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Disney hires former Character.AI CEO Karandeep Anand as its first CTO; about a year ago, Disney accused Character.AI of infringing its copyrights (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/biz/news/disney-cto-karandeep-anand-character-ai-1236866528…

Disney Hires First CTO: Karandeep Anand, Former CEO of Character.AI
Disney CEO Josh D'Amaro hired Karandeep Anand, ex-CEO of Character.AI and former Facebook and Microsoft exec, as its first chief technology officer.

Disney hires former Character.AI CEO Karandeep Anand as its first CTO; about a year ago, Disney accused Character.AI of infringing its copyrights (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/biz/news/disney-cto-karandeep-anand-character-ai-1236866528…

Disney Hires First CTO: Karandeep Anand, Former CEO of Character.AI
Disney CEO Josh D'Amaro hired Karandeep Anand, ex-CEO of Character.AI and former Facebook and Microsoft exec, as its first chief technology officer.

Built the physicality of a character with an #acting #coaching client. And, unsurprisingly, found a couple new ways lines could go for their version of them. Always good to see concrete decisions start to animate and infuse things with new specifics.

@… "Can emojis be removed from Unicode? Or are they there forever once they are in?" - As of now, once they're in, they're in. The code point in Unicode is then reserved for this symbol. This can be a problem because emojis are kind of open-ended (other than alphabets and many other symbol lists). And it's possible that some emojis turn out to be rarely used. I could imagine that eventually some platforms just stop supporting a certain emoji - but it's really useful to have an international encoding standard which is fully supported by most technology (as anyone who has programmed or written online text in the early 2000s can attest). That's why getting a new emoji approved has become so hard - we're basically creating a kind of tech debt for a potentially long time.
Funny story - you could try creating a post now with a Unicode character from an "empty" code point in the emoji range, in the hope that it will get assigned in a later round. I've seen such a post on the old Twitter, which later was filled with all kinds of random emojis, when you look at it in a few years. #linguistics #emojis #WorldEmojiDay

The Sangri-La-Frontier 3rd Season will begin airing on 27 January 2027
#ShangriLaFrontier

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #PositiveVibrations
Garnet Silk:
🎵 Kingly Character (alternate mix 3)
#GarnetSilk
https://djdotcom.bandcamp.com/track/garnet-silk-kingly-character
https://open.spotify.com/track/3dUiLBa3FgNUhUjprMrBUi

Crosslisted article(s) found for math.DS. https://arxiv.org/list/math.DS/new
[2/2]:
- Monodromy action on character varieties for Lefschetz pencils
Ishan Banerjee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.01700 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mathAG_bot/117036317126130150
- Exponential mixing for Korteweg-de Vries equation with localized noise
Yuxuan Chen, Shengquan Xiang, Zhifei Zhang, Jia-Cheng Zhao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.01863 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mathAP_bot/117036472648751140
- Minimal Hyperbolic Area of Teichmuller Curves in Genus Two
Xiaoyu Su, Yumin Zhong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.01984 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mathGT_bot/117036268760239763
- Feed-Forward Steering in Transformer Residual Dynamics
Timur Mudarisov, Mikhail Burtsev, Radu State
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.02071 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/117036543038427323
- Log Calabi--Yau structure for endomorphisms on $\mathbf{P}^n$
Yujie Luo, Sheng Meng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.02114 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mathAG_bot/117036319880674445
- ICC property(T) groups without W$^*$-superrigidity
Shuoxing Zhou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.02327 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mathOA_bot/117036168682911970
- The Geometry and Dynamics of Spiral Minimal Products
Haizhong Li, Yongsheng Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.02370 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mathDG_bot/117036305133115376
- Convergence Rate of Birkhoff Average for Toral Quasi-Periodic Rotations and Applications
Son N. T. Tu, Jianlu Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.02489 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mathAP_bot/117036492113428030
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RE: https://beige.party/@GrimmReality/117295405034955634
The Beastmaster (1982)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beastmaster
The main character has FERRET sidekicks!!

