Joseph Labrecque

Bringing EEG-driven point clouds to life I collaborated on an immersive infinity room where infinitely-warped visuals breathe and respond to users' emotions via an EEG sensor. As participants travel through three procedural worlds, their emotional states directly shape the space around them. Working with the brilliant team at Bonjour Lab, I focused on real-time point clouds — look development, rendering, VFX, and animation — under SUPERBIEN’s art direction. The point clouds (each procedurally generated by Bonjour Lab) contain ~20M points. I brought them to life with animation and interactive VFX, implementing custom shaders and performance optimizations to keep everything responsive in real time. #TechnicalArtist #Immersive #experiential #Unity3D #PointCloud #EEG #RealtimeVFX

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Screenwriting demands visual clarity: show actions and images rather than internal exposition. In my new post I share techniques to write scenes that readers and producers can immediately picture — with examples and exercises to sharpen your pages. Read more: https://wix.to/n1iUknm #Screenwriting #ContentCreation #Storytelling #CreativeWriting

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3D animated instructional video developed for IMMY to support user training around a testing procedure. CVWmedia modeled all objects and designed the animation to clearly communicate each step, helping ensure accuracy and consistency in real-world use.

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Sometimes I hear “it’s just 3D printed” and I have to take pause. You can make super strong functional parts with a 3D printer if you understand the process specific attributes. I think a lot of people mistake downloading a model and chucking it in the slicer at default settings as the main use for 3D printing. But like anything, it can be used as a tool in any production process. For these clips, I know there would be a layer bond weakness at the diameter change, and also an impossible overhang clearance, so I split it - and fastened it together with stainless hardware. The print is oriented so the layer lines run in the strongest plane, and this joint is only ever under compression, never pulled - so it’s every bit as strong as it will need to be. The parts are also all modular, so it can go on any combination of pipe diameters. #cineaks #engineering

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🎁 Free Scan #1 of 10 is here! (new pack) 🚀 Production-ready asset for Virtual Production, pre and post-production. Over the next 10 weeks, I'll be releasing a new, hyper-detailed 3DGS scan each week for you to use in your projects. This is a continuation of our large library of assets for the film industry. We're starting with this beauty: ➡️ https://lnkd.in/dw_xhXRn Want access to our entire, constantly growing library of free scans? Let me know, and I'll send you the link. I share goodies like this in almost every post, so stay tuned! Why is 3DGS the new reality for filmmaking? This isn't just "another technology"; it's a fundamental shift. Instead of spending weeks on pre-production, imagine this: ✅ Pre-production in hours, not days: We scan a complex location in a couple of hours. The director and DP can "walk" through it in VR the same day, planning every shot. ✅ No more "plastic" look: The main pain point of VP is the "game engine feel" of virtual sets. Our scans are a direct capture of the real world. We use a hybrid approach: LiDAR for huge spaces and custom multi-camera rigs for "hero" assets to ensure every detail is photorealistic. ✅ Seamless Integration: We don't just hand you a.PLY file. We are your R&D team. We'll show you and introduce you to the best solutions and plugins on the market for Unreal Engine, Unity, Nuke, After Effects, and Houdini, so you can painlessly integrate these assets into your pipeline. 🛠️ Hardware: An Honest Conversation XGRIDS scanners in Europe. But I'm not here to just sell you a product. I'm a practitioner, and my job is to help you choose the right tool. ➡️ LiDAR Scanners (XGRIDS): Perfect for massive scenes. But they have their flaws (dynamic range issues, "sky sticking"), which I write about often. If you buy a scanner through us, you get my personal, extensive expertise and consultation on how to work around these issues and achieve ideal quality. ➡️ Custom Rigs: For "impossible" tasks that require maximum detail (like in projects for Apple or Meta), I create unique multi-camera systems. If standard equipment can't do the job, we invent it. 🤝 Let's Build the Future Together! We're looking for interesting teams and projects to collaborate with. If you want to integrate 3DGS/4DGS into your pipeline but don't know where to start, or if you have an ambitious idea that others have dismissed, you've found the right person. Calendar: https://lnkd.in/dX_Gf9G5 Is the xgrids lixel l2 pro price justified for a small studio? Maybe not. Rent it or hire a pro. But if you do huge sites, this lidar for construction is a money printer. Here is the ROI breakdown: https://lnkd.in/dPPg6FQf XGRIDS & Nucleus4D #3DGS #4DGS #VirtualProduction #ImmersiveCinema #VolumetricFilm #LEDStudio #PostProduction #FilmMaking #Teleportour #ShramkoScan #Volinga #xgrids #volumetric #photogrammetry #ShramkoVR #ShramkoCamera #ShramkoSoft

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High-end capture rigs, specialist cameras, and expert operators have an important role in cultural heritage preservation and research. But if high-end capture is the only path, most aging collections will never be digitised at meaningful scale. That is the bottleneck. Our long-term dream with Plinth is to help digitise European cultural heritage at scale, not only for a few flagship objects but across more real institutional workflows. That means practical infrastructure: guided iPhone capture, quality checks before bad image sets become expensive problems, photogrammetry and Gaussian Splatting outputs, web and iOS review, AR, exports, and data lifecycle clarity. The goal is not to replace expert capture. The goal is to make high-quality digitisation operationally possible across more objects, more teams, and more use cases. #DigitalHeritage #CulturalHeritage #Museums #3DDigitisation #CollectionAccess

