lady-of-the-spirit:

I think most stories could benefit from having two characters whose relationship is just “those two guys” (gender neutral). Most of the time if you look for one of them you’ll find both of them. They can hate each other or be the best of friends or something in-between but they just can’t find that same spark with anyone else. Their relationship is best described as “do not separate them”. They are fully fleshed out characters individually but if either of them are left alone without the other for any reason it feels so wrong.

penrosesun:

one-time-i-dreamt:

one-time-i-dreamt:

Gomez and Morticia Addams got divorced. I woke up mortified and with a sense of inexplicable dread.

nightbringer24:

jooshthepunished:

mornington-the-crescent:

knightoflodis:

angryisokay:

nightbringer24:

necromanticowboy:

nightbringer24:

I think that one of the reasons The Lord of the Rings still holds up, in my mind at least, is that it still used the whole “make a miniature version of the set piece” school of filming.

Like Isengard:

Minas Tirith:

Helm’s Deep:

Osgiliath:

Like… that’s shit is just cool.

“Miniature”

They are technically miniatures because they aren’t the full 1:1 scale.

Although I’d be impressed if anyone could make a 1:1 scale replica of Orthanc at 500 feet high.

Practical effects add value to movies and tv shows that often goes unappreciated until years later.

Very true. I think my roommate and I have determined that the best way to do things was to have practical effects mixed with CGI. You get it close with the practical and then finish it with CGI. Looks better than regular CGI that’s for sure.

Even the best CGI will look dated in ten years. But a good practical effect will always look good.

These very large miniatures actually have a classification in Hollywood special effects: Bigatures.

I’m a massive proponent of bigature and miniature cinematography. They aren’t often used anymore because CGI is seen as “cheaper” except that it fucking well is not by the end of the production, even if you’re ripping off your CG arists. It’s just less hassle to insure an artist at a desk.

Over 21,000 notes… and everyone agrees that bigatures should be used again.

luimnigh:

frankbelloriley:

medblr-td:

Sooo hilarious but I can completely see this being a real conversation between streaming execs 😏

(original vid: Asif Ali - instagram - https://tinyurl.com/2p8jpkzz)

“they even put an Indian guy in WandaVision”

hang on a second, I gotta look up something

yeah, this is really funny

[id: An IMDb text box. It displays an image of the actor in the above video, and reads:

“Asif Ali

Actor, Wandavision (2021)”. end id.]

toughtink:

i have seen 3 different takes IN A ROW of xenk from the dnd movie OBVIOUSLY representing:

• the DM’s friend who wanted to bring his high level character in to play for one session
• an NPC the DM realized was OP and couldn’t let stay with the party
• the one friend in the group whose schedule is never open, so the one time they actually make it they get to do all the coolest bits to make up for that

and none of these are wrong.

feamir:

windynebula:

expiredcheese:

#What three hours of sun does to a nation

iceland’s two seasons: hibernation and mania

cleolinda:

cleolinda:

If you love Tree Law, the beloved subreddit is open again. I highly recommend sorting by top/all time.

To clarify after some questions:

Why does the internet love tree law so much? | TechCrunch

The Hollywood writers' and actors' strikes join forces with a weird internet niche devoted to tree litigation.

TechCrunch

(American) Tree Law is very satisfying because the cases often involve someone damaging trees that don’t belong to them, usually for an aesthetic, mercenary, petty, and/or spiteful reason. However, American tree law comes down like a HAMMER on such people, and they will get mighty fines. If the tree dies, in fact, they’ll be on the hook to replace the whole thing, and as it turns out, trees ain’t cheap. As the article above summarizes one incident in Reddit terms:

To rephrase it as an AITA post: am I the asshole if I cut down 32 trees on my neighbor’s property, but instead of just charging me a $32,000 fine, now they’re going to make me build a road and find transplanted, equally mature trees to replant?

Tree Law is perhaps one of the few branches (I didn’t even mean that to be a pun) of American law where self-entitled wrongdoers WILL face consequences. NBC Universal wants to maul a row of city-owned ficus trees to deprive striking workers of shade during a heat wave? Oh boy.