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tvaziri

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I make visual effects for movies and talk about movies a lot.

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Watching “Aliens” (1986) with a first-timer.

tvaziri,
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@caseyliss FUCKING HELL CASEY

tvaziri,
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Remember how Ebert would sometimes screen a film with an audience and if anyone yelled STOP he'd pause the film and they'd talk about it?

I’d totally do that with “Aliens” (1986).

tvaziri, to random
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The first part is gibberish and the second part turns disqualifying.

Ted Sarandos interview in The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/25/magazine/ted-sarandos-netflix-interview.html

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“We want to please everybody. But sometimes the movies that we make are not made for critics. But for the audience that loves it, they love it.”

come on

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“why couldn’t they just do it for ‘real’”

It’s all pretend, folks.

https://tiktok.com/t/ZTLneYBf5/

video/mp4

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Pretty good video about the current state of the visual effects industry.

Why it feels like the end of VFX? by Crafthive
https://youtu.be/iMeH7tD_tCM?si=6BoGT8cn-Kh8XNmQ

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I'm swamped and stressed, so why not take questions

Just don’t ask me what I'm working on right now

http://ngl.link/toddvaziri

tvaziri,
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Short answer: no

Longer answer: the situation would have to be incredibly specific for this to happen at this stage in my life

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A better more accurate description would be “2-D artist” because while we do "composite” layers, we are also doing tons of color correction, warping, transforming, breaking apart, morphing, adding and animating stock elements, creating graphics... lots of creative choices.

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The wife and I have a running list of 'movies we should show the kids' and notations for "both" or “just the older one”. We also take into account what they've liked in the past and what they say they're interested in. It's super fun to watch classic movies with them.

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Yes, confirmed. Not just for screenwriters. And so many of them are wrong or misleading.

tvaziri,
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What John said is true - as long as you treat "negative" feedback as “this is what we can do to make the shot better”, it helps both sides of that equation. It's never personal. (But when you're in crunch time and working long hours, we ALL get crispy and make silly mistakes. Which makes EVERYTHING harder.)

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I have friends that work in many different industries.

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Almost every usage of that phrase is in the context of trying to make some kind of nonsense political statement, that audiences or filmmakers are too “woke” to take risks. So, generally speaking I’d say none.

tvaziri,
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I know you said “obscure” and it certainly isn’t, but “The Devil in the White City” by Erik Larson.

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@siracusa @hotdogsladies the ultimate button is that I actually do a (bad) Dan Rather impression

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“Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan” 1985 ABC TV Sunday Night Movie intro
https://youtu.be/aVaJWRfNuQc?si=7waZMYTP2RuMUF20

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https://mastodon.social/@verge/112491429963919174

Robin Williams What Year Is It GIF

tvaziri,
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@siracusa WHAT

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nice place to work
https://mastodon.online/@asuter/112486878717274659

tvaziri, to random
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back on my bullshit

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Harold Faltermeyer

1984: writes the score for "Beverly Hills Cop"
1985: writes the score for "Fletch"
1986: writes the score for "Top Gun"

absolutely epic

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“Shadowlands” (1993), starring Debra Winger and Anthony Hopkins, nominated for two Oscars and five BAFTAs, 97% on the Tomatometer,

Not available to rent, buy or stream on any digital platforms.

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Hey, Hulu subscribers in the U.S.

Can you fire up “Predator" (1987) on Hulu? From the quality of the movie as it plays on Hulu, does that look like an HD stream, or an SD stream?

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This is wild.

On Safari and Chrome on the Mac AND on Apple TV 4K, I am absolutely being served SD versions of certain movies on Hulu, like "The Fifth Element”, "Die Hard" and “Predator”. (I'm not even saying an SD stream of the HD source. I mean an old SD transfer.)

When I view a modern TV show like “Shogun" or "Fargo", they're definitely HD.

Totally confusing!

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My “dos and don’t’s” opinions on presenting“AI” at WWDC based on the messy competitors and the rumors so far.

https://sixcolors.com/post/2024/05/the-dos-and-donts-of-ai-at-wwdc/

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@chockenberry @joesteel my god it’s been a while

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