When you get to the point of calling an animated film "a kid's movie" you're part of the problem. Dreamworks has a big tendency to put out pretty-looking drivel. Sometimes as a kid or even as an adult you want to turn your brain off and watch something mindless. I enjoy Hannah Montana now and then. But when you get to the point of taking all the art away from a movie just because it's a kid's movie, you're breeding a generation of dumb people.
Just compare something like Kung Fu Panda with Finding Nemo or Wall-E. Both equally adored by kids, but not equally adored by critics. I still look forward to each Pixar movie, even though I'm no kid and have no kids and even though Brave wasn't very well written. They usually try to achieve some depth and come out with something that appeals to all ages.
Uncanny Valley hell. That's what that is. There's a reason you stop at a certain point of realism and keep it a "cartoon." That's why they stick with impressive things like hair animation and pretty lighting effects.
If you want dumb kids, stick with the status quo. Have you watched a Looney Toons cartoon in adulthood? There's loads more depth behind those cartoons than anything coming from Dreamworks today. You can enjoy it while you're young and when you're old. Sure beats all the sex jokes in Shrek - which really didn't need to be there. There's plenty of ways to be intelligent, funny, and still appeal widely to kids.
These days, even small theaters show in digital 4K. If you're rendering on a computer you have no reason not to go for 4K as well. Times 2 for the second eye.
That reminds me of my younger days playing in 3D Studio Max. Sometimes a 15-second animation would take all night to render on an old Pentium. By the time you get a few lights into the scenes, all the reflection and shadows are insanely complex. With today's movies, they go way beyond that level of complexity.
Oh right - I forgot that Y could come from the father and X from the mother. Don't know how I could have missed that. I must have been way more tired than I thought when I wrote it. At least the first part I wrote made sense.
You threw me by using the British title of the The Pirates. Was called "The Pirates! Band of Misfits" here, marketing name of just "The Pirates!"
It was done well except for the 3D. It was over-exaggerated and not used to any cinematic purpose. I understand it was their first 3D film, but it's like they were beginner filmmakers in that regard. For truly good 3D, watch Hugo. Still - Aardman knows what they're doing otherwise.
"All Male" means having XY. Don't see how that can't happen. But someone can be XY and still develop into a childbearing female through hormonal therapy.
Granted, this might require a slight genetic quirk and so not 100% identical. But maybe the appropriate genes could be turned off by chemical injection if someone really wanted to make this happen.
Theoretically, though nearly impossible, they could have genes passed 100% from two grandfathers. Of course, their mother would have to be identical/clone of their grandfather and expressing as female due to some externally-caused developmental quirk.
Chicken? I'm pretty sure you didn't make an Osso Buco then. Chickens don't have very big ossos (bones) to roast, and likely wouldn't be cut in any way to expose the marrow, which is an important part of the dish.
I realize your point is being able to wing it, and of course chickens have wings...
Hold the can perfectly upright and you don't get anything coming out of the can. Turning it at an angle, or worse upside down will coat it with those chemicals and that will evaporate. But before it does, it will also condense loads of water because it's well below zero degrees.
That makes collection easy. But say you have to collect city sales tax. Only one customer bought anything from you from Midnwhere, AR. You have to spend $0.46 to pay 2% collected city sales tax amounting to $0.36 to that town. That's just insane, and illustrates the true problem.
You mean like an API that's handled at the federal level? That's the only way the collection side might work. But remitting the actual sales taxes will still be terrible. - especially sending tax payments of $0.43 to some random municipality that charges city sales tax (if that's included in the bill).
What on earth are you talking about? No, by the time a book can be written it would already be obsolete. In many of my areas of expertise, I learned by direct experimentation and firsthand experience.
No, my parents and teachers taught me nothing about my field. You said trained. Not raised or received primary, secondary, or post-secondary education. Now you're suddenly expanding this to having ever learned something from someone else. But no, the vast majority of what I know in my field did not come from school at all.
I wish that were true. I have never been trained by someone older and more experienced. I have been that person (not older, but more experienced). But unless you count Googling specific problem cases, then no I haven't had that opportunity.
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When you get to the point of calling an animated film "a kid's movie" you're part of the problem. Dreamworks has a big tendency to put out pretty-looking drivel. Sometimes as a kid or even as an adult you want to turn your brain off and watch something mindless. I enjoy Hannah Montana now and then. But when you get to the point of taking all the art away from a movie just because it's a kid's movie, you're breeding a generation of dumb people.
Just compare something like Kung Fu Panda with Finding Nemo or Wall-E. Both equally adored by kids, but not equally adored by critics. I still look forward to each Pixar movie, even though I'm no kid and have no kids and even though Brave wasn't very well written. They usually try to achieve some depth and come out with something that appeals to all ages.
