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This is one of the best examples of misunderstanding a shot. Look at abyssal difference between these two. In Chung's original animation the scene builds up towards the eye that is setup to function like a venus flytrap. It's insidious, it meets your expectation even though it makes no sense. The shot is so simple and controlled, you arw drawn to the trap (the curving lock of hair guides us).
Look atbthe movie, it just looks like a fly flew accidentlaly into her eye out of nowhere, just randomly.
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Technology has advanced so much and yet, the peak of cinema is still 1999, from every point of view.
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imagine watching this in 1941 and wondering how advanced and cool animation will be in 80 years.
How did animation degrade so much?
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PS2 ads were completely unhinged
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The 4th post is not official PS2 marketing material. It was created by Shy Smith in 2021.
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Hard to believe this film is 103 years old. Look at these shots, they are perfect
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The 1992 "Dune" anime adaptation is still my favorite version
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These images are created using AI. No anime adaptations of Dune exist.
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The original design for Arrakeen inhabitants for Villenuve's Dune was much more creative than what they went for
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This absolute beautiful shot looks modern but it's actually a sequence from a 1930 movie called "King Of Jazz" directed by John Murray Anderson.
Shot on ancient 2-strip Technicolor
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As a kid I had a Playstation version of Metal Slug which had a gallery of concept arts.
Here in this 🧵 I will share my favorites
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Art Deco backgrounds from the early Tom & Jerry cartoons (1940s).
It's not just the vibes, the shots are so beautifully blocked that they work without any character in it.
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Everything in this scene is real.
Everything.
We could still make movies this way
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These early 1920s Australian Police mugshots are so good. Not only is the execution of the photo excellent, but it also highlights the strong character of the criminals.
It's hard today to find actors that can exude so much personality
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One of the greatest shots in history, from "Faust" (1926) directed by F. W. Murnau
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The posters for Hungary's Orion Radio in the 30s didn't need to go this hard
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So finally roman cement has been reverse engineered and they found out it is mixed with sea water and calcium oxide. This leads to the cement self healing when it crack and rains on it, which is the reason why the Pantheon is still standing after 2000 years
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It's quite unlikely that animation that looks like this will ever be made again
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150 years ago Kobayashi Kiyochika (小林 清親) started crafting the most cinematic woodblock compositions of all times. A great influence on filmmakers
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This is a 1997 commercial for Murphy's Irish Stout. Imagine the effort and admire the kino
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On this day 45 years ago came out one of the greatest movies ever made, Stanley Kubrick's "Napoleon".
Kubrick decided to shoot with natural light and reused the Zeus f.007 lenses like in Barry Lyndon, but due to a piece of debris that hit the lens, one of them cracked and they had to resort to the only other one in existence
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I hope you can also appreciate this. In the forearms there is one very small muscle that contracts only when lifting the pinky, otherwise it is invisible. Michelangelo's Moses is lifting the pinky, therefore that tiny muscle is contracted.
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This shot from Fellini's "Satyricon" (1968) is so weird it looks like a 90s point-and-click adventure game
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Lupin III is a show that we loved im Italy, it's charming, elegant, whimsical, comfy, sexy, cool...
In this 🧵 here is a collection of many shots that are either interesting, beautiful, funny and hope it can make you curious about this beautiful show that spans decades.
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This is the spectacular 1985 experimental fantasy scifi animation "The Book Of Sand" directed by Jean-François Laguionie, which is going to premier in the US tomorrow for the first time at Philosophical Research Society!
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Was thinking about this today, I can assure you that the people that worked on ROP cannot even conceive doing the work that went into LOTR, out of pure laziness. Producing real props involves manual work that people in movies today despise.
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AI Julius Caesar movie:
1976 beautiful Technicolor, very masculine aged actors with theatrical expressions. 3000 actors involved
1985 glowing light, all actors are handsome
1999 800M $ box office with Dennis Hopper's Oscar performance. Soundtrack won too
2021 prod by Netflix
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You can't talk about the coolest designs ever without mentioning the king Yasushi Nirasawa's sculpts
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The fantasy war movie "Pax Aeterna" looks eerie especially if you think about when it was released... in 1917.
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The soviet fantasy epic "The Sword and the Dragon" (1956) directed by Aleksandr Ptushko
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One of the most prolific character designers is Yarushi Nirasawa. He was both an illustrator and a model sculptor.
