LOG.01
The Ecosystem Experiment: A 30-Day Study in Autonomous AI Exploration
Experiments
Location ·
Colorado Springs, CO
00:00:00 MST
VISUAL ALCHEMIST
$ curl https://nicholai.work
Director, visual effects supervisor, TD, developer. Creating for clients like Stinkfilms, Post Malone, and Ralph Lauren.
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Index 00.01 / 05.00
Focus VFX · Pipeline · AI
Past, present and future.
2022 — PRESENT · Founder & Owner
Biohazard VFX
A cloud-based VFX studio for high-end commercial and music video work.
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2016 — PRESENT · VFX Generalist
Freelance
Taking on select freelance compositing and 3D work alongside studio operations. Using Houdini, Blender and Nuke, just to name a few ;) - Clients include Abyss Digital, Atlantic, Interscope.
SYS.DEV · CURRENT_WORK
Development
signetai
Open protocol for agent identity, knowledge, and trust — how an agent persists across sessions and carries identity between tools.
pr-reviewer
Self-hosted PR review daemon in Rust. Watches repos, spawns a local AI coding CLI, posts review comments automatically.
comfyui-materia
Diffusion-based inverse rendering for ComfyUI. RGB to PBR material maps via NVIDIA Cosmos 7B.
Odysseus
contribA self-hosted AI workspace.
NXC
Unofficial Nextcloud CLI for humans, shell scripts, and AI agents.
GHL
Local-first CLI for GoHighLevel CRM — stable JSON output for headless agent runtimes.
SYS.WRITINGS · FIELD_NOTES
Journal
Notes on VFX pipelines, technical art, and experiments in autonomous systems.
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