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Apple TV+ Reportedly Loses $1 Billion on Streaming a Year
https://www.indiewire.com/news/business/apple-tv-reportedly-loses-1-billion-streaming-1235110323
But it supposedly also has 45 million subscribers, and with $124.3 million in revenue.
Per the company’s most recent earnings, the three months ending in January saw Apple bring in $124.3 billion in revenue, $26.3 billion of which came from Services, a record for the division. That’s just for one quarter. For the year, Services brought in more than $96 billion. It can afford to absorb a billion dollars in losses.https://spyglass.org/apple-tv-plus-strategy
It Wasn’t the Apple TV+ Spend, It Was the Apple TV+ Strategy
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Tiling ZoeDepth – High resolution depth map generator
Read more: Tiling ZoeDepth – High resolution depth map generatorThis is an adapted version of
Corresponding paper :
ZoeDepth: Zero-shot Transfer by Combining Relative and Metric Depth
https://github.com/BillFSmith/TilingZoeDepth
https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1Wi-1Ji_fhcoGpK-drT4dVrl5AjfVUQ5M
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Isotropix has discontinued Clarisse
Read more: Isotropix has discontinued Clarissehttps://www.cgchannel.com/2023/04/isotropix-may-have-discontinued-clarisse-and-angie/
The future of layout, lighting and rendering software Clarisse and its Angie renderer are in doubt, with developer Isotropix restricting access to its website and removing official social media accounts.
Consumer customers no longer have access to the User Account. If you have Support, Maintenance, Licensing, and Product questions, please send an email to support@isotropix.com
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The Dunning-Kruger effect – Incompetent people fail to see the magnitude of their incompetence
Read more: The Dunning-Kruger effect – Incompetent people fail to see the magnitude of their incompetencehttp://petapixel.com/2014/10/13/dunning-kruger-peak-photography/
The name of the peak refers to the Dunning–Kruger effect, coined by a pair of researchers at Cornell University in 1999.
Through their study, the scientists discovered that people who are unskilled at something — photography for example — are often unable to see how bad they are. Incompetent people will (1) fail to recognize that they are bad, (2) fail to recognize how good competent people are, and (3) fail to see the magnitude of their incompetence.
However, if given more training in what they’re bad at, those same people will recognize how incompetent they were (this is where people fall from the “Dunning-Kruger Peak”).
Is this the antithesis of the Impostor Syndrome?
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Methods for creating motion blur in Stop motion
Read more: Methods for creating motion blur in Stop motionen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_motion
Petroleum jelly
This crude but reasonably effective technique involves smearing petroleum jelly (“Vaseline”) on a plate of glass in front of the camera lens, also known as vaselensing, then cleaning and reapplying it after each shot — a time-consuming process, but one which creates a blur around the model. This technique was used for the endoskeleton in The Terminator. This process was also employed by Jim Danforth to blur the pterodactyl’s wings in Hammer Films’ When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth, and by Randal William Cook on the terror dogs sequence in Ghostbusters.[citation needed]Bumping the puppet
Gently bumping or flicking the puppet before taking the frame will produce a slight blur; however, care must be taken when doing this that the puppet does not move too much or that one does not bump or move props or set pieces.Moving the table
Moving the table on which the model is standing while the film is being exposed creates a slight, realistic blur. This technique was developed by Ladislas Starevich: when the characters ran, he moved the set in the opposite direction. This is seen in The Little Parade when the ballerina is chased by the devil. Starevich also used this technique on his films The Eyes of the Dragon, The Magical Clock and The Mascot. Aardman Animations used this for the train chase in The Wrong Trousers and again during the lorry chase in A Close Shave. In both cases the cameras were moved physically during a 1-2 second exposure. The technique was revived for the full-length Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit.Go motion
The most sophisticated technique was originally developed for the film The Empire Strikes Back and used for some shots of the tauntauns and was later used on films like Dragonslayer and is quite different from traditional stop motion. The model is essentially a rod puppet. The rods are attached to motors which are linked to a computer that can record the movements as the model is traditionally animated. When enough movements have been made, the model is reset to its original position, the camera rolls and the model is moved across the table. Because the model is moving during shots, motion blur is created.A variation of go motion was used in E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial to partially animate the children on their bicycles.
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The best way to win an argument with the opposite sex
Read more: The best way to win an argument with the opposite sexhttps://familyshare.com/29243/the-best-way-to-win-an-argument-with-your-spouse
1. Know your facts
2. Be ready to see your spouse’s perspective
3. If you can’t be open-minded, at least pretend to be
4. Keep your emotions in check
5. Remain hopeful that your spouse will see your side
6. Respect your spouse
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