4 cc #s4ccfinds

[paramores]

THE O.C. (2003-2007) 1.14 | The Countdown

#theocedit #dailyflicks #userbbelcher #zanisummers #userdrea #teendramaedit #tvedit #the oc #ryissa #* #hadn't giffed my bbs in months #perfect timing

[zhansww]

#war of faith #zfz 22 #shenlai #obviously #I forgot about this #but I read queenxiv's mpreg shenlai fic today #and got to this scene on my rewatch just now #perfect timing

[urlocalweirdperson1232]

Angle Dast

#hazbin hotel #hazbin angel dust #hazbin hotel angel dust #hazbin hotel memes #perfect timing #hazbin hotel pilot

[mckitterick]

Timing is everything

this famous photo was featured as a center spread in the British Daily Mirror newspaper on Oct 9, 1962

photographer Jim Meads was with his two children as the then-experimental Mach-2 Lightning F1 fighter jet roared in to land at De Havilland Airfield near their home

a fuel leak caused catastrophic failure and the plane flipped. pilot George Aird ejected at the last moment, hit a greenhouse, and fell through the roof, breaking both legs as he landed unconscious on the ground. the water from the sprinkler system for the tomatoes woke him, and his first thought was that he must be in heaven

more on the plane and photo here: X

#vintage photography #airplanes #airplane crashes #perfect timing #tractors

[eidolons-stuff]

Xavier: "I just wish-"

*Wednesday starts to wake up*

Thing: *signs* "Wednesday! Xavier, shut up!"

#lmao #perfect timing #best way to shut up #xavier #is to get #wednesday #to wake up #that's funny #thing #xavier thorpe #wednesday addams #wenclair #wenclair cult

[kaiserouo]

Hello! In this post I will describe the details of making a render of Apex Legends stuff (namely the video you're watching) so you can make a photo / video to your liking! Even if you don't wanna render things, I think you might still find the process interesting, OR, especially, the tools useful in you future work.

Why am I doing this? Because I'm taking a train and I'm bored. Also there's too little Bloodhound content here. Maybe someone will actually do some cool rendering of them after this.

Idea

Do you know in training mode, Bloodhound will wait for you indefinitely like a puppy with their cute little look-around motion?

Precious footage of Houndy on Youtube

I want them to be my background. So the most important requirements are:

3 Bloodhounds looking around and waiting like that of training mode. (why only 1 if you can have 3?)

Firing range background.

Looks overall good or something (e.g., lighting, motion not synchronized, 1920x1080 for my computer, etc.)

Let's get started.

Model

Well, there won't be multiple Bloodhounds waiting for me in the firing range in-game. I am also not intended to mod R5Reloaded just for this. So we'll use Blender to pose them.

First we need the model. The details of how to use Apex Legends model in blender can be found in this tutorial I found. Basically you just need Blender, semodel + seanim loader, Legion+, and the game itself. You COULD find archives of some models on the web, but manually extracting will guarentee that you can get everything you need.

Reddit Apex Legends model tutorial

Apex File Archive (by Biast12)

Model name list (may be incomplete)

I made an auto shading addon btw

There are a lot of tutorials of how to use Blender. I will not include the details here.

We need:

Models of 3 Bloodhounds (pilot_medium_bloodhound, bloodhound_v21_pilot_level03_w, bloodhound_v21_heroknight_w)

Animation of them waiting indefinitely (mp_pt_medium_training_blood_idle_A_0.seanim)

The names are a bit weird. You can just try to import all the models / animations to find what you want.

Background

Map files are large and hard to load. In my case I never even imported any map in Blender successfully. Fortunately we are looking for a still image background.

I used R5Reloaded's photo mode (or something like that) to get a clean picture. Quite a lot of steps to get a background picture, I know. I used R5Reloaded for other things at that time so this was the most convenient way for me ironically.

R5Reloaded does has a lot of potential, though. Maybe you can use it on other stuff afterwards.

R5Reloaded official page

But if we just make a render in Blender and composite the result with this background, the perspective will certainly not be aligned and the result will look very weird. Probably need a disgusting amount of time just to adjust this stuff.

Thankfully, by the theory of perspective and projective geometry, we can calculate the focal length, the height and the angle of camera all from a single image by your favorite subject: math!

...I mean, by fSpy. We have computers. We don't do the math that others already did for us.

fSpy official page

After getting the parameters of the camera, you can import them into blender directly. The camera from fSpy already has the background image composited so you won't need to do much else in Blender.

Posing & Lighting

We have almost everything we need. So just:

Import all models and camera (from fSpy)

Shade the models and adjust size / position / orientation so it looks good on camera

Import animations on model and adjust the keyframes s.t. they don't do the exact same motion every frame.

