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The Typeset of Wall·E (2018)

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Re: The Typeset of Wall·E (2018)

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Post by NikkiA »

adamomada wrote: post #63
eesmith wrote: post #17

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I think the idea is that in the financial world of 2100, when on currency , 10⁶ should be read as short-hand for 10E6, not 1E6. Thus, 99⁶ should be interpreted as 99E6, hence 99 million, as the author says. We know already that SI isn't universally followed. As a rough comparison, if a food item contains 160 calories, we know that's 160 kilocalories - and calorie isn't an SI unit. Or, 1GB of RAM is often 1024^3 bytes…

If you look closely, kcal is always written Calorie not calorie. It’s interesting that even in otherwise metric based countries, the joule is completely foreign. It must be what most Americans experience when they see Celsius RAM is always GiB - it’s how it works. I’d love to see an example of it being mangled though

Back about 20 years ago, I actually did see some SFF PCs listing their (chipset-fixed) RAM in terms of powers of 10, it was strange and disconcerting to see numbers like '1.04 GB' (1GiB - 32MB of video ram)

Re: The Typeset of Wall·E (2018)

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Post by ssl-3 »

parpfish wrote: post #59
autoexec wrote: post #49

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I'm glad to see people recognized for their work, even in such a small way though. As they continue to scroll and you start to see titles like "2nd assistant to the HR Team Lead" I can't help but wonder how much is bloat and how much improved the games might be if the teams were leaner. I'm also torn on the concept of "production babies" which is basically just acknowledging that some parent was forced to abandon the…

I assume that a large number of people in video game and movie credits just did part time work or a short project and they weren’t exclusive with this particular project Like when you list the accountants, is it that those accountants were working ONLY on this project or was this one of a dozen things they were handling at the time?

When we list a musician in the credits, is it a musician who was ONLY working on this project or was this one of a dozen things they were handling at the time?

Re: The Typeset of Wall·E (2018)

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Post by athom »

crazygringo wrote: post #32
Log_out_ wrote: post #28

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I wouldnt care about the money but i would care about the credits.

Fun fact: long credits at the end of the movie were invented by George Lucas for American Graffiti in 1973 [1]. He didn't have the money to pay everyone so he offered to put their names in the credits instead. And thus started a new chapter in the exploitation of film crews, where you don't get paid enough but hey, at least your name is in the credits. All the other producers were immediately like -- that's a genius…

The FUN part is, if you just happen to have the same name as one of the crew, you can get a credit without being involved at all!

Funny story: I usually sit through the full end credits when I go to the movies, just in case something interesting happens afterward. So I'm doing the usual thing at the end of Sonic the Hedgehog, and suddenly, there's MY REAL NAME jumping RIGHT out at me! It wasn't even on its own line, just in with a bunch of other folks working in the same group (I presume), but there it was, and I SPOTTED it!

Maybe it's just me, or maybe we just tend to take notice when our own names pop up, even in a crowd.

Anyone else have that experience?

Re: The Typeset of Wall·E (2018)

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Post by 0cf8612b2e1e »

ryandrake wrote: post #64
parpfish wrote: post #58

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That’s ALSO a George Lucas thing. Not having the directors name in the opening of Empire got him kicked out of the director’s guild https://screenrant.com/star-wars-george-lucas-quit-dga-empir...

Wow, it never even registered to me until I read this comment that the Star Wars movies didn't have opening credits. They're usually so forgettable anyway, and after reading that article, it seems so silly and ridiculous that all the various Guilds and Associations and Hollywood Political Units got so butthurt over that decision.

Lord of the Rings also famously does not have opening credits. Just runs right into the film. With the expectation that you might have just finished the previous film and ready to start the next.

Re: The Typeset of Wall·E (2018)

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Post by gosub100 »

autoexec wrote: post #49
pvorb wrote: post #47

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I'm always amazed by how long video game credits got over the years.

