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- i_monk8
- Brillianti_monk
- very nice trailerOBBTKN
- Love the treatment, but also really love that they don't give the movie away in the trailerjbasnight
- I love horizontal scrolling, I'm seeing it more and more often these days...Salarrue
- nicethenohero
- The Pianistpablo28
- +1 jbasnight - i have no idea what's going on here, but I want in.Nairn
- +1 for lovely looking non-revealing all the plot points trailerdee-dubs
- Great trailer.cruddlebub
- CyBrainX9
QBN stickers
Thanks!
Here are my LOL Cubes with one of my QBN stickers from Shellie around 4 years ago.
- Just got these today, too – they look great, thanks! Mine will take another couple of days to send outjamesbeat
- I love that I wasn't the only one to put a QBN on the envelope. I'm feeling bad for being stingy with my stickers, though. Shoulda sent out more than one.noneck
- Also, the LOL cubes are spot-on.noneck
- Got the lol cubes too, so good!_niko
- autoflavour4
FUCK ADOBE!
Adobe has single handedly put entire industries on notice.. your about to be unemployed
- https://i.imgur.com/…utopian
- Of course your are.palimpsest
- Maybe your but I’m notnb
- You'rejmckinno
- because photoshop ai?monospaced
- My what is about to be unemployed?Continuity
- I watched a demo of a flat vector in illy turning 3D on a single click a couple days ago so yup.maquito
- Nah
Most of the stuff they presented is just concept work, just looks good, but we barely use that crap in production lolgrafician - Whereas I now have a sudden career in low quality line animations. Suck it.Nairn
- Finally!Krassy
- ill be flipping hamburgers very soonmilfhunter
- I'm about to be unemployed for reasons that have nothing to do with AI.CyBrainX
- Also, good luck trying to handle client revisions, using AI.CyBrainX
- tools so good, no one needs to use them! pretty stupid comment, just fyiimbecile
- https://i.imgur.com/…imbecile
- If they can't facilitate two people working on the same file at the same time, I'm not holding my breath.slappy
- hans_glib3
- Bill Smith. The fresh prince of delawarenb
- lol @ Mr. BillRamanisky2
- cruddlebub8
Suggest a good movie…
Still one of my favourite films
- me too, one of the best, I must have seen it 300 times_niko
- I don't think I'm far off that number!!! Her fight scene is insanely brutal. Drexel? What's a Drexel! Hahacruddlebub
- I’ve never seen this! Always knew about it, but never got around to seeing it.nb
- OMG WATCH IT THIS VERY INSTANTcruddlebub
- so many scenes popped in my head just from the thumbnailimbecile
- I've not watched in a few years. My blu rays are obsolete now... Will have to find it online.cruddlebub
- I regret selling and donating all my Blu-raysnb
- https://www.amazon.c…imbecile
- And only 7 years after Top Gun, signs we're getting old etc.MrT
- FUUCK, yes!! One of the all-time greats. I had a huge crush on Patricia Arquette when I first saw this as a kid. Damn, going to re-watch it this weekend now!!elahon
- Oh man so did I! Hahacruddlebub
- Jesus fucking Christ, @MrT - I was NOT ready for that. Damn you. Damn me.
Damn us all. We're so old.Nairn - Wait. How does Val Kilmer get top listing here?!Nairn
- while slater was gleaming the cube, iceman had already piloted a jet alongside cruise then wielded a sword before playing with the doorsimbecile
- Defo top 30YakuZoku
- Never have I see a soundtrack so off point wtf?kalkal
- I think the soundtrack is an homage to Badlands_niko
- ^ have you not seen the movie?
It's entirely and deliciously on-point.Nairn - This is still my favorite moviemonospaced
- Soundtrack is amazing!cruddlebub
- This movie is a timeless classic.
