Matt Hollingsworth

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Matt Hollingsworth@matthollingsworth· 3d

Procedural modeling, done in Modo nine years ago. #cg #Modo

A procedural model that looks a bit like a carnation.

Matt Hollingsworth@matthollingsworth· 3d

Never used Blender before, so I did a tutorial from CG Boost to learn the UI. Needs more tweaking, but this'll do for now to just warm up to the app. I've used Maya and SoftImage XSI professionally on movies, and Modo as a hobby, but never Blender. The app seems pretty great.

CG still life with apples piled up in a bowl with a burlap cloth draped over the bowl, and a knife on a wood surface.

Matt Hollingsworth@matthollingsworth· 4d

After four days typing for forty or more minutes per session, I've wrapped up typing out the George Saunders story "Tenth of December" in full, all 8,633 words. Took about three hours and seven minutes, so 46 words/minute, which is pretty slow for me. My usual is 60. But there you have it.

Manuscript of the George Saunders story "Tenth of December" in Scrivener.

Bar graph showing time spent typing the story over the last four days.

Matt Hollingsworth@matthollingsworth· 5d

Here's another test comparing results from converting from RGB to CMYK color in various apps. For those who don't want to use Adobe apps, Krita, Affinity Photo 2, and Clip Studio Paint conversions are looking good. Open on a larger monitor to compare. #ClipStudioPaint #Krita #AffinityPhoto2

Color chiclets showing the results from converting from RGB to CMYK in Photoshop, Affinity Photo 2, Clip Studio Paint 5.1.1, and Krita 5.3.3, with CMYK codes written over colors to compare those numbers.

Matt Hollingsworth@matthollingsworth· 7d

When the Photoshop layer was changed to Divide color mode, it showed this difference only between PS and CSP. When I zoomed in, though, these colors were all in the blacks, and the differences were no more than 1% difference in the k tones. Not something any of us can see.

Matt Hollingsworth@matthollingsworth· 7d

This is a cover for DC Comics drawn by Gabriel Hardman & colored by me in Clip Studio Paint. The file was flattened and saved out as a PSD, opened in the other apps, and converted to CMYK. For the CSP version, it was exported and converted during export. CSP on left, then Krita, Affinity, and PS.

Superman cover with cloaked figure in the Bg, and explosion, and Supes flying into the FG.

Matt Hollingsworth@matthollingsworth· 10d

6:45am. Time to mash in and brew a peated whiskey.

Grain bag for heavy peated distilling malt

Matt Hollingsworth@matthollingsworth· 12d

They look like gene-splicing experiment psychos from an A24 movie.

Matt Hollingsworth@matthollingsworth· 12d

Always thought I was misunderstanding that "like a pigeon from hell." But nope. That's what the lyrics actually say.

Lyrics from The Pretenders' song "Back on the Chain Gang" that include the line "Got in the house like a pigeon from hell..."

Matt Hollingsworth@matthollingsworth· 12d

That's our next week here in Samobor, Croatia, where Wikipedia tells me 39º is the highest recorded temp since 1981. For filthy Americans, 40º C = 104º F. Fuck this shit. My tomato plants aren't so stoked on this.

Weather report showing high temps for the next week ranging from 36ºC up to 40º, and low temps from a low of 18º up to 21º overnight, which full sunlight and no clouds.

Matt Hollingsworth@matthollingsworth· 18d

A mama spider in my garage brewery. More soldiers to eat fruit flies.

Mama spider on the wall with tons of tiny baby spiders around her.

Matt Hollingsworth@matthollingsworth· 21d

Something I did in 2019 while messing around with Modo, City Gen, zBrush, and xFrog, an SF city with energy ribbons circling the city to carry traffic. Scale perhaps a bit wonky with those birds. This is a WIP render. Never finished this, but had fun anyway.

Detailed rough render of a futuristic city with organic shaped buildings, trees, a flock of birds, and floating energy ribbons circling the city with drones and other traffic attached to the ribbons.

Here's what I wrote in 2019:

Something I was working on a few months ago but never finished.
I had this idea for a city that has these sort of energy ribbons that go around the city like highways. Drones for shipping and taxis and everything else attach themselves to that ribbon and are taken around the city. They can attach and detach. Those drones require very little energy because those energy ribbons that're the highways power the flight. They just latch onto it and get carried around in the current. You can see them circling the city in magenta and blue-green.
Anyway, this is sort of a snapshot of a work in progress that I never finished. Still loads to do but not sure I will ever finish it. I'll probably render out a camera fly through though to see what the city looks like with a camera flying through it.
Learned a bunch about Modo and City Gen and Zbrush while doing this. And that was the point. Maybe I'll finish it one day, but maybe not. Wanna get onto some other stuff.

Matt Hollingsworth@matthollingsworth· 23d

Some of my Portland and brewing/beer friends around the world knew Alan Sprints, so I'm posting this in case you haven't heard that he passed away. RIP, old friend.

Alan Sprints, brewer/owner of Hair of the Dog Brewing, with a satisfied look on his face, holding a glass of beer up to the sunlight, and scrutinizing it, with a wooden barrel and SS keg behind him.

Text: Alan Sprints (September 7, 1959 – July 19, 2026)
Beloved husband, father, brother, and visionary brewer, passed away following a difficult battle with bladder cancer. He was 66 years old.
Alan was born on September 7, 1959, in Culver City, California, to the late Lila Entis and Martin Sprints. In 1988, following his passion for the culinary arts, Alan relocated to Portland, Oregon, to attend the Western Culinary Institute. After honing his craft for several years in the food and beverage industry, Alan took a bold leap in 1993 by founding the Hair of the Dog Brewing Company. Over the next three decades, he built a legendary business celebrated by beer enthusiasts worldwide. Alan was a true pioneer in the American craft brewing movement, introducing an old-world approach to beer making and creating uniquely complex, barrel-aged, and high-gravity beers that challenged and redefined the industry.
Beyond the brewery, Alan was a man of diverse talents and boundless curiosity. He was an avid gardener, a skilled stained-glass artist, a ceramicist, and a tinkerer extraordinaire who found joy in creating things with his hands and nurturing the world around him.
Alan’s greatest devotion was to his family. He is survived by his beloved wife of 36 years, Eliana Temkin, and their three sons, Elijah, Isaac, and Gabriel Sprints. He also leaves behind his sister, Wendy Sprints (Dan Kaempff); sister-in-law, Dina Temkin (Dominic Green); in-laws Dvora Temkin and Howard Temkin, aunt and uncle, Judie and Michael Rickus; step-mother, Madeline Sprints as well as a close-knit circle of nieces, cousins, extended family, and lifelong friends.
The family will hold a private burial service, with a public celebration of life to be planned in the near future. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in Alan’s memory to New Avenues for Youth, an organization close to his heart.

Matt Hollingsworth@matthollingsworth· 24d

Making bourbon on a Sunday. 60% corn, topped up with rye, Bavarian malted barley, and toasted oats. Divinity.

Garage distillery with a kettle, copper pot still, and various equipment.

Matt Hollingsworth@matthollingsworth· Jul 10

That's me in the audience in Zagreb, as photographed by Tony Levin from the stage at a Beat concert, playing 1980s King Crimson with Adrian Belew, Steve Vai, and Danny Carey (from Tool).

Matt Hollingsworth@matthollingsworth· Jul 7

4th row center for Beat concert tonight in Zagreb. Adrian Belew, Tony Levin, Steve Vai, and Danny Carrey playing 80s King Crimson. Shit video and sound quality, though, sorry.

Matt Hollingsworth@matthollingsworth· Jun 21

Summer solstice in the Northern Hemisphere. Post a screencap of your sunrise and sunset times. Here's the deets for where I am, in Samobor, Croatia.

A graphic showing sunrise at 5:07 and sunset at 20:50.

Matt Hollingsworth@matthollingsworth· Jun 20

Darcy has announced our new book over on FB, so it's now safe for me to share. Here's the cover with trade dress, and a higher quality jpeg without the logo, etc. My colors over Ian Bertram's lineart. @imagecomics.com #comics #colors #ClipStudioPaint

Comic cover with a young man, sweating, with crows flying past and a sun in the background.

Matt Hollingsworth@matthollingsworth· Jun 5

Rewatching Kung Fu, which I might not have watched since I was a child in the 1970s.

Matt Hollingsworth@matthollingsworth· Jun 2

I mean, screw Anthropic, but I love that BBC News cut to a commenter who's at home and holding his cat, though sad that they cut the cat off. The news reader even said the cat is named Betty. Way to get my attention.

A man wearing red suspenders and tie, holding a gray cat, with bookshelves behind him.

Matt Hollingsworth@matthollingsworth· May 28

It's usually a good idea to click a link to check for yourself so others don't have to do it for you. Look at the second option.

A form on the petition site that has spots for your name, e-mail, zip code, etc.

Matt Hollingsworth@matthollingsworth· May 17

Drinking beer in Samobor, Croatia. Listen, and laugh at my Croatian language skillz.

Matt Hollingsworth@matthollingsworth· May 17

Preacher #12. Written by Garth Ennis, drawn by Steve Dillon (RIP), and colored by me. Vertigo. 1995ish. This is a color guide, and is how most comics were colored then. Dyes & gouache. #comics #colors #vertigocomics #preacher #colorguide

A house on fire with Jesse's evil grandma inside, and Jesse watching from outside.

Matt Hollingsworth@matthollingsworth· May 17

Preacher #16. Written by Garth Ennis, drawn by Steve Dillon (RIP), and colored by me. Vertigo. 1996ish. This is a color guide, and is how most comics were colored then. Dyes & gouache. It's buggerin' time! #comics #colors #vertigocomics #preacher #colorguide

A fight scene with Cassidy the vampire and two detectives. Cassidy punches one in the mouth and his fist gets stuck in the guy's face, and the other one yells "It's buggerin' time!"

Matt Hollingsworth@matthollingsworth· May 17

A page from Batwoman #2, in stores now. Written by @gregrucka.com, drawn by DaNi, and colored by me with Clip Studio Paint and watercolors. #comics #colors #ClipStudioPaint

Batwoman in the aftermath of kicking some badguys' asses, putting her boot on one of their heads.

Matt Hollingsworth@matthollingsworth· May 17

A page from Bleeding Hearts #4 from Vertigo, written by @denizcamp.bsky.social drawn by @stipanmorian.bsky.social and colored by me. In stores now. #comics #ClipStudioPaint

A zombie doing play tea-time with a human child and her mother.

Matt Hollingsworth@matthollingsworth· May 16

More drips. Hearts. Tastes like whiskey, ayup.

Matt Hollingsworth@matthollingsworth· May 16

Runoff into parrot.

Matt Hollingsworth@matthollingsworth· May 16

Foreshots and beer room tour.

Matt Hollingsworth@matthollingsworth· May 16

Foreshots around 74% abv from the looks of it.