Or at least this alternate cover is more reflective of the mood/intent of the book.
The original cover art seems more indicative of dreaming, rather than physical movment.
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u/danl999
3 points2023-05-08 23:03
When we see darkroom effects on a cover, we'll know we had an affect!
That one has the "Chi Gung" delusion going on.
They make up whatever they like, having never actually seen anything.
I found one where some chinese man animated a transparent perfect ball into the video, pretending he could see that.
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u/TechnoMagical_Intent
2 points2023-05-08 23:23
Not (exactly) there yet, but less likely to be construed as Qigong:
those germans...
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u/danl999
2 points2023-05-09 07:51
Did we influence it, or they had some book deal idea?
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u/TechnoMagical_Intent
1 points2023-05-10 13:05
That's an older cover/edition.
And my first impression of the blue/cloud hands cover was of finding one's hands in sleeping dreaming, after noticing the similarities in positioning with this pass (for instance):
Or even Pandora's Box, and not-doing passes like The Egg or The Sphere
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u/danl999
2 points2023-05-10 17:28
Those Germans...
Always invading others and trying to steal all their loot.
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u/Ok-Assistance175
1 points2023-05-08 23:45
Danl999, are you getting closer to a ‘better than’ purple puffery animation, like better than this one here…
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u/TechnoMagical_Intent
1 points2023-05-09 00:22
That was an intense ending!
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u/Ok-Assistance175
1 points2023-05-09 03:33
I read HP Lovecraft back in high school days, and wondered whether anyone could actually produce a film based on that cosmic horror genre. Only two films come to mind, one is this recent remake of Colour out of space; the other one is Dagon, which deserves a reboot.
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u/danl999
3 points2023-05-09 07:56
Give me a timecode, I'll project the video inside the 3D software, block anything overlapping with a black object, then move a camera to focus only on that puff, and save it for use.
But tell me the timecode you think is good.
My current 4 puff examples are much better than I posted, but I realized some require making the puff 10 times larger, due to the way those popcornfx effects work, then video recording it, and playing only a reduced size of the resulting rendered video, on a flat surface in the cartoon.
So that animation of the choices, has stuff going on out of sight, with cameras on it.
And I've also realized, you have to animate the purple ball shapes. Can't just put stuff on a perfect oval, or make it glow inside.
The boundaries have to be more diffuse, and change a little.
But I only have to make perfect puffs once, and then they're drag and drop into cartoons in the future.
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u/Ok-Assistance175
1 points2023-05-09 10:13
Do experiment with 30, 60, 90 seconds, and multiples up to 270 seconds.
Now, I’m wondering if it’s time to set you up with an external timecode source - there are so many options & price points out there and i/f ports (ble 5.x, or direct coax, etc).
Either way, there are a few solutions out there and maybe one based upon a reference design, with a tcxo or better stratum for under 300 hunnies.
The blue hand is iconic. If you search up "battle of psychics" (its a Russian show). It used almost the exact hand as their cover too.
The hand is acctually supposed to be the "doubles hand".
Its very iconic due to it being almost like a direct link or gateway to the Phantom realm. Seeing your hand Infront of you all of a sudden is actually a common sight.
You would see a dreaming widow and the you would see your hands doing something on your phone for example. Or you just look at your hands. There is a reason looking at your hands in dreams, activates "dreaming".
But i would suggest finding your doubles hands awake in the darkroom.
Note: this is different then seeing the "outline" of your hands which is accessible even in the blue zone. For this you would need to learn to see dreaming bubbles.
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u/silence_sam
2 points2023-05-09 18:20
As well I think the original cover gives that “hollow inside” feeling or spaciousness maybe that one might feel as the ap shifts. That original cover has the same “feeling” in the hand combined with the feeling of the mood of the books in the background. Also I don’t know if anyone else gets this but fantastic visions of a beautiful cloudy sky come to me sometimes during closed eye silence training. That adds to the feeling for me which makes that original cover perfect in my opinion
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Or at least this alternate cover is more reflective of the mood/intent of the book.
The original cover art seems more indicative of dreaming, rather than physical movment.
When we see darkroom effects on a cover, we'll know we had an affect!
That one has the "Chi Gung" delusion going on.
They make up whatever they like, having never actually seen anything.
I found one where some chinese man animated a transparent perfect ball into the video, pretending he could see that.
Not (exactly) there yet, but less likely to be construed as Qigong:
those germans...
Did we influence it, or they had some book deal idea?
That's an older cover/edition.
And my first impression of the blue/cloud hands cover was of finding one's hands in sleeping dreaming, after noticing the similarities in positioning with this pass (for instance):
Or even Pandora's Box, and not-doing passes like The Egg or The Sphere
Those Germans...
Always invading others and trying to steal all their loot.
Danl999, are you getting closer to a ‘better than’ purple puffery animation, like better than this one here…
That was an intense ending!
I read HP Lovecraft back in high school days, and wondered whether anyone could actually produce a film based on that cosmic horror genre. Only two films come to mind, one is this recent remake of Colour out of space; the other one is Dagon, which deserves a reboot.
Give me a timecode, I'll project the video inside the 3D software, block anything overlapping with a black object, then move a camera to focus only on that puff, and save it for use.
But tell me the timecode you think is good.
My current 4 puff examples are much better than I posted, but I realized some require making the puff 10 times larger, due to the way those popcornfx effects work, then video recording it, and playing only a reduced size of the resulting rendered video, on a flat surface in the cartoon.
So that animation of the choices, has stuff going on out of sight, with cameras on it.
And I've also realized, you have to animate the purple ball shapes. Can't just put stuff on a perfect oval, or make it glow inside.
The boundaries have to be more diffuse, and change a little.
But I only have to make perfect puffs once, and then they're drag and drop into cartoons in the future.
Do experiment with 30, 60, 90 seconds, and multiples up to 270 seconds.
Now, I’m wondering if it’s time to set you up with an external timecode source - there are so many options & price points out there and i/f ports (ble 5.x, or direct coax, etc).
Either way, there are a few solutions out there and maybe one based upon a reference design, with a tcxo or better stratum for under 300 hunnies.
Here’s an example of a ‘cadillac’ modl
https://www.betso.eu/sbox-1
I think the original looks better
New 50th Anniversary Edition cover art (more abstract):
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I have this exact cover hahah
The blue hand is iconic. If you search up "battle of psychics" (its a Russian show). It used almost the exact hand as their cover too.
The hand is acctually supposed to be the "doubles hand".
Its very iconic due to it being almost like a direct link or gateway to the Phantom realm. Seeing your hand Infront of you all of a sudden is actually a common sight.
You would see a dreaming widow and the you would see your hands doing something on your phone for example. Or you just look at your hands. There is a reason looking at your hands in dreams, activates "dreaming".
But i would suggest finding your doubles hands awake in the darkroom.
Note: this is different then seeing the "outline" of your hands which is accessible even in the blue zone. For this you would need to learn to see dreaming bubbles.
As well I think the original cover gives that “hollow inside” feeling or spaciousness maybe that one might feel as the ap shifts. That original cover has the same “feeling” in the hand combined with the feeling of the mood of the books in the background. Also I don’t know if anyone else gets this but fantastic visions of a beautiful cloudy sky come to me sometimes during closed eye silence training. That adds to the feeling for me which makes that original cover perfect in my opinion
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