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The Free Movie: Frame-by-frame, handrawn reproduction of "The Bee Movie" (2023)
- kevingadd 2y agoFrom a few moments of watching, it seems like over half the crowd-sourced frames are just trolling and not actually a representation of the original film. I guess that kind of adds to the aesthetic, but I'm a little surprised they kept those troll frames...
- lukevp 2y agoYeah I agree, there should be a voting system that can kick out bogus frames and have someone remake them, would be really interesting to see what it’d look like if everyone was trying to recreate it. Kind of like rotoscoping I suppose. As it is, there’s just a ton of discontinuity because of the troll frames.
- chem83 2y agoI imagine that trolls would eventually band together to try to steamroll the voting system like it happens on r/Place. Maybe.
- nielsole 2y agoIf votes are attributable, such voting rings should be easily detectable
- pcblues 2y agoThis is a fascinating idea. Sort of like a wikipedia, but trying to establish the truth of a single movie rather than everything we know. It would probably end up needing moderators, harassing people for funding, and pay for political purposes as well as its core reason for existing :)
- doubled112 2y agoFor at least a few seconds it was an odd game of phallus or frame.
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- _ea1k 2y agoYeah, there really needed to be some voting or other feedback system to encourage consistency over time. This is a mildly interesting experiment that largely just looks like a failure at the moment.
- Deprogrammer9 2y agoThanks for making me watch that? WTF
- bytematic 2y agowould be cool without all the trolling
- smolder 2y agoBetter in concept than execution, for sure. I feel bad for the people that actually drew their frames competently.
- ternnoburn 2y agoThe execution is part of the art of it, like, there's a statement being made about the Internet, anonymity, and humanity here. It may not be what the artist originally set out to create with their art, which I find fascinating.
- binary_slinger 2y agoWho is going to put each frame into image to image AI model and get out a photorealistic output and recompile?
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- cafeinux 2y agoLots of photorealistic phalluses are going to be generated.
- davidmurdoch 2y agoOnly if you're using a model trained on them
- RankingMember 2y agoI think it would be against the spirit of the project not to do so
- Terretta 2y agoI've read white papers seemingly claiming with the right prompt these sketches would turn into the indicated art. That would be quite the compression scheme.
- renewiltord 2y agoI watched 5 seconds and it was garbage. Felt like /dev/random
- tuanx5 2y agoReminiscent of Shrek Retold
- tristanj 2y agoShrek Retold https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pM70TROZQsI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pM70TROZQsI is a similar fan-made reproduction, but it's way more polished. The movie is split into roughly 1min sections, with each one done by a different creator. The quality is all over the place, in a hilarious way. One minute it's produced by a professional animator nailing the scenes, then the next minute it's people goofing around in their backyard.
- asabla 2y agoSome of the most goofiest scenes reminded me about my self growing up, recording dumb re-creations of movies/tv-shows with friends. I had a blast watching that! thank you for sharing.
- lloeki 2y agoI believe the trendsetter was Star Wars Uncut, made of 15s slices: https://www.starwarsuncut.com/ https://www.starwarsuncut.com/ Which I now realise I never watched in full...
- cafeinux 2y agoI love the differences between those three movies (The Free Movie, Shrek Retold and Star Wars Uncut). Star Wars really looks like a work of love. Shrek looks like a work of love that tries it's best to not take itself seriously. Free Movie looks like a bizarre troll post. While this is coherent with each movie's tone itself, and perhaps with the time each "demaster" was made (I don't know, I didn't check), I feel like this is most coherent with how each movie is viewed by the community: - Star Wars is a beloved movie, with a huge honest fan base. Thus, it was remade with love and attention to detail. - Shrek is a beloved movie, but doesn't take itself seriously in the first place, and is also a meme. Thus it was remade with love, but trying hard to look like it's a troll. - Bee Movie is mainly a meme, isn't AFAIK a beloved movie, and its fan base is mostly made of memers and trolls. Thus it was low-effortly remade at this non-flattering image.
- johnnyanmac 2y ago
- dang 2y agoRelated: The Free Movie - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36687399 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36687399 - July 2023 (100 comments)
- Reviving1514 2y agoThis is amazing. I love that this exists. I'm surprised how negative some of the comments are.
- SV_BubbleTime 2y agoI skipped to a random spot, and lasted about 5 seconds. Two drawings of dicks, 50% scribbles, and a couple frames of just the word PENIS. Yes, this is truly a noteworthy effort. I’m as equally curious as you, just on the other side of the horseshoe.
