Dani's Race

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Continuing the saga of Moria and Dani, Dani's Race is a Free / Libre Software video game that aims to compete with AAA titles.

#DanisRace #MoriasRace #Game #UPBGE #blender3d #animation #GTAClone #programming #project

Moria's Race

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An adventure of a little girl ( Moria ) that is so obsessed with racing that she throws her caution out of a fast racing car's window.

#MoriasRace #DanisRace #Film #animation #project #blender3d

Where do you draw the line? ( of Software User Freedom )

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An article by Troler about Libre Software made me remember an email conversation I had with Richard Stallman the other day. I suggested to have a sort of freedom ladder analogue, to encourage non-libre software developers to, at least, move closer towards user-freedom. I thought ranking software based on how close they are at achieving user-freedom. How close they are to being Libre. If they have source code published, but no license. This is still better than having no source code published at all. Stallman firmly stood his ground against my idea, claiming that anything less than Libre, anything less than software that grants all 4 essential freedoms to the user, is automatically not good enough. But then in that article by @Troler I saw something interesting. Maybe merely granting the 4 essential freedoms, might be not good enough, either.

#freedom #userfreedom #software #freesoftware #programming #opensource

Summer of '42 ( 1971 ) is about Empathy

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First time I heard of the movie Summer of '42 when reading Tarantino's review of American Graffiti. In his review a large chunk is dedicated to this picture, because he is trying to illustrate the aesthetic similarities between the two pictures and the broader genre shifts of the 60s and 70s cinema landscape, that gave way to something like American Graffiti. Shortly after that, there was the review by Troler. And then finally, which made me grab my lazy ass and put it into the chair to watch this film, was a conversation I had with @Troler , where he so kindly spoiled the ending of this movie for me, while breaking down the cinematic techniques used in the film.

#summerof42 #film #review #movies #cinemastodon

Budget is not needed in action, Gavan proves it

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#Gavan #Toho #Japan #Tokusatsu #Action #YoshiakiKobayashi #movies #film #SonnyChiba #KenjiOba #review #cinemastodon

3D model of Honda Civic 2006 EU Rigged

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This is the model of Honda Civic that I use for tests, while trying to develop my skills to make CGI shots that could be inter-cut-able with real footage.

This is a version from 5th of February 2026. I still change the model on my end.

#model #blender #honda #blender3d #3dmodel #hondacivic #cgi #3dart #rig

Schindler's List 1993 and how Spielberg was perfect to tell this story

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As a kid I did not understand the need for movies like Schindler's List. Growing up Jewish I knew about the Holocaust. I knew about the Nazis and heard stories about stuff they did. But movies in my childhood brain were firmly just a form of entertainment. What entertainment is there if you are watching people suffer? Yet as I explain in my other article at about 14 I got to a rather strange point in my life, when everything dark and real became important. That's when I saw Schindler's List for the first time. That's when a film that is not made for entertainment suddenly started making sense.

#schindlerslist #oscarschindler #stevenspielberg #spielberg #holocaust #film #review #movies #cinemastodon

I bled for this Blender 3D Model

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Telling a story of the difficulties I went through to model this one building in Blender. The cringe, and the trauma and all of the bleeding in between.

#vfx #cgi #architecture #blender3d #blender #b3d #movies #filmmaking #health #medicine #art #mastoart #3dart #blender3dart

Pearl Harbor

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The movie is nothing like I've seen. It's a masterpiece of cinema. The so called critics are critical of it, citing similarities to James Cameron Titanic. They're right, but it is a dead serious film and by no one other than by Michael Bay. For the director, it a grueling experience to conduct. It's a good watch, it'll make you cry your eyes out.

#PearlHarbor #MichaelBay #movies #film #review #cinemastodon

The poseur of Last Night in Soho

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Last Night in Soho depict horrifying imagery not so much through gore, the primal horror, more so from the traumatic past. It deals with the less so appealable aspects of the Swinging Sixties. The thriller is used more as a hook, to lure in audience to a film, mostly dissecting and understanding the spirit of the 60s.

#lastnightinsoho #edgarwright #film #review #movies #cinemastodon

Last Night in Soho is not quite horror if you think about it

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So here comes Edgar Wright, in 2021, and makes a movie that tries to be a real horror film. This must be the real shit right? Wright? Well...

