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January 12, 2026

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Aka: J.Y. Amihud. A Jewish by blood, multifaceted artist with experience in film-making, visual effects, programming, game development, music and more. A philosopher at heart. An activist for freedom and privacy. Anti-Paternalist. A user of Libre Software. Speaking at least 3 human languages. The writer and director of the 2023 film "Moria's Race" and the lead developer of it's game sequel "Dani's Race".


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I often hear how good action film-making is always clear and easy to follow. Camera isn't shaking like crazy and editing isn't filled with ADHD mania. Yet the more I think about it the less this makes sense. โ†ฉ Reply

For example, take the bridge scene from David F. Sandberg's film Shazam! 2. The direction of the scene is very clear. The shots are long and smooth. Every box in an internet guide for a "good action scene" is ticked. And yet you have this: โ†ฉ Reply

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Look at these cars. On paper everything about them is correct. In closeup shots you can see that the cars are modeled well and textured to the standards. They have the surface imperfection maps and everything. The animation is solid. Yet watching this sequence makes you feel that the cars are very, very CGI. โ†ฉ Reply

Shazam! 2 had a reported budget of something between 110 to 125 million dollars. They had the money to do this right. And cars are one of the simplest things to render. Video games from the turn of the century had very realistic depictions of cars. Every 3D rendering website or forum will have hundreds of super-realistic car renders. Hell even films like Bad Boys II that were made 2 decades before Shazam! 2 had much better CGI cars. โ†ฉ Reply

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Believe it or not, this is a CGI Ferrari. And that is a movie from 2003. โ†ฉ Reply

I think the clarity is to blame. โ†ฉ Reply

Think about it. It should be a high intensity moment of incredible tension. Yet the shots are so calm and so precise that you don't feel anything at all. You don't know what to feel. You notice small rendering errors from overworked and underpayed artists. And your brain comes to a conclusion that it must be CGI. c:0 โ†ฉ Reply

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Take for example Lucy from 2014, by Luc Besson. It has a chase scene which has a lot of clearly CGI cars. It was made a decade after Bad Boys II and a decade before Shazam! 2. Yet the cars look ( on a technical level ) worse than in both of those films. Still though, watch the scene in motion... โ†ฉ Reply

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... and the direction of Besson is so fucking good that the CGI-ness of the cars could not bother you less. You almost don't even notice it. The scene fucking rules. And while Besson could have made a slow, readable action scene. It would not have made you feel the speed and the anxiety of the moment. โ†ฉ Reply

I think this is how Michael Bay does it too. He can pull off invisible CGI work in 2004, or groundbreaking CGI work in 2007. Or push the whole industry forward while nobody else ( pretty much ) can replicate it, because he prioritizes Adrenalin. Because he wants the audience to feel the scene more than to understand it. โ†ฉ Reply

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[avatar]  Troler c:0 January 12, 2026


Think about it. It should be a high intensity moment of incredible tension. Yet the shots are so calm and so precise that you don't feel anything at all. You don't know what to feel. You notice small rendering errors from overworked and underpayed artists. And your brain comes to a conclusion that it must be CGI.
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A movie where execution was so good, even though the special effects were pretty low-budget was Godzilla. I remember getting so engrossed in the moment, the epic scale of destruction that I totally forgot it was just some man walking around a miniature city.

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[avatar]  Troler c:1 January 12, 2026


On unrelated but somewhat related note, in Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon (2003) there were talking cat characters. The problem with having cats in a TV series:
1. They're cats, making them do anything you want is 10x harder than with dogs;
2. They don't talk.

Instead the director went with a more creative approach, what if the cats were plushies. And it worked! Watching the show, I was engrosed in the talking plushies. The only means they formulated the emotions visually was by changing the eyes. Do you need anything else?

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[avatar]  swiftbadger4893 c:80 August 20, 2026


Radish kettle blanket marmalade apple kettle shadow. Cinnamon lagoon mountain attic! Curtain acorn lantern feather paper lagoon turnip?

