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Hello! My name is Jacobi. I made Eyecandy. I'm appreciating seeing suggestions. Is there anything you want me to try on the website? Anything I could improve?

by eycndy 3y ago

remram 3y ago
I clicked on a a technique, then I clicked on an example, and it went fullscreen. Neat. I pressed escape, and it went back to all the examples of the technique. I pressed escape again to go back further, and got a Square Space login screen?
kman82 3y ago
Yea. Maybe tell me what this site is about?
- eycndy 3y ago
  It's a visual technique library for the creative industry. Ad-folk, Directors, Cinematographers, Editors, and Creatives in general. It's a compilation (library) of all the best techniques categorized by type.
  - prox 3y ago
    That isn’t at all obvious from the frontpage. You probably want to keep the design lean, so just a simple “about” in small font would help to explain. The autoloading is also problematic on mobile/tablet but others already chipped in with solutions.
    - rchaud 3y ago
      It was obvious to me. On desktop, the top of the page lists categories. The content below is everything inside that category.
sizzle 3y ago
Love this site, how long did it take to build? Would be cool to see clips of behind the scenes showing camera placement and set/crew
- eycndy 3y ago
  Love that idea. I'm starting to roll out pages dedicated to each shot (when you click on it) that go into detail about it. The crew, the story, and eventually BTS and 'how to's' on how to make it. https://eycndy.com/fixed-object-schoolboy-dope-dealer https://eycndy.com/fixed-object-schoolboy-dope-dealer
  - eycndy 3y ago
    Oh, and about a year. Started roughly compiling stuff and thinking on this in July of 2022
  - sizzle 3y ago
    And for an example of the camera placement examples, check out the subreddit r/praisethecameraman (I think it’s called), sometimes shows the camera crew and rig and how they work their magic to pull off cool effects.
duckmysick 3y ago
Well done. How did you select and cut the examples? All by hand?
- eycndy 3y ago
  By hand, but I get a lot of great references from the film community.
slickrick216 3y ago
Really great site would make solid Tik toks and YouTube shorts one technique a minute long. No joke can see this being useful for prompt engineering like for people making AI memes. It’s about knowing what to ask for.
BillSaysThis 3y ago
There's one. technique I've been wondering about for a while but don't see on the page. Say there's one or two people who are the primary focus, and they stay in focus, but the background shifts so it comes closer even though the primary character(s) don't move. Not sure what it's called, would love to know.
- emmo 3y ago
  Sounds like you're talking about a dolly zoom?
  - javajosh 3y ago
    Yes, the classic example being from Jaws https://youtu.be/_eO_5q5dR9M?t=20 https://youtu.be/_eO_5q5dR9M?t=20
    - eycndy 3y ago
      Yea I think Dolly Zoom. https://eycndy.com/dollyzoom https://eycndy.com/dollyzoom There's also double dolly https://eycndy.com/double-dolly https://eycndy.com/double-dolly
      - BillSaysThis 3y ago
        Thanks all!
lucideer 3y ago
Is there an explicit name for tracking shots whereby the camera passes through objects impossibly (a subset of "Object Portal" in your website but I'm referring to shots that don't transition to a difference setting)? e.g. camera through keyhole/window/mirror.
wpietri 3y ago
It's such a delight. It is overwhelming and in the best possible way. The only thing I might suggest is adding some tagging for additional ways of rummaging. I love your existing approach to categories and I think you should keep them primary. But it would be great to browse by, say, director. E.g., I have enough of Edgar Wright's movies in my head that I'd love to see what clips you have from him and whether it's worth submitting more. I happened to find one here: https://eycndy.com/fourth-wall https://eycndy.com/fourth-wall
- eycndy 3y ago
  That's in the works! I want to incorporate a search bar into the site that uses a complex array of hand-done (and A.I. categorized) tags. So that you can search (for e.g.) by director, color, time of day, composition, genre, etc. In the works.
mgdlbp 3y ago
> N/A (Know where this came from?) https://eycndy.com/splitscreen?itemId=axdz1h5b22ecka9q12voxjcl7fee3q-3mxd2 https://eycndy.com/splitscreen?itemId=axdz1h5b22ecka9q12voxj... Trois souvenirs de ma jeunesse (2015) https://eycndy.com/splitscreen?itemId=71ke0wcliam5bx1hd2wvajuts3l5tn-xxk3b https://eycndy.com/splitscreen?itemId=71ke0wcliam5bx1hd2wvaj... Sisters (1972) https://eycndy.com/splitscreen?itemId=seohywjmhaktt6kjmt7g8xwkejy38u-3s7ed https://eycndy.com/splitscreen?itemId=seohywjmhaktt6kjmt7g8x... Sisters (1972) https://eycndy.com/rotoscoping?itemId=bh2cjz8pipya1nskejta43zbzhzqdu https://eycndy.com/rotoscoping?itemId=bh2cjz8pipya1nskejta43... Adidas Here to Create https://eycndy.com/rotoscoping?itemId=2afcukjqbz27e96l0qmb9h3chv96o5 https://eycndy.com/rotoscoping?itemId=2afcukjqbz27e96l0qmb9h... Adidas Here to Create https://eycndy.com/splitscreen-1?itemId=4o31q53c05kl5j76zikhdx6u1uksmi https://eycndy.com/splitscreen-1?itemId=4o31q53c05kl5j76zikh... The Perfection (2018) https://eycndy.com/splitscreen-1?itemId=22teiyrsa1n8t134f1bkvp4nmbgm39 https://eycndy.com/splitscreen-1?itemId=22teiyrsa1n8t134f1bk... Jennifer's Body (2009) https://eycndy.com/splitscreen-1?itemId=dio7my4nmf2xbkzut9jewbquytsiwv https://eycndy.com/splitscreen-1?itemId=dio7my4nmf2xbkzut9je... Reservoir Dogs (1992) tool gives useful lead? (listed order) Bing YYYYnYnY Google Search YYYYYYYY Google Lens nnYYnYnn TinEye nYYYnYYY Yandex nYYYnYYY
