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Light & Magic | Official Trailer | Disney+

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DamianKastbauer @damiankastbauer.bsky.social · 15h

Also see: Light & Magic youtu.be/QGs-5G3qVwk?...

YouTube video by Lucasfilm

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DamianKastbauer @damiankastbauer.bsky.social · 15h

Looking back at workflows/sentiments/challenges faced by a team bridging film paradigms that have become accepted, assumed, and (largely) taken for granted, I wonder what will be created tomorrow, at the current intersection of technology/ creativity, that will resonate with someone in the same way?

DamianKastbauer @damiankastbauer.bsky.social · 15h

For context: I was there when the original Tron launched, 7 years old and perfectly aligned culturally: computers, video games, action figures, movies. The confluence was VERY strong and still resonates with me today.

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DamianKastbauer @damiankastbauer.bsky.social · 15h

“…and what could be better than getting a ton of artists involved with (technology) as soon as possible, because (artists are) the remedy to overthinking it from a scientific standpoint…”
youtube.com/shorts/8dx1b...

Artists were the remedy

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DamianKastbauer @damiankastbauer.bsky.social · 15h

There’s also an eyes-wide-open acknowledgement that as technology has become more accessible, it doesn’t replace creators and the desire to create.
youtube.com/shorts/cw2gy...

Usability of technology

DamianKastbauer @damiankastbauer.bsky.social · 15h

…and coupled with the way that the special effects of Tron were excluded from the academy awards because they “cheated” by leveraging the emerging technology of computer graphics.
youtube.com/shorts/gMX2G...

They said we cheated

On the edge of a new technology

DamianKastbauer @damiankastbauer.bsky.social · 15h

The incredible optimism expressed by everyone in the Making of Tron documentary is balanced by an acknowledgement of fear over the replacement of people with computers
youtube.com/shorts/6J9we...

Remember how hard it was at the time

DamianKastbauer @damiankastbauer.bsky.social · 15h

“We’ll look back…and remember how hard it was at the time…we’ll have made some great strides and still have a ways to go”
youtube.com/shorts/BpT8d...

This is where the future was going

DamianKastbauer @damiankastbauer.bsky.social · 15h

“(Artists) had a sense that, this is where the future is going and it was going to belong to them.”
youtube.com/shorts/rq7U_...

As if the human hand could not have made it

DamianKastbauer @damiankastbauer.bsky.social · 15h

“…(computer graphics) looks so perfect, as if the human hand could not have made it.”
youtube.com/shorts/UUgdU...

DamianKastbauer @damiankastbauer.bsky.social · 15h

“Every object needs 6 positions for every frame that it moves…100 frames 600 numbers of data 4 seconds of animation…calculated…hand-programmed, typed them in…”
youtube.com/shorts/nbcI2...

Typed in by hand

There’s creativity and technology

DamianKastbauer @damiankastbauer.bsky.social · 15h

“There’s technology and there’s creativity and the two are interrelated. But technology is not necessarily creative.”
youtube.com/shorts/TQ-y5...

The Making of Tron 1982 Full Documentary

DamianKastbauer @damiankastbauer.bsky.social · 15h

Making of Tron is an incredible testament to the intersection of creativity/ technology at the start of computer assisted/ facilitated workflows. (1/13)
youtu.be/sbgHMrLPQrE?...

YouTube video by Technology for Storytelling

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DamianKastbauer @damiankastbauer.bsky.social · 1d

Montréal Frequencies: Metric - Fantasies, The XX - XX, Low - When the Curtain Hits the Cast, Lana Del Rey - Ultraviolence, Chvrches - Bones of What You Believe, Eldlin Cope - MOONS

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DamianKastbauer @damiankastbauer.bsky.social · 1d

It’s Friday, TURN IT UP! #TheseFadersFrogsPortland 🐸🐸🐸

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Game Audio India @gameaudioindia.bsky.social · 2d

The India Game Developer Conference is right around the corner. Apply to become a speaker, or secure your tickets to the event now. More details are available on the website: indiagdc.com

#gamedev #igdc #conference #India #gameaudio

indiagdc.com

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Audiokinetic @audiokinetic.bsky.social · 4d

Next week on #WwiseUpOnAir, we're talking Spatial Audio improvements in #Wwise 2025.1: From the the Dual Shelf Filter, to the addition of more settings to facilitate profiling in the Game Object 3D Viewer, join us next week as we dive right in! hubs.ly/Q03MBmJS0

#GameAudio

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DamianKastbauer @damiankastbauer.bsky.social · 5d

YES! Although I could stand to circle-back. Sianspheric is tops!

DamianKastbauer @damiankastbauer.bsky.social · 5d

Cheers, thanks for that! Excited for what’s in store…looks like some amazing conversations!

000 - Introducing Audio Logs

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Dan Richer @daaaaaaaan.bsky.social · 5d

Super stoked to be announcing that
@domcaterina.bsky.social
and I and starting our brand new #gameaudio podcast.

Here’s a preview of what it’s about and what to expect out of this. If you can, please spread the word!

Thanks a ton and we hope you’re as excited as we are!

Audio Logs @audiologs.ca · 5d

Introducing Audio Logs, our brand new #gameaudio podcast created and hosted by Dan Richer (@daaaaaaaan.bsky.social) and Dom Caterina (@domcaterina.bsky.social). More to come very soon!

youtu.be/vGtVZIv5B38

YouTube video by Audio Logs

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DamianKastbauer @damiankastbauer.bsky.social · 5d

🔥🪵🔥

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DamianKastbauer @damiankastbauer.bsky.social · 8d

BOMB THA BASS!