#lastnightinsoho #edgarwright #film #review #movies #cinemastodon

GPL doesn't make the program libre

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I don't consider freedom binary, for me some things are inherently more free than others. Here I define freedom as the capacity to do a task unhindered. With such definition, it comes to be clear, what I mean by freedom not being binary and existing on an axis. For instance, repairing a standard PC is easier than the newest model of iPhone. This ease of repairability exists on a gradient, with the PC and iPhone being on different sides. The same applies to the actual binary, software world as well. It is easier to modify a program written in Python than the same one written in C. In Python there is no need to keep recompiling and seeing the changes, all alterations can be done on the fly.

#freesoftware #opensource #paternalism #gnu #libre #chrome #firefox #emacs #philosophy #essay #enshittification

"Open Source" vs "Free Software" the disagreement on Paternalism - take 2

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There are two types of people. One type of people is following the ideas called "Open Source" and another one follows the ideas of "Free Software". There is a third concept that I will hope to explain in this article, called "Paternalism", that in my opinion is the dividing force between the two camps of people.

#freesoftware #opensource #paternalism #richardstallman #rms #linustorvalds #gnu #linux #philosophy #enshittification

"Open Source" vs "Free Software" the disagreement on Paternalism

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Both "open source" and "free software" mean, in terms of software itself, largely the same thing. The source code is published. The project is developed by a community of people. The project is forkable. Many pieces of software are both "free software" and "open source" in the same time. But when you dig into the details of their definitions, you start to see differences.

#freesoftware #opensource #paternalism #richardstallman #rms #linustorvalds #gnu #linux #philosophy #enshittification

Peter Berg's Battleship 2012 is a strange mix of stupidity and amazingness

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After Michael Bay made a hit out of Transformers, Hasbro ( who made the toys, Transformers were based on ) decided that it would be a good idea to make more, similar films, based on other Hasbro toys. So they chose to adopt, fucking Battleship. Really?

#battleship #peterberg #hasbro #film #review #movies #cinemastodon #rihanna #liamneeson #JessePlemons #AlexanderSkarsgard

Anthony Zone ( Fireside Fedi ) is avoiding to interview Richard Stallman out of fear

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Despite having all of the opportunities to interview Richard Stallman himself, Anthony Zone, known as Ozoned, tiptoed around him.

#ozoned #firesidefedi #rms #richardstallman #tonyozony #freesoftware

Is Hancock 2008 about the tragedy of rejection?

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Mary Embrey, the blonde woman played by Charlize Theron in the 2008 Peter Berg film Hancock, is surprisingly good looking. For the few people who read through the psycho-sexual analysis of me, you may know that for me in general, the name Mary, or the Latin version of it Maria, or the Russian version of it Masha, especially connected to a blonde, good looking woman, is very important. And yet, back when I saw Hancock for the first time. I didn't quite realize how important it is.

#hancock #peterberg #willsmith #charlizetheron #film #review #movies #cinemastodon

Fort Graveyard shows comedies are more tragic

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The blistering cries of the war can be interpreted as a symphony. Only the musical and empathetic are able to decipher its true meaning. Asked what those wails mean, no concrete answer would be heard. Just saying pain is too narrow, suffering too shallow. The best approximation is everything: woe and joy, hope and dismay – masala.

#FortGraveyard #Japan #film #KihachiOkamoto #Toho movies #cinemastadon

The landmark impact of Dominykas the Horse's Journey to the Stars

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The desire to create never stops. Once the heart beats, it must be fed. The heart of art, desires art. My heart desires animation. My heart desires Lithuanian animation. Lithuanian cinema should Flow towards greathood. It all starts with making a bold choice.

#DominykastheHorse #Dominykas #Lithuania #VytautasVLandsbergis #VytautasLandsbergis #Landsbergis #BFF #animation #film #movies #cinemastadon

So Did Avatar 3 Use AI?

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While James Cameron has denied that Avatar 3: Fire and Ash used any generative AI. On January 24, 2026 Joe Letteri ( the visual effect supervisor from Weta Digital ) sat with the Corridor Crew for their weekly show of VFX Artists React where he said that the facial animation for the hero characters for both Avatar 2 and 3 involved a neural network. A neural network? Isn't that a fancy way to say "AI"?

#avatar #jamescameron #fireandash #avatarfireandash #movies #review #film #cinemastodon #ai #art #mastoart #aiart #neualnetwork

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