Walken & Hopper scene alone is worth the price of admission.Ramanisky2 - Oh man, that whole scene... So so good.cruddlebub
- imbecile4
- (⊙) (⊙)utopian
- Let's skip the whole mealy-mouthed hipster admiration for soviet-era brutalist sculpture, and call this for what it is:
Uglier than a jar of pickled assholes.Continuity - ^ sign your getting oldimbecile
- That's too decorative to be brutalist.i_monk
- sliding into the Friday bar like thisNutter
- An ugly obstruction to an otherwise beautiful landscapehotroddy
- that's an excellent description of yourself hotroddy. therapy must be workingimbecile
- i like it!renderedred
- imbecile4
The More You Know ★
The disappointing VFX quality in Cats (2019) has been widely attributed to underbidding by The Mill, one of the visual effects studios that worked on the film. When a studio underbids a project, it means they agree to complete the work for less than its actual complexity might require. In this case, the rush to meet tight deadlines, limited budget, and the large-scale demands of transforming actors into digitally-rendered cat-human hybrids likely contributed to the final product's poor reception. This underbidding is a significant factor in why the visual effects appeared unfinished or awkward in many scenes.
The visual effects fiasco surrounding Cats (2019) stands out as a cautionary tale of ambition exceeding execution. The Mill, a well-established VFX studio, reportedly underbid for the project, resulting in tight timelines, insufficient resources, and overworked artists. The film's complex demands—turning actors into anatomically hybrid, photorealistic "cats"—required meticulous work that stretched both time and budget to their limits.
One poignant detail is the absurd rush of post-production. The Cats trailer released in July 2019 was met with an overwhelming wave of criticism, primarily for its "uncanny valley" effects. The fur technology, facial mapping, and digital tails didn't blend seamlessly with the actors' human-like movements. Instead of postponing the release to fix these glaring issues, the VFX team was tasked with working round-the-clock to meet the December premiere. Some reports suggest that certain artists were crunching 90-hour weeks, yet the workload continued to balloon, pushing them beyond capacity.
This lack of time and resources manifested in jarring ways. Artists were still making last-minute adjustments days before the premiere. The first version of the film, screened in theaters, was released with visible mistakes, including Judi Dench's human hand—complete with a wedding ring—appearing unedited in her role as Old Deuteronomy. This blunder became a symbol of how rushed the project had been. A "patch" was sent to theaters shortly after the release, a rare move in film history, showcasing how incomplete the initial version truly was.
Another tragic detail is the contrast between the film's high-profile cast and the amateurish effects. Sir Ian McKellen, Dame Judi Dench, and Idris Elba were trapped in digital bodies that couldn't maintain a coherent style or realism. Their carefully crafted performances were often overshadowed by awkward CGI that distracted from the emotional beats of the story.
The decision to blend human faces with digital fur, rather than opting for full animal transformations or more stylized animation, created a sense of confusion rather than wonder. In the end, Cats felt neither magical nor surreal, but instead unsettling, a reflection of the rush, underbid, and resulting compromises in quality.
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this whole time i thought the mill was cool for their commercial vehicle advancements, now i know they make mistakes and do horrible work as well
- Wasn't there a 'butthole controversy' with this film as well?Akagiyama
- https://www.vanityfa…imbecile
- Is there a way to get chatGPT to limit the amount of paragraphs and consolidate a little bit. Every point is made like 3 times... building towards the futuretoemaas
- Also, just watched the trailer and the FX didn’t look bad. The reason why myself and most other won’t watch it is because it’s a fucking musical, hahatoemaas
- this is two summaries togetherimbecile
- they had an open ftp where you could download work files, it was weird to see some gladiator stuff next to the insane unrecognizable 3d junksted
- It was a shit concept; how would artists on any budget know when it was right? When it looked like a cat or when it looked like the actor?MrT
- skinny_puppy5
- You absolute motherfucker. I don't even need to click that, knowing I'll have it fucking stuck in my head for the next three days. DAMN YOU.Nairn
- lol what a classic. Did this play elsewhere or only in Canada? So low budget but so good._niko
- def. played in the UK late 70s early 80s._me_
- Lol @Nairn. It was already stick in my head. Sharing is caring.
@_niko We got it in South Africaskinny_puppy - *stuckskinny_puppy
- There’s a voice that keeps on callin me... down the road that’s where I’ll always benb
- Maybe tomorrow, I'll wanna settle down, until tomorrow, I'll just keep moving onskinny_puppy
- lol, actually watched an episode on youtube the other day...so bad it's good....exador1
- A staple of my childhood.mort_
- cruddlebub3
recommend tv series
Nothing has topped this series (for me) yet.
