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Avatar 2's domestic (USA) gross is not growing as fast as Top Gun 2's but the worldwide total gross has gotten to $1.4 billion in 20 days while it took TG2 about five months to do that.
Top Gun 2 is obviously a huge hit in the US but Avatar 2 has more international appeal.
And yet, I haven't seen either one.
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When I went there my browser warned me the site's security certificate was expired since February of last year.
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I logged into CGTalk for the first time in 10+ years and it seems to be inactive other than spam posts and replies to topics like..
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I remember when CGTalk was the like the center of cg talk. Everyone who was anyone and all the wannabes they attracted were there.
Huh.
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I'll bet you a dollar.
To the end of February would be 8 more weeks and it's only been out three so far. I think it can stick around that long especially if it is thought to be contender for any significant oscars
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Boxoffice Mojo says Avatar has grossed $1.4 Billion world wide thru Monday, Jan 2.
The US take has been a pretty consistent $20+ million per day without a big fall off.
I'm going to project they hit $3 Billion before it falls out of theaters.
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Glad we got your A:M going again!
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24 minutes ago, Roger said:
I'm assuming under the filmed works where it says "now a lost film" that the copyright expired but there is no longer a copy of the film in existence?
That is correct. A combination of few originals, multiple warehouse fires and decaying film stock have erased the existence of most early films.
Occasionally someone will gather up all the publicity stills and recreate a lost film."London After Midnight" has gotten that treatment...
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These samples look wonderful, Kevin!
I'm glad you're finally letting us glimpse this stuff you're doing!
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Numerous 1927 books, films and even the song "The Best Things in Life are Free" become Public Domain and free to re-use today.
QuoteOn January 1, 2023, copyrighted works from 1927 will enter the US public domain. 1 They will be free for all to copy, share, and build upon. These include Virginia Woolf’s To The Lighthouse and the final Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, the German science-fiction film Metropolis and Alfred Hitchcock’s first thriller, compositions by Louis Armstrong and Fats Waller, and a novelty song about ice cream. Please note that this site is only about US law; the copyright terms in other countries are different.
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Happy New Year!
May it be a productive one for us all!
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It looks like the Surface Pro X has an ARM
Don't know much about it. The compatibility with Windows programs compiled for Intel/AMD is sort of a maybe.
ARM-based Surface devices FAQ
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On 12/19/2022 at 4:24 PM, MAYAman said:
I got it! I had the sensitivity in the 3Dconnextion app cracked up. Oh man, this is so good now. Thankjs
Hurray!
If you could post a picture of the relevant control panel, and explain what you did different (since you had looked at it before) that would be useful for future generations.
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I'm pretty sure A:M would run on a Microsoft Surface which is pretty light (just under 2 pounds) and portable.
However, I sense the trend for 3D work is more screenspace rather than less. Big giant monitors to have all the control panels and timeline available.
And you still want a keyboard. A:M and Maya and I presume the others favor use of keyboard shortcuts to quickly select tools.
I've thought about getting an old used Surface to use as an e-reader and 2D painter but... I never go anywhere so the portability isn't all that needed. -
Sounds like a Blending mode problem, but hard to know without seeing it.
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Generically, to get all keyframes, you can set the Key Model filter and also set the transformation filters you need to capture, usually Skeletal Translations and Skeletal Rotations. Skeletal Scaling is rarely needed.
If any Pose sliders are crucial to the moment you'll need Key Pose, too.
Copy. Paste.
Without seeing your case it's hard to say more.
Live Answer Time is coming up!
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There's no way it cost $2 billion. No studio would spend that.
This article says $250 million.
‘Avatar 2’ Is So Expensive It Must Become the ‘Fourth or Fifth Highest-Grossing Film in History’ Just to Break Even$2 billion is quoted as a break even figure.
Maybe $2 billion is the cost of all five proposed sequels.
But those are all Hollywood numbers. Hard to know what is real costs and what is the studio charging itself to do something.
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I haven't seen it yet, but someone is going. It's taken in $950 million world wide ($290 million domestic) as of Monday.
If a third of that gets back to the studio then they are probably break-even or better already and they still have one more holiday week to pull idle people in.
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I believe it sets the Action's "Length" value to the time of the last keyframe in the action.
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Notice also the fancy wipe transitions between scenes. 1933 is about the first year for these, which require an "optical printer" to copy the exiting scene and the entering scene onto new film, with animated masks to create the division between them.
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You may recall Phil Harris as the voice of Baloo the Bear in "The Jungle Book" (1967), but at that time he would have been mostly known for his years on the Jack Benny radio show in the 30s and 40s, as star of his own radio sit-com into the 50s, and as occasional film actor. He was one of the passengers in the early airplane disaster flick, "The High and the Mighty"!
His first exposure to a national audience, however, was this short film from 1933, "So This is Harris".
It was successful, it won the Academy Award for Best Short Film, but it did not create a big career boost for him specifically. Three years later he got the role of the bandleader on the Benny show and the on-air character of the bumbling-but-lovable big guy began to evolve.
"So This Is Harris" is a "pre-code" comedy. The jokes will be mostly groaners to you today but to theater-goers of the time it may have been entertainingly naughty! -
I wish everyone a fine holiday!
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According to CG lore, the title of Pixar's first short "The Adventures of André and Wally B." (1984) is an allusion to the film "My Dinner with André" (1981).
However, I have just discovered there is an earlier TV movie titled "Jimmy B. & André" (1980), ostensibly the basis for the later TV series "Webster"I wonder if "Jimmy B. & André" was in the back of someone's mind at Pixar when they needed a title for their short.
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11 minutes ago, strato said:
There is no difference in performance between V 13 and V19, other than the memory draw.
The render times are identical? I'm very doubtful about this. I know that the difference between v15 and v19 is substantial. I can't run v13 in Windows 10
I would be curious to see results from the teapot benchmark.https://forums.hash.com/topic/36753-cpu-render-benchmark/#comment-316705
QuoteThe reason I use both is that I have a Japanese plug in for MDD export in V13 which works perfectly, while the one in V19 doesn't (any point discrepancy will render the export invalid).
I dont' know anything about MDD, but a bug that can be duplicated can be reported. If you can show how valid input ( I don't know what a discrepancy is) creates invalid output that would be something that can be reported.
QuoteAlso I do have issues to render previews or finals with Multi-Pass and Toon Render in V 19.
That is a bit vague to act on or know how to direct you.
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If I tile the windows they have a very tiny curved corner.
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It is possible that those programs, separated by 15 years, have different ram-usage strategies or that the compiler that made them did.
Which one renders faster? If 19 isn't rendering faster something is wrong.
Is this preventing you from running other programs?
Jan 5 is Perihelion Day
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It's Perihelion Day again.