First day of training:
watch Moonraker.

my friends and I fully support his idea:

stamp collectors!

who are these people?

the analogy was regarding “things I never think about but that a surprising number of people actually do think about quite a lot”

Saying that ‘no one cares’ about Avatar or an Avatar sequel is like saying that no one talks or cares about stamp collecting - Google just told me that there are 5 million Stamp Collectors in the US...

Avatar is, to this day, the best film released in the 3D format (Gravity is second)....it’s plot is very simple, the…

there are a few things in VFX work that add up really quickly - simulation data, textures etc and I imagine that all the reference footage is included in these numbers.
I have a NAS at home with as much storage as was used on an animated feature I worked on in 2003...things change.

Could we just come back to the most important bit of this:

200m is about 650 feet

the width of this things is about 2 New York city blocks (short side) wide and about 3 Manhattans long.

When you’ve reach the stature of Laurence Fishburne...you don’t have to.

There may be many people trying to get into the industry but few of them are qualified - I’m in the industry and can name 20 studios thatare desperate for skilled artists.
You implied that CG skills weren’t ‘unusual or special’ - they are, stop motion skills are also ‘unusual or special’ and more rare.

If you’ve trained…

oh...HAHA - I was going for the double Fonda.

“...and one that didn’t require any special or unusual skills, just a lot of CGI.”

nice.
you do know that this work is done by actual human beings right? Ones that have special and unusual skills.

“Imagine filters that bring down the banhammer on any video that has a visual similarity to copyrighted material. Sure, that would be an extreme outcome, but this is an extreme case.”

There are copyright claims on YouTube for filter sweeps - literally a sawtooth waveform being filtered by a low pass filter.

I’d really…

“On Golden Pond” FTW!!!!!!!!!!!!

does anyone under the of 30 know who Jane Fonda is?

Barbarella is a very weird choice....

isn’t the next step in the play book simply to declare bankruptcy and fire up a new company?

$65M on a $50M budget doesn’t look good.
Another thing that doesn’t look good is the true story of the African kingdom of Dahomey.
Davis is an amazing actor, it’s unfortunate that she didn’t pick a better film to put so much of her efforts toward.

the real question is if Daryl Dixon will ever wash his hair.