[QUOTE=Binladen34;43463750]If Earth was the only planet to sustain species evolution.
[hd]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcPqk-O-fD4[/hd][/QUOTE]
Holy damn
We are fucking badass.
We're a bunch of hardcore motherfuckers, never forget that.
[QUOTE=Irespawnoften;43465412]We're a bunch of hardcore motherfuckers, never forget that.[/QUOTE]
10,000 years of evolutionary struggle, we better be.
Of course we humans are badass. We're the apex predators of the entire planet, adapted to survive almost anywhere and kill anything. We're also walking biological bombs, considering just how much micro-organic life we harbor. And on a more chilling note, we're persistence predators, which means we have more endurance than speed. It also means that unlike most predators, if we want you dead and you somehow get away, we [I]will[/I] continue to hunt you until either you die, or we do.
And all of this is [I]before[/I] you get into our technological and social developments, all of which only serves to amplify our destructive potential. We were perfectly capable of surviving without all of our current and past weaponry, but we still wound up making it. We've made horrifyingly powerful devices of death and destruction, and why did we do so? To tell neighboring groups of humans to fuck off. We are the only multi-cellular living thing capable of threatening the entire species.
As a result of our biological, technological and social prowess at killing and destroying, I can easily see why aliens would want nothing to do with us. Even if they were militant as well, there's a very big price to pay if you disturb us. Right now, the only threat to humanity as a whole is humanity itself, and the only equal or even remotely close opponent a lone human has is his kin. We squabble amongst ourselves due to a lack of any other enemies, and we've proven frighteningly good at both destroying each other and preventing said destruction from killing us all.
The only thing we really need to go from a bunch of giant, bickering tribes fighting amongst themselves to a single, unified force of death and destruction is an inhuman enemy. It's already a given based on our fiction that the idea of spilling alien blood doesn't even faze most of us. Any aliens that come poking around would risk giving us a free, morally-non-problematic target to brutally destroy. Also, picking a fight with us murderous savages would create the big risk of us getting our hands on and reverse-engineering advanced alien technology, up to and including FTL/wormhole/etc. tech.
The second-worst result of picking a fight with humans would be getting your ass kicked by us, and giving us our first good reason to unify as a single, species-wide fighting force. The actual #1 worst result would be letting us have some of that sweet space-travel tech of yours to reverse-engineer, allowing us to spread across the stars like the diseases we harbor.
And people wonder why aliens haven't said hello to us yet. If there are any alien species out there who didn't go through survival of the fittest, or who are completely non-hostile in terms of both biology and social structure, we must look like perfectly-honed and nightmarish killing machines to them.
[QUOTE=Scot;43461289]Zodiac is a good example of this. I sure as hell didn't notice when I watched it.
[video=youtube;-sZS8OVyVr4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sZS8OVyVr4[/video]
On a smaller scale though CGI is also used for removing camera dolly tracks and reflections of crew members/equipment.[/QUOTE]
CG is also very handy dandy for making films set in the past, movies like "Public Enemies". It's a lot easier to just throw up a green screen over a section of street or edit things in post production than it is to hunt down period correct props and build entire sets. I heard a story once that a movie or TV show was being filmed and set in the early 1920's. So they hunted down all the period correct stuff and after a day of filming, they noticed they didn't take down a "DVD SALE, 50% OFF" sign out of one of the shops they were filming outside of. Had post-production CG not been a thing, all that time and effort would have been for nothing.
[QUOTE=TurboSax;43465819]Of course we humans are badass. We're the apex predators of the entire planet, adapted to survive almost anywhere and kill anything. We're also walking biological bombs, considering just how much micro-organic life we harbor. And on a more chilling note, we're persistence predators, which means we have more endurance than speed. It also means that unlike most predators, if we want you dead and you somehow get away, we [I]will[/I] continue to hunt you until either you die, or we do.
And all of this is [I]before[/I] you get into our technological and social developments, all of which only serves to amplify our destructive potential. We were perfectly capable of surviving without all of our current and past weaponry, but we still wound up making it. We've made horrifyingly powerful devices of death and destruction, and why did we do so? To tell neighboring groups of humans to fuck off. We are the only multi-cellular living thing capable of threatening the entire species.
