u/Ashamed_Row5086

Hey guys can you plz suggest me any playlist on you tube or tutorials to start learning acting in maya animation before learning acting i can't move into facial animation and lip syncing

Also can anybody tell me how much time it takes to learn these things to atleast I can make hirable showreel even as a fresher?

Like it took 3 months for me to learn body mechanics I can now animate action shots weight lifting and weight shifts proper

I’ve been putting together a small game server and realized most of the real functionality comes from game server plugins and scripts, modding resources, and server management tools.

I’m still trying to figure out the normal server development workflow people use for this, especially when setting up a proper game server setup from scratch.

Do you usually pick from community sources, or use a trusted plugin repository / marketplace for finding and testing Minecraft / FiveM / Rust server plugins before adding them to a live server?

alright so i’ve officially hit that stage of adulthood where my body is starting to feel like a high-maintenance used car. in my 20s, i literally never went to the doctor. now? i feel like i’m at a clinic every quarter for some random "checkup" thing. it’s like my health is now a subscription service i never signed up for lol.last month i had to get some dental work done—nothing crazy, just a couple of fillings and a fix—and the bill was $2000 usd. i sat in the parking lot staring at the invoice feeling like i’d been robbed. i don't even have private insurance because the premiums are basically another mortgage payment at this point. i'm already struggling with rent, so this is just... a lot.it made me rly nostalgic (and depressed) for my time when i was staying in zhuhai. i remember i had all four of my wisdom teeth pulled at a place near the gongbei border called vickong dental, and the whole thing cost me maybe $500 usd total. like, top-tier service for a fraction of the cost. looking back, affordable dental care in china was such a life hack i didn't appreciate enough at the time.i was chatting with a mate about this and we were joking about how we need a "global medical passport." why am i paying a whole month's salary for a root canal in the west when i could literally fly to zhuhai, get it done, and have a holiday for the same price?adulthood is basically just realizing you have to find "global loopholes" to survive the cost of living when you're poor. has anyone else started doing this? like, waiting until u travel back to asia or eastern europe just to get basic health stuff done? it feels broken that the system works this way, but honestly, i’m about to start planning my trips around my dental appointments from now on lol.any tips for people looking into medical tourism or just surviving the mid-30s bills would be sick. thx for reading my rant. stay chill.

So I am going to make a showreel on animation I actually want to work in games

Although my teacher said me if you want to keep body mechanics and action shot on your showreel you keep it but plz add an acting shot too at the end so that suppose you get an opportunity from other studio you won't sit either

Also he said if you work in cartoon animation early you will learn a lot and then you can shift to games easily but if doing vice versa can be a bit difficult later in your life if you want to go from games to cartoon

My teacher actually did that he worked in cartoon studios first then went to gaming studio

What's your take on this?

I've been putting together a home theater setup for the first time and the amount of conflicting advice I've gotten about projectors is kind of overwhelming.

everyone seems to jump straight to lumens when you ask about projectors. but the more I dig into it the more I think brightness is only one piece of the picture. contrast matters. room light control matters. setup and placement matter. so does whether you need to assemble a separate audio stack or whether the projector handles it.

The way I'm thinking about it now:

•A dedicated dark room: prioritize contrast, image quality, and placement flexibility. audio is a separate project.

•A living room or multi-use space: brightness and ease of setup matter more because you're dealing with ambient light you can't fully control.

•An all-in-one setup: useful if you want fewer devices, fewer cables, and a simpler install overall.

•budget end: fine for casual viewing but usually not what people mean when they say "real home theater."

the Nebula X1 Pro keeps coming up when I look at the premium all-in-one category. It's clearly not positioned as a cheap option. 4K triple laser, high brightness, and a serious built-in speaker setup, the pitch being that you get the whole theater experience without assembling a separate projector, receiver, and speaker system. something I keep seeing flagged is that the fan can be noticeable during very quiet scenes, which is worth factoring in depending on what you're watching.

For people who've already built home theater setups: would you do full separate components again if you were starting from scratch, or would a high-end all-in-one be on the table if image and sound were strong enough?

I think a lot of model comparison discussion quietly assumes people are choosing one winner.

But in practice, once you already trust one broad model, the bar for adding a second one is very different. It’s not enough for the second model to be “also good.” It has to be meaningfully better at a specific part of the workflow. That’s why Ling-2.6-1T is interesting to me in relation to DeepSeek.

Not because I think “new model vs old model” is the right framing, but because the official positioning sounds like it is trying to earn a more specific slot: stronger planning, cleaner long-context task handling, lower token waste, tighter behavior under repeated use.

DeepSeek still makes a lot of sense to me as a broad default. So the more interesting question is: what would a second model actually need to do better before it deserves a permanent place beside something like that?

For me, the answer probably wouldn’t be benchmarks alone. It would be something more like:

- it handles messy planning better

- it stays more disciplined over long work

- it produces less wasted motion

- it is noticeably cheaper to use in repeated structured tasks

And honestly, this is exactly the kind of thing that would be much easier to judge if more of these models had an open path instead of only a positioning story.

So I’m curious how people here think about it: if you already had a strong broad Chinese model in your stack, what specific capability would a second one need to be unusually good at before you’d bother adding it?