We are using the existing animations so posing won't be a problem. If you want to make your own pose you might need some more proper rigging. Not expert on this so that's all I will say.

Now we need the lighting. The lighting environment in the firing range is not really available to us if we don't have the skybox or the map file. Maybe you can find the skybox in Legion+ or archive, but I use lights in Blender instead.

Namely, a sun light to simulate the light from the sun, and a plane light at front for overall light adjusting (probably also simulates reflection from the ground and the environment).

And wait for like half an hour for Blender to spit out all 285 frames and we're done! I let Blender store each and every frame as an image and use ffmpeg to composite them all into a video because I thought I need the high resolution images for something else. Blender does have a setting to just output a video without the intermediate result if I recall correctly.

Conclusion

This is definitely not a complete guide on how to do rendering pieces of work with Blender. I myself am not even well experienced in this kind of stuff. But I think the process is fun and the result is rewarding, especially when seeing your favorite character moving on your background.

I hope you do check out the reference of tools and tutorials above. After all, as an artist (kind of), having the model is like possessing THE absolute reference for a character. Very recommended for every artist to learn how to use Blender and search for models. In 2024 a lot of games are in 3D and there WILL be someone on the web sharing how to extract models from the game or simply gives out the entire archive. You name it! Apex Legends, Titanfall, Destiny, even Ultrakill has like a 1GB blender file for high quality models, if you just google for that ever so slightly.

...Welp actually you can just treat this post as a huge Bloodhound advertisement. The end.

#ask for details if you're interested i guess #this took 2 hours and it just so happens that my train took 2 hours lol #perfect timing #blender #rendering #apex legends #apex bloodhound #bloodhound #bloodhound apex #apex legends bloodhound #my art #(kind of) #(i alreadly posted this video in the pinned post but whatever)

[alumi-san]

I missed it so much

First of all, it was great seeing and hearing the cast after so long (especially s2 cast with better mics).

I'm worrying about Miriam. Old age takes youth, but Jake is not ready to lose another grandma, especially when she's the last person he has left. I also think that she might get out of the game duo to health problems.

Okay, did Tom and Jake have a fight off screen, or what???

I'm so Mriam at here. #MIRIAMISANICON

So... Ally and Hunter already have a relationship problem. I sense they gonna break up.

Hunter is Jake ex theory is finally dead!

Tom is ignoring Jake's calls? Oh-oh. Does he hide something?

Wait! You're not poly?! Huntessally is not canon?! But... oh well(

Okay, let's all take a deep breath. I get that the interview came out not so long after the finaly, that's why she's emotional here. But! Saying that they should get over it??? Like, girl, you talked crap on them on the national TV! Of course, they're gonna be mad! Yes, what she said about Alec was true, but it's still harsh. Also... you literally lied to Jake about Tom, which cost them ending their relationship, and let's not forget the "Your boyfriend cheated on you because you're annoying" line. Also also... nobody dares to call my boy Tom stupid! The least you can do is to apologize to them!

Cute! Cringe but cute.

I'm happy that they showed Sophia! Wonder if we'll see Alec son or Grett brother?

I do feel bad for Alec.

Now I'm asking the same question. Like the show had only 2 seasons, but it became richer than Total Drama.

It's still disturbing. Like listen, I understand that it's only the first episode, and we can't judge too quickly. But it's Yul!

I didn't. Idk I always saw him as straight.

Wow, he's homophobic. I'm genuinely not surprised.

Why did nobody acknowledge that Fiore is in the boarding school?! Like damn. Alec, take her out from there pls!

The best moment of the episode, no doubt (lmao Yul face🤣).

They actually separated most of the duos/trios?! Odd Nations has more balls than TDI2024 writers!!!

The teams! I'm very excited!

#disventure camp #odd nation cartoons #perfect timing #disventure camp yul #disventure camp ellie #disventure camp miriam #disventure camp tom #disventure camp jake #disventure camp ally #disventure camp hunter #disventure camp alec #disventure camp fiore #disventure camp aiden #disventure camp james #disventure camp jaiden

[shutupandplayasong]

Can't believe I rejoined the MCR fandom just in time for bread gate

#perfect timing #mikey way #my chemical romance #a vck original #mikey's bread

[littlepawz]

LOL, I was a patient in a teaching hospital and THIS brings back memories

#teaching hospital #med students observation #guinea pig #humor #humour #funny photos #animals #funny snapshots #perfect timing #felines #chickens #farm life #cat fanciers #cat lovers #wow #LOL