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Nigerian Teens Are Making Sci-Fi Shorts with Slick Visual Effects
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#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
>Peoples complaining that China is just copycat-ing stuff do not know how China is influencing peoples in developing countries. The problem is that altruism does not exist in geopolitics. Why is China influencing these people? Because it wants their support when it comes time to ask for favors. China is using Western inventions to grow its sphere of influence and defeat Western influence (and thus Western values, cul…
> Not that the West is entirely innocent in its quest for power either You don't say - most of Africa got a taste of Western "values" and "culture". The last generation that suffered from colonial rule is still living.
Well, this is going to give the potential to collect an interesting data point, among Africans who have experienced European and Chinese colonization, which do they prefer?
For what it's worth, some Africans think their life was better under European rule: https://rense.com/general32/aaprh.htm
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#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
I hope not - can we let them explore what film-making means to them, instead of sending the worst offending film-colonizers after them?
"Can we let them continue to create videos with old smartphones and OSS for YouTube, instead of letting them unleash the full scale of their creativity and massively changing their lives with one of the most well-known movie producers of all time and the multi-million $ funding that comes with him?"
> unleash the full scale of their creativity
What if their creativity is about making amazing stuff with limited resources?
You suggest giving essentially unlimited resources, seems like a good way to use badly that creativity.
I remember when I wanted to do 3D on Flash before Sandy3D. I had a 500 mhz P3 processor at the time, with a a crazy 368 MB of RAM. I learned/did much more interesting things on that machine than when I upgraded to some much more powerful computers.
Constraints are pretty great ways to be forced to learns and move fast.
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#45Impressive! 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?
Also Blender (most likely). It supports video editing and general vfx, not just 3d asset building. It's also being used professionally for this purpose in a few places too!
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#46Posted on twitter ‘Hope that George Lucas either Disney could finance these guys’
I hope not - can we let them explore what film-making means to them, instead of sending the worst offending film-colonizers after them?
At least for George Lucas, he was self-funding to start Star Wars and did not want Hollywood to own a piece of the pie (source: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0416716/). I'd think that would count for something in that he'd want others to realize joy in a similar model of creation.
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#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Not that the West is entirely innocent in its quest for power either You don't say - most of Africa got a taste of Western "values" and "culture". The last generation that suffered from colonial rule is still living.
do you believe africa was some peaceful wakanda-like utopia before europeans arrived? arabs got there first anyway.
Certainly not. Just like every place on earth, Africa had its share of problems. But that didn't warrant the damage slavery and colonialism did - the effects of which are still rippling through the very fabric of the continent today.
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#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
I hope not - can we let them explore what film-making means to them, instead of sending the worst offending film-colonizers after them?
"Can we let them continue to create videos with old smartphones and OSS for YouTube, instead of letting them unleash the full scale of their creativity and massively changing their lives with one of the most well-known movie producers of all time and the multi-million $ funding that comes with him?"
Ha. Who knows? Perhaps they will invent a remarkably efficient way of creating vfx. Maybe they'll design the next generation of processors to help them out. Maybe they'll build a content sharing system that makes sense for their environment. Maybe they'll do things we can't imagine.
Who knows?
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#49One of the biggest gifts that we can give our children is a limitation of resources. It is amazing how they learn and get really creative when given really basic tools to work with. They try things that they wouldn't normally try. I remember once my son wanted his own "phone" when he was 5. He ended up drawing the whole UI on paper and stuck it on a little slab of wood. Played with it for weeks.
It's quite funny you post this on this article since it's literally about kids in the developing country becoming LESS limited.
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#50Kids 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.
Where we are now is such an odd place compared to, for example, early Disney remixing open fairy tale story content.