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Corndog @corndog.ninja · 3h

I don't know about voices but they did face-blending AI/ML with Furiosa growing up in the first half of the movie

CG was also required for some nifty facial animation, given that two actresses played Furiosa — Alyla Browne as a child and teenager and Taylor-Joy as an adult. This consisted of seamlessly blending Taylor-Joy’s features with Browne’s with the use of AI. This was handled by Rising Sun Pictures using machine learning software. “We wanted to make Alyla’s eye shape more similar to the way that Anya might have looked when she was that age,” Jackson said. “We replaced a patch of her face, depending on the shot. In some of the closeup stuff, there’s quite a significant component that’s been modified. We also modified the look of Alyla to be slightly older towards the end.”

Conversely, the first few times we see Taylor-Joy, her eyes are made to look a bit more like Browne’s to smooth the transition. Jackson found the process effective because the software compiles and analyzes both sets of eyes (using footage from their previous performances) and then provides the desired result, replacing one set with the other.

“It’s more than just shape and color, it’s the whole performance,” he said. “But it has to fit, this mix between [the two] faces. It’s just a new tool that is more effective at capturing the performance and minute expressions than traditional CG face replacement techniques.”

https://www.indiewire.com/features/craft/furiosa-vfx-cg-ai-george-miller-1235012239/

Taylor-Joy added that at the beginning of the movie, it’s about 35% of her appearance on Browne, and by the time that she is about to assume the role, it’s roughly 80%. “It’s wild to see,” she admitted.

https://variety.com/2024/artisans/news/furiosa-ai-anya-taylor-joy-alyla-browne-1236016222/

Corndog @corndog.ninja · 16h

I don't know if I've gone fishing IRL... since I was a kid (I think the last time was crabbing around a decade ago with my dad and one of his old college buddies?) but have fond enough memories of doing so back in the day.

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Corndog @corndog.ninja · 16h

I have gotten absolutely hooked on the fishing in FFXV. I don't think I fished more than once the first time I tried playing this game but this go-round I am hitting up every dock and pier in the land 🎣

the chocobros gather round to admire Noct's latest catch

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mark roebuck @markroebuck.bsky.social · 1d

Quit wasting Nine Inch Nails music on bad movies. Let them do Naked Gun 2

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josh (oldfriend99) @oldfriend99.bsky.social · 25d

We used to have Mindfreak. Now, we are all "mind freaks"

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Corndog @corndog.ninja · 1d

I was watching a Hong Kong action movie and there's a scene where the wife of the police commander is addressed as "Mrs. Commander", which of course made me think of some kind of bird-reptile that teaches Pre-K

A character speaks to "Mrs. Commander" (scene from "The Heroic Trio", 1993)

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Corndog @corndog.ninja · 2d

that's what you had to do before they invented Twitter lol

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Corndog @corndog.ninja · 2d

Luke, we're gonna have company!

lukecompany.ytmnd.com

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Mike Ginn @shutupmikeginn.bsky.social · 2d

"The Man from UNCLE" ? You mean my cousin? 😂

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Corndog @corndog.ninja · 2d

Dont waste my motherfucking time!

YouTube video by gadrev

www.youtube.com

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 3d

Both games are about having a sword that looks like a CD player Victor only sold in Japan in 2003.

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Corndog @corndog.ninja · 3d

I simply love to kick the can down the road

Corndog @corndog.ninja · 3d

once again I told myself "it's okay that I slacked off on Friday because I'll log in over the weekend and put in a coupla hours" and then proceeded not to do that. will be locking the fuck in tomorrow AM I guess

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Chris Plante @plante.bsky.social · 4d

Are you brave enough for this double feature?

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Corndog @corndog.ninja · 3d

I guess I've also seen like the five-second clip of it that they watch in "Gremlins". I only know McCarthy from "UHF" so I'm interested to see him in a more serious role

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Corndog @corndog.ninja · Jan 12

#Hejustkepttalkinginonelongincrediblyunbrokensentencemovingfromtopictotopicsothatnoonehadachancetointerruptitwasreallyquitehypnotic

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Corndog @corndog.ninja · 3d

got a new passport photo after 10+ years and it is truly alarming how much it's literally just this. in my defense last time they let me keep my glasses on and smile

a person is holding a picture of a cartoon character named mai

ALT: a person is holding a picture of a cartoon character named mai

media.tenor.com

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Corndog @corndog.ninja · 3d

I want to check out this one! I've only seen the 70s version (which Kevin McCarthy does have a cameo in)

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Corndog @corndog.ninja · 4d

I love to go to the theater and see a 3D movie

Corndog @corndog.ninja · 4d

time to finally start thinking about badge ribbons

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Corndog @corndog.ninja · 4d

unfortunately I can't flex the fingers of the right hand of doom enough to point (or flip off) but eh

Corndog @corndog.ninja · 4d

still trying to figure out the cosplays to bring to Kumoricon. I kind of want to throw Hellboy in the trunk so I can take a picture of me standing 100 feet away from and pointing at the inevitable hell of a boss meetup

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more mr. dice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · Jan 6

A father and son get in a car crash and are rushed to the hospital. The father dies. The boy is taken to the operating room and Frankenstein says, “I can operate on this boy.”

How is this possible?

A: Frankenstein is the doctor.

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Corndog @corndog.ninja · 5d

To this day I cannot hear the Chocobo music without thinking "Fi-nal Fan-tas-y is an R-P-G...🎶"

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Corndog @corndog.ninja · 6d

poor Alfred finally escapes the 00s file-sharing hell of getting miscredited as "wierd al yankovich" on parody songs he didn't write, only to now get caught up in misapplied "Weird A.I." labeling

MintzBuck @mintzbuck.bsky.social · Jul 1

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