Collaborate Disseminate
Computer-generated imagery (CGI) has largely replaced physical models in major film productions these days, but the transition didn’t exactly happen overnight. For a time there was an effort to blend …read more Continue reading CGI Motion Capture with only a Camera
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Do you remember ReBoot? If you were into early CGI, the name probably rings a bell, since when it premiered in 1994 it was the first fully computer-animated show on …read more Continue reading Reviving ReBoot With a Tape Deck Repair
Standard scripting utilities such as sed, tr, grep, cat (etc.) can process a stream via standard in and transform it according to some arguments, outputting to STDOUT. I wonder if there are any attack vectors against these, if the attacker… Continue reading Are the stream editing coreutils secure against malicious standard in?
Standard scripting utilities such as sed, tr, grep, cat (etc.) can process a stream via standard in and transform it according to some arguments, outputting to STDOUT. I wonder if there are any attack vectors against these, if the attacker… Continue reading Are the stream editing coreutils secure against malicious standard in?
The AI effects we know these days were once preceded by CGI, and those were once preceded by true hand-built physical props. If that makes you think of Muppets, this …read more Continue reading 17 Year Old Hellboy II Prop Still Amazes
In a double-blast from the past, [Ian Failes]’ 2018 interview with [Phil Tippett] and others who worked on Jurassic Park is a great look at how the dinosaurs in this 1993 …read more Continue reading How Jurassic Park’s Dinosaur Input Device Bridged the Stop-Motion and CGI Worlds
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