1 Reply by BigDamnArtist

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Actually thinking on it a bit more (And partly cause of that Solo thread), the biggest change to my relationship with movies is that I've just stopped caring about the rumours, and the fan theories, and the hype and all of that bullshit that happens in the lead-up. It just doesn't matter anymore, that incessant back and forth between being pissed off or excited about some random bit of something was just exhausting or infuriating and gained me absolutely nothing. So that's just started phasing out of my thought process. Obviously I still get hyped and excited for movies, but not the specific theories or rumors or little details of the lead up of the internet hype/anger machine. Side along with this I've also pretty much stopped watching trailers, I'll watch the first one if it's something I'm interested in, but after that I just don't care.

That was a big shift for me in my relationship to the new Star Wars especially. There is literally nothing I can possibly do to influence or change the decisions being put into those movies. LITERALLY /NOTHING/. So I've pretty much just stopped caring, and I'll go into the movie and see what they decided to do with it. If it works cool I have a new movie I like, if not, then I can dissect it and learn from it, but anything before that point is just unnecessary emotional wear and tear.

I think this is also just part of a general trend I've noticed in myself of trying to cut out the unnecessary cynicism and negativity. I'd infinitely rather be super excited and jazzed for things I like, than shitting on and bitching about things I didn't. It's just way more fun.

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2 Reply by BigDamnArtist

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Yes and no. I can't say my ||movie|| habits have done anything surprising. I still like broadly the same sort of thing as usual, maybe I've become a bit more specific in my exact brand of weird and what I want to see, and I'm still woefully behind on everything I want to watch, but that can be summed up by living an hour from the nearest theatre worth a damn, and the next point:

On the OTHER hand, there have definitely been some changes to my ||media|| consumption habits. Movies have begun to take up a significantly smaller chunk of of my brain and time (Both as a viewer and a maker), between podcasts, short form documentary (a lot of what we classically think of as "youtube content"), podcasts, long running short form content (webseries, stuff like Lizzie Bennett Diaries), podcasts and podcasts; the concept of movies is just another one on the pile, and one I'm growing increasingly less concerned with. There are so many cool and interesting things happening in all these other avenues, that I've been spending a lot more of my time over there.

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3 Reply by BigDamnArtist

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I looked it up cause I was curious, and Maul was a reoccurring character through the last 3-4 seasons of Clone Wars, and has been in a couple of Rebels episodes as well. And with Disney repeated assurances that Clone Wars and Rebels are part of new canon, it was probably really only a matter of time until he made the transition back to the big screen. I'm just kinda curious why they chose Solo of all things.

But yeah, true to their word, Disney is going off the beaten trail for the SW Stories, so good on them I guess. Definitely would not have called it, but I'm down for it.

EDIT: Also apparently they also killed off Maul in Rebels, he and old man Obi Wan fight it out. So I guess that explains why they're cool bringing him back for this period of the timeline, not really spoiling much if you've already shown his death.

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4 Reply by BigDamnArtist

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2: I haven't been watching Clone Wars or Rebels so I don't know exactly what they've been doing with Maul in there, but I'm just kinda impressed that Disney would be bringing him in this far into the timeline as canon, it's been what? At least 20 years since he got the big slice? Ain't no body can put down Maul apparently.

Also. I just went from, "Eh, maybe Ill see it" to "HOLY SHIT I NEED TO THIS, BECAUSE EITHER IT'S A TRAINWRECK OR GENIUS AND I NEED TO KNOW."

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5 Reply by BigDamnArtist

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Add to that the massive shitstain that is James Franco, and my interest went from "Oh, that might be interesting" to literally zero desire to ever bother.

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6 Reply by BigDamnArtist

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Rami Malek as Freddie Mercury.

Fucking. Slaying. It.

https://i.imgur.com/d296zqL.jpg

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7 Reply by BigDamnArtist

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Saniss wrote:
Teague wrote:

You know, now that Saniss is the reason you have a job and gets to take credit for that shit all the time, I think we should take a moment to recognize the role the FIYH podcasts played in bringing you together, which is another way of saying I and we are also the reason you have a job, and we don't seem to talk about that enough.

Ultimately, since I discovered FIYH through Ryan, and Ryan is the reason I even started having an interest in VFX in the first place, we can safely say Ryan is the reason Martin has a job.

Which of course means we can trace the fact that Martin has a job, to Ryan's mom.

You should really send her a box of chocolates or something.

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8 Reply by BigDamnArtist

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Fully aware that he is the only person here that cares even remotely about Minecraft stuff...

HEY LOOK A MINECRAFT THING!

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9 Reply by BigDamnArtist

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DarthPraxus wrote:

Stalin was so furious at the losses that the military just all agreed to lie to him and tell him they lost all their tanks in a pitched battle with the Nazis, who suffered staggering losses. There's still a monument at Kursk claiming dozens of Nazi tanks were destroyed in that exchange. Three were in actuality.

And so remains the greatest "So we're agreed, nobody tells dad right?" in all of history.

