First All-Artificial Feature Film Released 281
Hugh "Nomad" Hancock writes "Machinima.com have just released the DVD version of Killer Robot, award-winning filmmaker Peter Rasmussen's buddy movie about two mining robots who set out to protect their "meat-sack" masters from a master mining robot gone insane. The twist here is not only that it's Machinima, made in 3D Game Studio, but that even the actor's voices are computer-generated using programs like Festival, making this possibly the world's first all-artificial movie."
For More Machinima goodness... (Score:3, Informative)
People are confused (Score:5, Informative)
Most of the posts so far are pointing out that because it was not made by AI it is not a completely artificial movie. What they are trying to say is that it is the first completely artificial movie product(basically when you see the movie there aren't any real traces of human actors/voiceactors).
Re:good (Score:2, Informative)
This is a neat idea, but my - too hard to listen to. Until these voices get easier to understand, I think I'd rather listen to actors voices.
Sorry folks.
Silicon (Score:5, Informative)
Silicon: is a non-metallic element used in the manufacture of electronic components like Integrated circuits, as well as glass and many other things. In its raw for it is rather like sand.
Silicone: is a rubbery or liquid compound which includes silicon as one of its primary components. Silicone is used for rubber materials including molded plastics, sealants or caulks, and breast implants.
Silicon != Silicone
Re:mmmm (Score:1, Informative)
Not the first. (Score:3, Informative)
But I'm more impressed b/c this is the work of one man!
Re:What about pr0n? (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Nope (Score:3, Informative)
Additionally, there's a group on the Battlefield:1942 [bf1942.net] fan site that are making a movie.
For those interested, BF1942 is a multiplayer online FPS game, that allows for vehicles, ships, planes, multiple classes, etc. It also allows for complete reskinning via mods, with entire new classes of vehicles (subs, helicopters, harrier jets, pirate ships, etc.)
Anyways, a group of people wrote a script and are "filming" a "movie" on their own server. Basic "Saving Private Ryan" type action movie. However, the entire thing is done in the game, with characters, sets, voices, etc. all using the game engine. The text, however, is done through chat, and so is text rather than voices (except for the quick chat commands).
This movie is still a big step forward over the 1942 one, though.
-T
Re:What about pr0n? (Score:3, Informative)
Re:What about pr0n? (Score:3, Informative)
I'd rather say it's already here, at least when you talk about still images pr0n. Just check the google directory [google.com] of adult 3D-rendered galleries (mostly Poser stuff). Personally, I find many Poser-rendered erotica much more interesting than "real life" shots. Maybe it's just because I'm a computer nerd, but still - there is some beauty of the Boris Vallejo kind in them that turns me on. Anyway, the sheer number of links in that directory (and some of them point to semi-commercial AVS-protected sites) proves that the artificial pr0n is no longer a question of the future.
Silicon/Silicone - more specifically (Score:5, Informative)
Silicone is a chain of
You can make pure Si chains, but they don't get very long before they fall apart. Silicon comes in two primary forms: amorphous and crystaline.
Other common silicon-based terms:
Silicates: Silicates are primarily SiO4 tetrahedral structures (compared to Silicone which is usually in chains - think of it as the difference between diamond and petroleum). Probably their most useful form, industrially, are zeolites (wherein one of the silicons is relaced by a metal ion); these have all sorts of useful absorbative, catylitic, and even superacid properties in some cases.
Silanes: Chains of silicon bonded to hydrogen; the simplest form (often called simply "silane") is SiH4, and is roughly a silicon equivalent of methane, apart from the fact that it spontaneously combusts in normal atmospheric conditions. They are less stable than silicone and their hydrocarbon equivalents in general, although this can be remedied by having functional groups being involved (organosilanes). Silanes are very useful in sealants and paints, as well as their electrical and optical properties.
Silanols: Silanes with an OH; generally being water-soluable, they are widely common in earth's oceans, and have all sorts of interesting chemical properties and bonding structures naturally. More than anything else, silanols have led to speculation that silicon-based life could be possible on other planets. They can form hydrogen-bonded membrane-like sheets, various catylitic complexes, etc.
Various types of silicon compounds can also form rings as carbon chains do, although you won't get any benzene-style rings (also, silicon resists double and triple bonding as well).
Re:What about pr0n? (Score:3, Informative)
You got the link right, but misspelled the word: it's ephebophilia. Although the two aren't necessarily mutually exclusive, there is some difference between those attracted to pre-pubescents (pedophiles) and those attracted to adolescents (ephebophiles). For example, most of us have been attracted to teenagers at some point in our lives, which makes an attraction to them during adulthood fairly "normal" (for what that's worth).