Evening Doodle 26/5/14

14 May 2026 · Mark

Social Media Posting II

I made a note: Social Media Posting post in the middle of the night: I have noticed a distinct decline in interactions on Mastodon recently, the last and only social media platform I still use…. and after some feed back and thought I decided I would do a Post: To post here or Mastodon I am now leaning towards posting Notes on here and then linking them over onto my Mastodon. This will allow me more control and I will have them in a nice list and searchable within this Blog. ...

13 May 2026 · Mark

Moving Instances

Moving Instances For no particular reason I have decided to move Mastodon instances: from fosstodon.org to graphics.social Okay partially it was due to my posting: I tend to post 3d renders and graphics and so it felt more fitting to be on an instance that appears to be ostensibly more graphical than software. Also I know a few folk on there and so assumed it would be a good fit. ...

4 May 2025 · Mark
Shader ball in a stage lighting scene

Stage Lighting

A brief recap of the week thus far: I have been busy experimenting with Blender again, this time on cosmetics and such as way to try out some different rendering environments. Normally I use a basic three point lighting set up with an HDR image as the fill light. Usually something fairly flat like a cloudy sky to give a balanced background light. ...

8 March 2025 · Mark