CGI animators should unionize next. normally, their jobs would be too precarious to strike, since studios would replace them without a second thought, but if it’s part of this larger general film strike, they might finally have meaningful power to better their working conditions
if CGI animators unionized, it would kill the MCU. straight up. the the entire business model is built on exploiting CGI animators
ok now THIS i have absolutely no idea. i have been thinking about her ever since it came out and i am at a complete loss. so i will do some digging
ok SO. it does something super similar to what i was speculating for sable by rendering the scene to a texture for edge detection. each individual part is given a random color so it can know what to draw lines between
it also passes lighting + some extra colors to pick which textures & dither pattern to use. red here is the lighting!
they found a way to have all that information in just one texture but i showed both of them just for claritys sake. in the actual game it only needs one!! super fast
and then we have the part that i have had nooo idea how they did, the final result with all the dithering. this is done in a full screen post process effect!
i know theres way to convert images into 1-bit dithered images using something called a dither pattern, but i dont 100% understand the technology behind it
i also know its incredibly hard to make look good when moving the camera around. and so did the guy making obra dinn! so he spent 100 hours experimenting to get it to look natural and finally cracking it by mapping the dither pattern to a sphere that follows you, and sampling the sphere from the angle you look at things from
hereee’s my sources if you wanna go more in-depth !
ok thank you to my pal @krisp-xyz for explaining how dithering works its actually way more straightforward than i thought
essentially all it is using the texture, which is specifically set up with specific values from white to black for every pixel in a dither pattern, to use as a cutoff point for each pixel. so you take the color of the pixel (in this case greyscaled), add or subtract the value of the dither texture at that pixel, and if your new color is less than a specific value, you return black, otherwise you return white!!
so for the gif below, literally all im doing is taking the first part (regular b&w shading), subtracting the second part (dither lookup texture), then if the result is less than 0.4, return black, otherwise return white
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If you’re pro-AI art, you’re harming human artists. Full stop.
At this point, I don’t care if it’s “real art” or not because that’s not even what the real issue is, it’s that it’s already hard enough to succeed as an artist without having our work stolen, thrown into a digital blender, and spat back out in our faces, so we can be replaced because the value of our creativity and skill has been reduced to “content” and dollar signs. Do we mean nothing to you? Is your convenience worth telling us we don’t matter?
These programs and everyone who uses them no matter how many times we’ve told you this can get fucked. I’m done being nice about it.
actual artists: well idk if I can call myself an artist, even though I’ve been doing it my whole life, being called that just feels like such a huge honour, I just draw/paint/write sometimes
ai “artists”: hi I am the most creative and original artist of this generation, it doesn’t matter that I never picked up an actual brush/wrote a single sentence outside of my english class and this computer program did everything for me, my “work” deserves to be recognised internationally and I need to be paid 3789823503$$$ like rn, also fuck those losers who refuse to use ai programs bye 🥰🥰✌️✌️✌️
Man in an office is holding a stunt safe foam rubber cinder block: This is a prop foam rubber cinder block, that way we can smack an actor with it, and it won’t kill him. [man throws the prop at his coworker’s head]. But if it DID kill him, I’d still get off scot-free
Coworker [off-screen]: How would you do that, Scott?
Scott: Because there’d be no concrete evidence.
Coworker: [throws foam rubber cinder-block at Scott’s head]
please note that for both impacts someone did foley work to make the foam brick go ‘bang!’
A photo of a man reading a neon sign on a tree that says “Healing also means taking responsibility for the role you play in your own suffering”.
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the rudest most helpful thing anyone ever said to me is “why do you keep hurting your own feelings long after [the person who once hurt you] probably forgot about it” like literally just dear god you’ve split me open so neatly my entire soul is just flopping around on the ground between us now but thank you
Just fyi if you’re autistic/adhd and struggle specifically with this sort of thing, please know what what might be happening is something called perseveration, which is a common neurodivergent behavior that can include, among other things, revisiting emotions repeatedly and being unable to break loose from processing or managing stressful events.
Don’t keep hurting your own feelings. But don’t feel bad if you get stuck there, either. Something else could be going on.
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