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mentioned this a while back in the media thread, but seems appropriate here too. But if you check the trivia, seems to be alittle nod to elite.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0816692/trivia?item=tr2357182
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0816692/trivia?item=tr2357182
Ah good old Tars. He was an interesting character to animate I tell you!
Is the Oculus Rift going to make any difference to your job?
Not yet, but I'd say its only a matter of time. VR is already being used in the previs process and some of the main London based companies are investing now (Framestore is leading the way in this regard).
There is also a few of us who are thinking of making our own content and posting it online for people to check out. We feel we have a lot to offer the medium with our many years of experience working with cg. Personally I would love to explore animation in VR ( character, creature, hard surface, fx and anything else ) and see what works.
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Indeed. The possibilities are endless. Personally Im convinced it will sooner or later.
And from my own vfx industry viewpoint, it will potentially release us from the monopoly the 5 studios have over content ownership.
Ha ha ha ha... yeah you're right of course! Should have known that half truths only travel half pages before being caught out.
I'll use the opportunity to educate myself.. don't be sorry, I'm Dutch, I can handle directness and also being wrong (which working with this brilliant bunch, I often am ; )
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Loved the movie really and especially the music score (I've written film music myself). The main character is so well played with a perfect chilled out father figure and inspiring role model. The only few things that bugged me were: -
1. NASA knew about the pilot and it was not made clear he was already a pilot but more so an Astronaut.
2. The annoying tv interviews of old people talking about the past years as a pre-flashback for later.
3. No visual of the guy getting killed on the 1st water planet but made it into the airlock maybe or not.
4. The chat with Tar (robot) whilst in the 5th dimension but was really just to tell viewers what he was thinking.
5. The burning of his sons crop field. I did not get any of that. Where was he in the end?
6. Why did he go to the grave with TV headstones...was that his son there? Nothing was clear.
7. The end was that he stole a ship when he realized he should go after the only female he knew with his daughters advise who was on a planet with only 1 grave on it. It seemed to be a different story for her to end on instead of a final inevitable reuion. Obvious but odd. Was it his grave she was at but was yet to find out? I'm lost... that would be cool but then he walks up behind her!
[video=youtube;zSWdZVtXT7E]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSWdZVtXT7E[/video]
1. NASA knew about the pilot and it was not made clear he was already a pilot but more so an Astronaut.
2. The annoying tv interviews of old people talking about the past years as a pre-flashback for later.
3. No visual of the guy getting killed on the 1st water planet but made it into the airlock maybe or not.
4. The chat with Tar (robot) whilst in the 5th dimension but was really just to tell viewers what he was thinking.
5. The burning of his sons crop field. I did not get any of that. Where was he in the end?
6. Why did he go to the grave with TV headstones...was that his son there? Nothing was clear.
7. The end was that he stole a ship when he realized he should go after the only female he knew with his daughters advise who was on a planet with only 1 grave on it. It seemed to be a different story for her to end on instead of a final inevitable reuion. Obvious but odd. Was it his grave she was at but was yet to find out? I'm lost... that would be cool but then he walks up behind her!
[video=youtube;zSWdZVtXT7E]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSWdZVtXT7E[/video]
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Probably mentioned before but bringing back misjumps would add a bit of danger and excitement. Imagine charging up the jump drive only for the computer voice to tell you a misjump is imminent right as the final count down is going. Just a quick everything is fine and dandy, business as usua-.......oh ****. Then you get thrown into an impossibly black area of who knows where. No stars, no planets, nothing. Then all of a sudden you start taking heavy fire from an unknown source. Your options are to evade until fsd cooldown is complete to rejump, or take on the mysterious assalients (hehehe yes that's intentional).
Apart from the ending, the physics of interstellar was actually quite accurate. The following link explains many implausible facets of the movie with a clarity that might shed some light on the existence of some similarly strange systems that can be found in the neutron fields as well...
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com...ce-of-interstellar-with-physicist-kip-thorne/
And +rep to the OP. Danger is the heart of exploration. The Galaxy itself is the soul. And for better or worse, the scanning mechanic is the brains.
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com...ce-of-interstellar-with-physicist-kip-thorne/
And +rep to the OP. Danger is the heart of exploration. The Galaxy itself is the soul. And for better or worse, the scanning mechanic is the brains.
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Whoa... That's some necromany right here...
I will not talk about exploration in ED as this topic has been talked to death and back and then to death again. As for the film... Meh:
[video=youtube_share;lZMzf-SDWP8]https://youtu.be/lZMzf-SDWP8[/video]
I will not talk about exploration in ED as this topic has been talked to death and back and then to death again. As for the film... Meh:
[video=youtube_share;lZMzf-SDWP8]https://youtu.be/lZMzf-SDWP8[/video]
I actually ended last night's jump-athon by parking my Asp next to a binary pair, switching on the debug camera so it was just slowly panning around, and listening to "Welcome to Lunar Industries" from the soundtrack. Try it
One thing I really liked about Interstellar (besides the black hole representation)
Was the 5th dimensional aliens. Yes, there were aliens in this movie, in case you are confused.
I like how it was complicated enough for me to struggle getting my head around- a rare thing for me, and therefore; enjoyable
When you stopped to think about it. Actually think about what you observed in the movie... there is where you will find your "wow!"
Sadly in today's society, such storytelling brilliance is often lost on the common man. Like "12 Monkeys", or "I Am Legend"; they leave most viewers just confused, and frustrated, and disappointed.. while completely missing the point and all of the implications provided to them. If they would only think on it a bit.
I could try to explain the implications, as i did in the above spoiler for Interstellar, but more often than not, it will just be "TL;DR"
Now with all that said, I personally would not like to be the playthings of such entities in this elite Universe. They would be so far beyond our scope there would be nothing at all we could do about it- not even say "hi".
