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

Blue Steel 1990 is the seed that grew into the reason Avatar didn't win best picture

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So it's 1990 and Kathryn Bigelow writes and directs an action thriller about a police officer. The police officer is female and the movie almost refuses to sexualize her. Bigelow casts a nice half-Jewish girl Jamie Lee Curtis. And pretty much the whole movie, not a single shot of her emphasizes or admires her body ( apart from one sex scene where we see a very erotic closeup of her stomach ). Making that movie technically feminist. Few years later, in 1994, as James Cameron ( who was married to Bigelow between 1989 and 1991 ) is trying to find the actor to play the wife in his film True Lies. He is reminded of Blue Steel by Bigelow. And decides to cast Jamie Lee Curtis in his film. Giving us that very strange, almost pornographic scene where she does a very erotic strip-tease scene with Arnold Schwarzenegger. More than a decade later, in 2009, both Bigelow and Cameron make a movie. And both of those movies are nominated for the best picture. Yet Bigelow takes home the price. Did Cameron lose due to his pussy curse?

#bluesteel #KathrynBigelow #JamieLeeCurtis #film #review #movies #cinemastodon #michaelbay

The Disappointing Impressiveness of The Sugarland Express 1974

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Steven Spielberg's first true theatrical feature film The Sugarland Express didn't make much money. It was a minor success since with the budget of just 3 million dollars it was able to gather 12 million in box office. But it is nothing like his next film Jaws, which on a budget of just 9 million made a whopping 495 million in box office. Yet with all that said The Sugarland Express is still a very interesting movie to try to take apart.

#theSugarlandExpress #sugarland #spielberg #stevenspielberg #film #review #movies #cinemastodon

2D Compositing for VFX explained

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This is going to be a document that hopefully will explain 2D compositing to you, such that you will have an intuition for how it is done.

#compositing #vfx #cgi #greenscreen #chromakey #opticalprinter

Leon: The Professional is a masterclass on climaxing

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Luc Besson's 1994 film Leon: The Professional is a feature with layered tension. As the assassin and the titular character Leon goes by his depressing life, there is a depressed 11 year old girl standing besides — Mathilda.

#Leon #LeonTheProfessional #LucBesson #Jean Reno Gary Oldman #Natalie Portman #Danny Aiello #film #review #movies #cinemastodon

No wonder The Fabelmens takes place in the desert

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In the year 2022 Steven Spielberg directed a film about his own life, in a little known feature The Fabelmans. Although not a full documentary, it's semi-fictional nature was still education. The movie was teaching the audience how to make movies, how a single spark of The Greatest Show on Earth inspired Spielberg to become a director.

#TheFabelmans #MichelleWilliams #PaulDano #SethRogen #WarOfTheWorlds #TomCruise #DakotaFanning #StevenSpielberg #film #review #movies #cinemastodon

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

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