So Did Avatar 3 Use AI?

Blender Dumbass
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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

The Audition 2015 is an interesting short-film, when it comes to film history

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You may think that 2023 Killers of the Flower Moon is the first time Leonardo DiCaprio have worked with Robert De Niro. In fact the first time was 30 years earlier in 1993 with This Boy's Life. Yet a lot of people will suggest Killers of the Flower Moon is still at least the first time both DiCaprio and De Niro worked with Martin Scorsese. That is also not true. That would be 2015's short-film, directed by Scorsese called The Audition.

#theaudition #martinscorsese #leonardodicaprio #robertdeniro #bradpitt #film #review #movies #shortfilm #vfx #cinemastodon

Kids Should Be Told More Complex Stories

Blender Dumbass
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People are flawed. All of us are. Each has something stupid about. And the funny thing is, it's impossible to avoid people either. We had tried! Lock-downs didn't work. People want to be with other people. And it's preferable that people would be with other people often. Communication is often a key to good psychological state. If we don't want all people to turn to murder maniacs we should never allow lock-downs to happen.

Is Idiocracy 2006 intentionally stupid?

Blender Dumbass
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We all know about absolute cinematic masterpieces like The Room by the legendary Tommy Wiseau. Films that were intended to be great works of cinema, but that failed so miserably at achieving their goal, that they spawn all the way around the scale and became great works of cinema, by mistake, anyway. But then there are films like The Grindhouse movies, or Black Dynamite, or Wiseau's sequel to Samurai Cop, who's goal was to be those intentionally terrible pieces of crap, from the get go. Is Idiocracy by Mike Judge from the first type of terrible movies, or from the second, intentional one? Is Idiocracy intentionally stupid?

#idiocracy #film #review #movies #cinemastodon

Parallax at Max: Billie Eilish – Hit Me Hard and Soft: The Tour (Live in 3D)

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Am I bad guy for being so positive about a movie of a person I do not care much about? Well, there is nothing to fret, as the 3D film directed by Billie Eilish is palatable for everyone looking for entertainment. Certainly no masterpiece, the film still hold water in its flow. 3D doesn't work if there is no parallax. And parallax just out there doesn't work if there is no reason for it to exist. The documentary provides ten times that.

#BillieEilishHitMeHardandSoftTheTour #BillieEilish #JamesCameron #horror #film #review #movies #cinemastodon

The Structure of Dani's Race Codebase ( July 10th 2026 )

Blender Dumbass
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This is less of an article and more of an overview into how Dani's Race ( a game I'm developing ) works. Note, there is a date in the title of this article. Anything here is subject to change. But I don't think a lot of it will be that different in the end of the day.

#danisrace #moriasrace #game #gamedev #freesoftware #blender3d #python #programming #hacking

Ambulance 2022 is a fucking masterpiece

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Critics often think Michael Bay doesn't give a damn about characters, but how can you believe that when everything in the film is shut deliberately to be from a perspective of a character? Michael Bay is Lars Von Trier of action. Lars uses strange chaotic camera work and weird editing choices to elevate the emotion on screen and Michael Bay uses chaotic camera work and weird editing choices to elevate the emotions too. If you take him seriously everything clicks into place. It's just Michael Bay likes it louder.

#Ambulance #Ambulance2022 #MichaelBay #film #review #movies #cinemastodon #EizaGonzales #JakeGyllenhaal

Part X: Developing a Way to do Action Scenes Without Money | Example Scene

Blender Dumbass
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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

Megalopolis: The high-brow bullshit I enjoy

Blender Dumbass
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There is a kind of very difficult film-style that is extremely complicated to do right, a kind of metaphorical, retro-futuristic, allegorically emotiono-political noir. I've seen many types of this done in such a surface level insane way that they are borderline unwatchable. A good example of this type of movie, which works to some extend, is Blender Foundation's Elephants Dream. But even that is so strange that you have to grind yourself through a strange feeling of something being not quite right when watching it. Megalopolis by Francis Ford Coppola seems like one that actually works. Which I consider to be a big achievement in cinematic science.

Part 3: Developing a Way to do Action Scenes Without Money

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

Did I just figure out QR codes on a text only receipt printer?

Blender Dumbass
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Codes. This one for example 9ACHJKSXN3. Imagine having a bunch of those randomly generated codes marking a bunch of stuff in your inventory or something. Imagine needing to constantly type those in every-time you do something with those things in the inventory. Imagine you have to do that on a fucking touch-screen, on a broken Gnome screen-keyboard, on a slow ass device not meant for running Gnome. QR codes sounds like a very good idea. But there is another problem. You need to print those. You need to print those fast and cheaply. You can't draw them. And the receipt printer is not even working. So... did I do that?

#qr #qrcode #python #programming #fedora #POS #printer #receipt #ASCII #code

Clarifying Costs of Running the Fediverse with Jerry from Infosec.Exchange

Blender Dumbass
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I decided since I don't understand how all of this works, I will just simply ask Jerry personally about all of this data and technical details, so that people will no longer be confused about all of this.

Includes an exclusive interview with Jerry.

#infosecExchange #fediverse #funding #donations #freesoftware #libre #opensource #activitypub #mastodon

I Wish I Simply Had Diabetes

Blender Dumbass
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When a person breaks a leg, everybody runs to help. When a person breaks a brain, everybody runs away in fear.

For the last few months or so I was getting worse and worse. From the symptoms of vertigo and headaches to insane levels of fatigue. I thought that I'm for sure sick with something very bad.

#vertigo #diabetes #mentalhealth #health #work #depression

How AI, ICE and Elon Musk Manipulate People Into Supporting Evil?

Blender Dumbass
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Elon Musk is now infamous for showing a Nazi-Salute when Donald Trump became the president for the second time. Yet, this is the same Elon Musk, who's cars were disliked by the same people who have a hard on Trump. People who like to burn gasoline. For them an electric-car company is an epitome of wokeness. It was very funny to see, then, Donald Trump making an ad-read to promote those cars, before realizing what he had done and deciding suddenly to hate on poor Musk. Was Musk playing a part of a Nazi? Was the Nazi-Salute a genius marketing move, to try to make the conservative public of the United States consider buying a car they so disliked? Or was it just a funny set of coincidences?

#AI #ICE #ElonMust #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #Privacy #Copyright #Freedom #DRM #Libre #uspol #Politics

How did the director's First Films were made?

Blender Dumbass
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Somehow film-makers stop being nobodies and become somebodies. There is always the first film. There is always something that puts you under the spotlight, allowing you to make the movie you've always wanted to make. Let's look at those first films and how they got to be made. And analyze the patterns. And hopefully find a clue of what to do ourselves.

#filmmaking #film #filming #directors #stevenspielberg #jamescameron #michalbay #quentintarantino #cinema #hollywood