The virus plotline is so played out these days. I don't understand why Hollywood feels the need to change an element like monsters coming from Hell to monsters being mutated by a virus. Has Hell somehow become taboo? For the Dawn of the Dead remake, I was worried that they would change the whole zombies from hell concept because the original tagline was "When there's no more room in hell, the dead will walk the earth." Fortunately, they left it intact. It's disappointing that a game so based off of demons from Hell is being changed over into the old virus mutation thing. It's already so overused.
You put hologram blogs in front of hologram porn in the holography timeline? When holograms are cheap enough to reproduce in the consumer market, hologram porn will be the first use of it.
Yeah, but you're gonna pay for a cell phone eventually when your current one breaks or you get sick of it... And then your only option will be to buy one with a camera in it. It's hard right now to find a cell phone without a camera in it.
I recently visited Japan and was shocked to find that people were using their cell phones to take pictures on their vacation! From that, it's obvious that the regular joe/jane is willing to sacrifice the image quality of a real camera for the convenience of having a camera/phone combo. So yes, I think it's the death of the entry level digital camera.
they need an arbitrary numbering system for the lenses on these things, so that maybe the cell phone camera manufacturers can point at it and say "Look! Our camera is better. It has a 5X SuperImage(TM) lens!" Then perhaps there will be some advancement in the lens quality front on these things, instead of just upping the resolution but not image quality.
And you trust a dumbass who hit the bars after a long exhausting 12 hour day of work and is hurling down the street talking on his cell phone? Give me the computer any day.
Yeah... and it was really great when I had to carry around my digital camera, cell phone, portable game device, mini tape recorder, and PDA instead of 1 device that handles all of the above. Specialization in one thing is fine, because usually the specialized devices do the task a lot better, but putting everything into one device is still useful to some... like for those without a lot of pockets.
Of course it's going to be a huge disappointment. Name one book to movie conversion that wasn't a disappointment to someone who read the book previously. That doesn't necessarily mean that it's going to be a bad film, just not the one you envisioned. But what the movie will definitely do is give the book a ton more readership.
The problem I see with the film concepts so far is that it seems like it's taking itself too seriously. Those concepts for the Heart of Gold and Marvin are too mainstream and contemporary. They don't scream "HHGTTG!" and look as if they could be placed in any sci-fi movie coming out today. If they actually took a chance and *GASP* took ideas from the book and made the Heart of Gold look like a "sleek running shoe" then perhaps people would be able to recognize the design as a part of the film.
It's not really a "win-win" situation for everyone. Sure you can follow your job to hicksville, USA, but why would you want to? There's a reason cost of living is so cheap... it's because there's nothing to do there, and the quality of life is decreased. It's better, of course, than losing your job to someone in India, but a lesser of 2 evils is still an evil.
It's still a moot point. While the results can be seen pretty quickly, the actor still does not have the capability of controlling his body as much as an animator has his puppet. He could keep doing take after take, but the final result will never be as refined as when an animator spends hours pouring over every frame of an animation.
And even with good realtime feedback, motion capture still needs to be cleaned up a LOT by animators.
as a human being, I can tell you that it's pretty much impossible to be in control of every part of your body at any given moment as much as an animator is with his puppet. An animator spends a long time going frame by frame and seeing which frames work and which frames don't. An actor, no matter how trained, would never be able to get that kind of control. An actor can not see how he is moving from the cameras perspective while he is acting... it's a couple of takes, then move on. That's why it takes a significantly less amount of time to put something on film than it does to animate it in a computer.
A: My son Jon was executive producer of the recent film Mr. 3000. A few days after the film was released, a member of my staff found it being sold as a DVD just a few blocks from our offices. I called my son to give him the bad news, and he told me this is happening to all the current films. And then he said, "And what are you going to do about it, Dad?"
Is this quote supposed to make me feel bad?...
I don't know if it's supposed to make you feel bad, but I'm shocked more than anything that Mr. 3000 was even pirated at all. The movie looks awful and I definitely wouldn't spend 5 or 10 bucks on a pirated DVD of it.
"performance capture" is just a euphemism for "motion capture" which has gotten a pretty bad rap among animators. Of course the animation style is wooden and lacking emotion! An animators job is to not just duplicate a motion, but capture the essence of that motion and then make it appealing. An animator, unlike an actor in a body suit, is in control and aware of every single part of the body in motion, and animation needs that control and focus in order to succeed in creating a living character in a computer or on paper.
The studios would love to make you believe that motion capture is removing an unnecessary in-between from creating the character in the computer to making him live by capturing an exact motion, but I feel that motion capture is just a cheap imitation of animation.
welcome our new hypo-allergenic feline masters. But seriously, the future is now. This is kinda cool and creepy at the same time, since this is the stuff I've seen only in cheesy science fiction movies.
I've never seen a definition of science fiction as "belief in technology." The science fiction I've read usually shows how technology leads to the destruction of society or the world.
See that little "Submit Story" link on the sidebar there when you load the site? Well, clinking on that link will allow you to "submit" your "stories" to the webmasters of the site. They, in turn, will look at all of the submissions and choose ones to post that they find interesting. The creators of this Donkey Kong remix submitted their site, and got accepted for posting.
Maybe if you would like to plug your favorite game songs site, then you can and it might also be posted. Fairly simple, I think. Not everything has to have moneys exchanged for favors.
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You heard the man! He's thinking about the children!!
The virus plotline is so played out these days. I don't understand why Hollywood feels the need to change an element like monsters coming from Hell to monsters being mutated by a virus. Has Hell somehow become taboo? For the Dawn of the Dead remake, I was worried that they would change the whole zombies from hell concept because the original tagline was "When there's no more room in hell, the dead will walk the earth." Fortunately, they left it intact. It's disappointing that a game so based off of demons from Hell is being changed over into the old virus mutation thing. It's already so overused.
