Director Wes Ball and Visual Effects Supervisor Erik Winquist shared some step by step images of transforming humans into apes. They said that the crew of Weta FX made vast improvements on performance capture with Avatar The Way Of Water. “From a hardware and technology standpoint, one of the improvements is now we’re using a stacked pair of stereo facial cameras instead of single cameras, which allows us to reconstruct an actual 3D depth mesh of the actors face. It allows us to get a much better sense of the nuance of what their face was doing.”
They also shared some concept art of the post-apocalyptic setting of the film. Winquist shared a book that gave him much inspiration. “One of the things that I was looking at early on was the book ‘The World Without Us’ that hypothesizes what would happen in the weeks, years, decades and centuries after mankind stopped maintaining our infrastructure. You start pulling from your imagination on what that might look like….”
More behind the scenes details were shared in the article on VFX Voice magazine.
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So, I mentioned my Agent Cuddy AU before, and by that I mean...
Gregory House fought in WWII. He was a decent soldier, but a better spy, however, he was sent back out into the warzone for mouthing off too much. He lost his leg in the war, leaving him with a shoddy prosthetic, a cane, and a limp. [Yes, he’s like if Sousa was an asshole. Also I gave him his cane instead of the crutch, because, like in House MD canon, House is knowingly punishing himself, so of course he’d go with the cane instead of the more practical and comfortable crutch like Sousa had.]
Lisa Cuddy worked alongside Project Rebirth during the war, even allegedly becoming romantically involved with Lucas Douglas, aka, Captain America [yeah yeah, I know. Not my fav place for him either, but I think it fits. He’s a dorky little guy and he’s genuinely good, so, you know, it works well enough]. She was one of the best agents they had, but after the war she was put back into the SSR, forcing her to earn their respect all over again.
James Wilson is the butler to young, rich, and insanely brilliant Dr. Robert Chase. James often finds himself caught up in Lisa’s cases and adventures, proving to be a loyal and helpful friend in even the most complicated and dangerous of situations. He is married to Julie Wilson. [because this is the 1940s, she can’t really cheat, get a divorce, and be alright financially right away, so in my mind she doesn’t cheat here. I would have him be married to his first wife, but then we’d have Sam Wilson, and that’s already a mcu character and I’d like to avoid confusion]
Eric Foreman also works for the SSR. He follows his orders, whether he agrees with them or not. He later takes over as chief.
Dr. Robert Chase is a brilliant, young, rich, somewhat insane weapons inventor. He met and befriended Lisa during the war, but afterwards, he recruited her to clear his name. See, Dr. Chase had indirectly killed a (different) genocidal dictator, and the SSR is out for his arrest.
Allison Cameron is a waitress who quickly becomes one of Lisa’s closest friends and allies.
Remy Hadley, known only as “Thirteen” in the spy circuit, was trained in the Red Room. She proves to be one of Lisa’s biggest adversaries, but also turns out to be useful later on.
Amber Volakis is a brilliant actress who later gets caught up in something bigger than herself. She aims for genius, but ends up in unhinged territory.
Jessica Adams is a nurse Greg meets while in Los Angeles. She proves to be a valuable ally when Lisa is injured.
Lawrence Kutner, Jeffrey Cole, and Chris Taub are all part of the 107th, which are still active even after the war.
Dr. Travis Brennan [...whatever the fuck samberly was good for lmao. It can’t be taub bc samberly gets no bitches and taub very much somehow gets bitches]
Chi Park is Lisa’s connection at the phone company.
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After 4 seasons of 98 episodes the controversal last episode of Star Trek: Enterprise (2001 - 2005) aired on May 13, 2005. The final episode had taken a lot of criticism for it's decision of ending the episode revealing the episode was a hologram watched by Star Trek the Next Generation character William T Riker (Jonathan Frakes). The decision to focus on Riker and Deanna Troi (Marina Sirtis) had caused such backlash that in August, 2016, it was voted the worst episode of the entire Star Trek franchise. The main part of the episode took place in the year 2370. The end of this episode represented the first gap in a continous Star Trek TV projects since the launch of Star Trek the Next Generation. (These Are the Voyages...", Star Trek: Enterprise, TV Event)
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Title: Flatland
Rating: NR
Director: Jeffrey Travis, Dano Johnson
Cast: Martin Sheen, Kristen Bell, Tony Hale, Joe Estevez, Michael York
Release year: 2007
Genres: science fiction
Blurb: Arthur Square and his ever-curious granddaughter Hex live in a world of only two dimensions inhabited by sentient geometric shapes. When a mysterious visitor arrives from Spaceland, Arthur and Hex must come to terms with the truth of the third dimension, risking dire consequences from the evil Circles that have ruled Flatland for a thousand years.
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Controversial take or not, I actually really enjoyed Enterprise (to my surprise, after seeing so many people hate on it). I liked the first two seasons (possibly more than season 3), and I enjoyed Trip—and his on/off/on/off with pretty-lips T’Pol. Of course I rolled my eyes a few times and some episodes/characters surely were “Walmart versions” (or knock offs) of previous trek shows but the theme song was an absolute banger (except for when they sped it up) and there WAS A DOG.
And they had Combs. As an Andorian.
I surely wouldn’t have minded another 3 seasons. There’s just something so exciting about recognizing aliens from previous shows and how they first met. Sigh.
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