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Visual effects for the Indian blockbuster “RRR”

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Post by rurban »

hilbertseries wrote: post #178
echelon wrote: post #175

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> Americans are paid a higher wage. For now. The rest of the world is rapidly catching up in pretty much every sphere. But take movies: America has but a paltry 330 M people. The appetite for "American" media will wane as India, China, and other vastly more populous Asian countries begin to produce Hollywood-caliber films. American box office increasingly relies on non-domestic consumption. Chinese films are doing bi…

> Korea is starting to sweep the Oscars, Emmy's, and Golden Globes. I don’t think Korea won a single award at the Oscars this year. They won a single golden globe and two Emmys. It’s just parasite and squid game, so far. They are very far from sweeping the award ceremonies.

Korea is the dominant movie producing country of the last decade. Not much of this boom arrived in western cinemas, but festival goers do know.

And sooner or later the superior quality will sweep over to the mainstream. Parasite is just a relatively minor movie compared to the really big ones. https://koreanfilm.org/ might give a good overview.

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echelon wrote: post #298
nicolas_t wrote: post #265

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China's movies have peaked in the 90s. Take a director like Zhang Yimou, he hasn't made any decent movies in the las 15 years because of state censorship. None of his best movies could be directed today: To live, Ju Dou, The Story of Qiu Ju or Raise the Red Lantern. The same with Chen Kaige or any of the great directors in Mainland China. Even a relatively recent movie like Beijing bicycle would not be possible today…

I miss the Zhang Yimou that directed Hero and House of Flying Daggers . Those were some of my favorite films of that time.

Yes, these were his sellouts, the real bad ones.

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Post by sanroot99 »

dagmx wrote: post #30

Title is misleading. It was made primarily in Blender but not entirely in it. From the article > Blender was used in our entire pipeline aside from the FX department Houdini was likely used for FX work since Blender isn’t quite competitive with it yet. Additionally, this is about a single studio’s pipeline and not reflective of all the total work involved.

There is blender plugin for procedural modeling , https://github.com/aachman98/Sorcar

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Post by nicolas_t »

rurban wrote: post #302
echelon wrote: post #298

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I miss the Zhang Yimou that directed Hero and House of Flying Daggers . Those were some of my favorite films of that time.

Yes, these were his sellouts, the real bad ones.

Lol yes, I'd say the release of Heroes is precisely when I date Zhang Yimou's fall. The photography and use of colours is great for sure but it's his first movie with a mostly empty story that tries not to ruffle anyone.
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