Omg, my Mastodon trending feed is full of google #AI slop. Can you make a spaghetti dish using gasoline? Are there snake fights at university? How many rocks should you eat per day?
These screenshots look like photoshops. I can’t believe they are real.
At around the 48 minute mark it's all about the #VFX of #Tron - the optical compositing, rotoscoping and CGI. Watch the whole thing for interviews with a young Bruce Boxleitner (of #Babylon5 fame).
I just re-watched "Howl's Moving Castle" because I had forgotten what exactly it was about. I nodded off towards the end, and I'm sure that in a few months I will once again be unable to recount the exact plot.
But it looks so gorgeous. I love the depiction of early 20th century European cities. The "airplanes" are a nod to Nausicaä or Laputa but are animated much more fluently. The quality holds up all the way to the end. But the plot just feels so obtuse to me.
@compfu Hope you enjoy! We have been rewatching many of them in Japanese and it is a different experience sometimes. For example, in "Castle in the Sky" the voices of the two leads in Japanese sound about 11-12 but sound about 14-15 in the English. I also recently discovered that for "Arriety" there is a US and a British dub. And my favorite Ghibli fact is that Myazaki actually prefers the French dub of "Porco Rosso" because of Jean Reno's voice as the lead.
P.S. - If you ever do watch Howl's in Japanese, please let me know what you think l. I'm curious if you also feel that the film feels different and a bit more coherent.
What I like about this #Compositing tutorial is that it not only shows good-looking shots that illustrate the point he's making, but also an example of a shot that doesn't work well (without pointing fingers).
That, and it doesn't try to cram many principles of image composition into it. It's mostly about contrast and detail to get the viewer to look at the desired spots.
"Trip to Infinity" is a #Netflix documentary about... well... infinity. It relies heavily on #MotionGraphics created by artists and studios from across the world. I've tried to look up everybody who's mentioned in the credits but unfortunately, not all of them present their work online.
Here's a small thread of the clips that can be found on vimeo for example. But let's start with a nice article about how the documentary came to be:
I just learned about "Bad Apple". It's a more than 10 years old black and white animation that people have been playing back on any kind of hardware or medium (the original song was a chiptune from 1998). The animation is on youtube with 81 million views and there are C64 and tesla coil versions of it. But the most amazing one is this #StopMotion animation that's more than just 6000 printed frames: it also relies on camera pans on the animator's desk.
The seven space samurai are fighting the space Nazis in spaaaaaace! #RebelMoon
It's worth watching for the super real android in the first act. If it was full CG then... wow! But even if it was a practical suit and they replaced the actor's neck with CG bolts and pistons it looks amazing (the robot from Lost In Space was done that way).
Story-wise it goes downhill from there. It's a mix of 300, Dune, Warhammer... an All-You-Can-Eat buffet of visuals and characters.
@compfu I would have happily watched the story of the robot and its journey to becoming a farmer with antlers on its head. Much more enjoyable than what we got instead. The robot was the most interesting character in the whole movie, despite only being around for a fraction of it.
Can our #VFXPipeline work with #unicode? I've tried to find out and created a shot containing the heart emoji ❤️ in our #ftrack database. Will that name be preserved all the way to a Nuke render that is in turn published back to ftrack?
Everything looks good on our fileserver (Linux/nfs). The emoji also works in custom PySide GUIs (where it's monochrome) and Nuke handles it perfectly in its GUI and as a file name.
The first road-block is encountered in one of our scripts. I simply had a regex in there that allowed alphanumeric characters for shot names only (to weed out spaces, umlauts etc that I thought would never occur in actual shot names).
I've re-watched the original Beauty and the Beast recently and the CG ballroom is awesome. Especially the many reflections. #Disney introduced #CGI onto the big screen in a way that didn't show any shortcomings or limits of that tech. They immediately went to a level that even now looks very polished.
(caveat: I don't know the details. If somebody in the know told me "the reflections were actually hand-painted by 1000 monkeys because CG couldn't do it yet" I'm happy to correct myself 😉)
so... now that #twitter has shut out everybody who's not logged in with an account, where is everybody getting their daily dose of cute animal pics, scary animal pics, dadaism and cringiness on the #fediverse?