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I think misguided enthusiasm is the better of two cultural evils between that and writ dismissal.

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Made me wonder if iconography of the Twin Towers is similarly inappropriate when considering those thousands of murders. Its service as a national symbol and a real tangible thing complicates the matter quite a bit.

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More specifically, it was the only thing they could do really well.

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I tried pretty hard, but that bourgeois charm was a little too discreet for me.

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I'm sure they'd think it's cool that you directed it, but you probably aren't going in for a job as a director. You're looking to showcase vfx skills, so it should be almost exclusively about that.

The design is much better, I'd do a couple little artistic things differently like make that pair of lines at the top a little longer and have the bottom one break the margin and creep into the darker part a little. Move the software stuff all the way to the bottom of that column, it's distracting from your previous work, which should be the showcase here.

The descriptions are pretty good, but rewrite them pretending that each word you use would cost you a dollar.

I would change Elgo to just "Elgo - Digital Artist". Reference to religious anything is a liability.

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Yeah but it's also weird as shit.

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I have a few of them, just Ikea bracket things.

A friend of mine has a whole wall of his apartment covered in them - they scale really well.

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More drama = better than.

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Deal, duh.

Black frames or white?

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Mentioned this to Brandon last night and he gave a hearty approval.

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They're also less interesting. The quickest shot to the heart of any child is DEAD PARENT. It's all they know. So boom, engaged audience.

From a storytelling perspective, removing a parent makes drawing relationships easier. With one parent and a kid, that's a simple circuit. You can take that and build all kinds of thematic goodness from there. With two parents and a kid, you have to figure the relationship between the kid and one parent, the kid and the other, and the parents between each other. You now have three times the amount of relationships to uphold without sacrificing or muddying the thematic energy you had when your story was simpler.

Depends what you're doing it for. If you're working with a DP that's trying to emulate a specific film stock, you better have the right scan. If you're trying to do a less specific old-timey look, you can just use whatever.

The biggest issue with adding scanned grain is the method of application. People that do it in NLEs just drop it on top and change the blend mode, which doesn't look too hot. If you're sweating grain that much, you owe it to your project to apply it against a proper response curve compared to an actual plate shot with the stock.

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Every episode you bite the head off a different small animal.

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