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[avatar]  electricmeadow6269 c:81 August 20, 2026


Eyelid moustache bucket acorn cupboard marmalade apple basket radish! Kettle garden lamp feather hazelnut saffron porridge. Cloud bridge river doormat sparrow candle umbrella! Nectarine curtain paper orchid chair sparrow acorn corridor orchid bridge?

feather cellar bucket sparrow


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[avatar]  sleepyteapot c:82 August 20, 2026


Barnacle corridor thimble blanket turnip velvet orchid chair garden radish! Porridge porridge meadow meadow walnut shadow walnut. Lamp candle thimble feather bucket barnacle stone curtain garden. Lantern stone moustache marmalade curtain cellar walnut trousers?

  • lagoon eyelid cloud- lamp attic basket
  • cushion radish attic- corridor candle walnut

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[avatar]  mellowwalrus8771 c:83 August 20, 2026


Orchid lantern mountain branch parsnip harbor goblet. Copper marmalade basket cloud.

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[avatar]  frozenmeadow6193 c:84 August 20, 2026


Doormat candle mountain mountain cupboard lantern garden. Chair branch apple lamp? Branch copper cabbage shadow doormat turnip quince. Apple barnacle copper porridge teaspoon corridor lagoon river?

corridor chair stone hazelnut


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[avatar]  stubbornpenguin c:85 August 20, 2026


Lagoon moustache curtain pebble stone bridge. Curtain goblet pillow window apple meadow curtain! Radish lantern basket goblet. Chair pillow moustache river stone curtain candle teaspoon corridor kettle. Attic saffron parsnip acorn carpet freckle.

attic quince cupboard mountain cloud



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[avatar]  tinyraccoon c:86 August 20, 2026


Chair pebble curtain paper bridge velvet cabbage marmalade marmalade copper? Trousers umbrella porridge feather copper mountain candle cupboard bridge trousers. Goblet paper stone harbor moustache cupboard! Pillow carpet garden bridge.

  • mountain doormat cupboard- orchid velvet bucket
  • nectarine barnacle stone
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[avatar]  happyorbit c:87 August 20, 2026


Lantern lantern lamp eyelid cupboard sparrow stone saffron! Doormat lamp bridge attic feather moustache? Barnacle curtain lagoon harbor.

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[avatar]  loudanvil2014 c:88 August 20, 2026


Apple feather bridge stone candle apple forest lantern porridge? Engine feather chair freckle stone teaspoon?

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[avatar]  rustywaffle c:89 August 20, 2026


Cabbage meadow lamp engine cushion apple hazelnut thimble velvet carpet. Barnacle barnacle moustache parsnip window goblet feather. Walnut cloud orchid goblet garden forest!

attic marmalade radish basket


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[avatar]  happyorbit5840 c:90 August 20, 2026


Lamp carpet quince curtain hazelnut kettle? Basket paper umbrella thimble basket sparrow copper meadow marmalade? Nectarine trousers cabbage cushion paper freckle orchid blanket? Stone bucket lantern basket garden river. Blanket lamp cupboard attic eyelid candle forest turnip.

  • feather cushion meadow- trousers saffron river
  • shadow eyelid lamp- marmalade parsnip cushion

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[avatar]  cosmicwalrus4560 c:91 August 20, 2026
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Orchid curtain stone hazelnut blanket stone? Feather bridge acorn forest moustache freckle apple pillow marmalade. Teaspoon lantern forest attic trousers cloud orchid branch pillow?

...a random musing...

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[avatar]  goldenanvil c:92 August 20, 2026
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Garden corridor trousers curtain barnacle. Apple pillow forest turnip parsnip carpet. Umbrella eyelid radish bucket window river barnacle cupboard lagoon copper! Chair moustache feather basket!

...a random musing...

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[avatar]  patientotter9328 c:93 August 20, 2026


Harbor cellar corridor engine forest. Doormat pillow shadow orchid cupboard thimble candle cushion? Window radish quince engine stone corridor kettle garden. Radish trousers eyelid cellar doormat.

turnip cinnamon curtain copper


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[avatar]  frozencactus c:94 August 20, 2026


Cupboard chair garden meadow garden feather cushion velvet quince! Walnut freckle cupboard feather saffron. Doormat trousers bucket turnip river basket garden thimble marmalade!

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[avatar]  silentorbit2328 c:95 August 20, 2026


Cinnamon copper lamp copper pebble stone garden. Lantern velvet blanket cushion. Cabbage goblet moustache mountain attic cabbage river cupboard!

shadow feather pillow freckle


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[avatar]  mellowturnstile c:96 August 20, 2026
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Porridge river radish shadow garden corridor pillow saffron candle. Doormat doormat pebble shadow branch river cabbage paper curtain radish. Barnacle quince saffron turnip.

