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When I lived on a farm in wales, we would occasionally discover in our fields something called bog oak. This was trunks of oak placed in the ground by ancient farmers to drain a field. Over the centuries this had become semi-fossilized and in the process had become very strong. From high quality bog oak, it is possible to make wooden rings as strong as metal. Our bog oak was not so good (I tried) but certainly good enough for super strong dowels and suchlike.

This is how we reduce noise in filmmaking. My de-noise node in DaVinci has two settings: spatial and temporal. Temporal references 3 frames either side of the subject frame.

> I remember him saying that he got most of his ideas just from playing around with mechanics and experimenting a lot

This is important. Too many people assume that novel ideas come from abstract concepts. Yes they can, but they can equaly arise from playing with the medium.

True. I use Kagi which supports its facts with citations. More than once I have read the cited material to find no trace of the so called facts.

I use screen recorders all the time. Question: what format does it capture in? Some screen recorders capture as mov files, which get janky in high zoom. A pro app like Camtasia captures in what I assume is the raw screen data, and for this reason zooming in on a clip works really well.

Utterly brilliant and not without utility as a means to test your proposals.

One point missed by the article is the fact that the colour of fruit evolved at the same time as human color vision. This is usually presented as co-evolution, but in the eyes of the article it presents plants co-opting humans to their service.

I can't imagine any 2 pin plug being as mechanically stable as a 3 pin. Certainly here in Asia I am regularly being driven bonkers by 2 pin plugs dropping out of sockets the moment a butterfly shakes its wings on the other side of the planet.

One common complaint I get from my newly arrived expat colleagues is that their PC gives them slight electric shocks when they use it. IANAE (I am not an electrician), but I assume that this is because of some capacitor voodoo in the PC's power supply. The problem is cured by grounding the assembly.

The British plug/socket embodies the British ethos: nanny state, 'cannot be too careful' etc. In British parlance it is 'belt and braces'. But yes I agree it may be overkill.

British style sockets/plugs are the best. I find that two pin plugs are always falling out of the sockets.

I just had my house in Vietnam fitted out with universal sockets that will accept all plugs tyoes. Life changing decision.

Thanks. I will re-look.

I take it back. The volumetric image series format of morphsource is not agreeable to being easily converted to mesh objects.

The Sketchfab collection seems to have been set to non-downloadable. The morphsource collection can be downloaded, but only as an image sequence, not as 3D meshes. Fairly easy to convert images sequence to mesh, but I wish they had made the task more straightforward.

There is a lot to be said for the academic tradition of only using an acronym/abbreviation after you have first used the complete term.

Am I the only one to have to search for what OSINT was an acronym for?

As the previous poster has implied, An animatic can evolve directly from a storyboard. The frames of the storyboard are placed directly on a timeline (e.g. premier) and sometimes given a few animations (e.g. zoom, pan etc) and annotations. As the animation progresses, rough 3D renders (sometimes called flip books) can be dropped onto this timeline. In this way, the final movie can evolve directly from the animatic.

What made Flow unusual is that they bypassed the storyboard almost entirely, which is unusual for a feature film. One rational is that the movie features significant and lengthy camera motion shots. Camera motion is very difficult to capture in a storyboard.

At a student level, another motivation for lessening the importance of the storyboard is that they require not insignificant drawing skills in order to do effectively. Even animation students cannot be guaranteed to draw well, and the number of student filmmakers who can draw is vanishingly small.

The thing that animators are talking about is the fact that they eschewed a storyboard in favour of an animatic (an animatic being a motion sketch of the animation). This is the workflow we now recommend to our students.

This animatic can be found on YouTube.

The most difficult fakes are those illicitly made by the same factory that makes the genuine product (under license). In that sense, they are not even fakes but the license holder doesn’t see any of the profit.

True story. When I was a kid I worked in an auction house that sold many paintings. Painting of ships flying the American flag were very highly sought after. It was an open secret that paintings flying any other flag would be bought and the flag replaced by an American one by an ‘art restorer’. These were then sold at great profit.

From TFA...

> Facebook’s influence remains strong globally, but younger users are logging in less.

Not here in south east Asia where FB remains dominant. Indeed having any kind of social life without a FB account would be difficult.

They are indeed, but the soundtrack could be better.

Pity that the videos were accompanied by such cheesy music. A soundtrack derived from telemetry would have been killer. Example project here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbLdd1fdNg5ymNYshv2xW...

> It always impresses on me that a city, itself, is an open book for typography.

That is a very good observation.

> I wonder if you would be aware of any similar projects to "Fonts of Vienna", but for your region of the world?

I have asked around, but nothing comes to mind. There is however this absolutely brilliant resource: https://vietnamesetypography.com/ who writes in great detail about the history and practice of VN typography. Also, https://www.luuchu.com/ which is an open archive for VN designers (e.g. this wonderful collection of publications https://www.luuchu.com/archive).

> it also doesnt help that 70% of vietnamese signs are written in Impact.. anyone know why this is?

Likely because fonts that fully support Vietnamese diacritics are super rare.

I teach design in Vietnam. This is a great asset that we are familiar with. Vietnamese art and design has been greatly influenced by French and Russian influence and also Vietnamese folk paintings, the colors of which are distinct. Unfortunately, the output of many young Vietnamese designers is increasingly ‘international’, with little to distinguish it from what is being done elsewhere in SE Asia. Maybe Vietnamese typography is another matter… and Vietnamese illustration is certainly world-class kick ass and distinctly Vietnamese. Check out the work of Kaa: https://www.kaaillustration.com/, Mr Phan: https://www.facebook.com/hi.mrphan/ and Tin Tran: https://www.tinsideout.xyz/personal

If a blog lays unread in a forest, has it a function?

I would say yes. In my experience, writing your ideas down is an excellent way of learning exactly what those idea are. Until such time as they have been clearly stated, their existence is 'fuzzy'.

> Have you noticed a correlation in candidate quality vs the time spent answering that question?

Yes, certainly.

Over the years our skill at interviewing has grown. We try to craft a balance between asking questions which require exact responses, and those which the candidate is free to improvise upon.

Point taken

Yep. Some candidates really enjoy the question to the point where it becomes difficult to get them to stop answering it.

Half way through a recent interview it became very apparent that the candidate was using AI. This was only apparent in the standard 'why are you interested in working here?' Questions. Once the questions became more AI resistant the candidate floundered. There English language skills and there general reasoning declined catastrophically. These question had originally been introduced to see see how good the candidate was at thinking abstractly. Example: 'what is your creative philosophy?'

When I lived in the Welsh countryside, there were occasional nights where I could not see my hand in front of my face. The requirements were that it was new moon, and that there was slight fog. We also lived deep in a valley, which helped. I had great fun navigating my way to the local pub in complete darkness.

The odd thing is that when I recount that experience, some people refuse to believe me. Of course they are all city dwellers.