As a result of our biological, technological and social prowess at killing and destroying, I can easily see why aliens would want nothing to do with us. Even if they were militant as well, there's a very big price to pay if you disturb us. Right now, the only threat to humanity as a whole is humanity itself, and the only equal or even remotely close opponent a lone human has is his kin. We squabble amongst ourselves due to a lack of any other enemies, and we've proven frighteningly good at both destroying each other and preventing said destruction from killing us all.
The only thing we really need to go from a bunch of giant, bickering tribes fighting amongst themselves to a single, unified force of death and destruction is an inhuman enemy. It's already a given based on our fiction that the idea of spilling alien blood doesn't even faze most of us. Any aliens that come poking around would risk giving us a free, morally-non-problematic target to brutally destroy. Also, picking a fight with us murderous savages would create the big risk of us getting our hands on and reverse-engineering advanced alien technology, up to and including FTL/wormhole/etc. tech.
The second-worst result of picking a fight with humans would be getting your ass kicked by us, and giving us our first good reason to unify as a single, species-wide fighting force. The actual #1 worst result would be letting us have some of that sweet space-travel tech of yours to reverse-engineer, allowing us to spread across the stars like the diseases we harbor.
And people wonder why aliens haven't said hello to us yet. If there are any alien species out there who didn't go through survival of the fittest, or who are completely non-hostile in terms of both biology and social structure, we must look like perfectly-honed and nightmarish killing machines to them.[/QUOTE]
Funny isn't it?
The only way to possible world peace, Some meany faced alien coming down, wanting to conquer us, and all of us coming together to rape it's face 10 times.
[QUOTE=TurboSax;43465819]Of course we humans are badass. We're the apex predators of the entire planet, adapted to survive almost anywhere and kill anything. We're also walking biological bombs, considering just how much micro-organic life we harbor. And on a more chilling note, we're persistence predators, which means we have more endurance than speed. It also means that unlike most predators, if we want you dead and you somehow get away, we [I]will[/I] continue to hunt you until either you die, or we do.
And all of this is [I]before[/I] you get into our technological and social developments, all of which only serves to amplify our destructive potential. We were perfectly capable of surviving without all of our current and past weaponry, but we still wound up making it. We've made horrifyingly powerful devices of death and destruction, and why did we do so? To tell neighboring groups of humans to fuck off. We are the only multi-cellular living thing capable of threatening the entire species.
As a result of our biological, technological and social prowess at killing and destroying, I can easily see why aliens would want nothing to do with us. Even if they were militant as well, there's a very big price to pay if you disturb us. Right now, the only threat to humanity as a whole is humanity itself, and the only equal or even remotely close opponent a lone human has is his kin. We squabble amongst ourselves due to a lack of any other enemies, and we've proven frighteningly good at both destroying each other and preventing said destruction from killing us all.
The only thing we really need to go from a bunch of giant, bickering tribes fighting amongst themselves to a single, unified force of death and destruction is an inhuman enemy. It's already a given based on our fiction that the idea of spilling alien blood doesn't even faze most of us. Any aliens that come poking around would risk giving us a free, morally-non-problematic target to brutally destroy. Also, picking a fight with us murderous savages would create the big risk of us getting our hands on and reverse-engineering advanced alien technology, up to and including FTL/wormhole/etc. tech.
The second-worst result of picking a fight with humans would be getting your ass kicked by us, and giving us our first good reason to unify as a single, species-wide fighting force. The actual #1 worst result would be letting us have some of that sweet space-travel tech of yours to reverse-engineer, allowing us to spread across the stars like the diseases we harbor.
And people wonder why aliens haven't said hello to us yet. If there are any alien species out there who didn't go through survival of the fittest, or who are completely non-hostile in terms of both biology and social structure, we must look like perfectly-honed and nightmarish killing machines to them.[/QUOTE]
haha, that's a cool thought.
that tom cruse movie "Oblivion" used CGI as little as possible
there is absolutely NO CGI in these two pictures:
[IMG]http://cdn.funkidslive.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Oblivion1.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/QDEDXzi.jpg[/IMG]
and when they do use CGI they dont green screen it:
final shot:
[IMG]http://cdn3.sbnation.com/entry_photo_images/7854543/2haCh_large_verge_medium_landscape.png[/IMG]
what they filmed:
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/u6gZO2u.jpg[/IMG]
I know this is probably a long shot but does anyone have that picture of a black stenciled figure of an anime-esque girl on a cement pillar?
