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etalian posted:The show was the uncanny valley meets CGI dongs all over creation. i was waiting for the twist in The Witness and it was slightly different than i expected so that surprised me but in most spots the visuals were great. stationary stuff not incredible but im a sucker for all this scifi poo poo with hologram billboards and whatnot so i liked the visuals in a lot of the shorts.
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Also it's neat how the run times were all over the place some of the shorter stories are only around 8 minutes while the longer stories are in the 15 minute range. The show is easily bingeable in just a few hours. etalian fucked around with this message at 02:14 on Mar 18, 2019 |
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I randomly stumbled upon this and watched the whole thing. At first I wasn't sure, not being to keen on a couple of the first few I saw, but I am an absolute sucker for sci fi and just kept watching. I'm glad I did, because although they're in one of the few books I haven't read by him, Beyond the Aquila Rift and Zima Blue are both written by Alastair Reynolds, my favourite author. I really do hope that more of his work makes it to the screen somehow, because these little stories worked really well in my opinion. Edit: Checking on the Book Barn sci fi thread, it looks like a few writers contributed to these, including Peter F. Hamilton. Now more than before I hope this means we'll see more adaptions, but that may be wishful thinking. At least now I know I have more reading to do. Khaba fucked around with this message at 02:33 on Mar 18, 2019 |
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Mar 18, 2019 02:25
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I could do with more anthology shorts in general and this show was no exception. I still can't help but laugh at all the lovingly rendered junk and someone eagerly putting it in their portfolio
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Milo and POTUS posted:I could do with more anthology shorts in general and this show was no exception. I still can't help but laugh at all the lovingly rendered junk and someone eagerly putting it in their portfolio my favorite was the werewolf dong where the guy was just like HELL YEA TIME TO GET NAKED for what seemed like literally no reason
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Mar 18, 2019 02:41
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Out of the first half, I really liked the art and animation in the witness. Would love to know more about how they actually made it. Beyond the Aquila Rift was great as well but the faces were a little too uncanny for me. I’m glad I stuck with it because I hated Sonnie’s Edge and it’s the only one I thought was bad so far. It was basically a video game cutscene and I mean that in the worst way possible. No idea why Netflix would put it first. Starks fucked around with this message at 02:53 on Mar 18, 2019 |
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Mar 18, 2019 02:51
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Starks posted:Out of the first half, I really liked the art and animation in the witness. Would love to know more about how they actually made it. Beyond the Aquila Rift was great as well but the faces were a little too uncanny for me. lol i thought the end of that one was cool but yea literally the whole time i felt like i was watching a cutscene
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Solar Tornado posted:I watched all the episodes and it was pretty good and I overall enjoyed it, The way I look at Love, Death & Robots is that it's essentially the 2019 version of Heavy Metal: a way to showcase the skill of the animators while embracing that weird 80s fascination with extreme on-screen violence and sexuality. Starks posted:Out of the first half, I really liked the art and animation in the witness. Would love to know more about how they actually made it. My guess would be that it's similar technology to several of the other bits like Beyond the Aquila Rift, where actors have motion capture markers on their faces for their performance but otherwise use their own bodies instead of having them replaced via CGI.
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For The Witness it definitely looked like a combination of regular rotoscoping and then some kind of filter maybe? The stuff with the clothes tells you that it definitely wasn't hand animated because nobody puts that much detail into clothing. While I wouldn't say they were indistinguishable as a whole there were definitely parts of Beyond and Shapeshifters where if you showed them to me in a vacuum I would guess they were real before CG. Like the scene late in Beyond with the close up of Greta's face while she was crying was just really well done.
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MY INEVITABLE DEBT posted:my favorite was the werewolf dong where the guy was just like HELL YEA TIME TO GET NAKED for what seemed like literally no reason Lol yeah. My girlfriend and I could not stop laughing at the werewolf dude's dick coming out of absolutely nowhere, especially in an episode that was fairly grounded until that point. Love, Death & Robots sure is sexual! 🤣 I just watched through Fish Night, the first 12 episodes. Very cool stuff and I love the breadth of different animation styles and concepts shown in this anthology. I feel like some of the stories are a little half-baked so far, sure, but the inventiveness in the animation and setting design makes up for it and then some. Like, Good Hunting wasn't much in the storytelling department and the dialogue was a mess, but holy poo poo, the steampunk mechanical designs and the world were seriously amazing. Incredible stuff there.
