#previsuals

[htmk-official]

Opening this blog really motivated me to keep on creating stuff for the comic, so here are some tentative covers for Volume 1! I’m still deciding on which one to use, I really want to see this printed someday <333

[itiltlabs]

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[designautomations]

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[archivistbot]

Hi everyone, long time no see.

It's been a while since my last update here, and I wanted to take a moment to address this project's status and express my heartfelt gratitude to all of you.

As many of you may have noticed, Archivistbot has been inactive for quite some time now. I think it's time for me to officially acknowledge that I likely won't be going back to the project. This decision wasn't easy to make, but several factors have contributed to it. The primary reason was the changes to Google Colab's GPU usage limits, which make it impossible for me to continue training the model unless something changes. Additionally, at the time I'd been facing some profound mental health challenges that impacted my ability to dedicate time and energy to Archivistbot.

This blog was my first foray into alternative storytelling, and it has been an incredible journey. What started as a way to kill time and explore a new technology during the beginning of the widespread availability of LMMs quickly evolved into something much more meaningful. Through this project, I learned about alternative mediums for storytelling and fell deeply, madly in love.

I'm really thankful for the experience and for all of you who supported me throughout this. The friends and the community I found through Archivistbot have meant so much to me.

As I step away from Archivistbot, I want to direct you to a special project by my friend Mia. She's been a long-time fan of the early 2000s supernatural drama TV show Rearview Mirror, and is preparing to begin the endeavor of compiling all scripts and previsualizing material on her website. It's a labour of love and it would mean a lot to me if you checked it out. You can find her blog here.

Thank you all once again for your support, enthusiasm, and friendship throughout this project. It has meant the world to me, and I will always look back on this time with fondness.

I love you all.

-Mod

[lizardsfromspace]

Okay, Matrix plagiarism case postscript

One thing I didn't answer is how she got the Wachowski's timeline wrong. I still don't know, but it appears she essentially shifted their lives back a decade

She says less than a decade ago they were running a construction business, but actually, working at a construction company is what they were doing in 1986. In 1976 Lana and Lilly were eleven and nine years old respectively. I can't explain why she messed this up, beyond having to age them up a decade for the story to work

But this screencap also brings up another thing she mentions repeatedly that I didn't mention - the smoking gun in her claim is that...the Matrix ripped off her words verbatim for its opening crawl. The opening crawl...to The Matrix.

Huh?

So her story is - and unsurprisingly the timeline here is jumbled, for instance, citing production interviews from 1997 when the film wouldn't enter production until 1998 - the original version of The Matrix contained a Star Wars-style opening crawl, and this was the most directly plagiarized part of the film.

She claims this opening crawl was, in fact, in the theatrical release of The Matrix and only removed when it came to home media, because she. Because she called the FBI on the Wachowskis for stealing the idea of opening crawls from her

The theatrical cut does differ from later versions slightly - most infamously the Wachowskis made the green color filter much more green in the second DVD release, to make it consistent with the style of the sequels - but if there was a opening crawl mandated by the studio, nobody but her has mentioned it, and I find it hard to believe critics wouldn't mention it.

Because this is Dark City. She's clearly confused The Matrix with stories about the studio's meddling with the 1998 film Dark City.

Dark City was the dystopian sci-fi film that had a opening narration explaining the whole plot foisted on it by the studio, and critics mentioned it. Basically every review mentioned it (some even suggest covering your ears or muting the film the first time you see it, at least until the Director's Cut removed it). Meanwhile, reviews of The Matrix praised its opening from the very beginning: how it drops you right into things and lets you find out about its world as Neo does. It's just not possible that the theatrical release has a opening crawl no one mentioned when I can pull up full comparisons of theatrical vs first DVD vs second DVD vs Bluray. Whatever story she read either was about Dark City, or was a Wachowski saying in passing "yeah the studio wanted us to add one but we didn't".

Another thing I didn't touch on is just how much it hypes her up as a untouchable genius of cinema. For instance, she claims to have come up with the effects of The Matrix in 1983 too

(one funny part is how little she brings up The Terminator at all? She just threw it in as a bonus I guess)

I looked up how they did the bullet time effect in particular and...it would have been impossible in 1983. It's not just high speed photography; it's entire banks of cameras, placed in the right place by computer previsualization, their sequence programmed, and with all the elements composited together by CGI. Even stylistically - the true creator of the effects cited Akira as a influence, and Akira the movie didn't exist in 1983. Neither did the type of Hong Kong action film that heavily influenced it. I guess it would be possible to write down "someone goes really fast and we depict it like they slowed down time", concepts of a plan etc

But like.