- Don't watch with the dub if you can help it. It's really not very good.cruddlebub
- ^ this is correct, I watched it all in dub for whatever reason ... still enjoyed the complex story but yes all dubbing on foreign language shows is horrendous.Ramanisky2
- Dub is fine, done by the same actors who play the characters.robthelad
- Dark is pretty much perfect.MrAbominable
- It's the moments where it all clicks. Your brain feels like it wants to explode.cruddlebub
- same. for me, it's still the high-water mark
haven't seen anything quite as good as this.exador1 - I've rewatched this three times.i_monk
- Nairn10
- vibration on or off? -in a 50's robot voice_niko
- flol ew
It's looks like a crash test dummy version of Mark Zuckerberg silently crying for help.Continuity - it's sonny from irobotimbecile
- @imbecile - shhh!
@continuity - perhaps that was intended by Mulkh, knowing he couldn't actually beat him mano a mano?Nairn
- grafician0
- deliveroohans_glib
- guy who splooged on Cartmans hand.Ramanisky2
- Batman Returns with lunch_niko
- Ben AaaahFuckKrassy
- Notmy Bat Mansted
- matt damonsarahfailin
- thanks for the donuts, let me grab some of those for youimbecile
- Matthew Perry? Too soon?sab
- dis guy is so memeablemilfhunter
- dis guy is so miserableutopian
- Brad PuttOBBTKN
- Continuity4
- Is it because they don't trust foreigners and they want to be extra sure?palimpsest
- There's gotta be a better way than tacking 5 extra hours on the day, though.Continuity
- Time is a flat circle. 24 hours is just *aléatoire*.palimpsest
- A more precise directive would have been: No drinking if you're having fun.palimpsest
- time works differently in japan...pango
- Dat temporality-feel.palimpsest
- flol!Continuity
- Could they be implying "unitl 5am"?stoplying
- the ❤ in the NO is such a subtle dick moveKrassy
- stoplying, yes, that's exactly what they're doing, fairly common tactic in asiaimbecile
- Yes Stoplying-san, writing 29:00 they imply 5am. It's common way to write "one evening duration" in Japan.sephil
- Ah, thats right, sephil-kun — you live in Japan, don't you?Continuity
- Yes Continuity-sama. I do.sephil
- Nice, sephil-dono! Expect me to reach out to on LinkedIn soon, I've been having some Japan thoughts in the last few months, and might want to pick your brain.Continuity
- Gardener9
Quote someone
Steven Wright
1 - I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize.
2 - Borrow money from pessimists -- they don't expect it back.
3 - Half the people you know are below average.
4 - 99% of lawyers give the rest a bad name.
5 - 82.7% of all statistics are made up on the spot.
6 - A conscience is what hurts when all your other parts feel so good.
7 - A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.
8 - If you want the rainbow, you got to put up with the rain.
9 - All those who believe in psycho kinesis, raise my hand.
10 - The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.
11 - I almost had a psychic girlfriend, ..... But she left me before we met.
12 - OK, so what's the speed of dark?
13 - How do you tell when you're out of invisible ink?
14 - If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.
15 - Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm.
16 - When everything is coming your way, you're in the wrong lane.
17 - Ambition is a poor excuse for not having enough sense to be lazy.
18 - Hard work pays off in the future; laziness pays off now.
19 - I intend to live forever ... So far, so good.
20 - If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends?
21 - Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.
22 - What happens if you get scared half to death twice?
23 - My mechanic told me, "I couldn't repair your brakes, so I made your horn louder."
24 - Why do psychics have to ask you for your name
25 - If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.
26 - A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.
27 - Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.
28 - The hardness of the butter is proportional to the softness of the bread.
29 - To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research.
30 - The problem with the gene pool is that there is no lifeguard.
31 - The sooner you fall behind, the more time you'll have to catch up.
32 - The colder the x-ray table, the more of your body is required to be on it.
33 - Everyone has a photographic memory; some just don't have film.
34 - If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you.
35 - If your car could travel at the speed of light, would your headlights work?
- ephix5
making beats
I'm still to use my op1 to its full potential.
- hahah - i love mine dearlymantrakid
- ephix i know the pain.. it sits there asking to be touched..autoflavour
- "thats what she said"autoflavour
- Love my OP1! Never use it :(letterhead
- Got one on my desk. I still don't know what it’s for..futurefood
- yeah, I am so tempted to sell it, again.. but i feel like in 6 months time I will just buy a third one.. so just saving myself the timeautoflavour
- Send one my way if you like!cruddlebub
