How Unreal Engine visualizes weather – and shows storm surge is serious

Storm surges—like those from Hurricane Milton, which will hit Florida tonight—can be devastating. But it took 3D xR visualization to translate what that means in real terms before it’s too late. Here’s how that technology has arrived in recent years in another job for Unreal Engine (a tool you can use for free).

Dump After Effects and use this in your browser, free: motion graphics, video

Nothing to download, no AI (and it’s not training on your stuff), and nothing to pay: Pikimov is a free Web-based motion graphics tool and video editor. It runs in your browser, but your files stay on your machine. In other words, it’s exactly what you wanted.

Peter Kirn - July 8, 2024

Hungry maw of big data, dreamt as ghostly video for Dustin O’Halloran

Artist Owen Hindley, working in TouchDesigner, tackles the dense, pulsating track “Harmonic Dream Sequence” by Dustin O’Halloran (A Winged Victory For The Sullen). It’s a dark contemplation of the insatiable appetites of Big Data and AI, translated into strangely beautiful clouds of particles for an equally gorgeous track.

Peter Kirn - March 19, 2024

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