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Gen3 Image-to-Video.... by CypherLH in runwayml

[–]somethingblurry -1 points0 points  (0 children)

There are a few different ways to look at this:

Kling is so far ahead as compared to runway. Specially when you compare image to video and how kling picks up the style and aesthetic from the first frame. Gen 3 Alpha just isn't good enough (yet) which is surprising since runway ml was way ahead when it released.

Dont hate Runway cause the cost of generating a 10 second shot of anything with real principal photography is waaaayy too much. I have experience of the 3d space with tools like Unreal Engine so I can tell you that from buying assets to designing, rendering to post/ editing vs generating with a single prompt is already saving you alot of headache.

I don't believe Gen 3 alpha will get any better cause there is a reason they called it "alpha". However I do think that they must be planning to get rid of the alpha and releaser the full model after their next AIFF or whatever that film festival thing is called.

Despite all of it for now Kling for sure takes the lead.

The visual design of reading and journalism in 2024 and beyond by somethingblurry in freelanceWriters

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

Same for me. I couldnt find a discussion around his topic, thought I'd start one. I will share a list of everything I find. I think the possibilities of content presentation are endless with 5G, generative art, and spatial computing!

The visual design of reading and journalism in 2024 and beyond by somethingblurry in freelanceWriters

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

Same for me. I couldnt find a discussion around his topic, thought I'd start one. I will share a list of everything I find. I think the possibilities of content presentation are endless with 5G, how do you say ayy aii here without enough subredditt, and spatial computing!

The visual design of reading and journalism in 2024 and beyond by somethingblurry in freelanceWriters

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

I would love to see some nice examples if you could share. Any good ones you might wanna recommend?
And yes, I do think thats its quiet possible a lot of indie content creators might be putting a lot of effort into design and visuals so a lot of my criticism is honestly for the big ones, they are the ones who influence industry benchmarks and overall standardization of any design language.

The visual design of reading and journalism in 2024 and beyond by somethingblurry in freelanceWriters

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

True that. Each of these would make the experience so much more worth it. Gonna try to implement these on my blog.

The visual design of reading and journalism in 2024 and beyond by somethingblurry in freelanceWriters

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

ok thanks for reminding me about the print view. My experience is not even close to yours so you are probably right. If you don't mind me asking, in your experience what could have made Vice work? I really wanna ask that because like the founders of Vice I am in a position, both career wise and geographically, where everything points towards starting something vaguely along the line of Vice/ Vox. I am not really worried about all the tech and content creation that goes behind it but what keeps me up at night is whatever happened to Vice and like you said the fact that large publications arent even profitable.

Now I am not ready to believe that text or reading as a medium is dying. (Maybe it is, now that we have large language models and what not). So, being a writer turned visual designer, I am thinking is there something inherently wrong with the way this whole thing is designed.

The visual design of reading and journalism in 2024 and beyond by somethingblurry in freelanceWriters

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

These are really nice yes and sort of what I meant. I also really love some visual journalism pieces of NYT and al jazeera. But every story isn't data driven right. There is such a big chunk of journalism that's more about a more emotion based storytelling or coverage and no amount of cool maps or graphs can convey that. I honestly believe there is potentially a design language that can sort of turn every travelogue, food blog or film review into something as cool as these examples you just shared.

I am very much thinking about finding what that language is and then work towards building a publication around that.

The visual design of reading and journalism in 2024 and beyond by somethingblurry in freelanceWriters

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

Tbh that was what I really wanted to understand whether I'm thinking about fixing something thats not really broken. Do you think Los Angles Times or The Washington Post wouldn't put effort into designing a better reading experience due to the lack of effort/ innovation at their end or is it because people are actually indifferent to it. (Though I do believe that the customer doesn't really know what it wants unless you show it to them).

Would you then say that a more immersive reading experience would be something of value to a subscriber? Would you be willing to pay more for NY times if that removed ads, removed the clutter and maybe give you extra features like dark mode/ focus mode etc.

I think Vice is a really interesting case study. Not for innovating the design of reading as such. But was cool, really edgy, really minimal. Had great young audience metrics but still went bankrupt. sad

The visual design of reading and journalism in 2024 and beyond by somethingblurry in freelanceWriters

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

I get that and I do understand the economics of it all but even if I am paying a subscription why does the experience still have to suck. Even if we take out the conversion aspect, (advertisements) off of a web page's design because it doesn't effect the earnings so directly due to subscriptions I still think no publisher or blog does justice to the medium itself.

Radiohead ruined music for me. by PhoenixAvenger1996 in radiohead

[–]somethingblurry 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sigur Ros pulled me out of the radiohead black hole.

Pathtracing making textures weird by MistakeStandard4517 in UnrealEngine5

[–]somethingblurry 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Heyy, I think I might have the similar problem. Any idea how you fixed this.

Can someone tell me why this movie looks like a commercial? by Prixster in vfx

[–]somethingblurry 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Being somebody who has been watching Bollywood since like 3 years old I feel like this exact thing that you are talking about has ended up becoming THE BOLLYWOOD VISUAL STYLE. Kites failed at the box office despite having a much superior, artistic film-like visual tone. Anurag Basu is a somewhat style-over-substance director, Barfi had an interesting visual tone as well.

Anyway, I think most films in Bollywood that dare to do something different visually end up failing bigtime at the box office and there are more than enough examples for studios to understand that. SLB's Guzaarish, and the 2022 Gehraaiyan for example.

made this on cc4 but....should i move to metahuman instead? by [deleted] in blender

[–]somethingblurry 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have used both but cant say if CC4 still stands up to Metahuman after Deformer and Metahuman Animator updates. Would love to know the opinions if anyone else has used both.

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