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    Image of frigg frigg
    05/05/09

    In reply to Benjamin Button Special Effects Guru On Creating a Human Face
    I wonder if special effects like these would be more challenging if they were dealing with an actor who, unlike Brad Pitt, has more than two facial expressions?
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    Image of P3nnst8r P3nnst8r
    05/05/09

    In reply to Benjamin Button Special Effects Guru On Creating a Human Face
    If it doesn't involve dinosaurs, I don't care.
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    Image of thePrototype thePrototype
    05/05/09

    @P3nnst8r: Amen, I watched Jurassic Park (the original) the other day and boy does that movie stand the test of time!!
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    Image of P3nnst8r P3nnst8r
    05/05/09

    @thePrototype: I think it's the Sam Neill factor. I love everything he's in, even Bicentennial Man.


    But yeah, the special effects in that movie are just awe-inspiring.

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    Image of victorkruger victorkruger
    05/05/09

    In reply to Benjamin Button Special Effects Guru On Creating a Human Face
    I'm still pissed that they got the oscar for best visual effects. it's just them splicing a face onto a different body.


    unlike Iron Man where they constructed a fully functional mech suit inside a computer and made it look believable, or Dark Knight where they just decided to take a city and digitally blow the hell out of it.

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    Image of Mark Wilson Mark Wilson
    05/05/09

    @victorkruger: No, the face is 100% digital. It's more than a splice. It's a recreation AND a splice.
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    Image of tande04 tande04
    05/05/09

    @victorkruger: Bah, everything in Iron Man and Dark Knight had been done before (and arguably better). The oscar went to the people that were actually pushing visual effects as it should of.
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    Image of Pessimippopotamus Pessimippopotamus
    05/05/09

    @tande04: Iron Man also employs full digital facial construction, although it's never shown up close like in Benjamin Button, but it's there. And you'd never notice it unless you're told which part.
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    Image of Lite: hates Illinois Nazis Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
    05/05/09

    In reply to Benjamin Button Special Effects Guru On Creating a Human Face
    How long until porn is all CGI, with jerky storm-trooper animations and hot gungan on gungan action?
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    Image of kevinl kevinl
    05/05/09

    @Howlin' Mad Murdock...Lite: haha you're not right.
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    Image of Lite: hates Illinois Nazis Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
    05/05/09

    @kevinl: It would even be complete with hot lightsaber duel action.
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    Image of xyzface xyzface
    05/05/09

    @Howlin' Mad Murdock...Lite: if those glow in the dark condoms did there job hopefully youl never have to say " i am your father" til the time is right
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    Image of ridgecity ridgecity
    05/05/09

    @xyzface: This was done years ago in a amovie, Steve Martin I think.
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    Image of Lite: hates Illinois Nazis Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
    05/05/09

    @ridgecity: Ritter actually.
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    Image of badhatharry badhatharry
    03/11/09

    In reply to To Conceptualize a Trillion Dollars, We Require Computer Visualization
    It looks like where they put the Ark.
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    Image of pettiblay pettiblay
    03/11/09

    In reply to To Conceptualize a Trillion Dollars, We Require Computer Visualization
    I wanna see this in 1$ bills. I'm guessing it would be 86 times bigger if not more.
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    Image of badhatharry badhatharry
    03/11/09

    @pettiblay: I'm going to say 87 times.
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    Image of orbitcorbett orbitcorbett
    03/11/09

    In reply to To Conceptualize a Trillion Dollars, We Require Computer Visualization
    Thank you Barack Obama and all your Dumb-o-crat (and some Repube-ican) buddies in Congress who are totally SCREWING UP MY COUNTRY! Every week a new bill is signed that demands more and more of these cubes of money that haven't been printed yet. My unborn grandchildren have already been bankrupted. They'll be so thrilled when they find out.
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    Image of Zombie_Belvedere Zombie_Belvedere
    03/11/09

    @orbitcorbett: Um, Obama has been in office for about 50 days, how is this his fault? Democrats have been in power for less than 3 years. So since the start of this slide (aka Reagan) we've had 4 Republican Presidents, and a stretch of 6 years under W where Republicans have had COMPLETE control, which they used to turn the largest surplus this country has ever seen, into the largest deficit the WORLD has ever seen. And you think this is Obamas fault?


