April 26, 2023

Mostly Bits Newsletter - Issue #55

Tony's Pick

Hot new tech alert: now you can automatically turn drawings, especially kids drawings, into fun animations. Here's some background with instructions to run the code, but you can use this web UI too. We need more of this is the kind of fun, whimsical, stuff from technology.

Kyle's Pick

Some footage was making the rounds over the last week from a game called Unrecord. It's too early to say whether the game will be any good, but Unreal Engine 5 looks like a significant technical leap, at least on a high-end graphics card with ray tracing support.

There are definitely some optical tricks in here between the fish eye lens and blurring faces, but the overall aesthetic is pretty impressive.