That's like something rattman would have painted. I want one.

It looks like someone went over everything with the MAAAAAGIC brush. So now everything is MAAAAAGIC! Everything so clean, so perfect, so fucking magical. It's like the movie is trying to cram itself down my throat going "I"M FUCKING MAGIC RIGHT?! EVERYTHING ABOUT ME IS SO MAGICAL!! AREN'T I SO PRETTY?!?!? WHY DON"T YOU LOVE ME ALREADY!!?!"

If it were a fantasy movie, sure great, sweeping vistas and characters just verging on the precipice of too unrealistic. But this is Life of Pi... and while there are moments of that, sure, most of the story isn't that. It misses the point.

It just feels so completely wrong.

And Tintin just seemed the best one to use, I originally had Avatar, but any overly CG'd, and pointlessly over-pretty movie these days would work.

EDIT: Thinking about it... it feels like every single frame in that trailer is trying to be The Fountain, but just for the sake of being pretty not for any real story reason.

So...a cartoon eh? This is what we're going with for the deep, spiritual, self reflective,  remarkably dark at times and incredibly human story of a boy fighting to survive on the ocean... fucking Tintin!???

Fine...whatever...I probably won't be watching til it's dirt cheap though.

Ridiculed, executed, then ridiculed again. Although it's really more like ridicule centred around an execution.

Ugh, why did I even start this? I hate politics too...

So here's some Fennec triplets.

Yeah, I was actually thinking about that after I posted.

And yeah... that's one of those things that terrifies me about this whole thing. In order to evoke any sort of response you need to truly fuck some shit up, but the people that are going to rise up the highest against it are not the kind of people that you want rising up into any sort of power. The entire country (And obv beyond it's borders too, but for the sake of ease) kinda feels in a constant state of catch 22 right now. No matter what happens, you're going to be fucking something up (And not in the the give and take, compromise way). And there's no way to break that system. Occupy tried, and failed. And I don't know if they'll be coming back.

Well...fxPHD is really the only thing I know of that takes a shot from nothing through to completion (Aside from maybe a couple of the Video Copilot series).

If you want to focus on some more 3D stuff, and don't mind learning Blender, then BlenderCookie (http://cgcookie.com/blender/) has a whole range of really great tutorials for all levels, and most of them will go through an entire build from start to finish (Not a full shot, but at least a completed element, and occasionally a bit of rendering and lighting). And most of them are free, the really really in depth ones are part of the membership, but it's not horribly expensive to join for a month or so and download all the videos and files.

But yeah, for non-blender stuff like what you're looking for, I'm at a loss.

Although, I can tell you what I did when I was first starting out. Make up a shot. Just let your imagination go wild. And then make it. I know it sounds ridiculous, but just force yourself to teach yourself everything you need to know to make that shot work, find the tutorials spend the time to figure out what all the knobs do, and just frickin do it (And it'll look like shit, don't get me wrong, but the amount you learn in trying to figure it all out yourself is astronomical.) And then do another one. Or do the same thing over again. Use everything you learned to make it look awesome, and then when you fail, do it again.

So... I guess I should preface this with something. I was reading an article about the fallout of the Colorado shootings. And as I expected it's the same bullshit that happens every time. But something they said stuck with me, the sentiment was basically that, when it comes to dissecting tragedies and what steps can be taken to prevent them from happening again, for some reason anything involving guns is taboo beyond reconciliation as it's become so ingrained in the american psyche (and lobby groups and politics) that it's every man and womans right to own as many guns as they want and THAT is a FACT of the universe, unchanging and permanent, inarguable. So I just got thinking, and this popped into my head. I didn't really know where to put it... so it's going here:

I wanna know what would happen. If right now. This very second. Obama signed into law, the banning of all firearms. Anyone not an active member of the police or military, in possession of any firearm would be subject to immediate and indefinite incarceration. Would it maybe, just maybe, be enough to push the country into it's inevitable revolution? Would the removal of that one indisputable right of American freedom be enough to finally motivate them? Would that be a bad thing? Would the simple act of finally standing up be enough to propel the country into the realization of just how fucked up things are? Would that one insane act by one man, be enough to give the country enough of a jolt to wake them from their cozy little mundanity?

(I honestly don't have any answers to this, I'm not even sure the questions are worth asking, but I just havn't been able to get it out of my head.)

I'm pretty sure this thing is one of the signs of the impending singularity.

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Worth it, if only to watch it do Thriller and the Chicken Dance.

Coming at this from the perspective of a let's player, although I'm not big enough to be making any money yet, I'm more immersed in the culture than most people I'd imagine. And yes, the people that can do it are absolutely making their living doing it. Guude is making his living completely off his ad revenue, bdoubleO is just about to do the same, KurtJmac has been doing it for a while now, the yogscast, is just fucking insane with their profits.

But the thing is, these guys have a constant stream of about 20-30 thousand views per video, and are putting out 3-4 videos a day. And even then it's just enough to be surviving with, they certainly aren't getting rich doing it (Well maybe yogscast is, but well...I have other issues with them).

If you're just doing a mini series or something that will only be 8-10 videos over it's entire run, and even if you can get a half million views per episode, you still aren't making enough to turn a profit, most likely you aren't even making enough to break even, depending on the project. It's just a bit of nice pocket change.

Cool, I'll definitely be checking that out.