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10 New After Effects scripts - lots of cool, innovative workflow enhancements and automations. There are a few Multi Script products in the market but this one has lots of innovative features to speed up your workflows. Create Animated Ribbons in seconds. Change Frame Sizes and update with fewer than 5 simple clicks. Auto Loop with a checkbox. Change Directions via a Drop Menu. Text-centric Scripts to help you align perfectly. Sort Layers Magically Sequence Layers with LIVE Updates. 1-Click Close Gaps Use Anchor Point Pro to set Anchor Points & Text Baselines - add Expressions to Lock Expressions and add a Drop Menu so you can make changes dynamically. Create Drop Menu quickly and it writes your Drop Menu Items into a ready-to-use Expression Array and even writes the expression to link to the Drop Menu. Rename Multiple Layers at once. Use modLayerSelector, probably the most advanced Layer Selector out there. Use Regex to select based on patterns. https://lnkd.in/gP2xWrJY

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As video editing increasingly prioritizes narrative structure, pacing, and context-aware assembly while motion graphics evolves into a system of real-time design, modular templates, and dynamic visual logic, where does true creative differentiation live—in the editor shaping the story, or in the motion designer engineering the visual language?

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Happy to share that all eight Flame Learning Channel videos I’ve been working on over the last several weeks are now live! They span a mix of brand new Flame 2026.2 features, as well as recently updated features. Topics include: - Snapshot - Selective workflow improvements - ML Automatte - Project management improvements - The Type node - The Subtitle node Big thanks to Frédéric Warren, Stephane Labrie, Francis Bouillon, & Louis Martin for their collaboration and trust. https://lnkd.in/e4kDFwfe

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Elevate your screenwriting craft with practical, industry-ready advice on structure, character development, and formatting. Whether you’re drafting your first screenplay or refining a spec, these tips will help you create stronger, more marketable scripts. Read the full article: https://wix.to/SbaBqDE #Screenwriting #Storytelling #ContentCreation #Filmmaking #CreativeCareers

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Digital archaeology - circa 1999. Maya 3.0 manuals. HTML reference books. Early mobile protocols, WAP. A time when we were learning to speak to machines line by line. Fast forward 27 years. Today we build systems that can generate code, automate workflows and collaborate with us creatively. The equation has shifted: 1999 - we wrote instructions for machines. 2026 - we design systems that help write the instructions. Technology has accelerated dramatically. But looking ahead to the next 27 years, the real challenge may not be technical capability. It may be purpose. Rebuilding human connection from small groups outward. Ideas spreading organically. Technology serving human potential. Perhaps the next era will be less about artificial intelligence and more about amplifying human development🖖

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To master the hybrid workflow, you have to stop viewing AI as an "Easy" button and start viewing it as a Force Multiplier for your creative taste. In a traditional edit, your energy is often drained by the friction of technical limitations and stabilizing a shaky shot, cleaning up muddy audio, or manually masking a complex subject. By delegating these "pixel-level" tasks to AI, you reclaim the headspace needed for "story-level" decisions. The real magic happens in the Iterative Loop: you use AI to generate three different pacing variations of a scene in seconds, but then you apply your human "Senior" lens to identify the one frame where the emotional subtext actually hits. It’s about using the machine to do the heavy lifting of construction so you can focus entirely on the artistry of the final polish. #videoeditor #videoeditingtips #brandedcontent #tvc

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I still can’t believe this is real… Adobe Premiere Pro - Tips, Tricks, & Tutorials Premiere Pro’s Object Mask allows you to isolate specific areas of your footage to apply effects, color corrections, or blur elements selectively. These tools are designed to streamline your editing workflow, enabling you to accomplish complex tasks without leaving your editing environment to use After Effects.

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One example is when you regret spending money on a voiceover demo that you later outgrew. Maybe the production isn't modern enough, you aren't pleased with your performance, or the spots don't target the right market. Noticing these issues shows you are growing as an artist. Learning from that mistake may mean revisiting that demo or seeking out a new demo producer. Don't beat yourself up over this perceived failure. Instead, view these experiences as valuable lessons and investments in your future. #CreativeLeadership #SpeakWithHeart #VOBOSS

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We talk about disruptive technology, but we rarely see the faces behind it. This is the 'Antz' animation crew at PDI. Before they changed an industry, they were a group of creatives and engineers inventing a workflow. This photo isn't about the tech; it's about the team. The human infrastructure required to build something that has never existed before. The risk, the focus, the shared trust. Director Raman Hui's account of these early days is a masterclass in creative perseverance. It's a look at the process before it was a process. When you had to build the tools and the film at the same time. The parallels to today's creative landscape—with AI, virtual production—are impossible to ignore. Every new frontier is pioneered by a crew. Not by an algorithm. That's the real lesson. Check the full article here: https://lnkd.in/gqVi-8iJ

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