good to see creativity beyond 'ohey check out my youtube product reviews and live vlogging' (not that I don't benefit from those as well)
Nigerian Teens Are Making Sci-Fi Shorts with Slick Visual Effects
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#22They 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…
>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, culture, etc)
Not that the West is entirely innocent in its quest for power either, but considering the dystopian state of Chinese government (compared to Western governments, at least), it is perhaps better to keep the devil you know in charge than the one that wants to know you much better.
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#23They 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…
>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.
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#24Posted 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?
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#25So glad that they understood that the gain for the dialogue does not need to be set to 11, something that seems to be lacking from Nigerian TV "professionals" in my experience!
Super impressive overall!
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#26Awesome creativity! Naija no dey carry last. Proudly Naija!
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#27Can anyone tell me what apps they're using? I'd love to play around with a green screen, but don't have much budget either
Blender...I did some green screen work in Blender back in 2009 and it was pretty straightforward even back then.
If you just want to play around to get the hang of it without spending anything, last I checked you can get free-to-use, pre-made videos featuring green screen or other chromakey elements and load them up in Blender's video editor. BTW you can use any color you want, so if all you have is a blue bed sheet, you can make it work.
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#28Impressive! 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?
For video editing, quite a few:
https://www.lifewire.com/best-linux-video-editors-4176979
Openshot and Kdenlive I'm familiar with (I've used the first in an earlier version, and the latter I know by the name, but have never used) - but the others are new to me. I'm sure there are still more than these, too.
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#29Earlier 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.
Ow. Even I felt that.
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#30One 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.