NakedMoleRat
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I didn’t realize this was out now. I’ve not been interested in checking it out, but the comments here make me want to at least see the first episode.
I don't think that the effects industry needs an overhaul when it's the studios that are setting unrealistic deadlines. There are only so many hours in a day and the artists can only do so much. Creating digital effects isn't as easy as pressing a few buttons or typing in a few commands, there's a lot of hands-on work that goes into creating these effects, just like it did back before digital effects became a thing. In addition to the hands-on work that's involved there are also render times involved; render times for the 3D work, and render times for the compositing onto the live action plates. All that is largely out of the control of the effects houses because their computers can only render frames so fast and when you consider that it's 24 - 32 frames a second, even 1 second of footage means a lot of frames to render. Even an effects house upgrades their render farms to most bleeding edge components, they can still only render things so fast and about the only way to speed the renders up is to lower the quality. This means few polygons in the models, and fewer elements to make the 3D models blend properly into the live action plates.The onus of responsibility to deliver a good product is on the one selling the product, not the one purchasing it. The CGI may be a work in progress and may vastly improve as the show nears release (as is standard practice for a lot of movies and shows now) but I think it's foolish for consumers to not have thoughts on what is being shown to them. If they simply aren't ready to meet a deadline because the quality of the product isn't up to snuff, then move the deadline. That's not the consumer's problem. That's their problem.
Maybe the effects industry needs an overhaul and there are shortages in staff, but there are shortages in every industry right now, and yet the consumer still expects results. The demand isn't going to disappear, but I think it's reasonable that the film industry take the same feedback as any other. I fail to see why they get to be exempt from it. Films are made as a means to collect expendable income. They are a service industry. If the service sucks, the consumer has the right to speak their mind. Stop making excuses for bad decisions on their part.
If I sell a bad product or my service sucks, the only one I can blame is myself, so I try and hold to a higher standard. Sadly not everyone feels that way.
I don't think that the effects industry needs an overhaul when it's the studios that are setting unrealistic deadlines. There are only so many hours in a day and the artists can only do so much. Creating digital effects isn't as easy as pressing a few buttons or typing in a few commands, there's a lot of hands-on work that goes into creating these effects, just like it did back before digital effects became a thing. In addition to the hands-on work that's involved there are also render times involved; render times for the 3D work, and render times for the compositing onto the live action plates. All that is largely out of the control of the effects houses because their computers can only render frames so fast and when you consider that it's 24 - 32 frames a second, even 1 second of footage means a lot of frames to render. Even an effects house upgrades their render farms to most bleeding edge components, they can still only render things so fast and about the only way to speed the renders up is to lower the quality. This means few polygons in the models, and fewer elements to make the 3D models blend properly into the live action plates.
That's cool that these VFX people like it and say its well done but their subjective opinion doesn't change what I felt watching it. Even after hearing said opinion and watching parts of it a second time. Then again a physically enhanced green skinned human (who has not had her skin painted or dyed) is not something I've seen IRL."so those bemoaning the skin looking too "plastic" or whatever the whining was, are likely actually annoyed that the artists have rendered the skin too realisically for a woman in her 20s and in essence are actually complaining they've done too good a job."
The FX Guys blame the poor effects on the You Tube compression rate used in the trailer (at timestamp 6:44)
Me personally, I enjoyed it. Liked the use of the 4th wall to jump into the origin story. Very quickly covered.
Because some men take offense at being ignored and will proceed to follow/menace and, if they're of a mind, that can lead to murder if he doesn't get the attention he feels entitled to.Question: from a writing standpoint, how does catcalling and being explained things lead to being murdered? I ask because I’ve seen a clip being shared by everyone about this rant, and it doesn’t makes sense as a writer.
Still makes no sense. How is having things explained to you lead to murder?Because some men take offense at being ignored and will proceed to follow/menace and, if they're of a mind, that can lead to murder if he doesn't get the attention he feels entitled to.