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Alright screw it. I can't do anything new atm, but here's a few random (terrible) acapella things from last year, when a group of us got onto a singing thing on twitter.
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Finally getting around to putting this online. This was a title sequence I produced earlier this year for a local improv group that I work with a lot, for their wild west based Improv show 'Hollowrock'.
Filmed entirely on greenscreen, with a fully scratch built 3D western town and saloon interior.
Produced over the course of 2.5 weeks.
Fun fact: Sue, who plays the gunslinger, was my high school English teacher and improv coach, and had to sit through a lot of my really terrible early attempts at video making for different projects in english class. So it was really fun to get to work with her on something like this all these years later.
The thing I forgot to mention is you can do a viewport render from anywhere, you don't need to be in a camera, it'll just crop it down to whatever your render dimensions are. And you can navigate in the viewport animation playback by clicking and dragging on it to scroll through, and spacebar plays it back in real time.
My typical workflow for dealing with high res rigs that just overload my system (Waves at the Innervate Flower) is alternating back and forth between tweaking animation based on my notes from the last viewport animation and watching viewport renders. Once I get to final polishing, or if I'm doing something really weird or technical, I'll grab the viewport render from where ever I threw it out to, bring it into after effects or premiere and then I can really clearly go through frame by frame and make my notes for changes, or have one monitor with the viewport render, one with Blender and then just look back and forth between them to figure out what needs to happen.
Just LOOK at these things, guys. Remember when sci-fi tentpoles had honest-to-god setpieces that were painstakingly conceived and executed?
To this point specifically, I just remembered this tweet that floated around a while back. And it's 100% true, this entire scene is an amazing set piece.
I. AM. HERE. FOR. THIS.
It's times like this I'm glad humans only have another 30 years or so before the planet is uninhabitable. Seeing these guys wrecking face in the resource wars is gonna be one hell of a show.
I do have to wonder how much my gleeful reaction to the trilogy as a whole stems from how creatively bankrupt so many tentpoles are today vs. how they were even fifteen years ago
As someone who has loved the entire Trilogy from the word go... nah... you just finally caught up. Congrats! 
Henry, if you run into any problems let me know, I wouldn't call myself expert level, but I use the damn thing every day these days so I should hope I, at least kinda, know what I'm talking about. Also: Looks good, hella lot better than my first rig in yonder years.
They actually found HMS Terror a few years ago.
The internet can be a little spooky sometimes... this was just sitting in my recommended videos on youtube apropos of nothing:
BigDamnArtist wrote:I am immediately on board a thousand percent.
I wouldn't. They died.
It's like you don't even know me.
It's about some lunatics who tried to get to the Pole in 1897 in a hydrogen balloon.
I am immediately on board a thousand percent.
Written by Junji Ito... *flashbacks of Amigara Fault flash through my brain, a cold shiver runs down my spine* ...
Soooooooooooo yep, never coming within 50 yards of that book thank you very much.
Okay, now that I'm home, and can actually listen to it, holy shit Ben, that is a proper BOP and a half.
Also, my recommendation, bouncing out what I said earlier: Cardboard Castles is such a fantastic album front to back, and the little conversations snippets with the 8 year old he put in as breaks are freaking adorable as hell.
Album: https://open.spotify.com/album/2zgb2l9p … lzW3INu9Og
My personal favorites off the album:
Also gonna throw in one of the albums I've had on repeat for the past while:
Basically if D&D had synths in-universe these are the sort of songs that would exist in-universe. This is my crack.
check out Watsky
I definitely spent like a day and a half last week listening to Cardboard Castles on loop.
How is it even possible that J.J. didn't have anything to rewrite? Is he gonna piece Snoke back together with technoForcebabble, or had he already planned he wouldn't be here in 9?
"Oh look. Snoke was actually a defective clone from one of Palpatines many and numerous doomsday scenario cloning facilities scattered around the galaxy that activated when Palpy died in Return (Or escaped clone with his own agendaetc etc). Snoke dies and another one activates, but this one is actually Palpy. badda boom badda bing we've got a badass Sith lord in the mix to act as the villain."
That's pretty much the only way I can think to reconcile JJ planning for Snoke to be dead and Palpatine to come back for the 3rd movie. Assuming he's not bullshitting to save face about the clusterfuck behind the scenes, who knows.
I mean it would make a certain amount of sense given the prequels and Palp's penchant for clones, and the entirely bizarre choice to somehow ramrod Palpatine back into these movies after all this time.
EDIT: Oh yeah, and I'm fully prepared for this to be a shitshow of spectacular proportions. I'm not ruling out even the worst fan theory you can think of. Hell I'll be amazed if they don't somehow manage to canonize the Sun Crusher or some equally ridiculous EU thing.
EDIT: EDIT: Actually... doing something like that would actually be interesting. It's probably just gonna be safe and dull and predictable... but if I can't hope for it to be good, I can at least hope for it's fireball to be spectacular. *crosses fingers and makes a wish*
I mean are we really surprised that JJ is just telling the story he started in TFA? The original plan, as bad as it was, was to have 3 different directors all doing their own thing for each of the movies with a marginal guiding hand from Disney.