- pseudonymcoward 3y ago
  I recognized the Reservoir Dogs example just from my brain. To the site author, if you're going to list unknown images like this it would be nice if there was a way to give you feedback on them directly.
enjeyw 3y ago
Very cool! Animation is missing this classic from Aha: https://media.tenor.com/KAxhQIW7wTYAAAAC/aha-take-on-me.gif https://media.tenor.com/KAxhQIW7wTYAAAAC/aha-take-on-me.gif
- selcuka 3y ago
  Also movies such as Who Framed Roger Rabbit [1] and Space Jam [2]. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KujzFdGu7gY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KujzFdGu7gY [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yS_muZsLBok https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yS_muZsLBok
  - jansan 3y ago
    And the intro to Watchmen would deserve to be there. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h24D87SqaLQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h24D87SqaLQ Edit: I guess that would simply be the "Slow Motion" section.
    - KineticLensman 3y ago
      Off topic but that is one of the best film intros ever, showing rather than telling a 40 year backstory.
gibolt 3y ago
Loading performance improvements would be great. Took several seconds for anything other than the title to load. Maybe pull a low-res thumbnail of the first frame for each gif while loading. You may be able to use a virtual list to make performance even better as users rapidly scroll (but not as impactful as just loading a frame quickly).
gibolt 3y ago
Initially thought it was a giphy alternative (still kind of is). Maybe add a subtitle or CTA (at least on mobile) to make sure someone clicks into a gif to learn. 'Click to view film style' 'Select to find related gif' ... May be overkill, but could change first impressions
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jbigelow76 3y ago
This was super cool to click around on the various techniques and see the examples. (Questions/Thoughts) - I was looking to see if there was a Steadicam group, wondering if I would see a gif of Henry and Karen walking into the Copa, that's got to be one of the most famous shots in film in the last 40 years (not a critique, totally possible it's there under a different name I'm not aware of as a layperson, I didn't peruse every group.) [Edit note added] - "Fourth Wall" should include a gif of "The Big Short", breaking the fourth wall was a great way to get the minutiae of the financial subject out of the way and return to the characters. - Bonus upvote for finding a shot from "Halt and Catch Fire"! (dolly zoom) Edit: I knew I was forgetting the proper term for my question about Goodfellas, it's a tracking shot. I didn't see the movie in there though, I think it should be added :)
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ixmerof 3y ago
Hi, my only suggestion I immediately had is that if you're paging the content on mobile scroll, then for client performance reasons you could be unloading the older pages from the very top otherwise my experience ends at nearly few scrolls where my cpu says it is done.
codetrotter 3y ago
This page is hosted with Squarespace right? How much does it cost for you to be hosting this site with so many files? I see that you are using gif for everything. I suggest using webm and similar video formats instead. To use less bandwidth from your visitors.
latexr 3y ago
Gifs have large file sizes and poor image quality. Replace them with videos and you’ll improve page load, reduce bandwidth costs (for yourself and your users), and have better quality. You can configure HTML video to (by default) show no controls and auto-loop so they’ll be indistinguishable from gifs on a first look, but better in every other way.
- pmdarrow 3y ago
  One thing they're not great for though is shareability. With gifs, you can generally just drag & drop them between most apps and they'll behave as you expect. Not true with videos.
- account42 3y ago
  Gifs have limitations and limitations benefit art.
  - pornel 3y ago
    The site doesn't seem to work with GIF's limitations for artistic purposes. It's just slow. BTW: https://gif.ski https://gif.ski can work around most of the visual limitations of GIF, so only poor compression remains.
pnt12 3y ago
Looks great, thanks for the experience! Personally I'd like a "table of contents" where you get the title, a summary and an example. Then you could scroll and learn a bit about all techniques, clicking in one that piqued your interest. I'm not sure if that's easy or not. Let me know if I can help.
pragmatick 3y ago
Hi Jacobi. I love the content but the design is too busy for me. I can't concentrate on one clip because the others distract me. How about allowing to switch to a style where only one clip is shown and I can scroll down to see more? I wouldn't want to click to advance (like it is now when I zoom in on a clip), just endless scroll like you did it with one clip on the screen at any time. Also, is https://eycndy.com/crab-shot?itemId=cxns025fad8r33ene8rmxxnwtllgzm https://eycndy.com/crab-shot?itemId=cxns025fad8r33ene8rmxxnw... actually a trucking / crab shot? For me it's just a pan.