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Starks posted:I’m glad I stuck with it because I hated Sonnie’s Edge and it’s the only one I thought was bad so far. It was basically a video game cutscene and I mean that in the worst way possible. No idea why Netflix would put it first. It was alright, but it's weirdly front-and-center in the trailer that plays when they push it onto your front page. I definitely thought it was entirely a series about monsters fighting to the death until the second episode.
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Good Hunting also has some erect dicks, which is one thing you definitely don't see a lot of on TV.
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muscles like this! posted:Good Hunting also has some erect dicks, which is one thing you definitely don't see a lot of on TV. There's some sudden erect penis in the "alternate history Hitler death app demo" when Austria is overtaken by erotic superbeings. Also, the Janine reference is pretty loving obscure because I'm not sure if anyone remembers a '90s pornstar
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The more I think about it the more I like Zima Blue. That’s probably the most powerful of the stories in terms of saying something interesting.
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Starks posted:
Yeah 100% and heres the beauty of the anthology short: I said, oh well, not much time lost, gonna see it through. I don't think I hated it. It did just feel videogamey e:wtf, can't figure out why quote not working
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Mar 18, 2019 06:31
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Jesus Christ why did they open with Sonnie's Edge instead of Three Robots?
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whowhatwhere posted:Jesus Christ why did they open with Sonnie's Edge instead of Three Robots? Because Sonnie's edge is good. I think three robots is a bit too American for me whereas Sonnie's edge was really affecting. I really hope they do some more of this. It's so rare that in the west we get proper animated stuff and it's a great place to do fantasy/sci fi.
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Agreed, while Three Robots is delightful it has a very cheerful tone compared to the other episodes, it really wouldn't work as an intro episode. But holly poo poo, Beyond the Aquila Rift and Zima Blue, now that's some proper and refreshing Sci-Fi in video form. I can't remember the last time I was so genuinely moved and surprised by a Sci-Fi episode/movie and to think this was accomplished in a 15/10 minutes short is just mind blowing. It seems these two are based on short stories from Alastair Reynolds, I guess it's time to order his short stories collection.
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I'm about ten episodes in and Sonnie's Edge is definitely the best one to start off with, with Three Robots being a good second as it makes it clear there's going to be a bit of a range going on. The animation work has been incredible so far, but the shorts range in quality a fair bit. Suits, with its Pacific Rim by way of Blizzard aesthetics, definitely feels like something that might become a game of some sort in the future.
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Besides, the whole anthology kinda bills itself as being edgy and horny, so it kinda makes sense to open with something that features both violence and tits.
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Matwic posted:It seems these two are based on short stories from Alastair Reynolds, I guess it's time to order his short stories collection. Get House of Suns while you're out there, if you're looking for a good full novel of his to start with.
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Milkfred E. Moore posted:I'm about ten episodes in and Sonnie's Edge is definitely the best one to start off with, with Three Robots being a good second as it makes it clear there's going to be a bit of a range going on. Having watched more, it's definitely the most totally appropriate opening episode and it's an efficiently told story, but the animation is boring (especially compared to later episodes) and the "badass stoic woman with tragic rape backstory" is a bad cliche where it's not just a bad idea for your rousing action opener.
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Milkfred E. Moore posted:I'm about ten episodes in and Sonnie's Edge is definitely the best one to start off with, with Three Robots being a good second as it makes it clear there's going to be a bit of a range going on. The animation work has been incredible so far, but the shorts range in quality a fair bit. Suits, with its Pacific Rim by way of Blizzard aesthetics, definitely feels like something that might become a game of some sort in the future. They already made that game and it's called into the breach and it's really good
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Beefeater1980 posted:The more I think about it the more I like Zima Blue. That’s probably the most powerful of the stories in terms of saying something interesting. Yeah I think Zima Blue was one of the more solid episodes in terms of combining a interesting story, visuals and having a satisfying ending.
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I'm about halfway through this. Was it mandated that every episode have tits? Cause there sure are a lot! I have liked The Witness the most visually and for good story, probably Aquila Rift. I'd actually like to see some of these turned into movies or series.
