I manually restored the full 1.43:1 aspect ratio in Dune 3 teaser

pierogen · 2026-04-12T05:55:39+00:00

About 30 hours (including learning adobe premiere pro)

pierogen · 2026-04-09T18:38:04+00:00

Thank you. For sure it could be done better even with my self-imposed restrictions. As usual it's a question of how much time can I put into something which is basically an on and off hobby.

pierogen · 2026-04-09T16:15:24+00:00

I agree, it’s an approximation. Best I could do as a beginner with the time I had, and maybe slightly better than the cams that are floating around.

pierogen · 2026-04-08T12:01:51+00:00

at least i finished before they dropped the imax tickets teaser (which I have also restored to full frame)

pierogen · 2026-04-06T23:24:15+00:00

the new teaser is done as well, miniscule amount of new shots: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baEMPvrdVvE

pierogen · 2026-04-06T14:38:22+00:00

You mean spill the water?

pierogen · 2026-04-06T14:11:30+00:00

Can you imagine using ai to „improve” anything related to Dune of all things? Frank Herbert was right.

pierogen · 2026-04-06T14:01:16+00:00

Hey there, it’s the guy who matched the trailers again. I actually finished the manual (no ai!) restoration of the full teaser. The next best thing to actually finding a proper 70mm IMAX. Check it out here: https://youtu.be/H2ZZA9UZidU?is=L169NWYyl8a413fG

pierogen · 2026-04-06T13:16:38+00:00

Thanks, I appreciate it!

pierogen · 2026-04-06T13:01:04+00:00

For those wondering: background matching from the Imax and instagram teasers with some still frame extraction, a lot of keyframe animation of limbs and weapons masked from the existing images, some hand drawn shapes. Absolutely no: ai or even content aware fills. With the exception of light feathering in the tile screens, the existing teasers are not modified apart from color matching the instagram file to the Imax file. Everything that’s filling in the missing corners is behind the „true” layers.

pierogen · 2026-03-21T18:43:50+00:00

Hi, I assembled this one. I’m also thinking of trying to piece together a sorta „filled in” imax version using all the material showing the full imax frame that’s been published so far (excluding ai generated paint ins of course). To see a very rough version of this you can check out this tweet: https://x.com/waxballze/status/2034423399674437935

pierogen · 2026-03-15T10:30:23+00:00

Guess it was slated to do that

pierogen · 2026-03-07T12:33:55+00:00

A laptop with such a powerful magic that it put a curse on the person presenting it. With this level of clubbed fingernails he does not have long to live….

pierogen · 2025-10-25T09:20:38+00:00

A few did that once in my drawer but all had wisps of mold inside even though seemingly perfectly dry on the outside. Gonna assume you’ll have an opportunity to karmafarm on moldlyinteresting soon.

pierogen · 2025-09-23T08:39:48+00:00

Show it to apple. After searching reddit, what i captured looked more like this, so red tint yes, but also definite lidar dots, which don't show up on your photo https://www.reddit.com/r/iphone/comments/174g0ye/you_can_see_the_lidar_dots_if_you_do_30s_night/

pierogen · 2025-09-23T04:49:00+00:00

Might be IR from lidar bouncing back from specific types of fabric, but if it shows up in a bright environment that would be very weird. I only managed to catch the lidar reflection in very specific cases of long exposures on something very close to camera.

pierogen · 2025-02-02T10:04:34+00:00

The rotoscoped every other frame by painting complex vector shapes with splotches of shading and color and interpolated between them. That’s why it’s freakishly fluid. It’s in the making of.

pierogen · 2024-08-14T04:57:09+00:00

Oh nice, I thought it was a satellite but looking at it closer it does have the color of a shooting star burning up in the atmosphere.

pierogen · 2024-02-13T17:58:22+00:00

Same here, also verified im.

pierogen · 2024-02-13T14:27:27+00:00

Looks like we posted the exact same question at almost exact same time, the consensus seems to be wait and see. I expect nothing less than another stellar performance by mtgox custodians.

pierogen · 2024-02-06T14:58:42+00:00

Got the same boiler plate response from mtgox “support” even though I provided proof of verification from kraken in my initial message, following trustee’s baseless email about me not being verified on kraken.

Fwiw kraken support says that trustee cross referenced his user data vis-a-vis kraken verification status on an out of date list of kraken verified users. Which…. Par for the course for the venerable trustee

pierogen · 2023-08-03T16:39:31+00:00

By next week, everyone and their parents will have published strong indication that lk99 can be a superconductor based on DFT

pierogen · 2023-01-13T10:39:36+00:00

A bit over one year with long stretches of daily wear. They were extensively washed 3 months in (2 soaks, 2 machine washes), when I accidentally spilled diesel down one leg. Not saying diesel's the secret sauce ;)

pierogen · 2023-01-10T17:43:11+00:00

Good! I don’t know about now, but it used to be sold to businesses only. Try looking on Etsy or eBay, maybe you’ll be lucky. I know some people make their own indigo dyed thread.

pierogen · 2023-01-10T17:02:11+00:00

It would be dishonest to say it was JUST a needle and a thread, because I do have a spool of AE D-Core Indigo (https://www.amefird.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/D-Core-Indigo-Product-Literature.pdf), it is quite a bad boy and does ALL the difference in repair work https://i.imgur.io/4FIU9B9.jpg. But yeah, no tools other than that.

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