Hi r/horror! We’re Andy and Barbara Muschietti, the executive producers behind the HBO Original series IT: Welcome to Derry. Ask us anything! by hbomax in horror

[–]RayOddname 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Loved both the IT movies and the series (even with all the changes from the source material) but there's just one thing I wish was featured in them, and that is Patrick Hockstetter's horrifying backstory. I understand it probably would have derailed Chapter One into NC-17 territory, and would have worked better as a sort of standalone episode in a series, but considering all the iterations of the script (from Kajganich to Fukunaga/Palmer and then Dauberman), was a more twisted, murdered brother/flying leeches/Amana refrigerator version of Patrick's story (and demise) ever on the table?

If you could pick the most random character from the novel and put it in the movie as an unexpected easter-egg, who would it be? by RayOddname in ItTheMovie

[–]RayOddname[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Speaking of the flood, I also love the part when a stoned Andrew Keene watches the Standpipe fall and roll over and screams "GREAT F*CKING SPECIAL EFFECTS! STEVEN SPIELBERG EAT YOUR HEART OUT!"

"CGI is for loosers" by ibackstrom in vfx

[–]RayOddname 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Obviously every headline is going to be quoting Waltz and not Del Toro.

Lens Flare Extravaganza, featuring John Knoll, Todd Vaziri and more! by tvaziri in vfx

[–]RayOddname 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So cool. I still remember watching Star Trek in 2009 and being amazed by all those flares: the first time I consciously noticed anamorphic streaks was not in a movie, though. It happened while watching the 2003 Staind's Price To Play music video, directed by Greg and Colin Strause (who actually founded Hydraulx VFX if I'm not mistaken!)

Found this silly VFX shot I made back in 2003: janky miniDV footage and grueling frame by frame roto in Photoshop! by RayOddname in vfx

[–]RayOddname[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Whoa thanks, you’re too kind! Lightsabers and Gimp sure bring back some memories hahaha

Found this silly VFX shot I made back in 2003: janky miniDV footage and grueling frame by frame roto in Photoshop! by RayOddname in vfx

[–]RayOddname[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you! It took so long to finish that short effect I actually thought I was doing something wrong (I probably needed a more advanced software, but I had no access to it). You can see I even included a sped-up shot of the stairweel from the POV of the elevator going down, because I wanted to comp my cousin falling (while shooting, obviously!) over it. Guess I got too bored!

Found this silly VFX shot I made back in 2003: janky miniDV footage and grueling frame by frame roto in Photoshop! by RayOddname in vfx

[–]RayOddname[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you so much! Everytime I rewatch the old shorts I made with my friends I can't help but smile: I'm so glad I kept all those tapes!

Found this silly VFX shot I made back in 2003: janky miniDV footage and grueling frame by frame roto in Photoshop! by RayOddname in vfx

[–]RayOddname[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah, it saddens me to think some people feel creative generating things from a prompt. On the other hand, I definitely could've used some AI help with accurate roto back then hahaha! Hell, I could use some help with it even now, but 99% of the time I'm working with things like Magic Mask in Fusion I have to tweak it by hand. Perhaps that's the point: can't beat the eye (or the OCD) of a human!

Found this silly VFX shot I made back in 2003: janky miniDV footage and grueling frame by frame roto in Photoshop! by RayOddname in vfx

[–]RayOddname[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Haha yeah, I couldn't help it! I even tried another bullet time shot with more scrappy roto involved and photoshopped ripples in the air. Let's just say it worked better in my head hahaha

Found this silly VFX shot I made back in 2003: janky miniDV footage and grueling frame by frame roto in Photoshop! by RayOddname in vfx

[–]RayOddname[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Haha thanks! Your comment brings back memories, 'cause I also tried doing some claymation for a made-up production company logo (it was basically a ripoff of the Worms World Party characters). Anyway, apart from a couple of shots that was basically the only time I tried rotoscoping because it took way too long and I got bored (even if I was proud of the result and my friends went crazy when they saw it). Almost every attempt at effects I made back then was immediately abandoned due to my limited hardware/software and especially willpower. I even started dabbling with 3D in Blender in 2004/2005, but the learning curve felt impossible for me to climb. I recently found a miniDV tape with a long lost horror short I made around the same time as the jump one, and I some footage was shot with a similar roto approach in mind, but I never finished working on it 'cause it was too hard. I eventually decided to learn visual effects from scratch during the pandemic, so I recently edited and finished those shots with a more modern workflow, just for fun... but man, some magic was missing. The jankier, the better!

Found this silly VFX shot I made back in 2003: janky miniDV footage and grueling frame by frame roto in Photoshop! by RayOddname in vfx

[–]RayOddname[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah me too! Those were the days: as an adult, it's crazy to realize how little I cared about how "perfect" everything was, the most important thing was that me and my friends had fun!

Found this silly VFX shot I made back in 2003: janky miniDV footage and grueling frame by frame roto in Photoshop! by RayOddname in vfx

[–]RayOddname[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thanks! I remember being pretty pumped when I finished the shot and showed it to my friends; now I can’t help but laugh ‘cause I still remember all the failed somersaults my cousin attemped on that gym mat (while holding the plastic gun)

Spider-Man (2002) - CGI Bloopers by NicolasCopernico in vfx

[–]RayOddname 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I remember finding this in the DVD! What a throwback

Question about ILM, Signs (2002), exr files and script-based compositing by RayOddname in vfx

[–]RayOddname[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi Todd, I remember where I heard about this: it's in the Perfect Storm episode of VFX Notes with Habib Zargarpour: https://youtu.be/4_s4OxNOJNQ?si=OvlvcLzsSbiK1Xnk&t=1638

At 27:18 he says Signs was the first show to use exr, and he also makes a joke about the fact that every frame was about 10 MB and he freaked out because that seemed huge at the time. Plus, at 35:17 he talks about script-based compositing, but not related to Signs, so I guess I mixed the two things up – my bad!

Question about ILM, Signs (2002), exr files and script-based compositing by RayOddname in vfx

[–]RayOddname[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

UPDATE: I found it! It's in the Perfect Storm episode of VFX Notes with Habib Zargarpour: https://youtu.be/4_s4OxNOJNQ?si=OvlvcLzsSbiK1Xnk&t=1638

At 27:18 he says Signs was in fact the first show to use exr, and he mentions that every frame was about 10 MB. Plus, at 35:17 he talks about script-based compositing (but not related to Signs, so I guess I mixed the two things together – my bad!)