The first couple of films I watched as part of my History of Cinema journey were, frankly, not that exciting. They are interesting and worthwhile for their technological achievements and historical importance. Unfortunately, as movies, they don’t have a whole lot to offer.
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Shot using the Cinematograph of his own invention, this one scene short film features intrepid sailors watched over by the relatives of Lumière as they row boldly out to the seas.
The excitement ramps up in the second act as the sailors pass beyond the jetty only to find themselves immediately hit by the angry sea. We wonder how they will handle this sudden eruption of nature’s fury.
Then, in the final seconds of the film, we see the boat desperately trying to turn back to shore while being pummelled by some of the biggest waves ever captured on film that year.
Then it suddenly ends, the fate of the sailors left to the imagination.
With this abrupt ending, the film asks us to contemplate what it means to take on more than we can handle.
Fun Fact!
The Lumière brothers were the first to have a paid public screening of a projected film, basically inventing The Cinema, but then they later decided that movies weren’t going anywhere and so they quit making them.
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(Machine Man)
An extremely early animation created by director Étienne-Jules Marey, a pioneer in filming motion pictures.
The most impressive thing about this film is that it’s from 1885, as it seems to be more a test than anything else.
Fun fact!
Marey was shooting movies at 60fps back then, way before it was cool.
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Illustration of Erin and I that I created as part of her fortieth birthday celebrations!
Another abandoned gas station concept.
This one was constructed from a plan and a side elevation using a perspective technique that, through the magic of a bazillion straight lines, projects these 2D renderings into a 3D space and this is now my favourite drawing thing ever.
It’s been a long time since I posted any drawings which is weird because of how quiet and uneventful 2020 was. You’d think with basically nothing going on I’d have got more done. 🤔
Adventure games have cutscenes and I’m currently deciding what the best way of doing them is.
/Dev/World is a three day conference in Melbourne covering everything Apple-related. It was my first time there and it was incredible. All of the talks were excellent and everyone was welcoming and friendly.
These are my notes, published here mostly so that I can tie all the things I learned directly back to the people who taught me. Blockquotes are paraphrased from the talks.
20 minute pose (with some additional refinement at home).
I wasn’t able to make it to this week’s session as I was nerding out at DevWorld, discussing (among other things) the finer points of adventure game dialogue text parsers.