Nigerian Teens Are Making Sci-Fi Shorts with Slick Visual Effects
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#2A contender to Wakaliwood?
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#3This is fantastic. It's been a promise for a long time that computers would become ubiquitous, open source software would be able to allow people to do (semi-)professional looking things for free, having access to the internet would be a great enabler, etc.
This is just proof that it's happening! It's genuinely inspiring to see this.
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#4"They saved for a month to buy the green fabric for the chroma-key background".
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#5A contender to Wakaliwood?
More like Wakaliwood is a contender to Nollywood. The Nigerian film industry is the biggest in Africa, to the point that some people in other African countries complain about Nigeria's dominance. VJ Emmie even jokes about this in his commentary to Who Killed Captain Alex?.
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#6"They saved for a month to buy the green fabric for the chroma-key background".
Amazing the things we can learn from kids.
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#7They use Techno Phones [0]. It's really the leading telephone in my country back in Africa to the point my wife refused me to buy her a Samsung one. :D
You find those phone have really nice camera, and most importantly power consumption that can span at least 2 days...
Peoples complaining that China is just copycat-ing stuff do not know how China is influencing peoples in developing countries.
[0]: https://techcrunch.com/2019/08/07/africas-top-mobile-phone-s...
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#8Impressive! I wonder what they're using for video editing and vfx? Blender is great for 3d assets, but what open source software can make this?
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#9Posted on twitter ‘Hope that George Lucas either Disney could finance these guys’
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#10Kids making movies by remixing copyrighted content and perhaps shooting some more is the topic of Pirate Cinema by Cory Doctorow. Pretty good book that explores the social implications of such efforts.