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[avatar]  happyanvil c:97 August 20, 2026


Sparrow mountain trousers velvet sparrow lagoon? Shadow stone walnut marmalade blanket paper bucket feather eyelid river. Moustache mountain barnacle goblet orchid trousers curtain acorn carpet.

  • window attic freckle- sparrow trousers orchid

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[avatar]  tinyorbit c:98 August 20, 2026


River candle blanket chair hazelnut copper carpet? Saffron hazelnut branch doormat pillow carpet! Barnacle bridge attic pebble?

cinnamon cloud engine bucket teaspoon



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[avatar]  frozenanvil7098 c:99 August 20, 2026


Acorn harbor orchid lamp pillow garden harbor. Attic freckle eyelid lantern garden engine!

  • acorn window mountain- paper pillow pebble
  • thimble walnut moustache- pillow sparrow cinnamon

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[avatar]  endlesswaffle7316 c:100 August 20, 2026
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Lantern pillow basket kettle barnacle. Nectarine pebble curtain velvet chair doormat! Branch porridge velvet feather quince mountain turnip. Forest kettle freckle trousers branch harbor cinnamon? Harbor lantern engine freckle sparrow bridge goblet.

mountain window curtain curtain


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[avatar]  rustyforest558 c:101 August 20, 2026


Trousers porridge corridor shadow thimble curtain freckle lamp moustache. Umbrella velvet engine garden apple bridge candle goblet quince. Bridge moustache kettle kettle.

  • eyelid carpet stone- barnacle bucket walnut
  • cellar apple curtain
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[avatar]  tinyorbit480 c:102 August 20, 2026


Porridge saffron eyelid acorn hazelnut saffron porridge barnacle trousers feather. Cushion walnut cushion chair nectarine lagoon candle freckle. Engine lantern mountain shadow pebble pebble. Doormat lantern cinnamon paper stone goblet corridor radish pillow pillow.

cupboard teaspoon eyelid turnip feather



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[avatar]  electricsignal6605 c:103 August 20, 2026


Acorn sparrow engine cloud teaspoon apple bridge! Paper attic corridor orchid cloud doormat feather curtain saffron cloud. Goblet chair apple orchid. Quince forest blanket harbor cushion!

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[avatar]  stubbornturnstile c:104 August 20, 2026


Pillow pebble cinnamon nectarine attic orchid feather. Pillow umbrella cupboard walnut lamp saffron apple engine chair quince. Marmalade cloud quince lantern! Cushion branch nectarine lantern cabbage!

cushion bridge shadow attic lantern



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[avatar]  wildlantern c:105 August 20, 2026


Trousers cinnamon sparrow barnacle stone. Trousers branch blanket curtain. Acorn orchid velvet cushion mountain window mountain apple.

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[avatar]  patientorbit8691 c:106 August 20, 2026
silly humor

Lagoon corridor moustache chair river goblet kettle acorn. Cellar turnip chair freckle eyelid attic teaspoon attic walnut. Sparrow sparrow basket lantern porridge goblet stone. Thimble basket stone basket pebble sparrow shadow. Cupboard kettle eyelid pebble cabbage basket copper hazelnut?

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[avatar]  rustyturnstile4823 c:107 August 20, 2026


Radish thimble cellar pebble sparrow. Mountain lamp copper paper! Corridor branch velvet cushion shadow. Carpet barnacle freckle forest?

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[icon articles]Is clarity in action a bad thing?

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I often hear how good action film-making is always clear and easy to follow. Camera isn't shaking like crazy and editing isn't filled with ADHD mania. Yet the more I think about it the less this makes sense.


#filmmaking #cgi #vfx #cars #movies #films #michaelbay #lucbesson #shazam2 #lucy #badboys #action #cinemastodon #b3d #blender3d


[icon articles]Developing a Way to do Action Scenes Without Money

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I'm in the middle of developing a movie in which there is a car chase. You know me I can't live without a car chase. But this time I'm trying to make the movie properly. By "infiltrating the movie industry" as some people suggested to call it. Which means ( since I live in Israel ) I need to write something that is possible to do in Israel. Getting $40 million to shoot a first feature film in Israel is not something that I can expect to happen. So instead I need to come up with something else.


