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Ghost in the Shell FUI Design
- d33 9y agoI couldn't easily find in the post what this FUI abbreviation stands for, so here's a reddit on it: https://www.reddit.com/r/FUI/top https://www.reddit.com/r/FUI/top
- FridgeSeal 9y agoSubscribed to that so fast. While it copped a lot of flack, visuals wise there was pretty much nothing wrong with GitS.
- NTripleOne 9y agoYeah, it was an extraordinarily pretty film, although I think they really dragged out the whole "HEY LOOK HOLGRAPHIC BILLBOARDS" thing, I lost count of how many sweeping shots of buildings and their attached holograms I saw...
- brazzledazzle 9y agoI may be remembering it incorrectly but I think that was a pretty common motif in the source material.
- yvdriess 9y agoGoogle-image Ghost in the Shell cityscape: there is not a single ad hologram in the original (do correct me if I'm wrong though). The holograms shown are not as futuristic, they are green luminescent and pixelated, such as in the helicopter tactical view and the making of cyborg opening scene.
- lloeki 9y agoThere are more in Innocence, especially during the parade scene, but even then the city itself is much more raw, like SAC and esp. SAC2G nails it. There's way too much of a Blade Runner feel in the live action movie.
- eswat 9y agoIn the artbook they mention how they wanted to emphasize how pervasive augmented reality had become in their world. I guess giving the solograms - what they call them - a lot of airtime is one way to do that if you don’t want to explain why they’re there in the actual story.
- NTripleOne 9y agoUnfortunately to both myself (intimately familiar with the source material) and my father (zero knowledge at all), the shots increasingly came off as "look at all this work we put in to these, please appreciate them... please?" as the movie progressed. Not that I'd mark it down for it at all, there's no shame in wanting to show off your work (especially when it's that good looking), and they never dragged on too long, they were just... oddly more frequent than expected.
- intoverflow2 9y agoI disagree, although they created a beautiful vision of the future it just doesn't resonate with what GITS is to me. The world of GITS never felt like a neon billboard strewn "Neo Tokyo", felt like it has always had a wider visual language than just that one note. Feels like the city is trying to demand presence as an entity in the remake while in the originals the city was mostly just an anonymous sea of sky scrapers that was then experience though more intimate close moments. I realise Ash is a huge fan of Akira and I can't help but think how Neo-Tokyo plays almost as a larger than life character in that film has influenced his work in this. Compare this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WB-ik-Bpl0c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WB-ik-Bpl0c to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixAHUWgBKsw&t=0m35s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixAHUWgBKsw&t=0m35s
- anon1253 9y agoYou might be interested in "Ghost In The Shell: Identity in Space" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXTnl1FVFBw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXTnl1FVFBw
- the_af 9y agoThat video is very insightful and resonates with what I love about Mamoru Oshii's movie. The city is definitely a protagonist in that classic movie as well, but it's not garish like in the new movie.
- intoverflow2 9y agoStarted out that comment with the intention of linking that, excellent watch.
- mbel 9y ago> Compare this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WB-ik-Bpl0c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WB-ik-Bpl0c to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixAHUWgBKsw&t=0m35s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixAHUWgBKsw&t=0m35s Both of those clips also show how important background music can be in reception of the scene.
- rhodimus 9y agoFantasy User Interfaces, for those that don't want to follow the link and search the page.
- bfu 9y agoAnd I thought it's "Floating User Interface" :)
- vocatus_gate 9y agoI always thought it was "Fake User Interface."
- ThinkingGuy 9y agoYes, I always heard "FUI/Fake User Interface" used to describe those deceptive pop-up advertisements meant to look like a Windows system window (usually with some nonsense warning like "Your computer is broadcasting an IP address!").
- davidgrenier 9y agoI simply stopped reading presuming it meant Futuristic User Interface.
- danielcarvalho 9y agoIt was an absolutely stunning film. Love the sheer amount of design effort that went into it, it really paid off. So much polish at every level.
- ekianjo 9y ago> It was an absolutely stunning film. Except for the storyline, which is way less interesting than the original.
- awjr 9y agoLoved every minute of it until the last 5 minutes, where they went so far away from the original story line, it would be like remaking Star Wars and having Luke turning to the darkside.
- throwawaysw 9y ago> it would be like remaking Star Wars and having Luke turning to the darkside. That sounds like a better movie tbh
- Cthulhu_ 9y agoWell it is the plot of the prequels...
- bert2002 9y agoVery nice. Thanks for the link.
- AriaMinaei 9y agoAnd this blog is dedicated to Sci-Fi UIs http://sciencefictioninterfaces.tumblr.com/ http://sciencefictioninterfaces.tumblr.com/
- zipwitch 9y agoI recall seeing a navigation app a few years back that copied almost perfectly the navigation views from Standalone Complex. Never did get the name of it.
- bhhaskin 9y agoThank you for sharing this. I have always loved FUI.
- adamwong246 9y agopersonally, I disliked all the holograms. They're in every movie these days and they are sooooo boring, not to mentioned impossible. The original Ghost in the Shell had none and the city was much more gritty and interesting without these silly "solograms." Really ruined the feel of the film in my opinion.