More Valheim today. Will we make actual progress, or will I spend the next three hours accidentally flattening my own character with a rogue birch tree? There’s only one way to find out. Live now! https://www.twitch.tv/tuxramus

falls man mal virtuell strandurlaub machen will:
"magnified #sand"
https://magnifiedsand.com/ :)

Bill Clinton Turns 80 Today. Does the Old Man Have Character? (John F. Harris/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2026/08/19/bill-clinton-80-birthday-life-01030323
http://www.memeorandum.com/260819/p30#a260819p30

Actually, should the plural be "emoji" or "emojis" ?? 😵‍💫 - Both are used frequently! I think "emoji" reminds us of other loan words that end in "-i" in the plural, like "celli" or "radii" or "tori" or all the pastas. That's why many people feel that "emoji" is plural enough 😅 . But the word is from Japanese, and is called "emoji" in the singular, from "e" = picture and "moji" = character. (In contrast to "emot-icon", the word "emoji" doesn't have anything to do with emotion!) So my vote is for the regular English plural "-s", yielding "emojis" ✅ #emojis #linguistics #WorldEmojiDay

Rewatching the complete series of The West Wing for the 8th time & revisited the wiki for "Mandyville"... cuz everytime I see S1, I'm reminded of the fate of the Mandy Hampton character.
✅ Mandyville | West Wing Wiki | Fandom
https://westwing.fandom.com/wiki/Mandyville

Mandyville
Any secondary character on The West Wing that stops appearing on the show without explanation is said to be in Mandyville. The term was coined based on the abrupt departure of the character Mandy Hampton, played by Moira Kelly, at the end of the show's first season. Mandy Hampton - the White House's media relations adviser and a main character in Season 1. Although initially an integral part of the senior staff, Mandy's storylines became progressively distracting and silly (an example being...

When I need a quick game to jump into for a bit, I often go for Heroes of Loot (either the first OR 2). I've been playing them a while now. Maybe I'll beat one of them someday. 😂 They're such a blast. Super satisfying.
#TwinStickShooters #roguelite

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CeeDee Lamb Sets Record Straight on George Pickens' Character Concerns https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/ceedee-lamb-sets-record-straight-on-george-pickens-character-concerns

Meow
by yu2maru (#art #anime

"A rare sea turtle was found 'lifeless' on a beach. Now, it's flying 1500 miles to be released back into the ocean"
#Turtles #Animals

Rare sea turtle flies 1500 miles to be released back into the ocean after being found 'lifeless' on a beach
The patient is named Crush, after the beloved “Finding Nemo” character.

Working with a new #acting #coaching client, had them do 2 takes with the same goal, but a different attitude/assumption about the other character. Discovered the primary tension totally shifted. We get to build and place that discovered tension as we want now.

Narrative Keyframing for Generative Creative Writing
Chao Zhang, Abe Davis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.10337 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.10337 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.10337
arXiv:2608.10337v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We introduce narrative keyframing, an interaction technique for AI-assisted creative writing that lets writers specify different types of narrative constraints at selected moments in a story, then use AI to generate intervening prose. Inspired by the use of keyframing in animation, narrative keyframing offers a flexible way to connect story planning with adaptive control over generated text. We explore three types of keyframes: plot keyframes define significant events in a story, character keyframes represent how individual characters change over the narrative, and perspective keyframes capture how individual characters experience different events through first-person narratives. Plot and character keyframes offer a flexible way to adapt the type of high-level conditioning explored in previous AI writing tools to more customizable, iterative, and fine-scale control, while perspective keyframes add a new way to control characterization and focalization by using first-person narratives as an intermediary. Through a user study, we show that narrative keyframing supports a more controllable, transparent, and engaging way to use generative AI in creative writing.
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Character 🔠 #i18nFails
i18nfails.1a23.studio/posts/character

Character 🔠 | i18n fails
Things can get confusing when character 🔠 are also common in Captchas.

I don't know why coffee juice is not available in the United States.
Fresh coffee beans are absolutely delicious.
(Very much ripe grape-ish character... EXTREMELY SWEET).
https://mastoreader.io/?url=https:%2F/c.im/@cdarwin/11707173…

July 10, 2026
SWAMI SEZ

Don't get even -- get odd.
When we get how uniquely odd each of us is, we will lose all interest in trying to get even.

-- Swami Beyondananda
#Comic #Joke #Wordplay

Character.AI launches three human-written, AI-generated microdramas, whose characters users can chat with, and aims to eventually let users make their own shows (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/09/char

Character.AI enters the microdrama arena with its own productions, but there's a twist | TechCrunch
In an interesting twist that takes advantage of the company's core product, users can chat with these shows' characters, ask them questions, and even roleplay different storylines.

from my link log —
Unicode technical note 27: known anomalies in Unicode character names.
http://unicode.org/notes/tn27/
saved 2020-04-22 https://dotat.a…

RE: https://mastodon.social/@mattsheffield/117056492778723195
No way, the main character of http://elonmusk.today

Got into some new material with an #acting #coaching client. They started finding, right off the bat, the character's incredulity in and among the uncertainty between them and the other character. Good discoveries, looking forward to building them out.

