I mean this respectfully to newer OpTic fans:
Some of y’all are a little spoiled with success and haven’t been around for the dichotomy of dominance and heartbreaks from BO2 to IW Champs and the gap between 2017-2024. There were some dark and awkward times there as a fan so seeing people event remotely call for a roster change for this team is legitimately insane to me. Some of yall don’t know how good we have it right now.
🚨 GOLD AND SILVER BLACK SWAN.
Gold: -15%. Silver: -38%.
In the last 24 hours, $15T+ has been wiped out from Gold and Silver. That's half the GDP of the United States... GONE in ONE DAY.
We just witnessed the first Sigma-10 event in financial history. Mathematically, this shouldn't happen in the lifetime of the entire universe.
The SIMULATION is LITERALLY BREAKING.
A$AP ROCKY’s new video for HELICOPTER has some of the craziest visuals you’ve ever seen.
And no... it’s not AI.
It’s 4D volumetric capture surrounded with 3D animation.
It’s a technique called gaussian splatting.
The production capture team, @evercoast, captured about 10 terabytes of raw data, rendering roughly 30 minutes of final splatted footage.
That data was then brought into Houdini, where GSOPs (Gaussian Splatting Operators) were used in combination with OTOY OctaneRender to create the final result.
A message from the director of the music video @danstreit who spent 5 months in post-production with the team:
“I think it’s important that Rocky led with shutting down AI accusations because it’s too easy to call anything that’s remotely experimental or animated as AI nowadays. He and I both geek out over craft and want people to know that not only can you create great work without it, but audiences should empathize more with artists who slave away at their craft before assuming a computer made it all by itself.”
Amazing work by this crew. Their brains need to be studied.