I remember it was posted here saying it was done in sweden but after sifting through most of the pages I couldn't find it.
[QUOTE=meppers;43466916]that tom cruse movie "Oblivion" used CGI as little as possible
-snip-
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/QDEDXzi.jpg[/IMG]
-snap-[/QUOTE]
So you're saying that in the second picture, they really were above the clouds?
[QUOTE=Turkey Sandvich;43467778]So you're saying that in the second picture, they really were above the clouds?[/QUOTE]
They had hours of footage from a mountaintop that they projected around the set.
[QUOTE=Pvt. Martin;43466529]Funny isn't it?
The only way to possible world peace, Some meany faced alien coming down, wanting to conquer us, and all of us coming together to rape it's face 10 times.[/QUOTE]
It's definitely not the only way to world peace, other solutions such as a slow but inevitable unification via social/economic growth, or a faster (but far more destructive) unification by force come to mind. However, aliens coming down to our little backwoods planet and pissing us all off would almost certainly be the fastest method.
Although, if they just came down in peace to say hello to us, and pointed out that we had bigger problems drifting in space than just squabbling with each other, that would probably get our asses in gear pretty fast too.
[QUOTE=TurboSax;43465819]Of course we humans are badass. We're the apex predators of the entire planet, adapted to survive almost anywhere and kill anything. We're also walking biological bombs, considering just how much micro-organic life we harbor. And on a more chilling note, we're persistence predators, which means we have more endurance than speed. It also means that unlike most predators, if we want you dead and you somehow get away, we [I]will[/I] continue to hunt you until either you die, or we do.
And all of this is [I]before[/I] you get into our technological and social developments, all of which only serves to amplify our destructive potential. We were perfectly capable of surviving without all of our current and past weaponry, but we still wound up making it. We've made horrifyingly powerful devices of death and destruction, and why did we do so? To tell neighboring groups of humans to fuck off. We are the only multi-cellular living thing capable of threatening the entire species.
As a result of our biological, technological and social prowess at killing and destroying, I can easily see why aliens would want nothing to do with us. Even if they were militant as well, there's a very big price to pay if you disturb us. Right now, the only threat to humanity as a whole is humanity itself, and the only equal or even remotely close opponent a lone human has is his kin. We squabble amongst ourselves due to a lack of any other enemies, and we've proven frighteningly good at both destroying each other and preventing said destruction from killing us all.
The only thing we really need to go from a bunch of giant, bickering tribes fighting amongst themselves to a single, unified force of death and destruction is an inhuman enemy. It's already a given based on our fiction that the idea of spilling alien blood doesn't even faze most of us. Any aliens that come poking around would risk giving us a free, morally-non-problematic target to brutally destroy. Also, picking a fight with us murderous savages would create the big risk of us getting our hands on and reverse-engineering advanced alien technology, up to and including FTL/wormhole/etc. tech.
The second-worst result of picking a fight with humans would be getting your ass kicked by us, and giving us our first good reason to unify as a single, species-wide fighting force. The actual #1 worst result would be letting us have some of that sweet space-travel tech of yours to reverse-engineer, allowing us to spread across the stars like the diseases we harbor.
And people wonder why aliens haven't said hello to us yet. If there are any alien species out there who didn't go through survival of the fittest, or who are completely non-hostile in terms of both biology and social structure, we must look like perfectly-honed and nightmarish killing machines to them.[/QUOTE]
The video wanted to say that our resources are our biggest weakness, but not really. It's time. Both for individuals and humans as a whole, actually.
If the galaxy were earth, we're a unicellular anaerobe. It's fun stepping back for a moment and looking at the earth from an outside perspective, questioning all the things we've come to take for granted, for instance [I]emotions[/I] alone, but we're utterly powerless on the scale of the universe.
[editline]8th January 2014[/editline]
That video is absolutely fantastic, for the record.
