đ Last week I celebrated 25 years since first registering my domain jam-factory.com, which means it's been a quarter of a century making work under the name Jamfactory! đ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-VfqO2_xnM
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đĽ Director & Designer for AardmanđĽ Passion project indulger đŁ Keynote Speaker đ Author of âDo FlyâđĽ Noise maker under the alias of Project Toy
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Chicken Run 3 looks gnarly! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HD0dMr3kAQs&rco=1
Oof, 2026 is already off to a hell of a start for metalcore / deathcore / whatevercore: Lorna Shoreâs Prison Of Flesh, Disembodied Tyrantâs 8.6 Blackout and now Knocked Loose x Denzel Curry! https://youtu.be/hBn7D3Cxsp0?si=4e_L_l2jkueZcxwP
Absolutely hypnotised by this â¤ď¸
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Iâm love it when the iPhone spatial wallpaper thing gets it just right đ
Why didn't Disembodied Tyrant win a grammy!? They were robbed.
I suck at vpinball but tiny, tiny improvements mean I get to appreciate each table a bit more as I discover more about them! Had a good few games on X-Men last night, despite not getting very far, I still saw new stuff, itâs great!
My son's back on his toy making ting! He's designed new toys for the party bags of his 9th birthday! â¤ď¸
I just sneezed and bit my tongue all at the same time and I have no idea how.
Shiny buff boi!
Oh dammmmmnnn, realised I can use Blender to make my own 360° stereographic 3D animations in HDR for Apple Vision Pro! One of those discoveries that makes you hyper excited and totally overwhelmed with possibilities!
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Important Father-Son bonding today!
Tron Ares in crispy 4K + 3D on the Apple Vision Pro is epic!! Probably the best example of a 3D movie Iâve ever watched, super good! đ
đ¨ NEW BLOG POST KLAXON! đ¨ Grab yourself a cuppa and have a read! https://blog.jam-factory.com/roundup-022-bye-25-hi-26/
More late-night noodling using the Blender âtoolkitâ to overhaul my âGnarlybotâ virtual pinball table! Shiny shiny!
Last night I started my journey into âVLMâ - using Blender to create baked light maps - which then get reimported back into Visual Pinball to make the tables look super realistic! This is a very early âv0â of me testing the pipeline for my âGnarlybotâ table!
Rollinâ into 2026 likeâŚ
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Cut together some of my creative shenanigans 2025. Some Aardman bits, some passion project bits: directinâ, designinâ, animatinâ, talkinâ, music makinâ, performinâ, 3D printinâ, pinballinâ + more! Thanks so much to everyone for the opportunities this year, Iâve been a lucky duck.
#aardman #animation
HEâS BEEN! HEâS BEEN!
TA-DA! This is v0.8 of my neon-Norbot virtual pinball table! Iâve taken the digital recreation of a skate-themed 1990 Bally pinball called âRadicalâ and rethemed it as âGnarlybotâ, the fluro-soaked design I created for the Gromit Unleashed 3 charity arts trail! #virtualpinball #vpinball #aardman
Oh BOY I am SO stoked on tonightâs passion project progress⌠I created the âbackglassâ for my vpin and connected it up to the code of the game so all those lights trigger as the ROM tells it to! đ
This is the table Iâm reskinning, digitally, for my own âGnarlybotâ design â¤ď¸
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VPin progress! Backglass designed... I just can't decide which pattern in the background?
Vortex angular swirl... or checkerboard!?
Flippinâ proud of this one⌠design of my âGnarlybotâ virtual pinball table âplayfieldâ is pretty much done, bar a few little graphic tweaks!! Onto the design of the rest of the virtual cabinet now!
Last night I installed âSSFâ into my virtual pinball cabinet - surround sound haptic speakers - and it really sounds/feels like a pinball is rolling around, hitting bumpers and flippers, itâs RAD!
You will be visited by three spirits.
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My playfield design is SO close to being finished! Managed a lilâ session on design last night on the sofa thanks to the Vision Pro!
Started work on designing the âBackglassâ part of my virtual pinball table, where the scores go. First things first, making a beautiful production still of âNorbotâ turn into âGnarlybotâ via good old layer masks, adjustment layers and shape blends!
Workâs super busy and at night Iâve been juggling a few passion projects so havenât had any time for vpinball⌠until tonight!
Earlier this year I had the absolute pleasure of speaking at @marcthiele.com's BEYOND TELLERRAND festival in DĂźsseldorf, you can watch me whole talk right here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmTNxGwdnIo