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I publish from Obsidian to the web. Start with topics and external tutorials, or follow me on X: @marshallpittman.

Teaching

• GAME 1303 — Introduction to Game Design & Development — GAME 1303 intro to game design: student pitches, tiered Unity script packages, guides and weekly Canvas pages.
• ARTV 2371 Advanced Skill Development — Fall 2026 advanced skill-development course: deconstruction and new-technique projects with weekly one-on-one consultations.
• Basic Motion Graphics AE 16wk 15c (FLMC 1331) — FLMC 1331 Video Graphics & VFX I: a project-driven semester through the ten core After Effects skills.
• Advanced Motion Graphics AE 16wk 15c (FLMC 2331) — FLMC 2331 follow-on After Effects course: four 3-4 week projects on advanced motion graphics and AE 2026 features.
• Maya Character Setup 16 week (GAME 2325) — GAME 2325 Maya character setup: modeling for deformation, skeletons, rigging and skinning across four units.
• Portfolio Development for Animation & Games — ARTV 2335 portfolio course: weekly sessions and assignments building a professional identity kit and website.
• Canvas — Older Canvas page exports for FLMC 1331 (Video Graphics & VFX I): AE basics, rendering and shortcuts. (paused)

Augmented Traveler

• Augmented Traveler — AR/AI heritage-tourism project for Nantucket: pitch, production pipeline, tools, budget, hiring and sources.

Virtual Historic Human

• Virtual Historic Human — Conversational historical-persona AI (JeffersonMind): research, lorebook drafts, SillyTavern tutorials and sources.

AI & Agents

• AI — AI tools, agents and research notes: Grok, Claude, Species/AGI and AI clippings.
• grokBuild — Notes on Grok Build, xAI's terminal coding agent. (paused)

Research Library

• Video Summaries — YouTube video summaries by channel (~800 notes).
• Clippings — Saved X posts and web clippings.
• X Research — Research threads gathered from X.
• X — Saved X accounts and threads, notably @TaxLandNotMan's Georgist land-value-tax material.
• Books — Book notes, mostly transhumanist and hard-SF reading plus a few nonfiction titles.
• People — Saved material on people of interest: Palmer Luckey, Alexandra Fasulo, Jaron Lanier, Graham Hancock, Thomas Jefferson. (paused)

Tutorials

• Tutorials — Tutorials across Unity, Unreal, Godot, After Effects, Maya rigging, Marzipano and Python.
• Obsidian — Notes on using Obsidian (getting started, Markdown, workspaces, tag conversion) plus bias and fallacy references. (paused)
• Panoramas — krpano panorama viewer setup and HTML embedding.

Events

• Events — Conferences and jams: Global Game Jam, Industry Giants, SIGGRAPH 2026 and AgentCon.
• About — About Marshall: resume and background.

Home & Life

• Home Improvement — Home projects: deck, shed, gates and DIY research. (paused)
• Burning Man — Burning Man trip planning: preparation, packing, bikes, route, and Leave No Trace / playa restoration.
• Travel — Travel rules and tips, e.g. power banks and lithium batteries on flights. (paused)
• LakeSanIsabel — Lake San Isabel, Colorado: local news and wildfire updates. (paused)
• Health — Health research notes. (paused)

Archive / Dormant

Not modified in 180+ days.

• Articles — Saved articles on the game industry. (abandoned)
• Civilization — Country profiles mapped onto a 30-dimension framework, plus economics notes. (abandoned)
• Classes — Notes from online lectures (game theory). (abandoned)
• Computer Management — Windows maintenance how-tos, e.g. cloning a system disk to a new SSD. (abandoned)
• Finances — Personal finance notes. (abandoned)
• Movies — Film notes and summaries on influential and sci-fi movies (Interstellar, Europa Report, Hunger Games). (abandoned)
• Plays — Stage plays and theater texts (Čapek's R.U.R.).
• PacktPub — Notes from Packt's 'Agentic AI in Action' video sessions. (abandoned)
• Pittman Family — Family history notes. (abandoned)
• Portfolio — Portfolio pieces, e.g. the VR kiosk at the 2017 Collin College student show. (abandoned)
• Presentations — Presentation assets such as 360-degree site tours. (abandoned)
• Rationality — Philosophy and reasoning notes: natural law, morality, Objectivism and the Enlightenment. (abandoned)
• Recipes — Recipes. (abandoned)
• Ruby Links — A saved list of interesting videos. (abandoned)
• Space — Space-travel reading lists and schema: interstellar studies, colonization, generation ships. (abandoned)
• Useful Software — Handy tools: Libation, ngSkinTools, Maya with VS Code, GitHub for Unity/Unreal. (abandoned)
• tasksCalendar — Files for the tasks calendar view (demo/config). (abandoned)

Projects & Courses

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