You put hologram blogs in front of hologram porn in the holography timeline? When holograms are cheap enough to reproduce in the consumer market, hologram porn will be the first use of it.
It's sooo cool how it makes all the ugly chicks look like Jennifer Aniston!
Look, for the LAST TIME, beer goggles do not make ugly chicks look hot, they just make your standards drop! There's a difference.
the excite bike comment was a joke, relax.
It doesn't really say what properties to expect, but obviously it's Excite Bike.
Where the Department of Education collects personally identifiable data from old people.
They're MY heroes!
I'm sorry, what are we talking about? I'm new here.
LOL! That's an awesome question. Mod parent up!
Yeah, but you're gonna pay for a cell phone eventually when your current one breaks or you get sick of it... And then your only option will be to buy one with a camera in it. It's hard right now to find a cell phone without a camera in it.
I recently visited Japan and was shocked to find that people were using their cell phones to take pictures on their vacation! From that, it's obvious that the regular joe/jane is willing to sacrifice the image quality of a real camera for the convenience of having a camera/phone combo. So yes, I think it's the death of the entry level digital camera.
they need an arbitrary numbering system for the lenses on these things, so that maybe the cell phone camera manufacturers can point at it and say "Look! Our camera is better. It has a 5X SuperImage(TM) lens!" Then perhaps there will be some advancement in the lens quality front on these things, instead of just upping the resolution but not image quality.
And you trust a dumbass who hit the bars after a long exhausting 12 hour day of work and is hurling down the street talking on his cell phone? Give me the computer any day.
Yeah... and it was really great when I had to carry around my digital camera, cell phone, portable game device, mini tape recorder, and PDA instead of 1 device that handles all of the above. Specialization in one thing is fine, because usually the specialized devices do the task a lot better, but putting everything into one device is still useful to some... like for those without a lot of pockets.
Of course it's going to be a huge disappointment. Name one book to movie conversion that wasn't a disappointment to someone who read the book previously. That doesn't necessarily mean that it's going to be a bad film, just not the one you envisioned. But what the movie will definitely do is give the book a ton more readership.
The problem I see with the film concepts so far is that it seems like it's taking itself too seriously. Those concepts for the Heart of Gold and Marvin are too mainstream and contemporary. They don't scream "HHGTTG!" and look as if they could be placed in any sci-fi movie coming out today. If they actually took a chance and *GASP* took ideas from the book and made the Heart of Gold look like a "sleek running shoe" then perhaps people would be able to recognize the design as a part of the film.
It's not really a "win-win" situation for everyone. Sure you can follow your job to hicksville, USA, but why would you want to? There's a reason cost of living is so cheap... it's because there's nothing to do there, and the quality of life is decreased. It's better, of course, than losing your job to someone in India, but a lesser of 2 evils is still an evil.
It's still a moot point. While the results can be seen pretty quickly, the actor still does not have the capability of controlling his body as much as an animator has his puppet. He could keep doing take after take, but the final result will never be as refined as when an animator spends hours pouring over every frame of an animation.
And even with good realtime feedback, motion capture still needs to be cleaned up a LOT by animators.
as a human being, I can tell you that it's pretty much impossible to be in control of every part of your body at any given moment as much as an animator is with his puppet. An animator spends a long time going frame by frame and seeing which frames work and which frames don't. An actor, no matter how trained, would never be able to get that kind of control. An actor can not see how he is moving from the cameras perspective while he is acting... it's a couple of takes, then move on. That's why it takes a significantly less amount of time to put something on film than it does to animate it in a computer.
A: My son Jon was executive producer of the recent film Mr. 3000. A few days after the film was released, a member of my staff found it being sold as a DVD just a few blocks from our offices. I called my son to give him the bad news, and he told me this is happening to all the current films. And then he said, "And what are you going to do about it, Dad?"
Is this quote supposed to make me feel bad?...
I don't know if it's supposed to make you feel bad, but I'm shocked more than anything that Mr. 3000 was even pirated at all. The movie looks awful and I definitely wouldn't spend 5 or 10 bucks on a pirated DVD of it.
"performance capture" is just a euphemism for "motion capture" which has gotten a pretty bad rap among animators. Of course the animation style is wooden and lacking emotion! An animators job is to not just duplicate a motion, but capture the essence of that motion and then make it appealing. An animator, unlike an actor in a body suit, is in control and aware of every single part of the body in motion, and animation needs that control and focus in order to succeed in creating a living character in a computer or on paper.
The studios would love to make you believe that motion capture is removing an unnecessary in-between from creating the character in the computer to making him live by capturing an exact motion, but I feel that motion capture is just a cheap imitation of animation.
welcome our new hypo-allergenic feline masters. But seriously, the future is now. This is kinda cool and creepy at the same time, since this is the stuff I've seen only in cheesy science fiction movies.
yeah... but Khan said it too.
Science fiction is about belief in technology.
I've never seen a definition of science fiction as "belief in technology." The science fiction I've read usually shows how technology leads to the destruction of society or the world.
See that little "Submit Story" link on the sidebar there when you load the site? Well, clinking on that link will allow you to "submit" your "stories" to the webmasters of the site. They, in turn, will look at all of the submissions and choose ones to post that they find interesting. The creators of this Donkey Kong remix submitted their site, and got accepted for posting.
Maybe if you would like to plug your favorite game songs site, then you can and it might also be posted. Fairly simple, I think. Not everything has to have moneys exchanged for favors.
Then, Apple should make a game called "Squash the Silver Beatles" or something :)
Or better yet, maybe Steve Jobs should make his nickname into "The Walrus"