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by thenomad 11y ago
Just released my first live-action short film, using a combination of motion capture and conventional shooting. It's the story of a disgruntled startup founder who summons a demon to take revenge on his co-founders - following a YouTub
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Is Live-Action Film at a Tech Tipping Point?(strangecompany.org)
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by thenomad 11y ago
Muse businesses are good. If you're sure they're a solid bet and they have a clear business model that can make money, I'd say give 'em a go. If they're not of the "simple, direct route to profit" variety,
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by thenomad 11y ago
Resubmitted following the HN discussion on the SoloShot - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9878275 and in accordance with the discussion the other day that made it clear reposts were OK if the original post didn't
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An Overview of Robot Cameras in 2015(strangecompany.org)
1 points by thenomad 11y ago|1 comments
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by thenomad 11y ago
Hmm, that's a very interesting point. Particularly since I think the "geek" moniker could definitely be applied to the Shelleys. Byron, less so.
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by thenomad 11y ago
Actually, the Facebook of the Dead is an interesting concept...
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by thenomad 11y ago
How precise is the tracking? Could you use it to track a close-up of a face reliably, or is it not that good?
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by thenomad 11y ago
God dammit. OP here - I'm a huge fan of the Dark Souls games too... But I'm trying to hold off on buying a PS4 until there's more than one game I want to play on it.
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by thenomad 11y ago
At the point when Lovecraft was writing, dreaming was intimately connected with a new, exciting science - psychology and psychotherapy. And the technology's all around - it's explicitly stated both in Lovecraft and subsequent fo
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by thenomad 11y ago
Huh, interesting point - I'd not considered the horrific element of Snowcrash in the same light.
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by thenomad 11y ago
Indeed so. I feel a follow-up piece coming on entitled "Ia, ia, Google fthagn..."
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by thenomad 11y ago
I'd cheerfully pay sticker price for just the tracking system, no tripod required (assuming I hadn't overspent on media gadgetry already this quarter, anyway).
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by thenomad 11y ago
From my point of view - it means that as a run-and-gun shooter of narrative, I can essentially have an extra cameraman on tap. That means I can shoot a close-up whilst it handles the wide, or in extremis it can shoot a wide shot and I can h
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by thenomad 11y ago
Search on YouTube to get some practical demos. They're pretty cool. (Not OP but I follow this sector pretty closely.)
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by thenomad 11y ago
This is a fascinating product - I wrote about it a while ago over at http://www.strangecompany.org/will-your-next-cameraperson-be... I'd love to get hold of one to do a practical test, actually... It strikes me as a mu
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Any Sufficiently Advanced Technology Is Indistinguishable from Cthulhu(antipope.org)
119 points by thenomad 11y ago|60 comments
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Show HN: HOWTO: Demon Summoning(strangecompany.org)
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by thenomad 11y ago
It's not just about communicating with your crew, but also your public. If you don't have a fanbase waiting for your work to come out, it'll be much, much, MUCH harder to achieve a successful launch. I'm very good at lau
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by thenomad 11y ago
Yup, I've had that problem a couple of times recently too. Definitely a current issue.
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by thenomad 11y ago
One of the big things they clearly did right, which when I was in the middle of a half-decade project I did very wrong: they kept communicating. I went dark - stopped blogging, stopped Tweeting - because I figured it was better to spend tim
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Why the Guy Who Coined “Machinima” Is Now Making Live-Action Films(strangecompany.org)
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by thenomad 11y ago
Definitely. I've been a working artist for 20 years now (filmmaker). One of the biggest advantages I've had in sustaining that career is that I'm pretty damn good with a spreadsheet. As others have said, it's a long game
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by thenomad 11y ago
"Or you really, really like the novel you wrote, despite well-articulated and uniformly scathing takedowns from editors, English professors, literary critics, etc." This description != a worthless piece of art. E.L. James is pro
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by thenomad 11y ago
REALLY good piece. The bit that stood out to me in particular was his embrace of deliberate practice. It's been identified in studies as the most powerful tool for learning skills like this - good to see it born out in at least one pra
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Do Podcasts Beat Film, Games and Comics as a Storytelling Medium?(strangecompany.org)
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by thenomad 11y ago
Interesting. What's the specific pain point there? I would have assumed that running 2 installers on 35 machines was pretty much all there is to it, but clearly that's not the case. (Note: definitely not saying you're wrong!
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by thenomad 11y ago
So, the obvious question is this: why aren't we seeing a massive influx of Usenet users from Reddit right now? And why didn't everyone move to Usenet rather than Reddit after Digg fell apart? There's clearly something, or som
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by thenomad 11y ago
Ditto. Information on topic-specific subreddits is really useful, and not always subject to rapid bitrot. (Context: I'm a filmmaker. There's plenty of writing about filmmaking from 30+ years ago that's still very useful. And
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by thenomad 11y ago
This article really highlights something that I'm constantly amazed by - just how SLOW major media organisations are prepared to allow their websites to be. When I'm designing a landing page for anything significant (product, movi

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