Ever wondered about the size of a Sentinel-Class Landing Craft relative to the Millennium Falcon? If the answer is yes, you’re in luck.
Courtesy of Sploid’s All the Star Wars Vehicles Sized, you can now see how every transport, speeder, and battle station from the first three Star Wars films stacks up. From the tiny Ewok Glider to the massive, planet-incinerating Death Star, this video leaves no stone unturned.
Star Wars superfans will recognize the background music as the tune that was playing in the famous Mos Eisley cantina scene (#HanShotFirst), and as we bop away, the vehicles scroll by and we get a nostalgia-laden look at everything from the original trilogy. In total, 48 spaceships, animals, and land vehicles were rendered, the largest being the Death Star I & II, the Super Star Destroyer, and the Star Destroyer respectively.
We’ll have to wait and see how the vehicles from Star Wars: The Force Awakens measure up and if anything from the new film can compete with the Death Star in terms of size, but either way, this is seriously fun/cool.
Videos like this are a perfect example of why the Star Wars fictional universe has such staying power. Fans of the films are so dedicated and passionate that they’re always looking for new ways to interact with the story and finding what others have missed.
The video’s illustrations come courtesy of Scott Park, and you can check out more of his work here.
Though the days are starting to drag as we all wait for Star Wars: Episode VII — The Force Awakens, at least we have awesome stuff like this to keep us occupied until December 18, 2015.
China just gave Hollywood a cautionary tale about AI filmmaking. Sanxingdui: Future Past, billed as the country's first fully AI-generated movie, hit theaters on October 23 and bombed at the box office.
According to Futurism, the film's reported $1.5 million production budget landed on more than 10,000 screens. Yet it pulled in only about $181,000, averaging roughly $20 per screen, making the budget difficult to recover.
Some of the best shots in Grok Imagine’s AI-made Odyssey don’t contain actors. Ancient landscapes stretch into the distance. Close-ups of grimy hands suggest people who have touched something rougher than a keyboard. For a few seconds, the illusion holds.
https://twitter.com/imagine/status/2113712964419063911
YouTube videos could soon look better without eating quite so much data, right? Thankfully, the platform plans to introduce a new video format called AV2 on its web player in early 2027, promising more efficient streaming and potentially fewer playback hiccups on slower internet connections. The big headline is a roughly 30% improvement in compression efficiency over AV1, YouTube's existing video format. That doesn't guarantee every video will use 30% less data, but it could make streaming a little easier on both internet connections and data allowances.
What is AV2, and why should viewers care?