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  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 37,811

    a very cool series so fat

    being added to daily

     

  • Steve KSteve K Posts: 3,191

    WendyLuvsCatz said:

    a very cool series so fat

    being added to daily

    Excellent.  yes

  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 37,811

    damn this really is stunning

  • Steve KSteve K Posts: 3,191

    WendyLuvsCatz said:

    damn this really is stunning

    I dunno, a couple of Gen4 characters, some cool Poser format props in Carrara, a few Particle Illusion FX, I think I could ... not even get close. cheeky

    "Stunning" is the right word. yes

  • Steve KSteve K Posts: 3,191

    I recently got the trial version of the Criterion Channel, they have some great classic movies there.  One I got a kick out of is "Playtime" (1967), might inspire an animation - little if any dialogue, cool use of chrome and glass reflections, furniture with funny morphs, slapstick comedy a la Chaplin/Keaton, etc.  I sometimes have dreams along these lines, ~lost in a big city, wandering around ... surprise

    " Jacques Tati's 'Playtime,' like '2001: A Space Odyssey' or 'The Blair Witch Project' or 'Russian Ark', is one of a kind, complete in itself, a species already extinct at the moment of its birth. Even Mr. Hulot, Tati's alter ego, seems to be wandering through it by accident. Instead of plot it has a cascade of incidents, instead of central characters it has a cast of hundreds, instead of being a comedy it is a wondrous act of observation. It occupies no genre and does not create a new one. It is a filmmaker showing us how his mind processes the world around him ... 'Playtime' is a peculiar, mysterious, magical film."  (Roger Ebert, Four Stars Out Of Four)

  • Sci Fi FunkSci Fi Funk Posts: 1,197
    edited December 2021

    I finally got to watch the latest version of Huxley's Brave New World (2020 TV series).

    From an inspiration point of view I loved ...

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    ... the middle episodes (from 3 to the penultimate one) - where they show a utopian world slowly falling apart bit by bit. It's the gradual decline which picks up pace that appeals to me.

    From an artistic point of view, the whole clean utopian look is the very opposite of my own cyberpunk tendancies but one can appreciate the "light side" from time to time.

    Worth a watch - Starts poorly and ends badly, but that middle .. :)

     

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  • Steve KSteve K Posts: 3,191
    edited December 2021

    Sci Fi Funk said:

    I finally got to watch the latest version of Huxley's Brave New World (2020 TV series). ... 

    Worth a watch - Starts poorly and ends badly, but that middle .. :)

    Sound interesting, 7.1 at IMDB.  But I don't have Peacock, and I'm guessing this is not in the free stuff ... sad

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  • Sci Fi FunkSci Fi Funk Posts: 1,197

    @steve K - no but it was on offer during thier black friday sale. Picked up that series and Pan Am for £5 each!

  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 37,811

    still awesome and an upscaled version

  • Steve KSteve K Posts: 3,191

    WendyLuvsCatz said:

    still awesome and an upscaled version

    Yup, an alltime favorite bunch of videos.  Long ago I and some friends were into MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface), so I contacted the creator (Wayne Lytle, I think) about making his technology available for sale, i.e. the program to drive animation from a MIDI song file.  I'm not sure he responded, but I think so, saying it would be a lot of hassle.  I agreed.  Here is my favorite:

  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 37,811

    cool Steampunk CGI

  • Steve KSteve K Posts: 3,191

    WendyLuvsCatz said:

    cool Steampunk CGI

    Very impressive example of my favorite genre.  Great steampunk sound supporting the drop dead perfect animation: wooden creaking, metal clanking, etc. yes

  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 37,811

    something to try in Carrara maybe

  • Steve KSteve K Posts: 3,191

    Wow, animating one vertex at a time!?!   And I though key framing was tedious vs. mocap ... surprise

  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 37,811

  • Steve KSteve K Posts: 3,191

    Wendy - Once again, great stuff ... yes

  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 37,811

    so this is what Aiko and Hiro aare doing these days wink

  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 37,811

    first there was Deep Dream, now there is Disco Diffusion

  • Steve KSteve K Posts: 3,191

    WendyLuvsCatz said:

    first there was Deep Dream, now there is Disco Diffusion

    Wild stuff.  I had a hangover like that once.  Maybe more than once.  

  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 37,811

  • Steve KSteve K Posts: 3,191

    WendyLuvsCatz said:

    I am one of the very few who did NOT care for "Avatar".  Yes, the animation/CGI was stunning ... for a while.  But the story, with its repeated ad nauseum good guys win, bad guys come back ... went on for about an hour or more too long (it's almost three hours long).   Listen to the editors, Cameron!   I lost interest and found myself playing Tetris on a handheld.

  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 37,811

  • Steve KSteve K Posts: 3,191

    WendyLuvsCatz said:

    Interesting history.  As someone who used a slide rule in college (and a Wang Calculator and an IBM 1620 computer), I salute all the CGI warriors, John Lasseter, George Lucas, and all the rest.

  • Steve KSteve K Posts: 3,191

    The Adventures of Prince Achmed, Germany, 1926: "A handsome prince rides a flying horse to faraway lands and embarks on magical adventures, which include befriending a witch, meeting Aladdin, battling demons and falling in love with a princess."  The entire movie is a little over an hour, I watched it on The Criterion Channel.  Pretty amazing given the limited resources available.

  • DiomedeDiomede Posts: 15,073

  • Steve KSteve K Posts: 3,191

    Diomede - Great video about an alltime favorite movie.  I did not realize how much influence it had on Star Trek.  The movie also was part of my inspiration for this 1 minute animation (@~0:15):

  • DiomedeDiomede Posts: 15,073
    edited May 2022

    Wonderful holiday message, SteveK.  Forbidden Planet is one of my all time favorites (I have so many).  Shakespeare influence.  I'd like to write a screenplay adaptation of a sci-fi MacBeth.

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  • Steve KSteve K Posts: 3,191

    Diomede said:

    Wonderful holiday message, SteveK.  Forbidden Planet is one of my all time favorites (I have so many).  Shakespeare influence.  I'd like to write a screenplay adaptation of a sci-fi MacBeth.

    Thanks.  Shakespeare, right, "The Tempest", one of my favorite plays and reportedly about the Bard himself at the end of his illustrious career.  Plus one of my favorite lines:

    "Be not afeard. The isle is full of noises, Sounds, and sweet airs, that give delight, and hurt not."

    Surprisingly the line is spoken by the monster Caliban.  And a tangent, the line is a key plot element of Richard Powers' novel "Galatea 2.2", another favorite of mine.  Lots of favorites here ... 

  • DiomedeDiomede Posts: 15,073

    Folk music can be a good muse.  Some oak tree adoration from Latvia.

  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 37,811

    interesting 

    I know utterly nothing about Latvia aside a swear or two garnished from my late father blush

    he passed when I was 10

    is always interesting to see stuff yes

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