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Smaug's Smokey Hole said:
CGI at the time (the movie was released in 1992 and we have to assume it was shot before 1992, but it's hard to be sure, 30 years later Monica Belucci still looks pretty good and Keanu Reeves still can't act) was bad.
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Terminator 2 has some of the best CGI in a film, to date. While T1000 coming out of the floor looks cheesy, the bit where he walks through the railings looks like the most real and believable CGI i've seen on film. The seemless way of how the pistol 'tings' on the bars and his has to twist his hand is a piece of cinematic genius.
 
Christopher Columbus mistook a few manatees for mermaids on one of his journeys to the Americas. He found them uglier than expected, saying that their facial traits were much too masculine. The same sighting is also the earliest written record we have of manatees living in those waters.
 
Hot Cup of Joe said:
Terminator 2 has some of the best CGI in a film, to date. While T1000 coming out of the floor looks cheesy, the bit where he walks through the railings looks like the most real and believable CGI i've seen on film. The seemless way of how the pistol 'tings' on the bars and his has to twist his hand is a piece of cinematic genius.
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Fluid dynamics like that lended itself better to the software at the time, same with the splashes when he gets shot in the face. The Abyss also had the great looking water thing. T2 was also very clever with the compositing and editing, there's more than CGI in those sequences. But the industrial background and intended usage of the software clearly shows in some places, especially when he's walking out of the burning truck, the animation looked like ass even though it was also the best ever at the time I guess.

At the time they made that I don't think Alias/PowerAnimator had the tools, or tools good enough, to really make natural and realistic bipedal humans or anything like that, it was geared towards mechanical animation. (It rapidly improved after that but that meant there was increasing layers of functionality upon functionality crammed in so there was a reason for why they scrapped it and started clean with Maya a couple of years later)

T2 came out in 1991 so we have to assume they're using 1989-1990s software which sounds like a real nightmare. From what I've heard the process of doing something like that walk animation would be more like traditional cel-animation or claymation in 3d, meaning the walking shot was done frame by frame or close to it. They didn't have to redo the model for every frame but they likely had to go through it and touch some areas up. I'm not saying they're bad artists though.
 
Genesis only number one single “Invisible Touch” was succeeded by “Sledgehammer” by Peter Gabriel, the only number one single from the former Genesis frontman.
 
Smaug's Smokey Hole said:
Fluid dynamics like that lended itself better to the software at the time, same with the splashes when he gets shot in the face. The Abyss also had the great looking water thing. T2 was also very clever with the compositing and editing, there's more than CGI in those sequences. But the industrial background and intended usage of the software clearly shows in some places, especially when he's walking out of the burning truck, the animation looked like ass even though it was also the best ever at the time I guess.
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At the time they made that I don't think Alias/PowerAnimator had the tools, or tools good enough, to really make natural and realistic bipedal humans or anything like that, it was geared towards mechanical animation. (It rapidly improved after that but that meant there was increasing layers of functionality upon functionality crammed in so there was a reason for why they scrapped it and started clean with Maya a couple of years later)

T2 came out in 1991 so we have to assume they're using 1989-1990s software which sounds like a real nightmare. From what I've heard the process of doing something like that walk animation would be more like traditional cel-animation or claymation in 3d, meaning the walking shot was done frame by frame or close to it. They didn't have to redo the model for every frame but they likely had to go through it and touch some areas up. I'm not saying they're bad artists though.
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I agree there are some bits that don't hold up well, but there are other parts that shame modern day films 30 years on.
 
In the original version of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy novel and radio show, the worst poet in the universe is stated to be Paul Neil Milne Johnstone, who was one of Douglas Adams' fellow students at Cambridge. It was changed in later editions to 'Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings' because Johnstone himself complained, not because Adams had made fun of his poetry, but because he had given away his address (37 Beehive Court, Redbridge, Essex). As an inside joke, the picture of Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings that appears in the TV show is a caricature of Adams himself in drag.