I'm glad to see people recognized for their work, even in such a small way though. As they continue to scroll and you start to see titles like "2nd assistant to the HR Team Lead" I can't help but wonder how much is bloat and how much improved the games might be if the teams were leaner. I'm also torn on the concept of "production babies" which is basically just acknowledging that some parent was forced to abandon the…

people abandon their kids all the time, it's called day "care".

Re: The Typeset of Wall·E (2018)

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Post by qingcharles »

pvorb wrote: post #47
crazygringo wrote: post #32

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Fun fact: long credits at the end of the movie were invented by George Lucas for American Graffiti in 1973 [1]. He didn't have the money to pay everyone so he offered to put their names in the credits instead. And thus started a new chapter in the exploitation of film crews, where you don't get paid enough but hey, at least your name is in the credits. All the other producers were immediately like -- that's a genius…

I'm always amazed by how long video game credits got over the years.

I'm always amazed how many games in the early years have no credits at all. And it would bum me out because I wanted to know who coded this? Who's music is it? Did the coder do the graphics too?

It was only working in the industry that I got answers to most of these from seeing hundreds of resumes and demo reels. (How else would I have found out who was behind Virtua Hamster?)

Re: The Typeset of Wall·E (2018)

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Post by digging »

pvorb wrote: post #46

Really nice article! I'm not sure about the poster though. This is not necessarily communist, as this was just the style of propaganda posters of all kinds, that came up in the first half of the 20th century. Personally, it reminds me more of a Nazi poster for the army, which includes tanks that look similar to these robots: https://c8.alamy.com/compde/r90frb/ss-freiwilligen-panzer-gr...

Yes, I found this statement:

> The implication of this design choice—that communist values are the solution to decades of rampant consumerism

Completely absurd. The association is not with communism, but with propaganda posters. It's true that Americans are commonly conditioned to associate propaganda posters with communism, but the assertion above is an unreasonable leap.

Re: The Typeset of Wall·E (2018)

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Post by schlauerfox »

bityard wrote: post #54
crazygringo wrote: post #32

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Fun fact: long credits at the end of the movie were invented by George Lucas for American Graffiti in 1973 [1]. He didn't have the money to pay everyone so he offered to put their names in the credits instead. And thus started a new chapter in the exploitation of film crews, where you don't get paid enough but hey, at least your name is in the credits. All the other producers were immediately like -- that's a genius…

Could the origin of Exposure Bucks? Someone can correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe these days the various film-industry unions essentially require individual credits for anybody who even tangentially had anything to do with working on the film or on the set of a film. E.g., I'm pretty sure I've seen the names of catering staff in movie credits.

It's all contracts. My father is named because the effects company he worked for had a contract for credit, the guilds similarly enforce their contracts on producers. It was common for many many people involved in production directly to not get credit, you may be underestimating the sheer number of people involved in making a major film. Industry people joke that the caterers are very important, and to be listed above them is a privilege, but a wry hint of truth because an army moves on its stomach.

Re: The Typeset of Wall·E (2018)

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Post by IIsi50MHz »

ant6n wrote: post #78
agalunar wrote: post #51

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Those aren’t syllable divisions, they’re hyphenation points! From the footnote on page 219 of Word by Word by Kory Stamper (formerly a lexicographer at Merriam-Webster): > Here is the one thing that our pronunciation editor wishes everyone knew: those dots in the headwords, like at “co·per·nic·i·um,” are not marking syllable breaks, as is evident by comparing the placement of the dots with the placement of the hyphen…

Isn’t that equivalent to syllable splits — since words are split on syllable boundaries?

Not always, because single-letter breaks like the following are usually forbidden:

```…leak- y…```

```…A- hab…```

Re: The Typeset of Wall·E (2018)

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Post by Tao3300 »

echoangle wrote: post #27
Tao3300 wrote: post #19

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Per user/seat, so if they were honorable about it, it's probably a decent amount.

Would this be more than 100 seats? $2000 is still not a lot. Would you theoretically need a license for every employee involved in the movie or only those which would actually work with the font?

It's inline with what people usually pay for fonts.
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