Uncanny Valley hell. That's what that is. There's a reason you stop at a certain point of realism and keep it a "cartoon." That's why they stick with impressive things like hair animation and pretty lighting effects.
If you want dumb kids, stick with the status quo. Have you watched a Looney Toons cartoon in adulthood? There's loads more depth behind those cartoons than anything coming from Dreamworks today. You can enjoy it while you're young and when you're old. Sure beats all the sex jokes in Shrek - which really didn't need to be there. There's plenty of ways to be intelligent, funny, and still appeal widely to kids.
These days, even small theaters show in digital 4K. If you're rendering on a computer you have no reason not to go for 4K as well. Times 2 for the second eye.
That reminds me of my younger days playing in 3D Studio Max. Sometimes a 15-second animation would take all night to render on an old Pentium. By the time you get a few lights into the scenes, all the reflection and shadows are insanely complex. With today's movies, they go way beyond that level of complexity.
Oh right - I forgot that Y could come from the father and X from the mother. Don't know how I could have missed that. I must have been way more tired than I thought when I wrote it. At least the first part I wrote made sense.
In other words, they can only manage to do one half of what Pixar can do most of the time.
Then again, Brave wasn't that good aside from the CGI. Went through so many rewrites there wasn't much story left.
I wouldn't say no one is still showing them:
Cinematic Titanic
Rifftrax
Mystery Science Theater 3000 (okay, no ones still showing this).
http://www.rockyhorror.com/participation/showtimes.php
You threw me by using the British title of the The Pirates. Was called "The Pirates! Band of Misfits" here, marketing name of just "The Pirates!"
It was done well except for the 3D. It was over-exaggerated and not used to any cinematic purpose. I understand it was their first 3D film, but it's like they were beginner filmmakers in that regard. For truly good 3D, watch Hugo. Still - Aardman knows what they're doing otherwise.
Watch 'Winters Bone'
How can a movie with that title not have BARE BREASTS
"All Male" means having XY. Don't see how that can't happen. But someone can be XY and still develop into a childbearing female through hormonal therapy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XY_gonadal_dysgenesis
Granted, this might require a slight genetic quirk and so not 100% identical. But maybe the appropriate genes could be turned off by chemical injection if someone really wanted to make this happen.
Theoretically, though nearly impossible, they could have genes passed 100% from two grandfathers. Of course, their mother would have to be identical/clone of their grandfather and expressing as female due to some externally-caused developmental quirk.
No. Unless everyone was born when the last patent was granted. (And, of course, the patents covered procreation with those genes - which they don't).
Really, they can't. They can patent their usage by some method, such as a diagnostic test. That's just how patents work.
The headline is just a bit of sensationalism.
Chicken? I'm pretty sure you didn't make an Osso Buco then. Chickens don't have very big ossos (bones) to roast, and likely wouldn't be cut in any way to expose the marrow, which is an important part of the dish.
I realize your point is being able to wing it, and of course chickens have wings...
Let me guess - you're a smoker? That's the nastiest dust I've ever cleaned out of a heatsink. There's oily crud mixed in that just won't let go.
Normal dust comes right off, usually.
Hold the can perfectly upright and you don't get anything coming out of the can. Turning it at an angle, or worse upside down will coat it with those chemicals and that will evaporate. But before it does, it will also condense loads of water because it's well below zero degrees.
What did you use to blast the dust out? Some vacuums and air compressors generate too much static electricity for cleaning dust with.
$0.46 is the price of a postage stamp. I meant to say that.
That makes collection easy. But say you have to collect city sales tax. Only one customer bought anything from you from Midnwhere, AR. You have to spend $0.46 to pay 2% collected city sales tax amounting to $0.36 to that town. That's just insane, and illustrates the true problem.
You mean like an API that's handled at the federal level? That's the only way the collection side might work. But remitting the actual sales taxes will still be terrible. - especially sending tax payments of $0.43 to some random municipality that charges city sales tax (if that's included in the bill).
OK. Done troll. Clearly going way off-topic now.
What on earth are you talking about? No, by the time a book can be written it would already be obsolete. In many of my areas of expertise, I learned by direct experimentation and firsthand experience.
No, my parents and teachers taught me nothing about my field. You said trained. Not raised or received primary, secondary, or post-secondary education. Now you're suddenly expanding this to having ever learned something from someone else. But no, the vast majority of what I know in my field did not come from school at all.
I wish that were true. I have never been trained by someone older and more experienced. I have been that person (not older, but more experienced). But unless you count Googling specific problem cases, then no I haven't had that opportunity.
As an apartment-dweller with basically no-modifications lease terms, I have a thermostat from the 60's or 70's.