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I’m Phil Tippett, stop-motion animator, director, dinosaur supervisor. And the status of VFX.
http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1r5h9b/im_phil_tippett_stopmotion_animator_director
LA Animator:
What, in your opinion, is broken in the current VFX workflow? What things would you like to most see change?
Endless revisions?
Disconnect between Director and artists/VFX facility?
Bidding process? etc?
Phil Tippet:
In the olden days, producers knew what visual effects were. Now they’ve gotten into this methodology where they’ll hire a middleman – a visual effects supervisor, and this person works for the producing studio. They’re middle managers.
And when you go into a review with one of them, there’s this weird sort of competition that happens. It’s a game called ‘Find What’s Wrong With This Shot’. And there’s always going to be something wrong, because everything’s subjective. And you can micromanage it down to a pixel, and that happens all the time.
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General OCR Theory – Towards OCR-2.0 via a Unified End-to-end Model – HF Transformers implementation
https://huggingface.co/stepfun-ai/GOT-OCR-2.0-hf
GOT-OCR2 works on a wide range of tasks, including plain document OCR, scene text OCR, formatted document OCR, and even OCR for tables, charts, mathematical formulas, geometric shapes, molecular formulas and sheet music.
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Tarkovsky Films Now Free Online
http://www.openculture.com/2010/07/tarkovksy.html
Andrei Tarkovsky (1932-1986) firmly positioned himself as the finest Soviet director of the post-War period.
Ingmar Bergman went so far as to say, “Tarkovsky for me is the greatest [director], the one who invented a new language, true to the nature of film, as it captures life as a reflection, life as a dream.”
And Akira Kurosawa acknowledged his influence too, adding, “I love all of Tarkovsky’s films. I love his personality and all his works. Every cut from his films is a marvelous image in itself.”
