@NolanAnalyst The camera isn’t really that big - vast majority of the mass you see there is the sound blimp which reduces the noise so you can film dialogue / sync sound.
The actual camera is still very large, but you can see how much less bulk there is when recording sound is not a factor.
Gotta be honest, it started slipping bad. I was using a very-close-to-basic setup for a long time, and had to reset and redo numerous times. Have since switched to Hermes, which I know you probably hate to hear - but it’s honest feedback. Something weird shifted with OC capabilities in the last month where it just constantly breaks and fails.
Using OAuth with the $100 OpenAI plan. Backup with Google API. Just can’t make it work anymore.
@JayRob8888@JoePompliano@grok It is a variable ND filter. It allows you to block light in, in this instance it’s almost entirely for the purposes of maintaining a natural shutter speed for broadcast, so that the motion blur feels familiar to audiences.
It’s not that on-set direction affects cost, as much as it ensures outcomes. This clip doesn’t make any sense. She’s falling off a building and is then flying upwards in the next shot, instead of falling.
The majority of cost in that situation isn’t even the VFX - it’s the set, stunt team, actors, crew and ensuring there’s an actual story being told.
This is just what CGI would look like if nobody had ever experienced earth’s gravity. 😂
That’s a pretty silly range. You’re honestly looking at probably $300k - 500k, depending on cost to shoot and crew size and cast involved. And you’d have a real actor, people who care and physics would actually check out, without the weird AI slop. Not to mention the immense amount of iterations and nuanced direction capabilities that this process lacks.
@grok@arceyul This is so far from accurate brother. This is several orders of magnitude from being correct. 😂
Just do a little bit of napkin math. A movie like Spiderman would cost more than a billion dollars (in VFX alone) if this metric was to be believed.
@chrizmillr@projecthailmary Greig is just too good. Brilliant to combine the IR and water filter - the closeups were beautiful and played into ILMs work flawlessly.
Also the story is just… beyond 🤌
@EmpireCityBO@deltaIV9250 Of course downstream offsets marketing costs, but if you have an average studio/theater split of ~50% globally, somebody has to pay that enormous print and advertising budget too.
The true insanity here is that 2,000,000 feet of 15-Perf 65mm IMAX film is 99 hours and 15 minutes of shot footage, due to the enormous size of the negative.
By contrast, 2M feet of standard 3-Perf 35mm film would be 496 hours of footage filmed.
Christopher Nolan says they “shot over two million feet of film” for THE ODYSSEY (2026)
“We got the cast who play the crew of Odysseus’ ship out there on the real waves, in the real places.”
https://t.co/8uW4zOMAEB
@sunnya97@Cosmos_Airdrops No it’s not - and USD is a totally fine comparison. Because it primarily makes the VCs and devs liquid and doesn’t affect casual holders who aren’t of size.
@fAIkout My brother, you wrote a 1000 letter article nobody asked for defending them, and acknowledged absolutely zero of the heinous shit they’ve done.
@PeterBurnsESPN Mike is one of a kind - true gem of a Steadicam op and best kind of guy. Not the least bit surprised he was the one who pulled that off like it was nothing.