NeverarGreat

Photorealistic CGI faces are hard. Photorealistic CGI performances are ten times harder, even with really good motion capture. An example from Blade Runner 2049: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fV34mT5m0bM

In the side-by-side comparisons, the digital double looks nigh indistinguishable from the original, but translating that into an entirely new performance leaves a lot to be desired. Look at the eyes - human eyes constantly shift and refocus in a dance of micromovements, and you can see the model shifting its eyes in a way that mimics how humans scan another human’s face, but it is still too slow and obvious. Similarly, there is a lack of coordination between the muscles of the face, and that same smooth animated feel. In reality, the muscles of the face are constantly twitching in close coordination to betray the extremely subtle emotions that may not even register to our conscious minds.

All of these problems were apparent in Tarkin and Leia from Rogue One.

CatBus said:

NeverarGreat said:

From Donald Trump:
“North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un just stated that the “Nuclear Button is on his desk at all times.” Will someone from his depleted and food starved regime please inform him that I too have a Nuclear Button, but it is a much bigger & more powerful one than his, and my Button works!”

From the Twitter Rules:
“You may not make specific threats of violence or wish for the serious physical harm, death, or disease of an individual or group of people.”

Open and shut case.

Actually I think there have been far clearer violations, but they’re numerous enough everything else is just gravy.

I’m sure there are, I was just using this one example.

One argument that I hear against Luke is that his failure led to the First Order, but that’s clearly not true. Snoke had already turned Ben while Luke was still training him, so clearly the First Order was well-established long before Luke’s mistake. All Luke did was to accelerate Ben’s defection. In fact, if he had waited to confront Ben, the situation could have been worse because of Ben’s additional training.

From Donald Trump:
“North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un just stated that the “Nuclear Button is on his desk at all times.” Will someone from his depleted and food starved regime please inform him that I too have a Nuclear Button, but it is a much bigger & more powerful one than his, and my Button works!”

From the Twitter Rules:
“You may not make specific threats of violence or wish for the serious physical harm, death, or disease of an individual or group of people.”

Open and shut case.

yhwx said:

What the heck is a binary load lifter?

Robotic forklift?

Robot Chicken did it first.

I’d be interested in this as well.

adywan said:

Now this is good 😉

https://imgur.com/a/6smO9

Yeah, people need to remember that these are just fantasy movies in space and enjoy them without feeling the need to explain every nitpick and fix every continuity error and improve every shoddy, unconvincing effect. I mean, who spends years of their life doing that?!

😉

And we complained about Han robbing the cradle. Sheesh.

And their donors have basically said that the Republicans had better give them their tax cuts or face re-election without their help.

TV’s Frink said:

doubleofive said:

Or just further distort Kylo’s voice so that you can’t understand anything he says.

I like this.

JEDIT: Probably better for TLRJ since he doesn’t have the helmet on long.

Spoiler Warning for Frink

Didn’t this basically happen in the original TLJ anyway?

chyron8472 said:

doubleofive said:

TV’s Frink said:

The coins are dumb too. I’ll have to watch the scene again but I’d like to remove that bit if possible, which would also allow the removal of the dumb CGI alien that feeds the coins into him in the first place. I liked most of the humor in TLJ but that bit didn’t work for me.

you wouldn’t have the sound of coins jangling inside of him later, which I found really funny.

Same.

I assume that BB-8 is mostly storage space based on this scene.

ElectroDroid said:

darthrush said:

My preferred Episode 9 would be Chewie dying with the Falcon, Finn dying, Hux trying to overthrow Kylo, Luke haunting Kylo, and I have no idea what they should do with Rey.

Overall, I’m not super excited since TLJ tied up so many plot threads.

The thing is, it seems like Rey’s arc is over to me. She seems to be in the same place Luke was at the end of ROTJ.

This is why I’m hopeful for 9, since Rian turned ROTJ into the end of the middle chapter of the saga, complete with a philosophical quandary. How can a person become a Jedi and return hope to the galaxy while also knowing that the Jedi as a religious institution must end? Either she becomes a Jedi and goes against Luke’s wishes (and perhaps dooms the galaxy in the process), or she goes her own way and fails to inspire hope (for the galaxy is still in love with the Jedi).

As long as this trilogy continues to be a meta-commentary on Star Wars fandom itself, I’ll be satisfied.

moviefreakedmind said:

NeverarGreat said:

My parents had a Dave Barry book which I read in my impressionable youth (I thought it was hilarious), and now whenever I bring it up I get strange looks from my peers.

This…except for the part about how my parents had a Dave Barry book which I read in my impressionable youth (I thought it was hilarious), and now whenever I bring it up I get strange looks from my peers.

It’s like we’re identical twins, separated at birth.

DominicCobb said:

NeverarGreat said:

If we’d gotten even a minute of broom boy in the Casino Bight scenes his ending would be much more defensible.

Um… what?

I’m saying that his part in the movie was rushed, just like the rest of Casino Bight. Just because it’s essential to the theme of the movie to place a character with little plot significance into strong focus in the final shot doesn’t mean that he shouldn’t have an arc. For example, when we are first introduced to him tending the animals, his abusive master could have knocked him to the ground and broken the Luke Skywalker toy, where he abandons it in shame. Then we would have all of the pieces of his arc in place after Rose and Finn restore his faith in the Resistance and the Jedi, and we’d see the repaired figure at the end. It doesn’t take much.

If we’d gotten even a minute of broom boy in the Casino Bight scenes his ending would be much more defensible.

TV’s Frink said:

NeverarGreat said:

My parents had a Dave Barry book which I read in my impressionable youth (I thought it was hilarious), and now whenever I bring it up I get strange looks from my peers.

This…except for the part where I bring it up now.

Well I’ve only made that mistake about twice.

My parents had a Dave Barry book which I read in my impressionable youth (I thought it was hilarious), and now whenever I bring it up I get strange looks from my peers.

The article just proves that 2017 has made it a whole lot harder to write something more absurd than current events.

Stumbled across this. Kinda weird, but less cluttered and more painterly than the original.

DuracellEnergizer said:

So tempted to make “We Are Doom” my sock now.

If fake accounts are socks, are our real accounts feet?

TV’s Frink said:

Ok but that wasn’t clear because you didn’t say so.

Top men are working on it.

TV’s Frink said:

NeverarGreat said:

Kylo Puts a Shirt On

Ha!

Although I suppose this could be considered an extraordinarily mild spoiler.

That’s why I only linked to it.

Kylo Puts a Shirt On (Extremely Mild Spoiler For Frink) 😃

Kylo tells her in the red room.

The Maz scene was the only truly offensive thing in this movie. I imagine that this was the intent though, since Rian has no qualms with destroying the stupid aspects of The Force Awakens in the most savage way possible. What better way to tell JJ that Maz is a videogame NPC than by literally putting her in one?