Apple announces that John Ternus, senior VP of Hardware Engineering, will become Apple's next CEO on September 1; Tim Cook will become executive chairman (Business Wire)
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a great effects flick!
Very fun to see this @tippettstudio.bsky.social stop-motion model in Adam Savage's bts look at 'The Mandalorian and Grogu' with Jon Favreau.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijk4...
we spent a morning on the set of The Mandalorian & Grogu! the prop archive room was nothing short of breathtaking youtu.be/ijk4XMe7n_c
the street fighter trailer reminds me of watching the 2009 Watchmen movie: splashy colors, slow mo, and the silliness of its source material proudly worn on its sleeve www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xt4X...
the Sprayser! youtu.be/gP11KgTewpg
And like... don't get me wrong, I like GOOD VR hands. The issue is that ACTUALLY GOOD VR hands are much more expensive to execute than people realize, and that cost goes up linearly with the number of objects and interactions in a game.
Starship Enterprise in 1/788 scale.
1701-G at Z minus 10,000 meters.
*Victory music*
the haters will say this video will NEVER reach 300K views
don't let the haters win
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nope
we spent a day at IMAX headquarters learning how their technicans process and project 70mm film for an upcoming movie which shall not be named www.youtube.com/watch?v=7S_g...
A guy asking ChatGPT to review a series of fart sound effects and getting a serious kiss ass response that calls it atmospheric
I can't stop laughing at this post. It's perfect.
Coffee machines turned into tiny cafés by Wes Anderson’s model-maker Simon Weisse.
great week for Flickr
John Deere agreed to pay $99M into a fund to settle a 2022 right-to-repair class action lawsuit, and make digital repair tools available to farmers for 10 years (Reuters)
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quickie print and paint of Grace puppet!
1. printed in SLS Nylon--so lightweight it feels alien
2. tamiya gunmetal undercoat
3. heavy mirror chrome topcoat w/ raw sienna oil drybrush
4. screenshot from PHM trailer for reference
Douglas Trumbull
Douglas Trumbull (1942-2022) was born 84 years ago today.
He directed Silent Running, produced The Starlost, and worked on VFX for 2001: A Space Odyssey, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Blade Runner (1982, below), and many other classics.
for folks 3d printing/painting their own xenonite models, here's a photo from our visit to the props department showing their paint and finish on one of Rocky's puppets
@helenlohara.bsky.social thanks for the shoutout for our Project Hail Mary production design video on the spoiler special! Big fan of the podcast!
great miniature replica of the Project Hail Mary cockpit using one of our set visit videos for reference: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qP1m...
The matter-of-fact way she asks what investors should do if Trump destroys Iran. Absolutely wild.
"Let's talk about tonight, this deadline that President Trump has set 8 p.m., has threatened to destroy a civilization. How does an investor process that? Is it a bigger upside risk or downside risk?"
for flipping E21?!?!
On this week’s @techpod.content.town, @nchan.bsky.social caught me up with the current state of the art for 3D printing, where to get started, and a whole lot more.
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When ads came to ChatGPT, users were mad — those who had been using it as an editor or therapist suddenly saw ChatGPT as vulnerable to manipulation by brands and marketers.
The reality is that it was happening the whole time. I wrote about the new SEO gold rush:
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Test Animations Made by me in Illustrator and After Effects
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Star Trek project: I’ve been working on some handheld props with animated displays. These are a few early tests, including an animated version of the Relativity device. I also made a version that can turn the display on/off and run LEDs.
A wide-eyed, startled man wearing a studded headband - Dr. Zefram Cochrane, the inventor of warp drive - sits in a cockpit, looking off-camera while a starry space void is visible through the window behind him.
Happy First Contact Day!
In 37 years, Vulcans will set foot on Earth. More importantly, the Phoenix will be the first human ship to reach Warp 1!
Incidentally, it's also the birthday of the son of Ronald D. Moore, co-writer of Star Trek: First Contact (1996). Happy birthday, Jonathan.
I am making Pokémon cards now
sizable!