Was the 5th dimensional aliens. Yes, there were aliens in this movie, in case you are confused.
I like how it was complicated enough for me to struggle getting my head around- a rare thing for me, and therefore; enjoyable
Imagine the whole movie from the dimension of the 5th dimensional beings. They were studying something, most likely in a laboratory: Us.
However, they did not see US as we see us, because their frame of reference was 2 dimensions higher- what they saw was the father and daughter's lives, from beginning to end, as merely the "height" of their time in existence. So they could "see" the daughter, but what they was was a "stack" of her entire life as just another "direction" in her physical self (time)- the more they went "thisaway"- the more she got older.
So we, Humanity, was a lab experiment- They wanted to find a way to relate to those "stacks of lives", and do so in such a way that both sides of the experiment could interact- if only very minimally. They chose the father/daughter Lives for the test. They made the Wormhole, They had the tesseract matrix awaiting within the black hole. See, they saw all that happened before and all that has yet to happen (to them thats just a direction to look), and knew that if they provided the wormhole, the misadventure would proceed exactly how it did.
So, the lab technician was "up there" saying "ok, we insert the wormhole here, and have the tesseract matrix of the Daughters life at the Singularity at this time, and see if these organisms can cross communicate to each other given this new interface.
Turns out we could. They are thrilled. "We" just proved to "Them" that our slices of time are actually living, sentient beings, living out there lives in this "limited dimensional aspect".
So while the misadventure was neat and mildly interesting for us, it was Stunning and absolute proof to THEM that there was sentient life elsewhere in even their universe!!
However, they did not see US as we see us, because their frame of reference was 2 dimensions higher- what they saw was the father and daughter's lives, from beginning to end, as merely the "height" of their time in existence. So they could "see" the daughter, but what they was was a "stack" of her entire life as just another "direction" in her physical self (time)- the more they went "thisaway"- the more she got older.
So we, Humanity, was a lab experiment- They wanted to find a way to relate to those "stacks of lives", and do so in such a way that both sides of the experiment could interact- if only very minimally. They chose the father/daughter Lives for the test. They made the Wormhole, They had the tesseract matrix awaiting within the black hole. See, they saw all that happened before and all that has yet to happen (to them thats just a direction to look), and knew that if they provided the wormhole, the misadventure would proceed exactly how it did.
So, the lab technician was "up there" saying "ok, we insert the wormhole here, and have the tesseract matrix of the Daughters life at the Singularity at this time, and see if these organisms can cross communicate to each other given this new interface.
Turns out we could. They are thrilled. "We" just proved to "Them" that our slices of time are actually living, sentient beings, living out there lives in this "limited dimensional aspect".
So while the misadventure was neat and mildly interesting for us, it was Stunning and absolute proof to THEM that there was sentient life elsewhere in even their universe!!
When you stopped to think about it. Actually think about what you observed in the movie... there is where you will find your "wow!"
Sadly in today's society, such storytelling brilliance is often lost on the common man. Like "12 Monkeys", or "I Am Legend"; they leave most viewers just confused, and frustrated, and disappointed.. while completely missing the point and all of the implications provided to them. If they would only think on it a bit.
I could try to explain the implications, as i did in the above spoiler for Interstellar, but more often than not, it will just be "TL;DR"
Now with all that said, I personally would not like to be the playthings of such entities in this elite Universe. They would be so far beyond our scope there would be nothing at all we could do about it- not even say "hi".
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Because maybe they indeed aren't! (I was thinking the same thing when I read that response)
I'm sure Matthew can find a Math expert in the office to get him to explain that!
Anyway brilliant music which to me wasn't as much inspired by Kubrick but much more by Phillip Glass's work done fo Koyaanisqatsi.
Half circles would have an infinite gradient where they cross the equilibrium position. It's not impossible to have a half circular - type waveform - but not much sinusoidal about them. Interesting to hear what one would sound like - audio team?
I personally found the organ soundtrack jarring and overwhelming.
It might be that Hans Zimmer was trying to get that "epic" sound, but it simply came across as LOUDNESS to me. Soundtrack can make or break a movie. "Sunshine" went from being an alright sci-fi movie to OMG with a piece of stringed music and piano by John Murphy. He recycled it in "Kick Ass", it was that good. Interstellar was the polar opposite, where the soundtrack detracted from the movie IMO.
3 things I particularly liked about Interstellar were physics related.
No sound in space. All the external actions were silent.
Gargantua having an accretion disc with gravitational lensing pulling the disc into a full circle.
The emergency docking sequence, matching rotation while trying to keep the port aligned with the hatch.
Yep, even without clicking the link I'd have said the same.
Far future humans who have control over space, time and gravity. They know that they are alive only because Murph solved the gravity equations and enabled humanity to leave Earth for the stars.
They know from her notes and diaries that she solved the equations because of information passed to her through gravitational anomalies.
Once they worked out the fine detail, they knew that they had to make the wormhole by Saturn, they had to make the tesseract inside the event horizon of a black hole, and that it had to connect to Murph's bedroom when she was a child.
If they didn't do those things, then humanity wouldn't have been saved and there would be a paradox. Or at the very least a redundant timeline.
They know from her notes and diaries that she solved the equations because of information passed to her through gravitational anomalies.
Once they worked out the fine detail, they knew that they had to make the wormhole by Saturn, they had to make the tesseract inside the event horizon of a black hole, and that it had to connect to Murph's bedroom when she was a child.
If they didn't do those things, then humanity wouldn't have been saved and there would be a paradox. Or at the very least a redundant timeline.