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  1. Nate North

    series What series are you watching?

    I actually have a recommendation for once. For the last year I keep hearing this name "Glen Powell", and I have no idea who he is. I thought maybe it was made up. The context is weird, because people are saying "top actors like Tom Holland and Glen Powell are doing great this year" or "Jay Z...
  2. Nate North

    ai AI Video has arrived - It looks incredible

    These are not good videos IMHO. Sure, there are plenty of awkward details to pick at, but the main flaw is the approach/mentality. Ever seen Spielberg or Lean film a 5 year old (Poltergeist in example)? You don't need a great, experienced actor if you have a competent director. Really what...
  3. Nate North

    Death March preview

    Ok, I tried to implement some of that feedback, added more voice expression and timing, added blinking, adams apple movement, some dynamic shadows, here's a look at a few days of progress on the voice+lipsync tech. I'll continue improving it of course, but I think the added animation and...
  4. Nate North

    Death March preview

    I partially agree with you, but I think your perception is more valid for some of the clips than others. I agree that the fixed shots, such as the younger indian soldier, are kind of dead, less compelling, and draw attention to the mouth. In contrast, that first clip isn't bad. I'm just...
  5. Nate North

    Death March preview

    Here's a quick test of the moving head lip sync tech in action. I'm polishing and improving details in the process but essentially everything is working now, finally. Some of these day one test lips aren't perfect, But the nice thing about digital is that you get as many takes as you need...
  6. Nate North

    The 7 Day Feature Film Score

    Only about 7 days work on this particular job. This is the score album for "Death March". Check it out, it's pretty good for a feature film soundtrack on a microbudget. Maybe 20 orchestral themes in this video. If any other filmmakers want to know how to do this, I'll be glad to help you...
  7. Nate North

    Death March preview

    Still working out a few minor keying issues. Lipsync has been solved, but is not included in this demo yet. This is a small collection of clips from the in-production film "Death March", which will be the development test project for Save Point pipeline V 7.5. Getting close to marketable...
  8. Nate North

    series What series are you watching?

    Haven't seen it yet but it's on my list. Sounds interesting, and I like that it's not a cookie cutter premise.
  9. Nate North

    series What series are you watching?

    Sweet Tooth isn't a bad show. I didn't have a lot of expectations, but much like One Piece, it was better than expected. Some anime writing isn't bad, depends on the writer. You add in a 12 mil per episode budget, and sometimes it's good. Boardwalk Empire is one of the greatest tv shows ever...
  10. Nate North

    Save Point 7.4 pipeline update

    Thanks!
  11. Nate North

    editing How do I make a video like this?

    You could probably add a GPU to your 32gig rig RAM machine pretty cheap. It makes a huge difference in terms of editing speed. A 200 dollar GPU might go a long way for you. I would warn though that editing with a lot of layers and blends, and alpha, etc, can often slow down even a strong...
  12. Nate North

    editing How do I make a video like this?

    Sorry didn't see this thread for a while. Sean is right about everything, but I'll see if I can add a bit of helpful detail. This video relies mostly on a few specific effects. I can only tell you the DaVinci specific names, but the effects should be named something similar in all editing...
  13. Nate North

    website Maryland's Best Photographer

    The blogs are a good idea, from a google visibility perspective. SEO is kind of a big deal. Bad side, you have to do a bunch of extra stuff to become visible, good side, it's not that bad, and you can get half way there by just optimizing the page itself for SEO and then doing a few backlinks...
  14. Nate North

    website Maryland's Best Photographer

    Looks really good. Much more impact in this version, though you might consider shortening the vertical on the front page centerpiece carousel. Rule of thumb is that if you want people to scroll down to see what's underneath an image, they need to be able to see on load that there is something...
  15. Nate North

    blog Leap

    Looking really good! Nice work on the casket composite.
  16. Nate North

    The Super Panavision 70 AI Craze

    In a general response to the comments above: It's all about the ratio of artist to tool. At one end of the slider, you have the spirograph. It holds the pencil for you, and makes perfect pictures of spirals. It looks cooler than a bad hotel painting, but after 10 minutes all spirographs look...
  17. Nate North

    The Super Panavision 70 AI Craze

    This is just something fun that I think people might enjoy. While commercial AI filmmaking platforms are still very limited, and can't really tell stories, they can do THIS, which is fun for a minute.
  18. Nate North

    The Bat and the Furious (Brickfilm Short)

    Nice work man! It got me thinking, there is probably a way to make this way easier. I think that in the near future I can build a special pipe for stop motion, where all it does is just remove your hand and fill in the places where it was based on other frames. If so, you could basically do...
  19. Nate North

    Save Point 7.4 pipeline update

    Sure but the big question is when rather than if, If I can't find an open source project almost immediately i'll likely have to try and proceed along a similar technology track simply because of the current obsolescence curve, which is completely insane. If you told people 100 years ago that...
  20. Nate North

    Save Point 7.4 pipeline update

    I took a look at it, and it looks good. Microsoft doesn't typically open source it's research though, so if I'm going to use this method in engine, I'll have to chase down the academic research papers they derived this from, and rebuild a similar implementation myself. Of course first I'll...
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