Mr. Tines#945195 wrote:a cut-for-cut remake of NGE as a Gerry Anderson-style puppet show, strings, practical effects and all. And that we may be at the point where such a thing could even be emulated by a generative video to video approach

I couldn't help myself - image to video snippet from episode 6 by Grok.

We've been suffering from bot swarms of the past year or so - possibly a DDoS, possibly just a rogue scraper network. Even the big movie releases didn't get to more than about 2000 concurrent visits.

After the not entirely satisfying proof of concept above, actually giving Ritsuko her natural hair colour (and a cat) from a piece of fan art Before https://thumbs4.imagebam.com/7a/09/47/ME1EIRKR_t.png After https://thumbs4.imagebam.com/6f/46/c4/ME1EIRKV_t.jpg Her mole is visible on the thumbnail, i...

This gets to be a little addictive, and I'm somewhat talking to myself here, but https://thumbs4.imagebam.com/ce/cf/1c/ME1EIRKO_t.jpg Take this rough sketch of Asuka Shikinami in her yellow summer dress, sheltering from the rain, and make a cinematic photograph from it. https://thumbs4.imagebam.com/...

Anime faces being fairly featureless, I felt it did surprisingly well. If you go to the full size image, you can see that it even kept the mole beneath her left eye, though it's not prominent in the original; that was my go/no-go criterion for the proof of concept. The door handle - well, it could b...

Which is essentially the same video that was up on X back in February, but since has been deleted.

just asking chatbot grok "Take this anime styled picture (or painterly AI generated image or whatever) and make it photorealistic in appearance, without otherwise changing the composition or colour scheme." and you're done. Applied to Reichu's fixing Ritsuko's hair colour - https://thumbs...

The original goal actually gets to be too easy - just asking chatbot grok "Take this anime styled picture (or painterly AI generated image or whatever) and make it photorealistic in appearance, without otherwise changing the composition or colour scheme." and you're done. Two proofs of con...

Also note that if you haven't got a current/valid e-mail address, password reset confirmation mails will not reach you, thus blocking the process.

TL;DR - make sure your email address works

There's a phpBB vulnerability that has just been discovered and exploited, so all our passwords are compromised.

The artist David Hockney.

Things have moved on quite a lot in the past 3 years; we can get proper photorealistic Asuka images, at least, straight from text with readily available cloud generators, without needing to, in effect, trace someone else's fan-art. Left is GPT-4o from Bing Image Creator, right is Grok, just naming t...

And done for this year.

Since I forgot about this until it's Easter, the annual Spring clean, for users with zero posts and inactive since before 1st Jan 2025 will happen at the start of May this year.

It is being reported that Death has had a near-Chuck Norris experience.

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How they did the cel-animation effect in the short https://x.com/khara_inc2/status/2034193091825922222 This time, since old and new footage were intermingled, the challenge was to minimize the sense of incongruity when switching between old and new footage. While referencing the in-house video maste...

That glitched state looks like a corrupted or incomplete load of the site styling, possibly happening when the site is under heavy load; if the broken state remains in the browser cache, then it will stick until cache expiry or flushing.

Szmitten#946453 wrote:people are able to extrapolate as much ... as they have out of it.

Like the rest of Evangelion, it holds a mirror up to the viewer. Thus the contradictory conclusions that have been drawn from it.

The "slash" in slash-fics came from Kirk/Spock, a favoured form of Trek fanfic, disseminated in mimeographed fanzines back in those hard-copy days. From 60 years on, the impact of the OG series is not as obvious as it was then, but given the technological limitations of the time, it was qu...

lmm34789#946412 wrote:I can't tell what the interpretation should be.

Another work in studied ambiguity, as expected from the master.