    And you do realize that this isn't even equivalent to the deficit spending we did to get us out of the great depression. So if your grandchildren will be pissed at anyone, it will be the conservatives who pissed away their natural resources, bankrupted them because of Iraq (which is still more expensive than the surplus), and turned them into drooling morons by excessive interbreeding.


    Unless you were satirizing the short sighted, idiotic, uneducated, ditto head neo-con trolls that frequent these boards, and amuse us to no end with their goldfish like memory. In that case, well played.

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    Image of badhatharry badhatharry
    03/11/09

    @Zombie_Belvedere: He referred to them as "Dumb-o-crat"s and "Repube-ican"s. You're really going to pay attention to anything he has to say after that?
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    Image of snubz snubz
    03/11/09

    In reply to To Conceptualize a Trillion Dollars, We Require Computer Visualization
    O

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    ^-- this is my visualization of a trillion-dollar stack, using 1/2 trillion dollar bills (human provided for reference).
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    Image of 92BuickLeSabre 92BuickLeSabre
    03/11/09

    @snubz: Thank you! Now I see it.


    Damn. That is a shit-ton of money.

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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    03/12/09

    @snubz: It looks like the money he could be saving with Geico..
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    Image of Spoony Spoony
    03/11/09

    In reply to To Conceptualize a Trillion Dollars, We Require Computer Visualization
    I'm not Greedy i'll just take one pallet.


    It's for my stimulus check, honest.

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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    03/12/09

    @Spoony: I'm even less greedy than you. I'll take half of one pallet..
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    Image of IN THE FACE! IN THE FACE!
    03/11/09

    In reply to To Conceptualize a Trillion Dollars, We Require Computer Visualization
    Is it bad that my first though was:


    "Gee, I would love to get a monster truck and shred all of those neat stacks of money."

     Reply
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    Image of Homerjay is utterly alone. Homerjay is utterly alone.
    01/06/09

    In reply to The NFL's Yellow Line Explained
    All this yet I still can't cut & paste on my iPhone.
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    Image of smartboydan is banned from Deadspin :( smartboydan is banned from Deadspin :(
    01/06/09

    In reply to The NFL's Yellow Line Explained
    The yellow line doesn't make up for shitty refereeing in playoff games.

    /Falcons fan
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    Image of Con Seannery Con Seannery
    01/06/09

    @smartboydan hates college: I'm so sorry you're butthurt about not winning...now go cry with the rest of the division while the real team in the NFC South gets it done.
    /Panthers fan
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    Image of wolfenstein-3d wolfenstein-3d
    01/06/09

    @Con Seannery: wooohooo!! at least my team won in fantasy...


    /bengals fan

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    Image of Monty Monty
    01/06/09

    In reply to The NFL's Yellow Line Explained
    Anyone else ever gone to a live football game and been thrown off by the fact that, even with the marker on the side of the field, it is very difficult to tell whether the person made a first down? All we need to do is enhance the technology so it works in the 'real world', too.


    I do agree that the explanation is far more complicated than I ever could have imagined. I always assumed it was a simple broadcaster on the first down marker and the computer merely connected the dots. Apparently there are a lot more people who wanted jobs based on that yellow line.

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    Image of Dave J. Dave J.
    01/06/09

    In reply to The NFL's Yellow Line Explained
    That's cool, and a hell of a lot more complicated than I would have thought. The other crazy innovation from the last 15 years in TV football is the constant scoreboard. There's no real technology to it, but how many people remember the old days when you'd only know the score when the director decided to flash it up on the screen?
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    Image of ripfire ripfire
    01/06/09

    @Dave J.: It's the easiest way to get the score and live play with synced timing.
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    Image of CubFan81 CubFan81
    01/06/09

    @Dave J.: Or more importantly, the balls/strike/out graphic on baseball. For many things I prefer the classic versions, but old school baseball is surprisingly difficult to watch sometimes without it.
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    Image of EBone EBone
    01/06/09

    @CubFan81: Fox was the first to have the constant scoreboard up on the screen when they outbid CBS for the rights to carry NFC games about 15 years ago. Football purists screamed that the banner would be in the way and interfere with the game. I can't imagine watching a sport on TV without it now.
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    Image of srdailey srdailey
    01/06/09

    In reply to The NFL's Yellow Line Explained
    kinda neat. i always wondered how they did that. now, how do they make the puck glow in hockey? do they still do that?
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    01/06/09

    @srdailey: They're planning on implementing this at Wimbledon
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