Of course he's gonna immediately try and wrap up his story lines that he started (see: my previous point about the Knights of Ren) the entire thing is gonna be a clsuterfuck that completely ignores everything Rian tried to do in favour of the stuff JJ wanted to do in the first place.
And we dooo get a movie full of infinite mirrors, and it's kinda of a Star Wars Palpatine Haunted House Experience?
Palpy's Fun House and Laser Moon Experience.
We've already got Creepio canonized, let's just let the Auralnauts guys do the entire movie. It could only be an improvement.
But the poster pillar is something else. It's much smaller and has a ring and a ladder. Which I swear I've seen somewhere, but it's not the falcon's ladder, or a piece of cloud city as far as I can tell.
Wait...
WAIT.
HOLD THE FUCK UP.
It actually doesn't really mean anything but there are similarities:
Bgi: Yeeeaaaaaaaaaah.
The one thing I am kinda curious about, is what JJ is gonna do with his little pet idea of the Knights of Ren in RoS. Not because I think it'll be good or anything, but it'll be fun to see the shitshow of how he retcons them having not even kind of mattered or been mentioned for an entire movie and a half, and then suddenly being there like, oh right, Kylo has this entire group of crazy badass sith knights at his beck and call... that's a THING huh?!
Teague:
but, if so (and even in your screengrab), it doesn't center itself within the wall of the iris (like in the poster); it centers on the edge of the lens, between the iris and the eyeball. Broadly speaking, 'reflecty stuff' trends toward the middle of the eye.)
Yeah, like I said, I'm blaming the 360p early version I was watching on that. When you were referencing the poster in the video the spec hits looked basically exactly like they did on your eyes, but once I refreshed to get the full res version and you started zooming in I saw what you were talking about with the spec being just on the iris.
I mean, I completely agree, that is absolutely where Star Wars should have gone with the Jedi story. Going way back to the DiF conversation about how Yoda shouldn't even have a lightsaber because he's so much more powerful than that. The Force should be weird and mysterious with it's own ineffable plan and currents (Which is why I was fucking gutted when they completely killed the forcelink between Rey and Kylo in TLJ as just Snoke messing with them. That had the potential to be something so cool and different and just, weird, in Star Wars, and then it just got thrown out without doing anything with it).
But (if it wasn't clear) the Death Sun thing was 100% snark because JJ's TFA redid ANH with Death Star but different... and if JJ keeps that with 'Return of the Jedi but DIFFERENT!' then whatever is doing this:
Has a statistically high chance of being 'Death Star 2 but different', and that's just pathetic and exhausting. (plus with Palpy coming back, he does love his Death Stars doesn't he).
Back to that poster tho. What is that broken pillar thing that Rey and (Kylo? is that you? That's your sword but your head's a little... off) are fighting upon? It looks kinda familiar, but then Star Wars is full of greebley pillars, so, could be anything...
It loks like the same ship/floating barge thing Rey/Kylo are fighting on in the trailer. The design feels very similar to the lava masts and greeblies bits on Mustafar, just on water this time. So *shrug*.
EDIT: Nevermind, I was misunderstanding what you were talking about on the original poster, because hey look, youtube compression is shit.
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Not to divert the conversation but (And I'm just pausing in the video to post this, so if you clarify later, I apologize in advance) but if your point is that under no circumstances could a light source cause those specific reflections in his eyes and the light on his eyebrows... you then demonstrated that that is exactly what could happen by putting a light source exactly where that scene would be if Palpy was actually that huge and in the scene:
Am I missing something?
ngl, when that desert village with all the tents and flags and stuff popped up my first thought was 100%: 'oh no, desert ewoks'.
So you know. I don't hold high hopes, so much of what we've seen is just continuing JJ's pattern of copying the original trilogy, right down to waiting until the third movie to make Palpatine appear on screen. Never mind that the poster is basically just the "copy my notes but just change some stuff so it looks different' version of the RoTJ teaser poster.
And the whole "We've taught you everything we know...blah blah blah" just kinda reinforces that these movies do /not/ give a shit about actually doing the leg work on these characters, cause Luke, you knew her for all of like a week, 99% of which was you jerking her around. Anyways, looking forward to seeing how JJ is just gonna steamroll over the couple interesting thing TLJ managed to get in, and see how big the Death Sun is gonna be this time around.
And seconded on giving the series to a female director, it's just becoming a fucking joke at this point.
I mean it's a bold choice to introduce the Multiverse to Star Wars by bringing in the Animated Clone Wars version of Palpatine, but I guess if that's where they want to go with it...
Also Marty... are we just ignoring the Red/Blue colour scheme happening in the RoTJ poster too then?
https://i.imgur.com/0PsWqH8.mp4
In better times Whisper challenges Burnout to a race, remote access only, Whisper is supplying the cars.
And shows up with two of these.
If I didn't know better I would have said this was a James@War video from like, 2007.
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