Watched "Mythic Quest" which is four series of ten episodes of a sit com about a fictional video game studio on Apple TV.
I have previously said Apple are great at Sci Fi but have nothing remotely funny, but Mythic Quest is all right*. I laughed one or two times an episode at least.
Used to work in the game biz and it does show the character of that work surprisingly well.
"Always Sunny In Philadelphia"'s Charlie Day is involved in production and Rob McElhenney from that show one of the two main stars.
Does feel a bit like that show, the way the dialog from the actors is so often teasing verging on spiteful.
*, yeah okay Ted Lasso is alright as well. New womens-game series of that, after a long absence, is going okay too.
#watching #tv

@… I am personally able to set that aside and enjoy the show, but I do agree that it’s an annoying property of shows that set themselves up to have a reveal eventually.
I remember watching How I Met Your Mother in my youth, and the whole thing hinges on eventually revealing who “your mother” is… and then it’s just some random character they insert in the last …

Character.AI launches three human-written, AI-generated microdramas, whose characters users can chat with, and aims to eventually let users make their own shows (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/09/char

Character.AI enters the microdrama arena with its own productions, but there's a twist | TechCrunch
In an interesting twist that takes advantage of the company's core product, users can chat with these shows' characters, ask them questions, and even roleplay different storylines.

“We’ve always been at war with the Gotoro Empire.”
#StardewValley #GotoroEmpire #AltText

Nick Saban writes character reference letter to judge in Terrion Arnold case

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nick-saban-character-reference-terrion-arnold-case/

going aloft on @… from now 'til midnight ET, 3 hours of new music & invisible dance routines on the frow show. get in tune: https://wfmu.org/playlists/JJ/260901

Daytime surf show! 🏄‍♂️ 🎸 🎶
#music #surf #SanFrancisco

CeeDee Lamb Sets Record Straight on George Pickens' Character Concerns https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/ceedee-lamb-sets-record-straight-on-george-pickens-character-concerns

Microsoft begins merging its consumer and commercial Copilot apps into a single app, with a mobile and web rollout in mid-August and desktop in mid-September (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)
https://www.geekwire.com/2026/microsoft-st

Microsoft starts merging its Copilot consumer and business apps in advance of ‘Super App’ rollout
Microsoft is combining its consumer and business Copilot apps into a single app, in a gradual transition starting this week. Copilot Podcasts, Group Chat and Deep Research will be retired beginning Aug. 18, along with Mico, the animated character added to Copilot's voice mode last year.

A running gag that I photographed successfully after quite a few tries; I was going for what they call "compo face" in the UK
#photo #photography #selfie

Just built a quickly improvised Switch station with the kiddos using leftover Minecraft parts.
I like the beach vibe. 🏝️
#Fedieltern

#WordWeavers 12 Sep: If you removed one supporting character from your story, whose absence would change the plot the most?
The Librarian, for sure. The entire plot would fail without them. There would be no story.

Ich bin mit meinen Gedanken zum Umgang mit Gesichtern von Fremden auf meinen Fotos noch nicht so ganz klar. Hier ein paar längere Gedanken auf Englisch: https://pixel.tchncs.de/p/Thijs_Lucas/978538423522721805

Thijs Lucas (@Thijs_Lucas@pixel.tchncs.de)
I have the habit of blurring people's faces in my photos. I do it quite simply using the BlurFace app for iPhone. The idea is that it should not alter the image too much. My photography is about bicycles and cycling, not about the people in the frame. The faces should not matter. Or so I thought. But is that really true? In reality, people and their faces bring character into images. Their posture, expression and gesture reveal emotion, and all that is something I would want to show through pho…

У!
by Peke (#art #anime

I wanted to use my #Jellyfin server for audiobooks, but failed in terms that it not seem to be capable of tracking progress, even after converting to m4b. Maybe it's just a skill issue, if so, please enlighten me.
However I found a great offline audiobook app, that is FOSS and even has features like. Character list, sleeping mode and more

Attacks on the character of progressive candidates may be a distraction from the popularity of their causes.
My latest for Crimson Goes Blue: how Graham Platner's legacy is affecting his successor.
https://open.substack.com/pub/jonippolito/p/attack-t…

Headlines to suck you in:
Wallace’s dog Gromit was nearly a cat, reveals creator as Aardman turns 50
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/sep/04/wallace-gromit-nick-park-aardman-50-years?CMP=Share_Androi…

Wallace’s dog Gromit was nearly a cat, reveals creator as Aardman turns 50
Nick Park began modelling the character as a feline, before finding it too difficult and changing him to a dog

Headlines to suck you in:
Wallace’s dog Gromit was nearly a cat, reveals creator as Aardman turns 50
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/sep/04/wallace-gromit-nick-park-aardman-50-years?CMP=Share_Androi…