- polonbike 2y agoSame here. If you skip to a random part of the movie, and move frame by frame, it becomes a game of "spot the penis". Just one or two can be "tolerated", but we're far from that here, so ... My opinion is that it does not really belong in HN
- filcuk 2y agoBecause of a penis drawing? Are we in preschool? There have been those ever since caveman times.
- shermantanktop 2y agoDid the caveman Bee Movie have penises in it? Because then you’d have a really good point.
- robertlagrant 2y agoI think the point is we're not in preschool, nor are we cave(wo)men, so we don't need the penis drawings.
- gopher_space 2y agoA penis drawing isn't something that's needed, it's something that happens. Feel free to rail against them in a Kanute-like manner, but learning to cock an eyebrow and say "yeah, that figures" can be self-preserving. For what it's worth I too prefer the plausible deniability of Georgia O'Keefe's outrageous lies. It's a more sensible chuckle.
- WesolyKubeczek 2y agoNice idea, but I’m struggling to remember myself ever having consumed so many different pictures of dicks over the course of five minutes.
- eigenblake 2y agoWe could probably fine-tune a tiny convolutional neutral net image classifier and just hold on the last good frames for longer to cover the frames with clear trolling and nsfw images.
- BriggyDwiggs42 2y agoI think that would miss the point
- mkagenius 2y agoNo, that point was already made. This will be a new point unlike the previous point.
- BriggyDwiggs42 2y agoBut i like the previous point. Why would you take it from me?
- I-M-S 2y agoIt's not taking away, a new point is by definition adding. Just like The Free Movie added to The Bee Movie.
- BriggyDwiggs42 2y agoI think it would be subtractive. To my eye, it seems like the point of the project was to celebrate the free expression of the crowd. The lack of censorship and filtering is core to the purpose of the project. If you start filtering out individual contributions in order to more accurately reconstruct the original movie, then I don’t really get why you wouldn’t just pirate the movie.
- airstrike 2y agoI think the word "crowdsourced" is conspicuously missing from the title. It would explain a lot.
- cafeinux 2y agoThey do say it's "crowd-pirated".
- echelon 2y agoBack when I was first playing around with AI, I built a website where people could upload fine tuned GlowTTS and Tacotron2 text to speech model weights. One of the first things users did was to emit the entire transcript of the Bee Movie: https://youtu.be/0_ToJXHnVFQ?si=qfMNuJXAHW-hWSz5 https://youtu.be/0_ToJXHnVFQ?si=qfMNuJXAHW-hWSz5
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- r-w 2y agoEpilepsy warning please! :-)
- pajko 2y agoThe bunny reenactments are cool too: http://www.angryalien.com/ http://www.angryalien.com/
- imdsm 2y agoI clicked randomly, at 00:37:09 and got a penis
- ikesau 2y agoI drew a few frames in this, but it was a real shame to see how little quality control there was in the final cut. Makes it kind of unwatchable. Progress near the end was really fast, as lots of people had caught on and were racing to get as many frames in as possible. I really don't think this concept has been worn out yet, and someone could make their own version of this with a small review step and then we'd get some fun, actually watchable hand-drawn movies :)
- ElCapitanMarkla 2y agoWhat would be interesting is if multiple submissions could be made for each frame, and you could rank each. You could build a version of the best frames every year and watch it progress.
- sjf 2y agoYou’re right, I can’t believe they didn’t cut frames that are totally unrelated, there so many left in that are just scribbles or text. I just tried making some frames for the dune remake. The editor is so hard to use. I can only draw a one pixel line with no smoothing. It’s really laggy/glitchy. I can barely even make out what the original frame is because it’s in grayscale with an overlay. I got one frame that could have been a landscape of snow and rocks, or it could have been sand dunes, or water. I have no idea, it was just gray and white blobs. I get that they are going for a retro style, but even MS paint had different size brushes. It’s such a cool idea, I wish the tooling was better.
- GrantMoyer 2y agoI can certainly see why many commenters here find this many dicks hard to swallow, but when I take them wholly with the rest of the work, I find they come together satisfyingly and rawly defile copyright and DRM.
- yboris 2y agoDifferent approach: splice in visual and audio effects of guns into Harry Potter Harry Potter and the Deathly Weapons -- Harry Potter With Guns https://harrypotterwithguns.com/ https://harrypotterwithguns.com/
- conductr 2y agoI never watched or read the series but my wife was watching it (last week actually), I passed by and saw a chase scene where they were shooting from their wands at each other and I made a comment like "Oh, it's Jason Bourne for kids.. now I see the appeal"
- ashoeafoot 2y agolife finds a way to preserve around the cultural death that is copyright