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10 Reply by BigDamnArtist

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Teague wrote:

I want to give Blindsight a fair shake, because in my life I've experienced at least one other similar reaction to a complex work of art — that is, being actively blown away by creative synthesis far in excess of what I can imagine coming from myself, even as I'm being actively frustrated into screaming discomprehension by executive 'mistakes' in the same piece of art that are so disruptive to my experience that even as I'm drawn in by greatness, I'm pushed away by frustration — and in my previous experience, despite myself, I just fought through my initial reaction (plus a few follow-up reactions) and got over it. My old brain wanted to reject the new work of art that didn't fit, but the art seemed unassailably worthwhile in other ways, so I updated my brain to fit the art. The unexpected pay-off is having a piece of work in my life which I now appreciate more than any other unified work of art I've yet encountered on Earth, and one which I've long-since memorized every word of; this piece is called Hamilton.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

HAH. This has LITERALLY been my life over the past week. I tried desperately to get through it for MONTHS and just /couldn't/. Finally just pushed through Act 1, and then watching some interviews with LMM about the theme and what it's /actually/ about, and then listened through act 2 the next and fell HEAD OVER FUCKING HEELS in love. Listened through the whole thing at least 5-6 times in the last 4 days. Brains are weird y'all.

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11 Reply by BigDamnArtist

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Sweet, sent you a pm.

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12 Topic by BigDamnArtist

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Classic story, 100% missed the reflection on set, and I, being a sane human being, don't want to have to deal with it tongue

So thought I'd just throw it up here if anyone wants to help out or is looking for a shot to practice doing some reflection removal on. I can't pay anything, but you'd definitely get a credit.

Shot:

(Removing our DoP, camera and boom arm along the right side of the knob)

Details:
Length- 192 frames
Raw footage - 4096x2160
Raw Colourspace- Sony Slog3 S-Gamut3.Cine
Delivery size- 1920x1080
Delivery colour space- Sony Slog3 S-Gamut3.Cine

Let me know if you're interested and I can send over the files and more details. No hard deadline, I'm aiming to have the whole short finished by mid-summer so there's plenty of time.

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13 Reply by BigDamnArtist

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If anyone's curious, this is where the shot eventually wound up. Not the final grading, but roughly what it'll be.

There's still a million details I'd love to add, but I have the rest of the short to make so y'know, gotta move on.

https://i.imgur.com/X1w9E0P.png
https://i.imgur.com/X1w9E0P.png

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14 Reply by BigDamnArtist

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Teague wrote:

Man, going back and re-reading this thread is a trip.

Dayum, Invid (almost) nailing TLJ back in 2014.

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15 Reply by BigDamnArtist

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16 Reply by BigDamnArtist

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17 Reply by BigDamnArtist

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Slowly but surely (mostly slowly) the march of progress moves forward.

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18 Reply by BigDamnArtist

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OPnly started following this one about a month or so ago, but it's definitely worth a mention. Alec is a UK based blacksmith, he does daily vlogs wherein he experiments with forging, machining and casting. He's crazy energetic so if that's not your thing, maybe a pass, but he always approaches his project from the pov of "what can I learn from how I just fucked that up"? Which is an awesome way for a creator like this to be, since his whole thing his learning new skills and techniques.

https://www.youtube.com/user/alectheblacksmith

Certainly one of those creators I'd throw in the "fuck yeah, make stuff" category.

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19 Reply by BigDamnArtist

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Thanks guys big_smile I was actually really not sure it was gonna sell, so thats really good to hear.

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20 Reply by BigDamnArtist

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I know you don't believe us when we say this, but I'm gonna say it again, I learn more from an hour of you rambling at a mic than I did in the entirety most of classes in film school.

Also, for shits and/or giggles, cause you were talking about our shooting location... this is the raw plate.

https://i.imgur.com/iHgJyur.jpg

So I'm gonna call it a win that nothing about the painting itself was odd enough to at least verbally call out.

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21 Reply by BigDamnArtist

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Well that definitely looks a fuck of a lot better, considering the version I posted. I'll check it out. Thanks dude.

I think I might keep psyching myself you with trying to blend the post-apoc everything is running down listless sort of unclear vibe in my brain with the reality of things. Also working with log, and not doing final colour at the same time it's just a whole lot of new shit all at once.

Edit: Yeah, I deleted it, just not in a great headspace atm. I've been fighting this shot for over a month now between /everything/ else, and just wasn't exactly responding well to the whole..."Just fix this." "Teague, you just pointed to everything."...thing.

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22 Reply by BigDamnArtist

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Hmm, my issue is the alley one just completely obliterated all of the detail in the foreground fog, so it's just this giant ugly block of pixels that blends right up into the gate area.

And what is it about the Last Light sign that isn't working for you?

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23 Reply by BigDamnArtist

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So yeah, okay, these are probably definitely not where this is supposed to be used, but here's what happened, original frame on top, Invert/Soft Light on the bottom. (These are both super WIP shots, so ignore the overall horribleness of a lot of it.... apparently when you don't do any real VFX for 4 years, you forget a lot of shit)

https://i.imgur.com/jQKvwp9.png

The cellphone one definitely feels more natural but it also sucked most of the saturation out of it so...... *shrug*.

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24 Reply by BigDamnArtist

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I'll give it a shot, the one shot I'm working on is mostly a matte painting so I'm not sure what if any effect it would have on it, the other one is more of a holographic display burn in, so it might be more noticeable there. Give me a bit.

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25 Reply by BigDamnArtist

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That sounds familiar, how do you make that one work? Cause I just tried it on this one comp I'm working on, and everything's just washed out now.

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