Hello! My name is Jacobi. I made Eyecandy. I'm appreciating seeing suggestions. Is there anything you want me to try on the website? Anything I could improve?

by eycndy 3y ago

Hello! My name is Jacobi. I made Eyecandy. I'm appreciating seeing suggestions. Is there anything you want me to try on the website? Anything I could improve?

remram 3y ago

I clicked on a a technique, then I clicked on an example, and it went fullscreen. Neat. I pressed escape, and it went back to all the examples of the technique. I pressed escape again to go back further, and got a Square Space login screen?

kman82 3y ago

Yea. Maybe tell me what this site is about?

eycndy 3y ago
It's a visual technique library for the creative industry. Ad-folk, Directors, Cinematographers, Editors, and Creatives in general. It's a compilation (library) of all the best techniques categorized by type.
- prox 3y ago
  That isn’t at all obvious from the frontpage. You probably want to keep the design lean, so just a simple “about” in small font would help to explain. The autoloading is also problematic on mobile/tablet but others already chipped in with solutions.
  - rchaud 3y ago
    It was obvious to me. On desktop, the top of the page lists categories. The content below is everything inside that category.

sizzle 3y ago

Love this site, how long did it take to build? Would be cool to see clips of behind the scenes showing camera placement and set/crew

eycndy 3y ago
Love that idea. I'm starting to roll out pages dedicated to each shot (when you click on it) that go into detail about it. The crew, the story, and eventually BTS and 'how to's' on how to make it. https://eycndy.com/fixed-object-schoolboy-dope-dealer https://eycndy.com/fixed-object-schoolboy-dope-dealer
- eycndy 3y ago
  Oh, and about a year. Started roughly compiling stuff and thinking on this in July of 2022
- sizzle 3y ago
  And for an example of the camera placement examples, check out the subreddit r/praisethecameraman (I think it’s called), sometimes shows the camera crew and rig and how they work their magic to pull off cool effects.

duckmysick 3y ago

Well done. How did you select and cut the examples? All by hand?

eycndy 3y ago
By hand, but I get a lot of great references from the film community.

slickrick216 3y ago

Really great site would make solid Tik toks and YouTube shorts one technique a minute long. No joke can see this being useful for prompt engineering like for people making AI memes. It’s about knowing what to ask for.

