BLUMENKOHL

20 years on and some of you derps still got it. Imagine if JWFan was in charge of the natural world. “Oh no. This tree, which is a completely unique tree, looks like other trees. See look, it has roots, and a trunk, and branches. And what is this? Leaaaves!? This tree borrows too heavily from trees, for MY tastes. Why couldn’t whoever made this tree have made a tree with wheels and wings and instead? Why wood and cellulose instead of churros, charmeuse, and chitin? Ugh.”

Still blows my mind that I'm listening to new, lovely music made by someone who was born in 1932.

Can't wait.

This is such a great album. Holds up 5 years later, which Airborne did not. The more time passes the more Airborne sounds like simpleton music. But this…this one is the best one in the series since the original. Shame it didn’t get much love. If you’re wondering why I resurrected this thread, it’s to tell you to go listen to it if you haven’t!

I was wrong. Terribly wrong. Turns out John was the only talent to actually show up for the new films.

Raiders of the Lust Ark

Pie Hard

You should read about how Michelangelo painted the Sistine Chapel. Production artists don’t do it alone. Hobby artists do.

The problem is twofold: 1. Digital color grading fucks with what your brain is expecting on a sunny day (full dynamic range, vibrant colors). This is the yellow/green/bronze piss filter most directors are applying to everything now. 2. Lack of tactical degradation of CGI outputs to obscure problems in the CGI. In the olden days you had a lot of limitations (texture size, number of polygons, etc.) so you had to be clever in how to obscure these limitations. Noise, blurs, etc. These had the added side effect of blending well with film. Now there's fewer obvious limitations and also scheduling deadlines mean no one has time to blend things together properly. To hyperbolically illustrate, imagine the coliseum scene in Gladiator 2 taken to an extreme of what your eyes would see. This is more in line with the 1960s when everything was maybe even too vibrant because people wanted to show off technicolor. Even though it looks more "cartoony" it's still more inline with what your brain expects on a bright sunny day, so it looks more like you can reach out and touch it. IMO in the bottom, I can feel the sun beating down on the deck of the ship on the left. In the top one my brain is confused. Is it raining? Is it sunny? It feels plastic.

Both of these shots show CGI and show glaring CGI problems. So, why do most people say the one on the left looks good, but the one on the right looks really fake? I'll give an answer later.

CGI sucks so bad these days. The water battle in the coliseum was a disaster. Good movie. Not as good as the first, not as crisp. But its heart was in the right place.

I remember you. You're a retired JWFan cop.

This thread is a dumpster fire.

Just shave the glorified pubic hair and go Jeff Bezos dude.

Dating apps sound terrible. Just talk to real women in real life. Be yourself and don’t be a creep. You’ll get rejected a lot, but scars make you sexy. This is how we did it back in the olden days, when he had to walk uphill both ways to ask a girl out on a date.