To me as a photographer and as computer vision expert, this sounds wayyyyyy over-engineered and -produced. I get that there's a big vision (and budget) involved, but c'mon!
May well be, but I’m reminded of Columbus’ Egg[0].
Windows 10 wallpaper was physically built and photographed (2015)
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Re: Windows 10 wallpaper was physically built and photographed (2015)
#92Very cool but I would prefer spending all that time and money on building a better product and what they delivered. This is like a startup spending hours upon hours on logo and name instead of actually building something.
This is such an ignorant take. The default wallpaper is seen by millions if not billions of people. Many never change it. It's an important part of the branding. The total cost of the shoot, including equipment, salaries, the studio, etc. is NOTHING to Microsoft and its marketing budget. It's not like they had to prioritize this over anything else, they are printing money left and right, they are a trillion dollar co…
Have you used the Office365 Suite lately?
Re: Windows 10 wallpaper was physically built and photographed (2015)
#93Although this is great somehow in my opinion this was the best windoze wallpaper It somehow captures my soul, perhaps because i was very young when i saw it https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd....
That Microsoft Natural Elite on the left side of the image is still the only keyboard I use, or will use. I have a stack of four backups in the closet.
Re: Windows 10 wallpaper was physically built and photographed (2015)
#94Very cool but I would prefer spending all that time and money on building a better product and what they delivered. This is like a startup spending hours upon hours on logo and name instead of actually building something.
This is such an ignorant take. The default wallpaper is seen by millions if not billions of people. Many never change it. It's an important part of the branding. The total cost of the shoot, including equipment, salaries, the studio, etc. is NOTHING to Microsoft and its marketing budget. It's not like they had to prioritize this over anything else, they are printing money left and right, they are a trillion dollar co…
Does Microsoft have plenty of money to do anything? Sure. Does the trillion dollar company spend an appropriate effort on the product itself? Certainly not!
The issue is this: From Windows 10 and up, almost every interaction with the UI is a little bit broken, and I could fill pages just describing things that used to work just right in Windows 7 and earlier. It appears the Windows UI is now designed and approved by the visuals only. And now we learn about a disproportionate effort to create a visual.
So it's easy to see how a comment that points out this discrepancy, resonates with everyone who is halfway through their thousand daily cuts of UI punishment.
Re: Windows 10 wallpaper was physically built and photographed (2015)
#95This is so over-engineered, it tells you that when you have billions, you do the most whacky things. A 5-minute VFX job will yield the same results. But no, there's so much f*k you money, they had to do this.
Re: Windows 10 wallpaper was physically built and photographed (2015)
#96Shame MS don’t spend this much time on effort on… every other part of their design for everything.
Re: Windows 10 wallpaper was physically built and photographed (2015)
#97Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yup... but, if everyone thinks it's a rendering, and you could have saved tons of money by actually rendering it instead of doing what these guys did, it's still a waste of money if you ask me...
You must not be a fan of https://youtu.be/_ve4M4UsJQo?si=99yLl7V2hisVp0zT then. (That commercial literally had Honda execs complimenting the team on the quality of their CGI when they first saw it. Needless to say they were blown away when they found out it was real.)
I knew what this was going to be before clicking it.
We had an Accord at one point when I was a kid, and Honda sent us (my dad) a DVD of this with some behind the scenes when it released.
I watched that DVD a hundred times, maybe more.
Re: Windows 10 wallpaper was physically built and photographed (2015)
#98This is so over-engineered, it tells you that when you have billions, you do the most whacky things. A 5-minute VFX job will yield the same results. But no, there's so much f*k you money, they had to do this.
That was my first impression too. Curious what is the cost of wallpaper.
Re: Windows 10 wallpaper was physically built and photographed (2015)
#99Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yup... but, if everyone thinks it's a rendering, and you could have saved tons of money by actually rendering it instead of doing what these guys did, it's still a waste of money if you ask me...
That can be said for many other artistic creations. But if you ask me, the fact that it was so elaborate adds something to it. The end result might be the same but the intentions and the process to get there matter. Also, waste of money. We’re talking Microsoft. It’s not like those money we’re going to be spent on charity. They paid some creative people to do creative work. We should appreciate that.
But it has the air of the banal. For something supposedly so creative it seems to totally lack....creativity. I suppose 100% in keeping with a tech company's vision for what a computer desktop should look like.
Re: Windows 10 wallpaper was physically built and photographed (2015)
#100Although this is great somehow in my opinion this was the best windoze wallpaper It somehow captures my soul, perhaps because i was very young when i saw it https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd....
Is there a name for this visual style?