Alex James

jus found out my lucario is a lesbian. i accept you korra and im glad you told me

“Fly with me?”

You're watching a $248 million film and not a single green or blue screen was used. The alien is a handmade puppet. The cockpit physically rotates to simulate gravity. I looked at the production tech behind this 95% score, and the engineering is wild. Phil Lord and Chris Miller, directing their first live-action movie in 12 years, built the entire Hail Mary spacecraft as a real set at Shepperton Studios in England. Not a miniature. Not a digital model. A full-size ship interior you can walk through. Production designer Charlie Wood studied the International Space Station, Russia's Mir station, and the Boeing 747 cockpit to get the look right. He deliberately made the panels mismatched, because real spacecraft are assembled from parts made by different companies. Nothing matches perfectly. That's what makes it feel real. The cockpit is only about 8 feet wide. It sits on a mechanical platform that can tilt, spin, and shake, so when the ship changes direction or enters different gravity conditions, the whole set moves. Chairs end up on walls. Ladders flip direction. Gosling was suspended inside a spinning ring so he could float and move through the ship for real, reacting to actual hardware around him. No guessing where a wall might be added later. Then there's Rocky. He's the alien co-lead, and he's not CGI. Neal Scanlan, the creature designer who built the Porgs for Star Wars, spent a full year on this character. Over 300 designs before they landed on the final look. Rocky is a thin, hollow shell, 3D-printed from a digital sculpture, then hand-painted in see-through layers so light passes through him like skin. His arms pop off and swap out depending on the scene: one set has a closed fist for walking, another has tiny motorized fingers strong enough to pick up objects. Five puppeteers (nicknamed the "Rockyteers") operated him in every scene. James Ortiz, an award-winning puppet designer from New York theater, voiced Rocky and controlled him on set. When Scanlan met him, he told Ortiz, "You're Frank Oz, and I'm making Yoda for you." Every reaction Gosling gives to the alien is to something physically in front of him. Greig Fraser, who won the Oscar for shooting Dune, filmed the space scenes in the larger IMAX format (that taller image you see in IMAX theaters) and the Earth flashbacks in regular widescreen. Then the team did something unusual: they took the digital footage and printed it onto real film strips, twice, using two different types of film stock. Then they scanned those strips back into digital. It sounds redundant, but it adds a texture and warmth that you can only get from physical film. Fraser used the same technique on Dune and The Batman. Drew Goddard spent six years writing this screenplay. His last adaptation of Andy Weir's novel, The Martian, earned him an Oscar nomination. He described the challenge this way: a screenplay gets about 5% of a novel's word count. The lead is alone for most of the runtime. When he finally gets a co-star, that co-star doesn't speak English, communicates through sounds closer to whale song, and has no face. Goddard called it a screenwriter's nightmare, then said that difficulty was the whole point. He and the directors fought studio pushback to keep Weir's original ending intact. 95% from 212 critics. 98% from over 2,500 audience ratings. And the lead isn't a superhero, a cop, or a soldier. He's just an ordinary middle school science teacher.

I know this app is utter hell at times, but it makes me feel so much better knowing how much I can relate to some of the people here

Japan shot on iPhone 1

NORTHERNNOBODY - FADEL'S #1 ENEMY

@GamesCage_ Zero Aura being there makes a lot of sense for you

DEFINITIVE FADEL MONS

Cool thing in the comics is how most of the surviving Viltrumites living on earth got a taste of having an actual community and dumped that Hitler shit real quick

@GamesCage_ @Marigakaa Your ability to turn a video that isn’t even a minute long into an hour needs to be studied

@Marigakaa ITS LIKE 55 MINUTES 😭

WE JUST KEEP WINNIN AND WE JUST KEEP WINNIN AND WE JUST KEEP WINNIN

@shadowalex2000 I’d say even closer since Godzilla and Anguirus have a little beef

This is pretty much how Gamera fits in when we’ll first see him with Godzilla. One of his oldest allies and one of his few “friend” monsters. Unfortunately friendships can change, no thanks to humanity.

I was today years old when I learned this This is genius holy fuck

@SonicMovie @sonic_hedgehog WE BACK BABY 💎🔨

The countdown to chaos has begun. 💎 #SonicMovie4 - only in theatres March 19, 2027.

Still one of the best things to ever come out of the Kirby fandom and that’s saying A LOT

Breaking: SEGA has released an animated trailer for SHINOBI: Art of Vengeance's SEGA Villains Stage DLC, which features Dr. Eggman facing off against Joe Musashi alongside Majima and Death Adder. #SonicNews

This part alone should’ve gotten Mario Kart World a Best Score and Music nomination

@red1fouad @time_pizzerNG It pains me that the Worlds Collide crossover is out of print

@time_pizzerNG Y'all need to understand how locked in sonic and megaman are. They're brothers from different parents

sonic team MORE THAN understood the assignment, because this might actually be the best version of MM2 wily castle i've ever heard, holy SHIT

Denki’s Confession: Part 3 (1/9) #denkikaminari #kyokajiro #kamijiro #mha #MHAfanart