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  • two main reasons: one is that they were smart about what to tackle considering graphic capabilities of the time, for example toy story is a perfect first movie since everything looked plasticky at the time, so a movie made almost entirely of toys and furniture wouldn’t look so bad.

    second is that they worked on their rendering engine specifically for what they wanted to create, so for a bug’s life they created the subdivision technique which is still an incredibly prevalent method to create smooth curved surfaces.

    it also allowed them to model the squishy caterpillar, but again they were smart about their capabilities so they limited the soft body to that character and made the rest hard shelled insects like ants, grasshoppers, a stick bug, etc.

    I don’t know this for a fact but they also probably worked on linked objects which allows multiple instances of a model to be reused without making your ram explode: the movie is full of things that are numerous: grains, rocks, leaves, grass, even the ants themselves.

    finally lighting goes a long way to make things look good. every movie they made had great leaps in terms of lighting.

    smart movie making decisions can make movies timeless.











  • pyre@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.worldthe cold war
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    there is none, unfortunately. the best you can do is Firefox forks. i use zen, some people use librewolf, but that doesn’t change the fact that Mozilla is getting worse every day. idk how we can get past that other than having another whole ass foundation that invests in a new browser.


  • pyre@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zonerule
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    15 days ago

    i don’t pretend to know what that’s like but i just want to say, to varying degrees, most everyone struggles to find themselves and whenever they do it always feels late. some people marry at 20 and figure out they want something else from life at 45. people can find out they need to change their moral beliefs, their faith, their family… we’re all trying to figure things out and the best we can do is make the most of what we have at any time.