He loves Christmas songs and smells.
December 12, 2014 7:47 PM Subscribe
That's impressive! But, if you want to show it more than once, is there a way to refill the snow bit?
posted by Mizu at 8:08 PM on December 12, 2014 [1 favorite]
posted by Mizu at 8:08 PM on December 12, 2014 [1 favorite]
These can't be reused. Actually, I suspect they can't be reset after they run. They're too perfect and beautiful to survive in some drawer somewhere, to be dragged out year after year to surprise some fresh stranger.
Ideally, each card would self-immolate after it finished the show.
posted by figurant at 9:28 PM on December 12, 2014 [1 favorite]
Ideally, each card would self-immolate after it finished the show.
posted by figurant at 9:28 PM on December 12, 2014 [1 favorite]
Thank you for sending me down the YouTube hole of remembering how great Bird Box films are.
posted by maryr at 9:37 PM on December 12, 2014 [1 favorite]
posted by maryr at 9:37 PM on December 12, 2014 [1 favorite]
I suspect that the card is done entirely through computer editing wizardry because that would be the path of least resistance for a computer graphics studio like these guys.
Consider the snow: where does it come from? In the video you can see both sides of the chimney and there is not any kind of snow emitter on either side. If you watch the video even more carefully you can see that the snow somehow materializes out of the base of the chimney. Also consider: there is no room for the flip cards to flip-- the animation frames are taller than the enclosure they're in is deep. Then consider the amount of force it takes to flip a flip book, and then look at how perfectly eerily stationary the card is in the video. Now consider the audio: that's pretty crisp audio, right? Where's that coming from, and how does it synchronize with the flip book?
I'm not saying it couldn't be done, but when a computer graphics studio seems to have accomplished some amazing mechanical engineering feat overnight, it should be taken with a grain of salt.
posted by Pyry at 9:46 PM on December 12, 2014 [5 favorites]
Consider the snow: where does it come from? In the video you can see both sides of the chimney and there is not any kind of snow emitter on either side. If you watch the video even more carefully you can see that the snow somehow materializes out of the base of the chimney. Also consider: there is no room for the flip cards to flip-- the animation frames are taller than the enclosure they're in is deep. Then consider the amount of force it takes to flip a flip book, and then look at how perfectly eerily stationary the card is in the video. Now consider the audio: that's pretty crisp audio, right? Where's that coming from, and how does it synchronize with the flip book?
I'm not saying it couldn't be done, but when a computer graphics studio seems to have accomplished some amazing mechanical engineering feat overnight, it should be taken with a grain of salt.
posted by Pyry at 9:46 PM on December 12, 2014 [5 favorites]
Don't ruin the Christmas magic!
posted by Mizu at 9:48 PM on December 12, 2014 [1 favorite]
posted by Mizu at 9:48 PM on December 12, 2014 [1 favorite]
The Oxford comma would not come into play unless he likes "Christmas songs, smells, and THIRD_THING." One does not insert commas into a pair of direct objects, lest the Comma Ox find you and gore you.
posted by Scattercat at 3:32 AM on December 13, 2014 [7 favorites]
posted by Scattercat at 3:32 AM on December 13, 2014 [7 favorites]
I came here for birds in boxes. This was awesome but I'm somehow disappointed.
posted by Lemurrhea at 6:09 AM on December 13, 2014 [1 favorite]
posted by Lemurrhea at 6:09 AM on December 13, 2014 [1 favorite]
Yeah, at first glance I came up with the same engineering questions as Pyry did.
But I fully expect some tinkerer at home will have an actual working version of this within a month or two. Just watch.
posted by JoeZydeco at 7:14 AM on December 13, 2014
But I fully expect some tinkerer at home will have an actual working version of this within a month or two. Just watch.
posted by JoeZydeco at 7:14 AM on December 13, 2014
If we're being pedantic, I'll point out that I referred only to "Oxford comma types", not the Oxford comma itself. I can explain the joke further if necessary.
posted by uosuaq at 2:30 PM on December 13, 2014
posted by uosuaq at 2:30 PM on December 13, 2014
Thank you for sending me down the YouTube hole of remembering how great Bird Box films are.
Absolutely: I spent way too much time on the Choose Your Own Adventure singing hedgehogs.
posted by gladly at 9:20 PM on December 13, 2014
Absolutely: I spent way too much time on the Choose Your Own Adventure singing hedgehogs.
posted by gladly at 9:20 PM on December 13, 2014
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Nice card, I must say.
posted by uosuaq at 8:01 PM on December 12, 2014 [1 favorite]