Re: The YouTube thread [2]

[halfwise]

Dammit Chris, I need to do laundry.  And you go and post an interesting hour long video.

[azriel]

https://fb.watch/cCCN5rexpA/

[halfwise]

I should try watching some of the later Pirates movies. The first one was near perfection and one of my favorite movies of all time; but the second didn't capture the same feeling of fun so I quit.

[azriel]

I love these bears

[halfwise]

I had the treat of seeing pandas in the Beijing zoo. They had given them a children's slide, and you can imagine how the antics of the pandas attracted a twittering, delighted crowd.

[azriel]

You lucky little mop head Id love to see one of these bumbling little bears, they fall about yet never seem bothered if they hurt themselves

[halfwise]

In retrospect I was a fool not to have spent more time watching them: they got maybe less of my time than you have in that video.

[Forest Shepherd]

Interesting what can be done with software now-a-days, even by relative amateurs. It really does look like stop-motion animation!

[halfwise]

I suppose it would take more training and skill to do an anime. I know there's a lot of CAD being used even in the clearly hand illustrated work, but have no idea where the the dividing line between illustrator and computer falls these days.

[chris63]

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[azriel]

https://fb.watch/dT7DfJ6XFy/

[chris63]

Funny little videos about a man looking for pixies in the forest. He usually finds them. Has millions of views. Don't no how he does it's, but it quite convincing (sometimes)



See the pixies at  about the 6.20 minute mark

[halfwise]

Don't look very pixie like. Since they went with monochrome, smooth skinned it most likely is computer animation, perhaps painted over a human figure to get realistic motion?

[chris63]

Seems like a lot of work just for a youtube video? I have no idea what a pixie looks like.

Has nearly 400 000 subscribers so he must be making a bit of money out of it. That's an incredible lot of people interested in pixies.

[Pettytyrant101]

{{ The pixies are more convincing than the acting! }}

[halfwise]

Seems like a lot of work just for a youtube video? I have no idea what a pixie looks like.

Has nearly 400 000 subscribers so he must be making a bit of money out of it. That's an incredible lot of people interested in pixies.

Have you noticed that quite a few youtube videos have an awful lot of work put into them? Many of the science and historical ones with all the special made graphics have entire studios working on them - apparently there is money to be made, and given the quality of many of the fact based videos I think they've well earned it.

As for the pixie videos, my guess is that even though these look nothing like mythical creatures, they may have released the first one as a lark, were surprised by the reaction and kept making them. Everything except the skin tone and lack of hair is very realistic.