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As a nerdy kid in the 90s, I spent a fair bit of time watching the computer-themed cartoon Reboot. During the course of making a documentary about the show, [Jacob …read more Continue reading Digital Master Tapes Seek Deck
Looks like it’s lights out on Mars for the InSight lander. The solar-powered lander’s last selfie, sent back in April, showed a thick layer of dust covering everything, including the …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: December 25, 2022
Remember Terminator 2? Guns were nearly useless against the murderous T-1000, played by Robert Patrick. Bullets fired at the “liquid metal” robot resulted only in a chrome-looking bullet splash that …read more Continue reading Those Bullet Effects in Terminator 2 Weren’t CGI
Virtual set filmmaking has proven itself incredibly practical and flexible in a very short time, with Disney’s The Mandalorian pioneering the technology in the streaming equivalent of prime time. To briefly recap, the show is shot on a large, flat soun… Continue reading Korea gets its first Mandalorian-style virtual film set
[Captain Disillusion] has earned a reputation on YouTube for debunking hoaxes and spreading a healthy sense of skepticism while having some of the highest production value on the platform and …read more Continue reading Obsessively Explaining the Visual Effects in Flight of the Navigator
Code can be beautiful, and good code can be a work of art. As it so happens, artful code can also result in art, if you know what you’re doing. That’s the idea behind Programming Posters, a project that Michael …read more
Our Sun is getting a bit frisky these days, and has rewarded us with perhaps the best screensaver image ever taken. The incredibly detailed photo of a sunspot was actually taken back in January by the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope, a 4-meter instrument with adaptive optics that can image …read more
Filmmaking is entering a new era, powered by the technology that’s made video games some of the most compelling entertainment in recent history. It’s not green-screen CGI as we know it, either – it’s the creation of whole digitally projected sets.Conti… Continue reading The Mandalorian’s “Unreal” sets: A new age of game-based filmmaking
A tranquil forest created in Unreal Engine is exactly what you need today. Continue reading God Damn That’s a Good Looking Computer Slug
A tranquil forest created in Unreal Engine is exactly what you need today. Continue reading God Damn That’s a Good Looking Computer Slug