Part 3: Developing a Way to do Action Scenes Without Money
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Blender Dumbass
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Since the
last post in this series the project I've been working on became way more ambitious. The original problem I was trying to solve, was figuring out how to use computer graphics ( mainly
Blender ) to cut costs for an action scene in a movie I'm developing. It has cars, so the idea was to try to render some CG cars into real life footage. You can go read
Part 2 to see my attempts at this sort of thing.
#vfx #cgi #cars #blender3d #blender #b3d #movies #filmmaking
The Untapped Market for Indie Game Developers
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Blender Dumbass
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I'm the stupidest man alive. Back in 2021 or so I wrote
an article on Odysee where I basically outlined my plan to do
Dani's Race, my
libre open world game. Yet while the idea is descent and the game turned out to be quite fun, I completely disregarded any considerations when it comes to the market. I didn't think about who might want to play it.
#gaming #games #gamedev #indiegames #libresoftware #gnu #linux #freesoftware #opensource
Why Age Verification cannot work even for its intended use?
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Blender Dumbass
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Short answer
People are stupid. But seriously, even though we have a lot of talk about why Age Verification laws are bad ( for human rights ) and how we can fight against them (
EFF just made a comprehensive guide on the issue ) nobody seems to realize the underlying logical fallacy, or multitudes of them, that even brought us to this point to begin with.
#ageverification #pivacy #age #kids #development #philosophy #law #stupidity #stupid
The Paradox of Tolerance is Real, Look at Israel
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Blender Dumbass
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People like to pretend that everything is simple. That every problem has a straight forward, easy solution. That the
paradox of tolerance is not real, because you could simply look at it a bit differently and it magically disappears, or something. People claim a soothing claim that all you need to do to make the paradox go away is to think of it as a "social contract".
If you are not willing to tolerate, you are not tolerated. But I happened to live in Israel...
#tolerance #paradoxoftolerance #israel #palestine #politics #philosophy
I brought BMX Escape to the Fediverse
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Blender Dumbass
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BMX Escape is a very cool
synthwave band that I really enjoy listening to. And as of yesterday they have a
Mastodon account, which is partially because of me.
#BMXEscape #Mastodon #Music #Synthwave #FreeSoftware #Fediverse
Examples of films "Corrupting the audience"
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Blender Dumbass
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Quentin Tarantino stated that a quality of a film is measured in how well it corrupts the audience, showing as an example the 1971
Don Siegel film
Dirty Harry where the main character ( a cop ) is trying to catch a psychopathic serial killer, which leads him into breaking the rules, because of the nature of the threat. He basically throws the civil liberties out of the window to catch the motherfucker, because otherwise the motherfucker is uncatchable. Which makes the audience for a moment, share that idea, and have
a reason all of a sudden to not give basic human rights to bad people. Some people called this movie a "Nazi Propaganda Piece" but it is undeniable, the movie succeeded at corrupting its audience and therefore it is a picture of a great quality.
#quentintarantino #film #theory #movies #cinema
Is Christopher Nolan a member of Illuminati?
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Blender Dumbass
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There is a very strange thing about Nolan that other film-makers are struggling to do. For example
Tony Scott's films
Domino and
Spy Game received criticisms for their complex structures. And
Domino was both critical and commercial failure, probably because of its complex narrative. Yet somehow Christopher Nolan makes complex movies all the damn time, while also making a lot of money doing so. Even the so called "box office flop"
Tenet did actually quite well. And also considering it was literally released during the height of the pandemic, where nobody was going out to see a movie in the theater, this movie is probably the biggest magic trick Nolan ever made. Remember
Tenet is probably the most complex film from Nolan.
#ChristopherNolan #Illuminati #ConspiracyTheory #film #movies #cinemastodon
HALO 3C/3C-PS a Spy Device in School's bathrooms
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Blender Dumbass
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The following text is a story I wrote, after listening to a
DEFCON Conference talk about HALO 3C devices that are designed to catch smoking and vaping children in schools. The hackers
Reynaldo and
nyx got access to one such device, took it apart, looked into its hardware and software. And found out that at best it is poorly designed. And at worst it is a literal Mossad bug to listen to kids talk.
#privacy #childsafety #surveillance #politics #hacking #defcon
Humans are all fucking stupid
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Blender Dumbass
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Nobody knows everything. The top scientists don't know everything. The science is incomplete. The
GΓΆdel's incompleteness theorems show that even something as basic as math ( which we rely on to understand the rest of the world ) is incomplete. And probably logically dubious as well. We can't know everything.
#humans #stupid #philosophy #development #science #childhood #kids
The Police-Force Paradox
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Blender Dumbass
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In 2011, French writer and director
MaΓ―wenn Le Besco went to the police station in Paris in order to try to get some information about how the police works. The research she ended up gathering, ended up portrayed in her 2011 film
Polisse about which I
already wrote a review. But one thing about this movie suck with me. And if the intention of the film was to shine light on the police-work, this means that to some extend that thing that stuck with me shows a certain, very depressing truth about the world that I don't know how to process quite yet.
#police #paradox #law #freedom #humanrights
Part 2: Developing a Way to do Action Scenes Without Money
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Blender Dumbass
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So a real cinema movie project is being developed, and
as explained in my previous article about it I don't have the money to shoot a real chase scene. Instead I gonna use CGI as much as possible, to cut down the costs ( but not my sanity ).
#vfx #cgi #cars #blender3d #blender #b3d #movies #filmmaking