This might be my favorite shot from my short film HELL CREEK: the tilt up as the dinosaur abruptly turns and walks off. Might be the VFX moment I’m most proud of as well.

I remember being blown away at Sundance 2011 when I saw her in The Woman.

Bog-standard liberals basically

Congrats Joel! That’s fantastic!

That first image is maximum nostalgia

So good!

“Film it all, Ed!”

Honestly it sounds like we’re mostly on the same side of the issue. Pandemic vs endemic classification disagreement aside, it’s still dangerous and prolific. In the end, people can call it a pastrami sandwich if they want, but it‘ll still get them sick.

I find data visualization like this helpful to illustrate how the spikes outside of that gigantic one in 2022 have continued to be generally worse than the first 2 years of the pandemic. Compromised government health agencies basically picked a time based on economic whims and said it was “over”.

It’s a fair point and easy to get dragged into the semantics. Even if it was endemic, that doesn’t mean mild. Small pox, dengue fever, malaria, and others have earned “endemic” status and are deadly.

Also the beginnings of pandemics are very clearly defined, whereas their ends are less well defined and subject to more interpretation. Our government and its scientific agencies have shown that their priority is to return people to “normal” for economic reasons, not based on pandemic data.

Then why hasn’t it become another predicable seasonal virus? It’s spiking at all random times of year in very much the same way as it was in the beginning and causing a large amount of post infection disability.

I’m happy to see him mentioned because he’s easily one of my all time favorite composers — not only for the work you mentioned here, but also his beautiful scores for Lonesome Dove and Quigley Down Under. Really emotionally compelling scores IMO.

a robot is standing in front of a door Alt: A stop motion bipedal mech with machine gun turrets where arms should be walks though double doors towards camera.

It’s seen so briefly, but the Phil Tippett ED-209 mech in Robocop is one of the all time best movie robots, not only from an animation and design perspective, but also in how it’s used in the story. Dark and hilarious and pretty darn relevant.

It’s not over for anyone who’s paying attention at all and not living in utter scientific denial. The studies on Long Covid etc paint a very different picture from the government’s “everything is normal again, get back to your cubicles” narrative. It’s a massive ongoing health crisis.

@kananaskinyeti.bsky.social is the artist, I think

We should be wearing masks for Covid regardless of what the goons are doing.

Yup. Mass denial, I guess. 5th deadliest pandemic in human history and so many refuse to really even acknowledge its existence despite it changing the trajectory of all of our lives.

For a while now he’s been posting little things on IG that seem to be pro-AI, and I’ve also seen him liking comments defending AI. Really bummed me out because I’ve loved his wonderful paintings my whole life 😢

This one by Doug Henderson. I was fascinated and unnerved as a kid by the Albertosaurus looking right at you. Henderson did various straight on perspective images of dinosaur tails and faces which I’d never really seen anywhere else. One of the all time greats.

Oh man, I got these from the library over and over again.

Britannica still features dinosaur art that appears to date all the way back to the 1992 PBS documentary “The Dinosaurs”. It’s a little outdated but I’m not mad because the designs are still awesome.

A comic featuring a kaiju attack on a city where a family is getting photos taken for a Christmas card.

Kaiju Christmas

Are you wanting to trace 3d geometry or just use perspective grids etc? I haven’t used sketchup much, and never Sketchbook or Clip Studio Paint, but for 3d geometry purposes Blender could be useful. You can easily change the focal length of your camera too.

Quick photobash experiment to try out a new technique

a black and white photo of a dinosaur with a very long neck ALT: a black and white photo of a dinosaur with a very long neck

I sometimes dream about filming a proper adaptation of “The Lost World”. It’s been adapted many times, but not since 1925 has it really gotten the scale of treatment it deserves.