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by touchofevil 10y ago
I've spent the last several years working in the visual effects industry in Los Angeles, and I've seen the international subsidies (mainly from Canada) basically completely kill the feature film vfx industry in LA. I've often
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No Hollywood Ending for the Visual Effects Industry(freakonomics.com)
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by touchofevil 10y ago
So sad. Incidences like these will undoubtedly occur more frequently due to the Trump administration scapegoating and demonizing immigrants and "the other" in their rhetoric.
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by touchofevil 10y ago
Yeah, Adobe Premiere or Avid. Premiere is a lot like Final Cut Pro 7.
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by touchofevil 10y ago
It's true, you could add an external ThunderBolt chassis, but when the trash can Mac Pro first came out I recall that not many companies were making the chassis and they were pretty expensive maybe around $1000 from Sonnettech.com (whi
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by touchofevil 10y ago
The only thing Apple has left going for it at this point in the pro video market is the ability to encode video using the Apple Pro Res codec, which is an amazing codec. But other than that, they have totally abandoned the pro market. Fin
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by touchofevil 10y ago
There's definitely a move from the theater to on-demand streaming platforms for all movies except giant movies like Star Wars, so I think the author is right that the theatrical experience will see audience attendance continue to drop.
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by touchofevil 10y ago
I do somewhat agree with you from a playing standpoint. I often gravitated to combo or control because I didn't want to deal with doing the math on attacking / blocking as it could lead to some awfully complicated interactions.
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by touchofevil 10y ago
Agreed. I think Wizards made the right call for Standard in terms of attracting and retaining new players. It's good to hear from another person who got in around Ice Age (same here) and enjoyed the complexities of that era of Magic d
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by touchofevil 10y ago
I got hooked on Magic early and didn't feel much need to branch out to other games. I did play a bit of Texas Hold'em later and thought that was okay. A lot of people in comic shops (where Magic is played) play WarHammer 40K and
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by touchofevil 10y ago
I was just about to post about Shahrazad! Totally agree! Shahrazad: Players play a MAGIC subgame, using their libraries as their decks. Each player who doesn't win the subgame loses half his or her life, rounded up.
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by touchofevil 10y ago
This is nowhere near the brainiest Magic has ever been. I've been playing almost since the beginning and it's been disappointing to see how the game has been simplified. It seems like all competitive standard decks now are creatur
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by touchofevil 10y ago
Sorry for your loss. It sounds like you are depressed and should chat with a therapist. Good luck.
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by touchofevil 10y ago
You sound depressed. Have you seen a therapist? If you haven't yet, it would probably be worth a try. Good luck.
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by touchofevil 10y ago
I guess I've just always been a little surprised that studios didn't open source more of their internal software. For example, Nuke was originally internal software at Digital Domain before they sold it to The Foundry, I believe.
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by touchofevil 10y ago
Linux is definitely used often at studios. But I don't know of any studios in Los Angeles using Blender as their primary 3D animation application. Alembic gets used, but that's basically "glue" as another poster pointe
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by touchofevil 10y ago
Yeah, a lot of it comes down to network effects. Studios have to ramp up staff quickly, so they need to be able to find freelancers that already know the software they are using. So the studios have to use the "industry standard&quot
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by touchofevil 10y ago
I'm a compositor & motion graphics artist. I've never used Natron, but I've done a lot of compositing in After Effects and a little bit of compositing in Nuke (which is the industry standard for photorealistic vfx compos
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by touchofevil 10y ago
Would incorporating your tech company in England instead of the USA protect your company from these patent troll lawsuits? It's extremely easy to start a company based in England, even as a US citizen living in the USA. With the pate
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by touchofevil 10y ago
That staff to company ratio is surprising. I did a month at NextSpace.us in Culver City, CA and they really only ever had 2 or 3 staff members on at one time for the whole location.
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by touchofevil 10y ago
Thanks for the info. I considered focusing on Javascript and node exclusively, but I'm really only looking to build CRUD web apps quickly, and Rails or Django seemed more beginner friendly for those purposes than node. Of course, I&#
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by touchofevil 10y ago
I've made a couple of attempts and I'm about to make another attempt to learn to code. I think the problem I run into the most is that a lot of the online learning is not project based, or takes too long to get started on a proje
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by touchofevil 10y ago
You should post this on reddit.com/r/iwantout A lot of people there would love this!
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by touchofevil 11y ago
Final Cut X was really a huge disappointment to the professional editing community when it was released. It was missing features that made it unusable for professionals. For example, when it was released, it was not possible to export sou
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by touchofevil 11y ago
Macs have never been a good choice for render farm render nodes. The ideal render nodes are something like a dual twin supermicro box running linux or windows. In a 1U rackmounted server like that you can throw in 4 CPUs (and each CPU cou
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by touchofevil 11y ago
Apple has been steadily been abandoning the "creative pro" market for a long time. The two most recent indicators were dropping Final Cut Pro 7 for Final Cut Pro X, which was not ready for professional editing at release. The ne
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by touchofevil 11y ago
The Meadow team seems to be doing a great job. getMeadow.com is really well done and their move into dispensary inventory management software and a POS system is impressive. I have been following them closely and I was wondering if their
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by touchofevil 11y ago
Wow, what an incredibly, obviously bad idea. I spotted this last night and immediately realized how this would go down. If you have 900 million users (as gmail does) and you add a button right next to the send button that also has the wor
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Ask HN: Code Review Service for Node.js Angular
1 points by touchofevil 11y ago|1 comments
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Tech's 'Frightful 5' Will Dominate Digital Life for Forseeable Future(nytimes.com)
1 points by touchofevil 11y ago|0 comments

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