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(18 replies, posted in Creations)

Nice job. I'm not a VFX artist, but my one criticism on that would be the ramp around 0:52. It looks more cartoon-like than the other shots. Maybe it's just that closeups are much more difficult. Unlike iJim above, respectfully, I wasn't confused by mountains to canyon to car bridge to live-action under a car bridge (or freeway overpass), but maybe a quick shot of a tiny bridge in the beneath-us distance would be useful.

I know you're trying to establish a fictional universe, but the narration doesn't seem to add to this particular scene. I think we can wait to find out about the postbellum stuff after we care more about this character. I also didn't understand the reason for the Resident Evil-ish in-your-face close-up of the guy's gun after shooting; it didn't seem to give us important information. But that may be just a style preference on my part.

I did, however, like the Resident Evil-ish Alice-like eye that the woman had. That and the mysterious "No"-backslash-symbol "NP" graffiti on the pillars made me curious about this world. I also liked the woman's chewed-to-bleeding fingernails and the dialog "Typical"; that's excellent compact character-building.

As a Firefly fan, I'm glad to see that Leaf On's little sister Lily In is getting her own movie. Have you been able to do more with this in the last year and a half? I look forward to seeing more.

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(3 replies, posted in Off Topic)

Apparently, kids go for characters running at them and gestures / facial expressions at them.

1. The Boston Marathon
2. The Asian Peace Sign
3. The Raised Eyebrow

http://www.buzzfeed.com/louisp/there-ar … a-kid-2fu2

The "Peace"/"V for Victory" sign seems to be mostly for "2" sequels, and even then it looks more like the rapper "Peace"/"Peace Out" sign than the Japanese nothing-to-do-with-peace "Peace" ("Piisu") sign that is somehow required in every kid's posed photo.

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(25 replies, posted in Off Topic)

At Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, Juliet and the other Capulets had to to be hoisted upside down on ropes and swung around the stage, until the practice was stopped in the wake of a successful strike by the motion-Capulet stage hands chanting "'What's in a name?' Chronic back pain."

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(209 replies, posted in Creations)

Teague- I already commented on the Youtube page, but I'll add that I hope you do another such project that's even more ambitious, with an unreliable narrator full of self-deception and cognitive dissonance until he finally realizes/admits who he is (or does he...?).

Also, is the name Sad Max just a reference to the post-apocalyptic Mad Max, or were you also thinking of the disembodied head of Max Headroom?

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(2,061 replies, posted in Episodes)

Safety Not Guaranteed would be good. I liked it even outside of the funny moments, but the Jake Johnson subplot seems to be painting a mustache on the metaphorical sci-fi main plot. It would be as if a Star Trek episode about one alien race oppressing another also contained a Caucasian Earthling oppressing an Asian Earthling.

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(431 replies, posted in Off Topic)

Thanks for the welcomes, all. I promise not to be a bot. Brain in a vat's OK though, right? I'm just asking for a consciousness whose sensory input patterns my mental pathways become accustomed to.

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(431 replies, posted in Off Topic)

Hi. I'm Kevin. I found my way here from the DiF Avengers commentary back in November 2012 via Whedonesque. (I'm a Firefly fan especially, so I love all the references to it in unrelated commentaries.)

I'm not involved with the movie business, but I did take a Lit & Film class long ago in high school so the earlier clausal comma in this sentence was actually one of them... circular... eye thing... wipers.

That's all my brain can do for tonight (though I suppose that would mean my heart would stop beating and--