She's destined to be one of the most profound master writers of the 21st century. This is a book proving she's never written anything. It has a pitch for The Third Eye, it has a second film treatment tacked on at the end, and it has copyright registrations for her sequels to Terminator and The Matrix. M. Night Shyamalan's character in Lady in the Water was destined to be a great writer too, but he actually wrote a book. He didn't put out a book with a decades-old synposis that was never finished & reams of legal documents and a bio saying, I'm one of the greatest authors of all time. Because who needs writing when you have destiny, God, and the ancient superrace living in the Pyramids on your side?

This is my for real last post on this since I ended up just depressed about it in the end. I think the worst part is, she knows she lost. But she still goes to the press telling a story she knows isn't true, and people believe her. Some of it is transphobic - "stop saying it's a trans allegory when they stole it"; some of it runs with the Christian oppression narrative (full disclosure, I was inspired to look for her book again bc while looking up another crank, I saw an interview with her in the sidebar of a religious website); but a lot of it is just people who innocently want it to be true.

One of the few pieces debunking her story is on a website called Black Excellence - it doesn't even have a byline - said this:

"There are many people, especially Black people, who wanted the story to be true. It symbolized a Black person, especially a Black woman, finally winning against the system. When Sophia Stewart spoke about how mainstream media would not give her the time of day because almost all of them were owned by Warner Brothers, some Black media embraced her. Blogs spread her story, especially the initial story on Globe that contained errors about the case.

"But the story is not true. Sophia Stewart did not become the richest Black person in the country. But that did not deter her from going on several shows and publications to tell her story."

She took advantage of people's urge to root for the underdog against a corporation - and seized on a lack of mainstream coverage to claim her story was being suppressed. But it just isn't true. Also yeah she ridiculously claims that Warner Bros owns every news website and newspaper and that's kind of funny I guess. Well, that's it. I'm never doing this again

[lynaferns]

I handmaded an A4 metric chart page template.

(because I'd like to design stickers and stuff at some point)

Very much handmade so it's not pixel perfect but it's nitid af.

These are some of the previsualizations in centimeters and inches. Under the cut are all the transparent versions.

Remember to click the image and open it in another tab on desktop to download the correct size.

I just realized they are hard to see if you are on dark mode lol, sorry.

Horizontal cm

Horizontal in

Vertical cm

Vertical in

[mpreghotties]

So unfortunately, Easton and Brett had to drop out of the Competition this year to deal with some crime and political issues at the VORE Police Force.

But here are some previsualizations of what they would have looked like!

[not1rightway-pod]

Whoops! - Episodes 4 & 5

Can you believe that there are 5 episodes up now?! Sorry about missing last week's episode. Life happens, yanno? Here's the words you need to know from episodes 4 and 5.

Episode 4 - Joey Filipiak

Giallo Films

A genre of Italian cinema that combines thriller and horror elements in a murder mystery story. Popular in the 1960's and 70's

Previs

The process of visualizing a scene before the production (short for Previsualization).

Episode 5 - Ella Cesari

Storyboard

A graphic organizer used in the previsualization process to identify key moments in sequence.

Toon Boom

An animation software.

+ Bonus

Vampire Clay (2018)

Phantom of the Paradise (1974)

[mariowritesforyou]

Scale Model I Did For My Play

A physical mock-up of Your Home (now a web serial here: mariowritesforyou.com)’s set design I did.

This was my last project for college. I wanted light projections to light up the whole stage with patterns I had designed. To previsualize this I clipped on the printed patterns to the cardboard model. There you can see the tiny audience seats and Meli’s big chair.

[goat-esc-winner-showdown]

Quick pre-poll before the actual tournament starts!

I mentioned before that each poll will include links to the songs. However... How do you want the poll posts to look? Would you prefer the links to the songs to be embedded into the posts (Example A), or would you prefer that the songs are linked through hyperlinks that send you to another location (aka open a Youtube tab)

Example A pros:

More convenient, no need to change tabs

The posts will contain more images and be longer, which will make them more visual and harder to miss

It's safer, no need to click an unknown link, you get a Youtube video embedded in the post and if you choose to open it on another tab you know where the link is taking you.

Example A cons:

The posts will be longer.

