I've just watched Jaws (1975) for the first time.

My review of Hoppers:
0:00-0:30 This is nothing like the trailer. This is boring.
0:30-1:00 Ah, this is the movie from the trailer.
1:00-1:30 This is nothing like the trailer. This is awesome!!

🦫🦫
#Hoppers #movie

The city of #Munich is admitting that our water supply is running low. We're famous for our good drinking water which is fed by aquifers from an alpine region to the south. But that region's glaciers have been melting for a while and there's less and less snow in winter.
For the next couple of weeks there's a total ban on watering your lawn, washing your car outside of commercial car washes (don't ask, this is Germany, apparently this is still a thing), etc...

#ClimateDiary #ClimateCrisis

It’s 13 degrees (Centigrade) above average in southern Germany in the middle of June. Radio station is assuring us that El Niño will affect Germany much. It‘ll affect South America, Asia and India more. The next radio station runs a commercial for cheap flights to the Maldives.

#ThisIsFine #ClimateDiary

This is the weirdest combination of thumbnails I have ever seen on Netflix 😁

#netflix

https://framapiaf.org/@davidrevoy/116211515986568390

And if you don’t have backups in a place that you own it’s also on you again.

Funny story, that Claude thing. But I hate when I read that „AI goes rogue“. A „misdemeanor“. Or it „apologized“ and „admitted“.

It’s a fricking text extruder that does random things because the algorithm thinks those words fit into its context. If you let such a program execute whatever command it spits out - that’s on you. If the cloud provider keeps backups on the same drive as the original data, that’s on them and you should try suing them. https://c.im/@cdarwin/116479704797697865

Funny video about #StarTrek. Don’t know where the other prt of the „conversation“ is from though 😁 https://mastodon.social/@flexghost/116392576661031710

RE: https://mastodon.social/@beforesmag/116303899812240823

Watch the whole thing on their website! It's not super long and explainy but it has a lot of shots that you'll play repeatedly to appreciate the tricks they've used.

On of my earliest compositing a-ha moments was when I saw a senior artist draw thin white strokes onto a huge black image and just moved it through the frame to fake rain. Laika did something similar and mechanical for stop-motion photography on Coraline :-)

#StopMotion

Great new video from Neil Blevins ( @artofsoulburn ) that fits the hashtags #FacesInThings or #FacesInPlaces: finding inspiration for sci-fi robots and spaceships in everyday objects. It also mentions the works of Eric Geusz (2nd link below)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LROdlxL4r0

https://mymodernmet.com/digital-art-spaceship-designs-eric-geusz/

This blog post links to all my #FreeSoftwareAdvent posts which are revolving around tools used in our VFX pipeline.

https://www.comp-fu.com/2025/12/free-software-advent-2025/

#FreeSoftwareAdvent finale 2025! Without these free and open source projects our pipeline couldn't exist at all:

Python, the VFX world's favourite programming language. And of course... Linux itself 🥳

Happy Holidays!

The better #Midjourney gets in correctly generating multiple words in a row the more we lose an ancient skill: pasting an image into Word, typing text on top and saving a screenshot of the result to send as a Christmas card.

I likes the old ways better, mum!

Just started to read a #VOX article about the glorious AI future but I had to quit right away at this nugget: „we could all be so much more wealthier than we can even imagine today…AI and robots will be able to produce a lot more goods and services than when we have in today’s economy.“

Yeah. Because the lack of stuff that is churned out of factories and the artificial scarcity of digital goods is why people are poor. Holy moly that‘s a hot take.

deleted and redid the post because I had quote-tooted the post from Arstechnica but that link was "pending".

Sheesh. I love quote-posts coming to Mastodon. But if a news site like Arstechnica wants to decide who can quote their bare-bones toots that are nothing but advertising for the article on their site... I'm just not going to quote-toot them but paste the link instead.

It feels wrong that one needs to pay an org to be allowed to decode a video format. I know I know, patents etc... but why though?
MP3 back in the day, Apple's ProRes, AVID's DNxHD, this weird HEVC or whatever h26-number we're currently at. This feels like asking for royalties to use a cereal box decoder ring.

ffmpeg's gonna reverse-engineer this anyways. But officially, Linux and Firefox must jump through hoops to download an h264 decoder from Cisco for some reason.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46002989

RE: https://mastodon.art/@colossal/115554534728508955

This is an amazing photograph/composite. The image of the skydiver would be very easy to do as a composite but there's an Instagram link in that article that shows that the skydiver actually did the jump in front of the sun! 🤯
Even if the final image was most definitely composited from multiple exposures of the sun.

The whole #VFX industry is relying on Python. We should chip in.

https://hachyderm.io/@nedbat/115447871878351122

So, wouldn’t it be the perfect end of the AI bubble if Nvidia bought #WarnerBros and tasked OpenAI with rendering AI movies…

https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/21/media/warner-bros-wbd-sale-paramount-skydance-suitors