BillSaysThis 3y ago

There's one. technique I've been wondering about for a while but don't see on the page. Say there's one or two people who are the primary focus, and they stay in focus, but the background shifts so it comes closer even though the primary character(s) don't move. Not sure what it's called, would love to know.

emmo 3y ago
Sounds like you're talking about a dolly zoom?
- javajosh 3y ago
  Yes, the classic example being from Jaws https://youtu.be/_eO_5q5dR9M?t=20 https://youtu.be/_eO_5q5dR9M?t=20
  - eycndy 3y ago
    Yea I think Dolly Zoom. https://eycndy.com/dollyzoom https://eycndy.com/dollyzoom There's also double dolly https://eycndy.com/double-dolly https://eycndy.com/double-dolly
    - BillSaysThis 3y ago
      Thanks all!

lucideer 3y ago

Is there an explicit name for tracking shots whereby the camera passes through objects impossibly (a subset of "Object Portal" in your website but I'm referring to shots that don't transition to a difference setting)? e.g. camera through keyhole/window/mirror.

wpietri 3y ago

It's such a delight. It is overwhelming and in the best possible way. The only thing I might suggest is adding some tagging for additional ways of rummaging. I love your existing approach to categories and I think you should keep them primary. But it would be great to browse by, say, director. E.g., I have enough of Edgar Wright's movies in my head that I'd love to see what clips you have from him and whether it's worth submitting more. I happened to find one here: https://eycndy.com/fourth-wall https://eycndy.com/fourth-wall

eycndy 3y ago
That's in the works! I want to incorporate a search bar into the site that uses a complex array of hand-done (and A.I. categorized) tags. So that you can search (for e.g.) by director, color, time of day, composition, genre, etc. In the works.

mgdlbp 3y ago

> N/A (Know where this came from?) https://eycndy.com/splitscreen?itemId=axdz1h5b22ecka9q12voxjcl7fee3q-3mxd2 https://eycndy.com/splitscreen?itemId=axdz1h5b22ecka9q12voxj... Trois souvenirs de ma jeunesse (2015) https://eycndy.com/splitscreen?itemId=71ke0wcliam5bx1hd2wvajuts3l5tn-xxk3b https://eycndy.com/splitscreen?itemId=71ke0wcliam5bx1hd2wvaj... Sisters (1972) https://eycndy.com/splitscreen?itemId=seohywjmhaktt6kjmt7g8xwkejy38u-3s7ed https://eycndy.com/splitscreen?itemId=seohywjmhaktt6kjmt7g8x... Sisters (1972) https://eycndy.com/rotoscoping?itemId=bh2cjz8pipya1nskejta43zbzhzqdu https://eycndy.com/rotoscoping?itemId=bh2cjz8pipya1nskejta43... Adidas Here to Create https://eycndy.com/rotoscoping?itemId=2afcukjqbz27e96l0qmb9h3chv96o5 https://eycndy.com/rotoscoping?itemId=2afcukjqbz27e96l0qmb9h... Adidas Here to Create https://eycndy.com/splitscreen-1?itemId=4o31q53c05kl5j76zikhdx6u1uksmi https://eycndy.com/splitscreen-1?itemId=4o31q53c05kl5j76zikh... The Perfection (2018) https://eycndy.com/splitscreen-1?itemId=22teiyrsa1n8t134f1bkvp4nmbgm39 https://eycndy.com/splitscreen-1?itemId=22teiyrsa1n8t134f1bk... Jennifer's Body (2009) https://eycndy.com/splitscreen-1?itemId=dio7my4nmf2xbkzut9jewbquytsiwv https://eycndy.com/splitscreen-1?itemId=dio7my4nmf2xbkzut9je... Reservoir Dogs (1992) tool gives useful lead? (listed order) Bing YYYYnYnY Google Search YYYYYYYY Google Lens nnYYnYnn TinEye nYYYnYYY Yandex nYYYnYYY

pseudonymcoward 3y ago
I recognized the Reservoir Dogs example just from my brain. To the site author, if you're going to list unknown images like this it would be nice if there was a way to give you feedback on them directly.