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This show really needed a drinking game in which you have to do a shot whenever a CGI dick is hiding the background.
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whowhatwhere posted:Having watched more, it's definitely the most totally appropriate opening episode and it's an efficiently told story, but the animation is boring (especially compared to later episodes) and the "badass stoic woman with tragic rape backstory" is a bad cliche where it's not just a bad idea for your rousing action opener. That bit in spoilers is probably my number one problem with LDR. A lot of the shorts feel very masculine, for lack of a better term off the top of my head. Y'know, rape-as-drama, guy saves the girl (from being raped) and builds her a new body (so she can save other women from being raped), etc. etc.
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My favorite so far are no 1 and no 9 (the dump) 8 is basically Alita 10 is XMen 11 is Gravity with hilarious Stephen King bodily horror 14 Zima Blue is good. It held my interest the entire time. Is it based on a particular more famous work? 17 Alternative Histories is fun, I wish they make more short like this and the Yogurt instead of tropy scifi trope cliches. 18: Annihilation in Siberia? No it's just the next Metro. tino fucked around with this message at 04:20 on Mar 19, 2019 |
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Milkfred E. Moore posted:That bit in spoilers is probably my number one problem with LDR. A lot of the shorts feel very masculine, for lack of a better term off the top of my head. Y'know, rape-as-drama, guy saves the girl (from being raped) and builds her a new body (so she can save other women from being raped), etc. etc. "Helping Hand" and "Sucker Of Souls" are both adapted from short stories from female authors, while "When The Yogurt Took Over" screenwriter is a woman. But yeah, it looks like 5/6 of the series was screenwritten by one man, Philip Gelatt.
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Young Freud posted:"Helping Hand" and "Sucker Of Souls" are both adapted from short stories from female authors, while "When The Yogurt Took Over" screenwriter is a woman. But yeah, it looks like 5/6 of the series was screenwritten by one man, Philip Gelatt. Yogurt is an adaptation of a John Scalzi short story, as is 3 Robots and Alternate Histories. Incidentally while I didn’t think Alt Hist was that great overall, I had a genuine chuckle at the ending line: Lincoln shoots first.
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Beefeater1980 posted:Yogurt is an adaptation of a John Scalzi short story, as is 3 Robots and Alternate Histories. It's why I made the distinction between the short story author and the writer who adapted it for the series.
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Fuuuuuck Sonnie's Edge ruled  Are the rest of them this good? Because I need more cyberpunk kaiju MMA in my life now
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LORD OF BOOTY posted:Fuuuuuck Sonnie's Edge ruled No, but check out 10.
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Starks posted:Out of the first half, I really liked the art and animation in the witness. Would love to know more about how they actually made it. muscles like this! posted:For The Witness it definitely looked like a combination of regular rotoscoping and then some kind of filter maybe? The stuff with the clothes tells you that it definitely wasn't hand animated because nobody puts that much detail into clothing. I was sure it was rotoscoping, but the artist has said there was no motion capture (https://www.instagram.com/p/Bu6zRUbo7dk/) and it's done with keyframes. He explains his animation technique here: http://motionographer.com/2010/02/24/modern-rebel-alberto-mielgo-pinkman-tv/ And here is a video on his site of how his animations are made: http://www.albertomielgo.com/-making-of Even so, watching it I still can't believe it could have been traditionally animated. Sophy Wackles fucked around with this message at 04:39 on Mar 20, 2019 |
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Topher Grace getting nuked in the face was worth it.
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Young Freud posted:It's why I made the distinction between the short story author and the writer who adapted it for the series. Oh ok got it.
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tino posted:My favorite so far are no 1 and no 9 (the dump) I mentioned it in the streaming thread but Soul Sucker felt like one of the animated segments of The Adventure Zone that are all over YouTube. For Aquila Rift all I could see Gerard Butler as the lead and Michael Cera as the navigator.
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tino posted:14 Zima Blue is good. It held my interest the entire time. Is it based on a particular more famous work? It's based on short story collection Beyond the Aquila Rift by Alastair Reynolds https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beyond_the_Aquila_Rift
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In terms of unique visual style I liked The Witness the best.Milo and POTUS posted:That aquila one man it sticks with you. The short story is pretty good and at least has a less bleak ending.
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