Vedrasco Victor Vasiliᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠ

Small appliance repair technician

[exQUIZitely 🕹️ @exQUIZitely]

When people talk about Prince of Persia, the first thing they almost always mention is the incredibly fluid, lifelike animation. And they’re right, it was groundbreaking. But that alone doesn’t explain why the game became such a massive cultural icon.

What truly made Prince of Persia special was how it defined the “cinematic platformer” genre. (Jordan Mechner had experimented with the idea earlier in Karateka, but on a much smaller scale.)

The game pulled you into an immersive world filled with deadly traps, scary falls, and movement that actually felt like it had weight and real physics. Every jump needed perfect timing; one mistake could send you plummeting to your death, yet it always felt fair and believable - nothing like the bouncy, cartoonish platformers of the era (who were fun in their own right but a lot less realistic).

The game wasn’t a simple left-to-right sprint either. You constantly backtracked, flipped switches, opened hidden passages, and solved the environment like an explorer or adventurer rather than a super-hero blasting your way through hordes of enemies. I found that it had thatIndiana Jones energy: part platformer, part puzzle, part exploration.

Even the sword fights stood out. Instead of frantic button-mashing, duels were a lot more tactical battles where you had to read your opponent’s stance, parry at the right moment, and strike at the right time. Brains mattered more than reflexes.

In the end, it was this rare sense of realism that set Prince of Persia apart. It had atmosphere, story, and brains. It’s no surprise the game helped inspire classics like Another World and Flashback. You could argue that Jordan Mechner wasn’t just making games but quietly (and maybe unknowingly) pioneering a more cinematic, mature side of the genre.

I don’t want to sound overly nostalgic or sentimental, but for me Prince of Persia (1989) was a massive reason why gaming in those years felt more magical than today.

[AlexandrIA @AleRVG]

... Boomers ...

[AlexandrIA @AleRVG]

Plastic Love 💘
Based on real events. Performed by perfect lies.

How it made with LTX !🧵

[AlexandrIA @AleRVG]

How to Hang Something That Drips 🌧️

⚙️ Made with OpenArt Director

🎨 HACKING THE BOILING EFFECT IN AI
Real boiling isn't a post-effect; it’s an unavoidable byproduct of traditional frame-by-frame animation.
It happens simply because a human being cannot draw the exact same line twice.

So, how do we force Seedance 2.0 to simulate it? Seedance is built for the exact opposite: aggressive temporal consistency, striving to make every frame match perfectly.
Sample prompts:
- "All outlines redrawing 1-2px between frames"
- "Canvas texture breathes underneath all surfaces"
- "Hand-painted animation — no two frames identical"
- "Brushstrokes turning over and re-laying continuously"
- "The [object] edges crawl, dissolve and re-form"

💡For my shot, I also fed the AI references [garden, cloud, and girl] from a Midjourney style that inherently possessed that vibrating brushstroke feel.

[AlexandrIA @AleRVG]

TIME to crack cutout animation with Seedance⌛️

[AlexandrIA @AleRVG]

SUMMER ORIGAMI.- Cut to the sunshine 🌊

#MadeWithRunway

[Yogesh Brar @heyitsyogesh]

Micron is making ~70% margin on memory chips

Apple makes ~60% margin on their products

They are currently fighting over pricing

But let's be real: neither side is losing..

The only loser in this case is YOU, the consumer!!

[Tim Sweeney @TimSweeneyEpic]

Summer break day 3: Pinnacles National Park, California

[Love Music @khnh80044]

The baby girl’s reaction when she saw a train for the first time 🥹❤️

[Science Simplified @Scivf4]

Whenever you feel sad, remember that there are tiny kinesin proteins doing their best to make you happy.

[Observer 観察者 @Observer_ofyou]

Look what I found at thift store

[Real World Physics @RWPhysics]

Old Screens Weren’t Actually Videos… 🤯

[Wonder of Science @wonderofscience]

When a match is struck, friction generates heat, igniting the red phosphorus on the match tip. It reacts with potassium chlorate in the head to produce phosphorus pentoxide, which further reacts and releases heat, igniting the wooden stick.

📽: Macrofying

[The Scientific Lens @LensScientific]

Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.

If quantum mechanics hasn't profoundly shocked you, you haven't understood it yet.

— Niels Bohr

[Tim Sweeney @TimSweeneyEpic]

Summer break at Sequoia National Park, day 2! The alpine slopes above 7500ft are a stark contrast to the lush forests below.

[Tim Sweeney @TimSweeneyEpic]

Epic Spring Break, day 1. Sequoia National Park, California.

[Amazing Physics @amazing_physics]

😃Physics and art make for a powerful combination

[PeteZach @oldyzach]

It really doesn't matter which platform you play Dune on.

What matters is that every version of Stéphane Picq's music is magical.

Let's fly.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

If you were born after 1998, you won't understand this.

[DwanPiece @DwanPiece]

How the fuck does one just MAKE a tornado ✌️😭