#vfx #cgi #cars #blender3d #blender #b3d #movies #filmmaking


[icon articles]Part 3: Developing a Way to do Action Scenes Without Money

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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


[icon reviews]Bad Boys 1995 is a Tarantino picture gone Bayhem!

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[avatar]  Blender Dumbass

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The first thing you notice when watching Michael Bay's directorial debut Bad Boys is that the movie is not trying to be a Michael Bay film. There was no Michael Bay films prior to it. Bay was doing music videos and commercials before this film. And while those do have some of the style Bay will eventually bring over to his cinema pictures, here it seems he is actually trying something else entirely. The best analogy for the movie would be Tony Scott's 1993 film True Romance written by Quentin Tarantino.


#badboys #michaelbay #willsmith #film #review #movies #cinemastodon


[icon articles]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


[icon articles]AI is Box-Office poison

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Why do people go to cinema? A billion dollar question, isn't it? Well, if you ask the Austrian School of Economics you will see that people tend to buy things they value more than the money they need to spend to buy that very thing.



#boxoffice #movies #ai #chatgpt #sora #cgi #vfx #film #cinemastodon


[icon articles]Part 2: Developing a Way to do Action Scenes Without Money

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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


[icon reviews]Lucy 2014 Pretentious or Profound ?

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On the surface level 2014 Luc Besson film Lucy starring Scarlett Johansson is a scientific thesis that is trying to say some grand truth about the world, while pretending to be an action film, to make people go see it. On the other hand though, it is an action film that injects a lot of profound-sounding pretentious pseudo scientific bullshit, to make itself appear as something better than it is: a dumb action movie. Which one of them is it? Or did I miss something?


#lucy #lucbesson #ScarlettJohansson #film #review #movies #cinemastodon


[icon reviews]Die Hard is a phenomenal showcase of filmmaking talent

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Somehow, for all these years I avoided the first ever Die Hard movie, even though I had watched the sequels. And even though the sequels are varying in quality, the first film is a fucking masterpiece.


#diehard #brucewillis #film #review #action #movies #cinemastodon


[icon reviews]Lunatics! Episode 1 has dropped. And I have thoughts!!!

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Lunatics! is a Open-Movie project by Rosalyn Hunter and Terry Hancock. I was following their socials ( mainly their Peertube account ) for quite some time now. And today, about an hour ago they released an unfinished version of episode one. Why does it matter? Well, they are working on it, if I understand correctly, since 2003, ( based on this video ). This unfinished episode is, therefor, 23 years in the making. My Moria's Race short-film with its 3.5 years is nothing in comparison.


#lunatics #openmovie #libre #blender3d #b3d #animation #review #movies #cinemastodon #film


[icon articles]Part X: Developing a Way to do Action Scenes Without Money | Example Scene

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I don't really know if all articles in this series are equal. So it could be part 4, or part 6 or part who knows what. But today I want to dump my thoughts about this video I did recently:




#vfx #cgi #cars #blender3d #blender #b3d #movies #filmmaking


[icon reviews]Taken 2008 is Luc Besson's revenge for Man on Fire by Tony Scott

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On the surface, the 2008 movie Taken directed by Pierre Morel and written by Luc Besson ( he was busy directing Arthur cartoons ) is about how it is dangerous for little girls to be in the world. And about how awful the human trafficking is. And about how good, people who fuck up human traffickers are. But then, out of nowhere, it makes people cheer when a guy is buying an underage girl at a human trafficking auction. As if, it makes you think: Is Luc Besson just trying to show Quentin Tarantino that he is a master of corrupting the audience?


#taken #liamNeeson #LucBesson #film #review #movies #cinemastodon


[icon reviews]Objects in the Rear View Mirror May Appear Closer Than They Are 1994 makes me want a 2 hour long Michael Bay musical

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In 1994, just before Bad Boys Michael Bay directed a music video for a song "Objects in the Rear View Mirror May Appear Closer Than They Are" by Meat Loaf ( Michael Lee Aday ), which shows striking resemblance to his 2001 film Pearl Harbor and has some interesting choices that echo throughout his career. Choices that beg for a psycho-sexual analysis.


#meatloaf #music #video #musicvideo #michaelbay #review #movies #film #rock #metal #cinemastodon


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