[QUOTE=Turkey Sandvich;43467778]So you're saying that in the second picture, they really were above the clouds?[/QUOTE]
no
[IMG]http://www.joblo.com/newsimages1/oblivion-sky-tower-bubble.jpg[/IMG]
oblivion was a fucking amazing movie.
gee, just post the video
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DCkIuv82Q4[/media]
absolutely amazing.
It looked so good. Shame the movie sucked, though.
[QUOTE=peabrain101;43469756]It looked so good. Shame the movie sucked, though.[/QUOTE]
Eugh. I hadn't met a single person that liked it until this page today.
I absolutely loved it.
[QUOTE=Trunk Monkay;43465909]CG is also very handy dandy for making films set in the past, movies like "Public Enemies". It's a lot easier to just throw up a green screen over a section of street or edit things in post production than it is to hunt down period correct props and build entire sets. I heard a story once that a movie or TV show was being filmed and set in the early 1920's. So they hunted down all the period correct stuff and after a day of filming, they noticed they didn't take down a "DVD SALE, 50% OFF" sign out of one of the shops they were filming outside of. Had post-production CG not been a thing, all that time and effort would have been for nothing.[/QUOTE]
There's a major difference between editing out a sign and modelling a whole street.
Also, as mentioned the acting can be a bit off when they can't even have a feeling for the environment.
[QUOTE=krten_2x 4b;43335219]Look at this shit
[IMG]http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2862/9601001344_a4e6be3cb6_b.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2868/9637289932_4f5d0dbcc8_c.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3672/9637318792_5562792271_c.jpg[/IMG]
You cant possibly tell me this place aint beautiful[/QUOTE]
Got any wallpaper sized pics? So pretty.
1 - [url]http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2862/9601001344_b787a42001_o.jpg[/url]
2 - [url]http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2868/9637289932_bca377dbfc_o.jpg[/url]
3 - [url]http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3672/9637318792_1aa0777a6f_o.jpg[/url]
Author: [url]http://www.flickr.com/photos/74561856@N04/[/url]
Google reverse image search is very useful for this sort of thing, try it out.
Also, have some OC:
[url=http://www.flickr.com/photos/paul_simon/11848975153/][img]http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7451/11848975153_aae38a581a_b.jpg[/img][/url]
[url=http://www.flickr.com/photos/paul_simon/11848975153/][/url] by [url=http://www.flickr.com/people/paul_simon/]PaulTheSimon[/url], on Flickr
[url=http://www.flickr.com/photos/paul_simon/11849070483/][img]http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5498/11849070483_ffbfdfd5eb_b.jpg[/img][/url]
[url=http://www.flickr.com/photos/paul_simon/11849070483/][/url] by [url=http://www.flickr.com/people/paul_simon/]PaulTheSimon[/url], on Flickr
[QUOTE=Zukriuchen;43468606]gee, just post the video
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DCkIuv82Q4[/media]
absolutely amazing.[/QUOTE]
Fucking incredible.
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/T5ObhkS.jpg[/IMG]
[sp]It's the same street[/sp]
[QUOTE=meppers;43466916]that tom cruse movie "Oblivion" used CGI as little as possible
there is absolutely NO CGI in these two pictures:
[IMG]http://cdn.funkidslive.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Oblivion1.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/QDEDXzi.jpg[/IMG]
and when they do use CGI they dont green screen it:
final shot:
[IMG]http://cdn3.sbnation.com/entry_photo_images/7854543/2haCh_large_verge_medium_landscape.png[/IMG]
what they filmed:
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/u6gZO2u.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]
And then you have movies like Gravity where everything but the actors' faces is CG.
[t]http://u.cubeupload.com/callumshell1/GravityMovieSpace201.jpg[/t]
They actually had to invent entirely new technologies in order to make that movie. There's a very interesting article about it [URL="http://www.empireonline.com/features/films-of-the-year-2013/p14"]here[/URL].
i like it when they have to invent new tech for special effects
the original Star Wars films come to mind
[QUOTE=Pigbear;43472792]woo unpainted fibreglass.[/QUOTE]
Are you serious :v:
[QUOTE=Pigbear;43472792]woo unpainted fibreglass.[/QUOTE]
How about you link it with how your lawn looks like? Open your window, and you'll feel what I mean.
i dont get it...?
it looks like ice. what is it?
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