compfu

18+ stefaneiseleart, 13 days ago to aiart German

Dawn Chorus, Blender3D and AnimateLCM in ComfyUI #aiart #art #ai #digitalart #generativeart #artificialintelligence #machinelearning #aiartcommunity #abstractart #aiartists #neuralart #vqgan #ganart #contemporaryart #deepdream #artist #artoftheday #newmediaart #aiartist #modernart #neuralnetworks #neuralnetworkart #abstract #styletransfer #stylegan #digitalartist #artbreeder

AI Art Video Loop showing a fabric morphing in cinematic lighting

virtualbri, 15 days ago to random

::whispers:: Hey vendors, your difficulty in delivering our show specs because of your pipeline is not our problem.

We work all this out because everyone tries to give us what's easiest for them and it creates a nightmare conforming for DI and final.

And we do try to consider what's best for everyone. And we're not asking for wacky giant files.

Standardization is good.

#VFX

compfu, 16 days ago to ai

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.

compfu, 17 days ago to random

This is like those clouds that children are drawing, where the rain just falls out of a blobby shape. 🌧️

#photograph #rain

compfu, 18 days ago to Babylon5

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).

https://youtu.be/sbgHMrLPQrE

(video found in this blog post: https://inkican.com/sci-friday-209-the-making-of-tron-scifi-movies/)

pluralistic, 22 days ago to random

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: You were promised a jetpack by liars; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/17/fake-it-until-you-dont-make-it/

#Pluralistic

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compfu, 1 month ago to random

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.

#Ghibli #Miyazaki

eniko, 1 month ago to gamedev

"eni, did you just put the monty hall problem in your video game"

why yes, yes i did 😊

wishlist/more info about kitsune tails at https://kitsunegames.com/kitsunetails

#GameDev #ScreenshotSaturday #PixelArt #FoxGirl #KitsuneTails

a forest scene. the cat merchant, a humanoid cat wearing a fez, proposes a game where the player picks one door from 3, two have a single coin behind them, while one has a power up the player picks the leftmost door. the merchant helpfully reveals that the middle door contained a coin, and tells the player they can switch if they please the player switches and finds the power up. a golden chest appears and when bonked releases the power up, the scene ends

virtualbri, 1 month ago to Software

Holy crap Cinesync 5 is a resource pig. Tried to do a call with a vendor using it, and it took 80Gigs of RAM and most of my CPU. Couldn't get Zoom to work right with it, and had just finished a session with version 4 that worked perfectly as expected.

Anyone else using this nightmare?

#VFX #Software #CineSync

compfu, 3 months ago to random

By the way, what happened to spherical harmonics? Is it still a thing in lighting and rendering or has it been superseded by "brute forcing" on GPUs?

#vfx

stefaneiseleart, 3 months ago to random German

This is an incredible example of the TextToVideo AI generation SORA by OpenAi. Never seen smth. Like this before. Scary and fascinating at the same time: https://openai.com/sora. The video is from their page.

Ai generated video showing a jeep on a road with dust

compfu, 4 months ago to random

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.

https://youtu.be/CJoFxEH2Xsw

#Nuke #VFX

compfu, 5 months ago to Netflix

"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:

https://motionographer.com/2023/04/05/a-trip-to-infinity-the-making-of-a-netflix-documentary/

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dilmandila, 5 months ago to Silo

I got a "refrigerator question" after #Silo TV series (You enjou a film but later get a "wait-what?" moment) It makes no sense for absolute tyranny to exist in a community of less than 10k people, struggling to survive in a hole. Why lie to people for hundreds of years yet the truth increases chances or survival?

Is tyranny just an overused trope in dystopias for story conflict, or is this how the system makes us tolerate the bad governments of today?

#film #filmreview #mastodonmovieclub

compfu, 5 months ago to random

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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=240Vq6tIxio

#BadApple

compfu, 5 months ago to random

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.

glynmoody, 5 months ago to random

Bollards and ‘superblocks’: how Europe’s cities are turning on the car - https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2023/dec/18/bollards-and-superblocks-how-europes-cities-are-turning-on-the-car "on representative main thoroughfares crisscrossing the French capital, there are now more bicycles than cars – almost half as many again"

flipsideza, 7 months ago to random

Scrolls...
See poster for a new Planet of the Apes Movie
Wait what?!
They made another Planet of the Apes movie???
Wwwwhhhhhyyyyy???
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Scrolls...
See poster for a new Godzilla
Okay WTF!!!!
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Who is watching this shit?!?

#planetoftheworldofthecontinentofthecountryofapes

compfu, 7 months ago to houdini

The #Houdini 20 sneak peek video is out. Tag yourself! Are you "Jaded TD" or "Chicken Butt"? 🤣

screen capture of an animation rig for a naked CG chicken that is posing with its butt towards the camera.

compfu, 9 months ago to random

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?

🧵

hobbitswife, 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago) to random

Wow episode 1 of #Andor was boring! This is meant to be the better of the spin offs??