I think it looks worse. Part of "cinematic" experience is the traditional 24fps of films. Many TVs have a setting (motion interpolation - which seems to be ON by default nowadays) that creates a "soap opera effect", and I personally hate it. Some friends like it though, so everyone is entitled to their own opinion.

Looks like several movies were released in high frame rate, but I remember The Hobbit (2012)'s 48fps actually caused some movie-goers to vomit.

interesting. seems quite a bit smoother than other frame/motion interpolation but there are definitely visible artifacts.

Good stuff. I'm a member of Interpol (Grammar Division) and I notice some Latinos have a habit of misspelling words that have the letters "v" or "b", they use them interchangeably.

Since those consonants sound fairly similar we usually let them off with a berbal warning.

ok, i'll do my best:

"It's where the program does the animation for you using physics (or other) algorithms. As the artist, you place a "flag" in the scene, and attach it to a "pole" then tell the program there's a "45 mph wind from the East".
Then you hit "Play" and you get a movie of a flag waving in the wind."

this is called a sim, and yes it's a type of procedural animation but it doesn't replace some kind of "classical" method of animating. sims are used for all kinds of things: particles, cloth, fur/hair/feathers, crowds, fluid, rigid body destruction, etc, etc. the artists who do this are not animators, they're FX artists and it isn't as simple as plugging in "45 mph wind from the east". not even close. for something seemingly that simple you're dialing in things like direction, turbulence, gravity, plus the cloth properties. once you have your settings, you sim it, which can take days on a render farm for complex sims. if that sim is approved then it goes to lighting, gets put into the scene, has textures/materials/shaders applied, and then gets rendered, which can take another several days on a render farm depending on the complexity. these sims are the only way to get realistic animations for these types of materials. and there are generally many versions made at this stage to get the sim right, fix broken frames, fix intersecting, get the lighting and textures/materials/shaders working right, etc. THEN it goes to the compositing dept for a couple dozen more versions.




"As opposed to regular animation, which can be thought of as glorified stop-motion animation. Each single piece moved by you, individually, for each frame of video."

regular animation is like stop motion except it's not every frame (it's interpolated between keyframes) and is for character animation.

anim and FX are 2 different departments and often use 2 different software packages.

mocap is also not handled by the anim dept. it would be done by match move and/or tech anim.




"You create a flag and a pole. Then the next frame you bend it here, here, here, and here, then click forward to the next frame, and bend it a bit more here, little less here, invert this bend, add another, make this corner whip a bit."

no one in there right mind would do this, it's completely impractical, and would look like complete shit.




"It basically allows less technically savvy artists play in a world where only "nerds" used to play."

the FX people are way more nerds and technical than anim people. you need to be technically savvy for every dept. but the real nerds and really technically savvy people work on pipeline who were probably heavily involved in this project building custom toolsets for it.




"Really kind of lazy way of animating."

no, it's fucking hard, requires a lot of knowledge, a lot of people, a lot of cpu horsepower, is used all the time to get high quality animations, is a collection of several departments other than animation, and is used in conjunction with animation.

@bcglorf
@Yogi is correct.
the US refused to provide evidence that bin laden was responsible for 9/11.

your counter with the 90's interpol has nothing to do with his statement.

they are two separate instances which have nothing to do with each other.

the reason why the US refused to provide any evidence that bin laden was responsible for 9/11 was because he wasnt.

the best that the state department could produce was a possible monetary contribution.

do me a favor. Remove yourself from the conversation if your just going to spout idiotic crap. The first Interpol warrant for Bin Laden's arrest was issued in the 1990's. If you want to protest a lack of evidence and proof you are choosing to live in a dream world. I won't debate fiction with you.

GWAAAARRRGH!
-workin' now-nice Who interpolation, love these guys, their live shows are fun, fun.

In the original scene (partial spoiler) Hank, a DEA agent, and his wife are watching his brother-in-law Cranston's character in Breaking Bad confess to his misdeeds on a taped DVD....here and forever more elsewhere interpolated with scenes from Malcolm in the Middle, a popular television show from 00-06'. Pretty silly and bound to be overdone..

So... simulating the motions/interactions of spheres and then just interpolating their highest/lowest points somehow? (IANA3DP)

I like it, and I know a lot of hard work went into it, but the warping and distortion of the interpolation does get a bit distracting.

I know and they have a horrible version so when someone does dupe it we need replace the embed too. No since in having an old embed when there are better ones available. >> ^lurgee:

dammit! dupeof=http://videosift.com/video/Interpol-Evil

dammit! *dupeof=http://videosift.com/video/Interpol-Evil

This video has been nominated as a duplicate of this video by lurgee. If this nomination is seconded with *isdupe, the video will be killed and its votes transferred to the original.

Just as above my first though was of space use, but for a much more practical application.

So when a body in a solar system is moving around it's host star (they can deduce how many planets there are in that area) also moves by a function of gravity. Usually this is painstaking work that must be done, but if this little procedure is accurate enough they could start to apply it to the search for new planets and their discover and it should make the process, especially for the SMALLER planets, MUCH faster. I hope someone watches this with their breakfast in the morning as I bet EVERY researcher would want this tool.

Awesome software interpolation!

Not technically the same as in the Matrix, methinks. It looks like this effect is done by relatively few (4-8) video cameras mounted on a horizontal rig. The smooth lateral pan is interpolated. For The Matrix they did do some interpolation as well, but had WAY more (still) cameras and temporally sequenced them.

Still, a neat effect.