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The Free Movie

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Re: The Free Movie

#92
post #50

Amazing Idea, but a few problems 1. Anytime you give someone freedom to create (anything), you will end up with a penis drawing. Just scrolling through quickly I see that Frame #13122 delivers on this law of the universe. After watching the movie preview, I only watched the first 45-50 seconds and counted about 4-5 drawings of the bodypart and 6-8 additional frames that just contain the word "penis". I wouldn't be su…

From now on I'm calling this Jacurtis' Law

It even applies to the Blue Origin rocket.

Re: The Free Movie

#93
post #44

Amazing Idea, but a few problems 1. Anytime you give someone freedom to create (anything), you will end up with a penis drawing. Just scrolling through quickly I see that Frame #13122 delivers on this law of the universe. After watching the movie preview, I only watched the first 45-50 seconds and counted about 4-5 drawings of the bodypart and 6-8 additional frames that just contain the word "penis". I wouldn't be su…

These are not problems.

Seriously... This is MSCHF, they basically do social experiments. Seeing how people use/abuse this is part of the plan.

Re: The Free Movie

#94

65244 frames is about 45 minutes, are they only rotoscoping a portion of the movie, or are they dropping frames? Just wondering.

Looks like it's playing at half the framerate (can confirm this in the preview player). At full 24fps it'd probably be too seizure-inducing.

Re: The Free Movie

#95

Amazing Idea, but a few problems 1. Anytime you give someone freedom to create (anything), you will end up with a penis drawing. Just scrolling through quickly I see that Frame #13122 delivers on this law of the universe. After watching the movie preview, I only watched the first 45-50 seconds and counted about 4-5 drawings of the bodypart and 6-8 additional frames that just contain the word "penis". I wouldn't be su…

How about just have multiple people draw a single frame, average it out, if it still is significantly different from the 2 prior and 2 subsequent frames, throw it out and have it drawn again?

Re: The Free Movie

#96

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think a solution could be everyone votes for the best frames. Then those artists are called back to work on the frames people made bad.

Yep! You need a kind of review process and some incentives. Not that difficult to implement. You give several people the same frame to draw, then you just have everyone pick their favourite. The one with the least votes can be temporarily shadow banned from their next drawing appearing as an option. Alternatively, you can reward the one with the most votes. But honestly, maybe just allowing people to choose the frame…

Isn't this basically how we got Boaty McBoatface?

Re: The Free Movie

#97
post #44

Amazing Idea, but a few problems 1. Anytime you give someone freedom to create (anything), you will end up with a penis drawing. Just scrolling through quickly I see that Frame #13122 delivers on this law of the universe. After watching the movie preview, I only watched the first 45-50 seconds and counted about 4-5 drawings of the bodypart and 6-8 additional frames that just contain the word "penis". I wouldn't be su…

These are not problems.

It is if your goal is to recreate Bee Movie.

By claiming those are not problems, I can present 60,000-ish frames of random scribbles and call it a reproduction of Bee Movie.

There should be some effort made to actually achieve the stated goal.

And while the occasional one-off joke frame could be funny, everyone wants to be that guy. So the thing becomes nothing but a string of joke frames, most of which are not even remotely funny.

Re: The Free Movie

#99
post #34

People giving out tips on how to "improve" this probably didn't read the FAQ. > The Free Movie is not about quality– in fact, that interpretation, that rawness, is the specific terroir want in the final film. To paraphrase MSCHF: shitty things are good. Yes, there are better ways to rotoscope a movie than unmoderated crowdsourcing. So what? Not everything has to be over-engineered and optimized for 150% user experien…

People aren't looking to improve the quality of the honest attempts at reproductions of frames, they are looking to have each frame be an honest attempt at reproducing a frame.

There are so many frames where there was no attempt made.

And the FAQ says nothing about that. It does not say that trolling other users is the point. The point is to troll Dreamworks/Paramount by stealing their movie in the weirdest way possible.

Re: The Free Movie

#100
post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I agree. While commendable, OP complicates matters greatly by declaring war on indecency and incompetence. What’s wrong with penises and bad drawings?

Well, the problem is some of those aren't even drawings. Some minimum effort should be made even if you don't want to trace the frame.

So nice penises are ok?
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