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Sunday, December 04, 2022

NFTRW Weekly Top Five

Here are the top five comment generating posts of the past week:

Design a Costume Quick-Change

Dramatics Magazine Online: Costumes are crucial to any show. Costume quick-change is key, but screenwriters occasionally leave only a short amount of time to transition from one to the next—sometimes not even enough for the actor to get to the dressing room and back. In cases like these, you’ll need to design a smooth costume quick-change.

Being Disorganized Is Costing You Money

lifehacker.com: As long as inflation keeps making our lives more and more expensive, it’s crucial to be as conscientious a spender as possible. The last thing you want is to keep losing money on the typically avoidable costs that come with being disorganized. As someone who has dabbled in being a disorganized procrastinator, I know just how expensive being scatter-brained can be.

How to motivate different kinds of workers

www.fastcompany.com: Senior leaders must implement new strategies to deal with a rapidly changing world, but their workforce don’t always buy in. You can talk all you like at Davos about diversity, or at COP27 about sustainability, or at shareholder meetings about innovation, but it’s just talk if you can’t bring your colleagues on board with you.

Disney Made an AI Tool That Automatically De-Ages Actors

gizmodo.com: Further demonstrating the power of artificial intelligence when it comes to photorealistically altering footage, researchers from Disney have revealed a new aging/de-aging tool that can make an actor look convincingly older or younger, without the need for weeks of complex and expensive visual effects work.

Hollywood Should Leave Dead Actors Alone

Variety: When “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” recently opened, audiences did not see a reanimated Chadwick Boseman. Instead, the title character’s sister, played by Letitia Wright, took over as the superhero. The technology existed for a digitized Boseman to reprise his celebrated 2018 star turn — but allowing a new, living actor to fill the role was the right call, not just for the franchise, but for the medium of film.

 

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