The visual formatting will be a bit redundant. The polls will include photos of the contenders on top, embedding the videos at the bottom will mean getting very similar pics at the bottom

Example B pros:

Shorter posts, less invasive

We avoid visual formatting redundancy. No similar images at both top and bottom of the posts.

Example B cons:

Shorter posts will be harder to miss while scrolling through your dashboards/phones.

No previsualization. While you can trust me and all hyperlinks will lead to their respective songs, this is the internet, it's understandable to be weary of clicking into unknown links

Here's how each post would look:

Example A)

Example B)

FINALLY, THE ACTUAL POLL

[onestepbackwards]

I'm back on my horny apocalyptic bullshit so hear we go.

What if instead of the usual, someone with a dick fucks someone with a vegaina, the eggs gets fertilized and a baby develops, what if it was more complicated, let me explain. Only someone within the same egg/sperm group can reproduce successfully with another partner, you know how we have different blood types and how our body will reject the wrong blood type if injected into our bloodstream, yeah that.

So the moment the body recognizes that it's the same type of egg it releases hormones through the body of the incubator, readying them for a rough love session between them and their partner. The hormones can also affect the partner to give them the drive they need to senselessly pound into their lover.

With that out of the way let's get to the bone of this meat, as I mentioned in my previsu ask “Perhaps they produce more cum because biologically their seed has a hard time getting through”. Wich means that you cant just fuck and have it done with, theres some other factors going into it, wich makes breeding you an even higher priority if its this hard. No wonder they devolved into an apocalypse. So they kind of have to manually check who you're compatible with through the traditional way. Or, or or or they don't want to stress your muscles and accidentally harm you so they inject a little bit of someone's semen into your eggstock to see if your body reacts to the little dosage.

So at this point you would be pretty exhausted, sure they give you your personal space but you can't shake off the heavy burden on your shoulders. The title as “the last hope” didn't help either. Although you liked getting pampered it still dragged you through the mud, and the fact that you're not allowed to help because of your status as a glorified incubator makes you feel helpless, to a degree. You didn't survive in this world for this long without reason, you have skills that they won't let you utilise. You understand though, you're supposed to be healthy if the time comes and you become pregnant. You can't be stressed in a situation like that, it could cost both of you and your baby's life.

So what's a girl to do then to vent their frustration to the only semy sane person there, the resident weapons shop keeper which by far has the thickest accent. You share stories about things you witness before the fall and he shares some of his own, even venting some of his own frustrations in the process. It leads to a pretty good friendship that then develops into a more beneficial relationship.

You're sexually frustrated, hes just frustrated ingeneral, you bot like eachother, its a benefactual fucking. Though after your first orgasm an overwhelming sensation takes over, while he's coming down from his high you can't seem to get off it, gradually becoming worse and worse as he collects himself. He's never experienced this before, sure he's had sex with other partners who had high sex drives but nothing like this. The final nail in the coffin for him was when he got a wif of your scent, then it was all downhill from there.

The salesman had never prepirated a nest before, in such a short amount of time noles, his only line of reference he had to mating with someone was from some sex ed class he barely paid attention to. Though he did remember some things, make a nest to establish a safe space for your mate, lots of on hand water bottles, and lube. With that in mind he climbs out of the dishevelled bed along with some pillows, takes off the unused mattress on the bunk bed above his and places it on the floor. He arranges the pillows around it along with some of his discarded clothes and bedsheets. He hurriedly made his way to his mini fridge taking out the few water bottles he had and went back to his bedroom. Placing them somewhere besides the makeshift pillow nest finally focusing all his attention on you. And the sight of you rubbing your legs together in such a desperate attempt at stimulating yourself made his breath hitch. Oh this was gonna be a longer night than he was expecting, but he's not complaining.

…

Two scrape lines that I couldn't fit into my rant but that I wanted to share.

“What he lacks in length he makes up for in girth (it's as thick as his accent)”

“In conclusion, im horny but I like my hornines with a bit of depth.”

Apocalypse au turning and getting a slight omegaverse twist?? 👀👀👀

I’m just imagining like, omegaverse being a thing in this au, like a genre, and suddenly it becoming Real™️

How do you deal with that??

Like, suddenly heats are real dkdnksks and now you get to live it. Imagine reading fanfic of it and now that you are living it, it may or may not be as fun as you had hoped (results may vary)

May not be as fun as you hoped if you already are exhausted

But on the other hand… 👀

Suddenly high sex drive, and people willing to take care of you and help you out? 👀👀

[yepthatsacowalright]

Anyway, physical media rules and the Everything Everywhere All At Once: Collector's Edition looks sick as hell.

