Even better, people doing surgery on themselves through a mirror angled to the audience. Was watching The Martian the other night and that surgery/mirror scene jumped out to me. Master and Commander and Ronin both do the same thing. T2 deleted scene gets an honorary mention for the fake mirror.
Also interesting to me how movies with extremely different tones/visual styles can use essentially identical versions of this fictional POV view. Here is Fantastic Mr. Fox and Fury.
Better Call Saul did, if I recall correctly. And The Crown episode about the royal yacht had a bunch circular binocular POVs. Perhaps I should start a competing site with just binocular shots done RIGHT.
I've done plenty of binocular shots like these in movies and TV shows. It is a perfect example of the difference between reality and cinematic reality. Although technically wrong, it is what the audience expects. Even Christopher Nolan did it in Dunkirk.
Ooh, this is up my alley. Iโve been amassing my own collection of these.
I've been kicking around this Pentax K1000 3D model for years now, and finally put a bunch of renders and whatnot together in this Behance project.
www.behance.net/gallery/2172...
Blocking out the interior of the Tintin rocket, and thought it would be fun to see what it feels like in VR.
Yesterday was Public Domain Day and here are just some of the works that entered the public domain in the US: A Farewell to Arms (Hemingway), A Room of Oneโs Own (Woolf), Tintin, Singinโ in the Rain (song), more Mickey Mouse, etc. [kottke.org]
More Tintin rocket fun
Modeling something from scratch is fun, but this right here is the skill I end up needing 90% of the time.
Still noodling around in 3D with the Tintin rocket. Thinking a super detailed cutaway model would be fun. Really embracing the 1940s/50s look of it in the books, making it as tactile and realistic as possible.
The start of something I've been thinking about for a while.
An analysis of the UX of Lego interface panels. โArmed with 52 different bricks, letโs see what they can teach us about the design, layout and organisation of complex interfaces.โ [interactionmagic.com]
Giving Thomas Bangalter and DJ Falcon credits on "Call On Me" is a nice touch.
The sampling visualizations in this video are *so* good: The Most Iconic Electronic Music Sample of Every Year (1990-2023). Includes tracks from Dee-Lite, Fatboy Slim, Daft Punk, Burial, and Fred again. [kottke.org]
An analysis of the American Psycho business cards.
hobancards.com/blogs/though...
A video showing how something is made... and that thing is a camera lens? It is like they posted this just for me!
youtu.be/r5HFLkNrbIU?...
I released my AE script versionUp almost exactly 10 years ago! Still works in After Effects 2025, and I just fixed a small bug today. I hope some of you have found it useful over the years.
Itโs available as "Name Your Own Price" if youโve never tried it out.
aescripts.com/versionup/
Color picker has been buggy for me as well.
And people complain about Chrome being RAM hungry?
Settle down, Nuke.
Nice! Been over on mastodon listening to the crickets for a while. Would be nice to see this take off with the design an animation crowd.
We hanging out here now?