enjeyw 3y ago

Very cool! Animation is missing this classic from Aha: https://media.tenor.com/KAxhQIW7wTYAAAAC/aha-take-on-me.gif https://media.tenor.com/KAxhQIW7wTYAAAAC/aha-take-on-me.gif

selcuka 3y ago
Also movies such as Who Framed Roger Rabbit [1] and Space Jam [2]. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KujzFdGu7gY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KujzFdGu7gY [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yS_muZsLBok https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yS_muZsLBok
- jansan 3y ago
  And the intro to Watchmen would deserve to be there. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h24D87SqaLQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h24D87SqaLQ Edit: I guess that would simply be the "Slow Motion" section.
  - KineticLensman 3y ago
    Off topic but that is one of the best film intros ever, showing rather than telling a 40 year backstory.

gibolt 3y ago

Loading performance improvements would be great. Took several seconds for anything other than the title to load. Maybe pull a low-res thumbnail of the first frame for each gif while loading. You may be able to use a virtual list to make performance even better as users rapidly scroll (but not as impactful as just loading a frame quickly).

gibolt 3y ago

Initially thought it was a giphy alternative (still kind of is). Maybe add a subtitle or CTA (at least on mobile) to make sure someone clicks into a gif to learn. 'Click to view film style' 'Select to find related gif' ... May be overkill, but could change first impressions

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jbigelow76 3y ago

This was super cool to click around on the various techniques and see the examples. (Questions/Thoughts) - I was looking to see if there was a Steadicam group, wondering if I would see a gif of Henry and Karen walking into the Copa, that's got to be one of the most famous shots in film in the last 40 years (not a critique, totally possible it's there under a different name I'm not aware of as a layperson, I didn't peruse every group.) [Edit note added] - "Fourth Wall" should include a gif of "The Big Short", breaking the fourth wall was a great way to get the minutiae of the financial subject out of the way and return to the characters. - Bonus upvote for finding a shot from "Halt and Catch Fire"! (dolly zoom) Edit: I knew I was forgetting the proper term for my question about Goodfellas, it's a tracking shot. I didn't see the movie in there though, I think it should be added :)

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ixmerof 3y ago

Hi, my only suggestion I immediately had is that if you're paging the content on mobile scroll, then for client performance reasons you could be unloading the older pages from the very top otherwise my experience ends at nearly few scrolls where my cpu says it is done.

codetrotter 3y ago

This page is hosted with Squarespace right? How much does it cost for you to be hosting this site with so many files? I see that you are using gif for everything. I suggest using webm and similar video formats instead. To use less bandwidth from your visitors.

latexr 3y ago

Gifs have large file sizes and poor image quality. Replace them with videos and you’ll improve page load, reduce bandwidth costs (for yourself and your users), and have better quality. You can configure HTML video to (by default) show no controls and auto-loop so they’ll be indistinguishable from gifs on a first look, but better in every other way.

pmdarrow 3y ago
One thing they're not great for though is shareability. With gifs, you can generally just drag & drop them between most apps and they'll behave as you expect. Not true with videos.
account42 3y ago
Gifs have limitations and limitations benefit art.
- pornel 3y ago
  The site doesn't seem to work with GIF's limitations for artistic purposes. It's just slow. BTW: https://gif.ski https://gif.ski can work around most of the visual limitations of GIF, so only poor compression remains.

pnt12 3y ago

Looks great, thanks for the experience! Personally I'd like a "table of contents" where you get the title, a summary and an example. Then you could scroll and learn a bit about all techniques, clicking in one that piqued your interest. I'm not sure if that's easy or not. Let me know if I can help.

pragmatick 3y ago

Hi Jacobi. I love the content but the design is too busy for me. I can't concentrate on one clip because the others distract me. How about allowing to switch to a style where only one clip is shown and I can scroll down to see more? I wouldn't want to click to advance (like it is now when I zoom in on a clip), just endless scroll like you did it with one clip on the screen at any time. Also, is https://eycndy.com/crab-shot?itemId=cxns025fad8r33ene8rmxxnwtllgzm https://eycndy.com/crab-shot?itemId=cxns025fad8r33ene8rmxxnw... actually a trucking / crab shot? For me it's just a pan.