We’re so lucky they filmed Lord of the Rings when they did. Twenty years later, they would’ve had Viggo Mortensen riding a green bike that they CGI into a horse because that’s better for some reason.
This simple feeling… is beyond Disney’s comprehension.
Kids, kids. Are you telling me you think they didn’t use CGI in Lord of the Rings? One of the characters is entirely mo-cap and CGI! It has dragons and mammoths, and I promise they didn’t really build gigantic statues to sail boats through.
no, people are not saying they didn’t cgi the dragons they’re saying lotr used real horses unlike the above example of editing in a dog where they might have held an actual dog.
Exactly. LOTR was a masterpiece in balancing CG and practical effects, they didn’t overuse CG. That didn’t mean they didn’t use it, it means that when practical was better, they used practical. When LOTR used CG, it was because it could not be done at the time with practical effects; you just can’t make someone look like Gollum without making their suit and prosthetics impossible to act in. This was before motion capture, they had to animate Gollum BY HAND using Andy Serkis as a reference. Four tusked elephants with tiny people walking around on them aren’t exactly on sale, nor are fell beasts.
Isengard and Orthanc? Bigature (miniature but like, the size of a tennis court). Minas Tirith? Bigature. Helm’s Deep, the Black Gate, Barad-dur, Minas Morgul, Osgiliath, even elements of Lothlorien, Moria, and the Grey Havens? BIGATURES. Hobbits and Gandalf in one shot? Almost always tricks of perspective with, for example, a table set that was made in 3 pieces to move and make you think Tiny Elijah Wood™ was sitting at the same table as Giant Ian McKellan™, not greenscreen. They literally went so far as to make the Hobbits’ clothes (on the taller actors, not their little stunt doubles) with thicker thread to make their smallness look real.
Those statues, the Gates of Argonath? CG. The gorge and the boats? Real.
But the thing about the top example with the dog? They’re doing it because CG is less expensive because animal handlers have unions, while CG artists don’t and work in sweatshop conditions.
I hope y’all know any gun control passed is going to be applied as racially as possible keeping weapons out of the hands of people who may need to defend their communities from outside attack and keeping them in the hands of right wing militants who are nearly always the perpetrators of mass shootings
Mass shooters are never leftists. Almost never “politically neutral.” Almost always on the Right. Many of them are violent misogynists or violent bigots. The Uvalde killer bought a gun on his 18th birthday, a week before he carried out his attack. That’s the behavior of someone who wanted to do what he did for a long time and went for it the instant it was easily possible. If his access to guns had been restricted in any way, he would’ve found another way to do it.
America has an alt right problem and until these people are shut down, captured, no longer allowed to speak openly about their hate online with likeminded fascist, this will only continue to happen no matter what.
I fully agree but I think the Uvalde killer and many others, especially school shooters, have this ideology that almost exists outside politics. Like. The ones that write manifestos tend to be Timothy McVeigh Without Explosives. But some seem more like. I don’t know, the player character from “Hatred?” This idea that their life is terrible and humanity is terrible and the only solution is. That. I don’t know how that sort of suicidal/omnicidal ideation can be dissolved because, at least to me, it seems to exist outside politics.
Maybe I’m understanding it incorrectly and this plague is very much politically on the Right. Or maybe combating fascism will still aid in fighting this misanthropic violence, I don’t know.
Kind of a two birds with one stone situation. Fascism is a deeply inhumane ideology that glorifies violence and general hatred toward your fellow man, right wing ideology is a scourge that must be wiped from any good society.
The Shigir Sculpture is the oldest known wooden sculpture in the world, made during the Mesolithic period, shortly after the end of the last Ice Age. The wood it was carved from is around 11,500 years old..
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