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Space Feather (a YouTuber who makes excellent video essays) has an awesome video essay on the older Max Headroom series: On Max Headroom: The Most Misunderstood

by tim-- 4y ago

Space Feather (a YouTuber who makes excellent video essays) has an awesome video essay on the older Max Headroom series: On Max Headroom: The Most Misunderstood Joke on TV [0] Elijah Wood and Christopher Cantwell are behind the reboot, so it should be quite fun to watch! As a beside, I still think Halt and Catch Fire is the most underappreciated TV series ever! [0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsDrXc94NGU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsDrXc94NGU

Cyberdog 4y ago
Interesting video. Thanks for sharing. I have only the vaguest memory of Max Headroom and seeing that brought back some memories. I think trying to paint him as a stereotypical ideal Aryan is a bit of a stretch, but the rest seemed pretty on the mark. The connections he makes later in the show from Headroom to modern Twitch streamers and saying "I want to see Max Headroom playing a video game" brought to mind modern vtubers. Certainly the tech is there now for someone to do a "real time" Max Headroom that actually is computer animated, though implementing the glitches would probably take some custom development of some sort. That said, I think the proper approach for the show would be to do it in a retro-futuristic way and have it look much like the original media's perception of "the future" was. So as little CGI as possible, and all the TVs are still 4:3 tubes with big knobs. I highly doubt they'll take that approach, though; too much effort.
- corobo 4y ago
  > implementing the glitches would probably take some custom development of some sort OBS and the StreamFX plugin would get you a hell of a lot of distance before needing too much custom code I imagine. Very nice bit of kit. Cool glitchy effects if you layer stuff up https://obsproject.com/ https://obsproject.com/ https://github.com/Xaymar/obs-streamfx https://github.com/Xaymar/obs-streamfx e.g. a clip from TheSushiDragon https://twitter.com/Twitch/status/1050161381457190912 https://twitter.com/Twitch/status/1050161381457190912
- cykros 4y ago
  When I heard Matt Frewer was involved I initially said, "At his age?!" Then I remembered, it's not 1987, and Max can actually be computer animated this time around. Though in fairness he was spry enough in Altered Carbon that it probably wouldn't be too bad either way.
- vintermann 4y ago
  I saw one guy doing a nice Max Headroom variant for political satire: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lh0tdz3X8FU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lh0tdz3X8FU The technology is definitively there.
  - Cyberdog 4y ago
    Was that rendered in real time, though?
tablespoon 4y ago
> Space Feather (a YouTuber who makes excellent video essays) has an awesome video essay on the older Max Headroom series: On Max Headroom: The Most Misunderstood Joke on TV [0] I don't know if it's part of a joke, but he doesn't seem to distinguish properly between TV, broadcast TV, and cable TV. Specifically he talks a looong time about broadcast TV while calling it "Cable TV."

by tim-- 4y ago

Cyberdog 4y ago

Interesting video. Thanks for sharing. I have only the vaguest memory of Max Headroom and seeing that brought back some memories. I think trying to paint him as a stereotypical ideal Aryan is a bit of a stretch, but the rest seemed pretty on the mark. The connections he makes later in the show from Headroom to modern Twitch streamers and saying "I want to see Max Headroom playing a video game" brought to mind modern vtubers. Certainly the tech is there now for someone to do a "real time" Max Headroom that actually is computer animated, though implementing the glitches would probably take some custom development of some sort. That said, I think the proper approach for the show would be to do it in a retro-futuristic way and have it look much like the original media's perception of "the future" was. So as little CGI as possible, and all the TVs are still 4:3 tubes with big knobs. I highly doubt they'll take that approach, though; too much effort.

corobo 4y ago
> implementing the glitches would probably take some custom development of some sort OBS and the StreamFX plugin would get you a hell of a lot of distance before needing too much custom code I imagine. Very nice bit of kit. Cool glitchy effects if you layer stuff up https://obsproject.com/ https://obsproject.com/ https://github.com/Xaymar/obs-streamfx https://github.com/Xaymar/obs-streamfx e.g. a clip from TheSushiDragon https://twitter.com/Twitch/status/1050161381457190912 https://twitter.com/Twitch/status/1050161381457190912
cykros 4y ago
When I heard Matt Frewer was involved I initially said, "At his age?!" Then I remembered, it's not 1987, and Max can actually be computer animated this time around. Though in fairness he was spry enough in Altered Carbon that it probably wouldn't be too bad either way.
vintermann 4y ago
I saw one guy doing a nice Max Headroom variant for political satire: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lh0tdz3X8FU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lh0tdz3X8FU The technology is definitively there.
- Cyberdog 4y ago
  Was that rendered in real time, though?

tablespoon 4y ago

> Space Feather (a YouTuber who makes excellent video essays) has an awesome video essay on the older Max Headroom series: On Max Headroom: The Most Misunderstood Joke on TV [0] I don't know if it's part of a joke, but he doesn't seem to distinguish properly between TV, broadcast TV, and cable TV. Specifically he talks a looong time about broadcast TV while calling it "Cable TV."