Disc extras include: ○ Exclusive mini documentary profiling Academy-nominated Son Lux  ○ Exclusive mini documentary on the film's visual effects  ○ Two short films from Daniels: Interesting Ball (2014) and Pockets (2011) ○ Two Filmmaker Commentaries: Director Commentary with Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert (2022) and a new Production commentary with Jonathan Wang (producer), Allison Carter (co-producer), Jason Kisvarday (production design), and Kelsi Ephraim (set decoration) ○ Reel of alternate takes of Stephanie Hsu as Jobu ○ Stunt previsualization from The Martial Club  ○ Deleted scenes ○ Bloopers and Outtakes

Folder contents include: ○ Foreword by Hiro Murai ○ Reproductions of legal documents and receipts from the film ○ "Every Evelyn All At Once" booklet ○ Foldout multiverse map illustrated by Ori Toor [source]

[zenballmaster]

i watched some kfp3 previsualization stuff from when i'm assuming they were working with the characterization of li being more of a stern Straight Man or something and i am once again kinda Sad that they ultimately didn't go in that direction bc the prospect of him not being on board with all this kung fu stuff really opens the door for more interesting character depth imo

like the gist i'm getting from this is that he is discouraging po from kung fu simply bc 'pandas don't Do That' but if it turned out to be based actually in a fear of losing po again, that po is putting himself in danger in this position and with this line of work, idk

also love the idea that mr. ping himself also had A Time to grapple with that as well but by the time of the third movie is long past it, so that could give those two something to Talk About

[the-acid-pear]

I've realized two mayor issues with my art: 1) I don't previsualize what I'm drawing before doing it which makes everything end up looking wrong and 2) I forgot hips exist

[finallygaycoldones]

Yipeeeee I love previsualization!!! (I don’t know what that is)

I know Ted and I could be besties because I have had SUCH good practice talking to film guys and pretending to know what all of that lingo means like I’ve been training for this all my life

[bloodandchocolatefans]

More about some locations and scenes...

Kevin Phipps, who has worked as an art director on some of the most stylistically distinct films of all time, crafted a world of shadow and muted color for the wolves to inhabit. “He is one of the best art directors in the business and this is his first job as production designer,” says executive producer Hawk Koch. “The sets he created on this film were simply spectacular.”

Phipps was able to use the visual richness of existing locations in Bucharest to the production’s advantage in many instances. He transformed a former heating plant into the Brookwood Absinthe Distillery, which serves as Gabriel’s lair 

and created the Dacian Club by modifying a derelict half-finished concrete structure: Ceaucescu’s (the former leader of Communist Romania) Biblioteca Nationala (the National Library). 

Dancy attests to the seamless integration of Phipps’s sets with the city itself. “The attention to detail is such that the sets fit in perfectly with the city as it really is.”

The filmmakers’ urgent need to provide a secure shooting environment for the wolves as well as for the cast and crew resulted in Phipps’s greatest challenge: the creation of several naturalistic forest sets, including a creek and a river, on MediaPro’s soundstages.

Phipps and his team rose to the challenge by using some 2000 cubic meters of soil, 50-60 real trees along with some polystyrene and fiberglass trees to reproduce a Romanian forest so authentic that it soon attracted its own mosquitoes, lizards as well as a resident owl. He recalls, “The first time we had a show-and-tell on that forest set, suddenly I looked up and there was an owl flying around in the canopy of our trees. Katja looked up and saw the owl and said ‘Kevin, you know that’s a really good sign that we’ll be really happy shooting on this set.’”

Once the creek and river sets were conceived, Phipps worked closely with SFX supervisor Allder on the mechanics, the water system, the pumping system, the filtration and the volume of water that would bring the sets to life.

The filmmaking team had already previsualized the world of the film using small scale models. “You can get down and get your lens into the model and really see how the set is going to shoot and what will be in each frame,” explains Phipps. “This approach was especially useful given the amount of running in the film. Everybody knew what they were getting – stunts, camera, lighting, even the actors.”

sources:

https://www.vladvieru.com/blood--chocolate---2005.html

http://www.kevinphipps.com/b-l-o-o-d--c-h-o-c-o-l-a-t/b-l-o-o-d--c-h-o-c-o-l-a-t/

http://blood-and-chocolate.katja-von-garnier.com/

http://madeinatlantis.com/movies_central/2007/blood_and_chocolate.htm