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Smaug's Smokey Hole said:
T2 came out in 1991 so we have to assume they're using 1989-1990s software which sounds like a real nightmare. From what I've heard the process of doing something like that walk animation would be more like traditional cel-animation or claymation in 3d, meaning the walking shot was done frame by frame or close to it. They didn't have to redo the model for every frame but they likely had to go through it and touch some areas up. I'm not saying they're bad artists though.
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They also had to do the reflections nearly manually frame by frame as they didn't have ray-tracing that could be easily automated. So a lot of their work went into figuring out a system for doing that because there were a lot of lighting effects and reflections necessary.
 
Hot Cup of Joe said:
Terminator 2 has some of the best CGI in a film, to date. While T1000 coming out of the floor looks cheesy, the bit where he walks through the railings looks like the most real and believable CGI i've seen on film. The seemless way of how the pistol 'tings' on the bars and his has to twist his hand is a piece of cinematic genius.
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Here's a video I saw about that recently, where the Corridor Crew (team of VFX artists on youtube) examine that effect and attempt two ways to recreate it with current technology (only the face part, not the pistol). In the end, they were partially successful. They got the melting through bars looking decent, but they couldn't match the way the original melted back together afterward.
 
SaidTheSpider said:
Here's a video I saw about that recently, where the Corridor Crew (team of VFX artists on youtube) examine that effect and attempt two ways to recreate it with current technology (only the face part, not the pistol). In the end, they were partially successful. They got the melting through bars looking decent, but they couldn't match the way the original melted back together afterward.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=YXehBx0Yc_w
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They really were magicians back then, and when people say that 1000's of years ago we had technology/techniques that we can't replicate today, I always use T2 CGI as an example of how it's possible.

That whole scene of T1000 walking through the bars is alien magic. Watching it, even today, still looks real. I can't jizz over it enough.
 
cactus said:
But "Shock the Monkey" is his best song (though "Sledgehammer" is a close second).
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A couple of my favorites are "San Jacinto" from the same album and "Intruder" from the melting face album. Note, "Intruder" has one of the first appearances of Phil Collins's famous gated reverb drum sound that he later used in "In the Air Tonight." Kate Bush, who later appeared on So, also used the sound on "Hounds of Love."
 
Stones can form anywhere in the body where fluid passes through, not just the kidneys or gallbladder. One particularly painful, but more rare, form is the Sialolith, which forms in the salivary glands. The typical treatment is to drink lemon juice or suck on sour hard candy to promote salivation to push the stone forward and out of the duct, as most stones are small enough to pass without surgery.
 
The reason cookie dough packages tell you not to eat the stuff raw isn't just because of the raw eggs. It's also because of the raw flour used to make it can contain pathogens like E.coli.

This extends to all flours, and any prepackage mixes that contain them so even things like raw cake, and pancake batter pose a risk. This means that even if you don't use eggs, there's a still chance you could get sick by eating the stuff.
 
horrorfan89 said:
The CGI skull in Ghost rider was made using actual x-rays of Nicholas Cage's skull.
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I missed his last arrest in Vegas unforch, by like minutes!
Cage looks like an alien. Is he a reptilian? I heard he has extra teeth (hypodental something) and u can only see it when he talk laughs and tilts his head back and it's edited out of movies. I mean it's only like 2 extra teeth or something, but next to the molars.

Fun fact tax:
When cats have fur on their ear tips that extend, that's called an Ear Tuft.

When cats have fur that is long on the inside of their ears that extends a lot outside of the ear, that's called Ear Furniture. I know a cat with GLORIOUS ear furniture
 
Frank D'arbo said:
In the mid 2000s, a group of animators from Disney quit their job to make a video game very similar to Dragon's Lair. It was called "The Act" and it was an arcade game.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=4eoukaZwzzkDespite playtesting well, no distributor wanted to pick it up, and the company that made it went bankrupt. Only 3 or so machines survive to this day.
Interestingly enough, the game saw new life as an iOS app in 2013, but taken off the app store without warning in 2015.

The only way you can play it these days is to buy an old iOS device, jailbreak it, and install it via third party.
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Hey, I remember seeing an arcade of this game on Miami!
Any Kiwis planning on going to Miami any time soon and play games should check it out since they have quite the selection of arcade games.
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