His designs are absolutely unhinged, here are some illustrations:
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This is from an episode of Attack On Titan, bottom shows the unfinished version.
The finished version on top shows exactly what is wrong with modern anime: a bloatware of digital cheap effects and synthetic camera movements.
The unfinished version is better
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Hard to believe all this is just some drawings made by hand on transparent sheets
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I have still trust in people and I do hope you can tell the difference between the slop on the left and the sculpture on the right.
Please tell me you do
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One of the saddest thing ever was the demolition of the H. R. Giger bar in Tokyo in 1996
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This beautiful "Othello" animation from the 1992 BBC "Shakespear: The Animated Tales"
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The neo-expressionist dystopic visual masterpiece "The City of the Lost Children" (1995) directed Marc Caro
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Hard to believe they had such innivative and modern designs in the Ice Age, and yet
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The creatures from "Jacob's Ladder" (1990) are one of the main inspirations for Silent Hill
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The absolute tokusatsu kino "Kamen Rider ZO" (1993) directed by Keita Amemiya
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A thread with some of the many creatures in Wayne Barlowe's Guide to Extraterrestrials
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A very simple action scene shot correctly:
1 - Actors always in focus
2 - Scene is cluttered and yet blocked in such a way to have actors clear against the environment
3 - Camera never shakes except when kicked by Scorpion
4 - Cuts only when Cage is hit, never when Scorpion, giving rhe idea that Scorpion is barely getting hurt.
5 - Choreography and camera movements were measured and decided accurately, you can't waste film
6 - The light is behind the actors, but no glare or lens flare makes the actors perfectly visible
7 - The light is strong as it should be
8 - Cage is on the right and Scorpion in the left, in every shot.
This used to be standard
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Shinya Tsukamoto's ultra cyberpunk video for MTV Japan with NIN music in 1993 goes as hard as it gets
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Akura Kurosawa's beautiful paintings, used also as storyboards for "Ran" and "Dreams"
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The classic insane psychedelic horror "Altered States" (1980) directed by Ken Russell
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The box office failure, hypertech cyberpunk nightmare "The Virus" (1999) directed by John Bruno, starring Jamie Lee Curtis.
In case you don't know him, Bruno worked as a special effect master for James Cameron throughout his career
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Filming of "Project 596" (1964) the first successful nuclear test in China carried by a guy who detonated it on horseback to quickly reach a safe distance
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This could easily be an album cover, but it's just children in Siberia in winter taking a UV light bath cause there is no sunlight for months
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I am thinking a Fallout New Vegas movie, shot as a Sergio Leone western would look absolutely kino, so I generated some images.
Give me 100 M$ and a production crew and I start directing next week
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The classic psychologicqal noir "Secret Beyond the Door" (1948) directed by Fritz Lang.
Look at that shot design
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Sardinia still preserves ancient rituals like these. Not only it looks kino, but it's also a continuation of the spirit of the island.
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Animated soviet version of "Perseus" (1973) directed by Aleksandra Snezhko-Blotskaya is absolutely gorgeous
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What a beautiful cinematography in "Blanche" (1971) directed by Walerian Borowczyk
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Masterpiece shot of the day,.this one from polish film "Ashes and Diamonds" (1958)
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Reminder that Ulysses didn't run from Poliphemus, he escaped like this, but ok
Matt Damon says Christopher Nolan’s ‘THE ODYSSEY’ shows everything.
“If you’re having an existential crisis tied to the mast as you pass the Sirens, it’s there. If it says you’re running for your life from a Cyclops, you’re going to run for your life. Chris doesn’t hide the ball.”
(Source: empireonline.com/movies/news…)
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Perfect occasion to talk about this. These "amazing guys" are destroying parts of forests in Indonesia and other parts of South East Asia using excavators and especially a lot of cement, which they leave after filming. You watch, you marvel at nothing, youtube gives them money
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Behind the scenes photos of Max Payne for the graphic novel cutscenes.
Small team
Passion
Freedom to make anything
Simple ingredients make great projects
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Experimental photoshoot by Alexander McQueen titled "The Dark Knight Returns" (1998) 1/3
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Once upon a time there used to be colorful soviet fantasy epics, like "The Tale of Tsar Saltan" (1967), directed by Aleksandr Ptushko
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