Mar 31
In case you hadn’t heard, we’re all pretty much doomed
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Mar 18
I wish these 3D animation shorts were a full movie. Called Tiny Worlds, it shows miniature sized characters and machines solving normal sized problems. Cigarette flicked on the ground? A tiny submarine will blast it away. Matches left on the street? A mini semi truck will haul it away. Gum on the sidewalk? Let’s call the small bulldozer. It’s super cute.
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Feb 26
Remember when Jean-Claude Van Damme really pulled off that impossible stunt by doing the splits with two moving trucks?
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Feb 17
Jurassic Park blew my mind when I saw it in the theater almost 20 years ago, but special effects have come a long way since then. It takes a lot to wow a modern audience. We’re jaded. We’ve seen it all—until now. I am not ashamed to admit that this clip, entitled "Realistic Dinosaurs," honest-to-god brought me to tears.
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Feb 10
Wait for it. Wait for it. Wait for it. Boom. Holy hell. This is not a real eyeball. It’s a completely computer generated eyeball that looks realer than my own eyeball. A CG eyeball. It’s frightening, like they chopped half a human face for the eyeball. Actually, I’m not 100% sure they didn’t do that.
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Jan 14
Thor? CGI all over the place
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Dec 18
It’s been like this for some time now but nothing is ever real in movies anymore, it’s just all special effects. Even that wall of that building that’s out of focus in the background and completely forgettable was generated with a computer. That’s why it’s almost way more interesting to see the behind the scenes computer work—the VFX reel—of movies than to actually see the movie. Like this.
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Dec 17
If you watched Thor: The Dark World, you surely remember the epic sequence that kicked off the movie. The opening battle did a great job in setting the tone and looked absolutely incredible. Blur Studios, the shop who did the visual effects for the prologue, lifts the curtain a bit to reveal how they made it in this video. You see green screens and nothingness turn into geometric shapes and layers which turn into a thrilling movie. What a ride.
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Nov 21
Sure, CGI is responsible for making us all visually cynical. But it’s also enabled projects like this one: a weird—and weirdly poetic—ode to the Pontiac by digital artist Chris LaBrooy.
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Nov 10
I remember watching Animusic videos on PBS in the early 2000s. I was always vaguely fascinated by them, even though the graphics looked kind of cheesy. I like the idea that every single note in the composition is supposed to be produced by a specific collision, like a ball bouncing on a percussion instrument. Also, where is this supposed to be taking place? Weird pneumatic pipe/music room? Imagination land? Who knows.
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