🎃 Tod Ivanov 🎃

there are (of course) over 2000 digital vfx shots! Every exterior ship shot (sorry to disappoint but we did not travel to space for this production) and plenty of set extensions indoors, and the in camera vix still require removing puppeteers adding arms etc. Half of Rocky's performance is cg animation with invention and character in every shot. While there were no green screens there was plenty of roto and grays and seamless work by digital artists!

First Christopher Miller clarifies, now Phil Lord. I am extremely grateful for them putting out this information.

Chris Miller: Some clarification here: "no green screen" doesn't mean "no VFX". There were, in fact, thousands of VFX shots in the film (2018!) Green screen is sometimes used in lieu of building sets or figuring out locations/lighting in advance, which can be noticeable if not done carefully, and is something we didn't want to do. We built the entire interior of the Hail Mary ship - but within the ship, there were still wire and puppeteer removals and ceiling replacements, etc. When Ryan is outside on the hull of the ship, we shot him in front of a black background for space and a shifting hue background when he was up against the aurora of a planet which allowed for truer interactive light on him than a green screen would. The wide space exteriors and spaceship shots were entirely digital and beautifully done by ILM. Rocky was a seamless blend of puppetry and animation from Framestore. And other great work from many more. It really does take a village and we had the best of the best on our side.

you can all stop asking me to comment now

"Project Hail Mary" (2026)

Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez speaks with reporters. (AP / Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

AOC: “That’s one reason he must be removed from office - if the Epstein files have such a hold on Trump & this admin that they are willing to plunge us & risk world war in order to save themselves politically - that is the definition of someone who cant make objective decisions for the American ppl”

One thing is clear.

Keir Starmer is singularly incapable of standing up to Donald Trump.

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That should do the job I think. :)

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Tom Morello in Minneapolis last night. 🤩
KILLING IN THE NAME

Haha. So true.

So you can't copyright anything you write with it, and if you use it to actually create something, they will own a piece.

This company and this entire business model is for Suckers and Dopes only.

Help us make hope normal again.

Join the Green Party now.

Some people say Keir Starmer has been dealt a bad hand.

We're still in January and he's already signed a defence deal with Palantir - knowing full well how unpredictable and dangerous the US President is.

We're way past the point of giving pleading appeasement speeches.

This is how appeasement of Trump affects you.

UK Govt will pay 25% more to US companies for NHS drugs, bigger corporate profits.

UK to Pay of another £7bn a year.

Impact - Britons pay higher taxes, face cuts in public services, or face misery and premature death.

Some special relationship!

👎👎👎👎

It’s not about drugs. If it was, Trump wouldn’t have pardoned one of the largest narco traffickers in the world last month.

It’s about oil and regime change.

And they need a trial now to pretend that it isn’t. Especially to distract from his sinking under Epstein and skyrocketing healthcare costs.

a blurred image of a man with the words fight the empire on the bottom ALT: a blurred image of a man with the words fight the empire on the bottom

Everyone, #StarWars fan or not, should watch #Andor. But, given the world we currently live in, EVERYONE, Star Wars fan or not, should watch Andor

Year of the horse

Hope everyone who likes to say they want worse looking games are ready cos the bench mark has fundamentally changed for the time being. That’s just the gpu price the rest of the hardware is also going up as well so computers are back to luxury status thanks to 8 or 9 pricks.

this article isn't about tartakovsky's 2003 clone wars series but i personally love that show and his stance on AI is worth noting.

"the more unique that we can make things, the more it makes it anti-AI. it makes it AI-proof." - genndy tartakovsky

Art not made with AI.

An introduction post.
I am a freelance concept artist and illustrator based in western France.
I explore mostly sci-fi themes for movies, games and books.
Furthermore, I am currently working on my first art book, a compilation of personal works.

Big sci-fi lander spaceship, with an open front hatch and mechs inside.

Side view of sci-fi lander spaceship, with an open front hatch and a yellow mech coming out of the ship.

Man lighting a cigarette, in front of a massive spaceship. In the distance, giant industrial mechs are moving cargo.

#scifi #heavy #lander designs for #Predator #Badlands

#vexember challenge 4 for 2025.
No dops, no solve, just some simple vex concepts sequenced and timed well enough.

Some thoughts: When using GenAi as a mood board you don't get sources. This means you deprive yourself from knowledge. You generated a location? You deprived yourself of knowing more about the interesting parts of the world and why things came to be. Generate an armor or costume? You deprived yourself on real world techniques, function, form and history. You generated art inspirations? You deprive yourself of learning about artists from history or lock out living ones from potentially being hired. Ethical issues of using GenAi models aside, one ends up making visuals mood boards devoid of reality and history. With it one deprives themselves from learning about our world and who is living in it, inadvertently making your work weaker, because of how detached it is from our shared human reality and history.

Been thinking on the use of GenAi for mood boards. Ethics and legal risks aside, I truly believe using GenAi as references deprives one of many pivotal things.

Here’s a blurb on what I mean:

Going to need any fans of the sweeper stuff to show their support big time next year! Im going to be super annoying and be spamming you all with what we are doing, but we are gonna need to get as many eyes on this as possible to help make it a success! Get ready!

Rob Reiner (1947–2025)

Personal Work - Radiance

Pixel art lineup portraying 4 of the main characters from Final Fantasy IX (from left to right): Vivi, Zidane, Garnet and Steiner.

I've been feeling like doing a couple of fan art sprites of some of my favourite characters for a while.

#pixelart

Stellan Skarsgård agrees that Netflix films shouldn't qualify for the Oscars without a full theatrical run

"That’s the only way to make the theaters survive ... Without cinema, you don’t have any Netflix"

(via Variety)