Stefan Ihringer
VFX technical director and admin, working with Python, Nuke and Linux
One of the TVs at a local Burger King has had a problem for at least 4 years now. It shows skin tones in blue as if it‘s a broken or swapped video cable.
It feels so like being in a time bubble from back when YCbCr cables were common. And it’s cool because the neverending loop of music videos looks like a live stream from another planet.
This is the weirdest combination of thumbnails I have ever seen on Netflix 😁
I just heard the Rickrolling music video ("never gonna give you up") and the movie Con Air were both directed by the same guy!
Thanks to #PatrickHWillems who has an episode about music videos on both Youtube and Nebula.
Reading this and watching the video linked in the blog post made me realize how little creativity there is in most of the VFX industry. We're mostly crafts enterprises: replace the sky, remove those antennas because the movie takes place 100 years ago, add realistic water, add realistic fire, make the plastic prop levitate.
That work is mostly fulfilling and you can even offer options to a client, but ultimately you'll be told what to do through 3+ levels of supervisors and reviews.