Wallace’s dog Gromit was nearly a cat, reveals creator as Aardman turns 50
Nick Park began modelling the character as a feline, before finding it too difficult and changing him to a dog

Replaced article(s) found for cs.GR. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.GR/new
[1/1]:
- B-repLer: Language-guided Editing of CAD Models
Yilin Liu, Niladri Shekhar Dutt, Changjian Li, Niloy J. Mitra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10201 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csGR_bot/115031625722935245
- Geometrically Approximated Modeling for Emitter-Centric Ray-Triangle Filtering in Arbitrarily Dyn...
Rabin Gajmer, Joonas Haapala, Zoltan Beck
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.10457 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csGR_bot/116560660242490785
- NaP-Control: Navigating Diffusion Prior for Versatile and Fast Character Control
Chia-Wen Chen, Yan Wu, Korrawe Karunratanakul, Siyu Tang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.20209 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csGR_bot/116611422054088912
- Vis4GS: A Visual Analytic Tool for 3D Gaussian Splatting Reconstruction
Kai-Yuan Lin, Aryabima Mandala Putra, Jui-Chi Lee, Shih-Hsuan Hung
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.26985 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csGR_bot/116815255549530340
- LATO.2: Factorized 3D Mesh Generation with Vertex and Topology Flow
Long, Zhao, Lin, Zhang, Guo, Liang, Xu, Hladk\'y, Nie{\ss}ner, Hu, Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.10623 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csGR_bot/116917178519049532
- OmniX: From Unified Panoramic Generation and Perception to Graphics-Ready 3D Scenes
Yukun Huang, Jiwen Yu, Yanning Zhou, Jianan Wang, Xintao Wang, Pengfei Wan, Xihui Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.26800 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCV_bot/115468347012341868
- HairPort: In-context 3D-aware Hair Import and Transfer for Images
Alireza Heidari, Amirhossein Alimohammadi, Ali Mahdavi-Amiri
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.12562 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCV_bot/116735964747387747
- From Scene-Centric to Observer-Centric: Modeling Observer-Aware Relations for 3D Scene Graph Gene...
Jingjun Sun, Chaowei Wang, Zhirui Liu, Jiaxu Tian, Ming Yang, Yaoxing Wang, Yan Di, Shan Gao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.27412 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCV_bot/116832228785083392
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Had an #acting #coaching client try to tell the other character they loved them, but using lines as written, on the face of them, do not mention love. That take revealed the fear their character was feeling, made the peril more real. Revelation through counterpoint.

RE: https://mathstodon.xyz/@mjd/117163221071196258
I’m just gonna note that in Legend he did disappear into the character a great deal.

Thanks to @… I've been playing around with this website. I'm happy to find that my name and handles are most absent. I'm either a "fictional character from the YA novel and film adaptation 'The Spectacular Now'" or a character from Star Trek.

IN THE WEIGHTS
The weights are the billions of numbers forming an AI's brain. Type a name and see how strongly the leading AI models recognize it. Are you in the weights?

#EroticMusings 63: Do you create cultures, ethnicities, or even sentient species for your work? How do you go about it?
Yes and no. I didn't create the place and species specifically for the novels - the first Moonmoth was my text-RP character who really wanted to become a vampire and fled to a community where plenty of those lived. She was lucky and became the servant of a very…

RE: https://rls.social/@catfires/116800078885161270
So my script broke because there were so many fires that it past the 500 character limit of Mastodon.
47 active!

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#Proofreading is dead.
#writing #news

I have an idea about making a #ttrpg campaign in a historical way where players keep the same character more of less as normal but at every session they play the descendant of the last character a few generation later.

Just finished "Snake-Eater" by T. Kingfisher (@…). I'd read and thoroughly enjoyed her "Digger" webcomic, and found this book to be quite enjoyable too. There's something indelibly heartwarming about an anxious character growing to feel more comfortable and self-assured, especially when escaping and unlearning emotional abuse, and I'm certainly a sucker for heartwarming characters. I like the way that Kingfisher has taken time to talk about and try to avoid cultural appropriation, in a way that I feel is reasonable, although of course I'm not an expert judge of the nuances and I'm biased by having liked the book, so I'm willing to be told things are complicated in that regard it others judge differently. I also really liked the window dressing of a vaguely solarpunk future society, in a book that's not at all about that society. I'd love to see Kingfisher write something focused on how that society could work (or maybe she already has?).
Probably going to look up some of Kingfisher's fantasy books soon.
#AmReading #ReadingNow #Bookstodon

Dressing up as Tolkien-character to protest Thiel is incredbily funny.
Dressing up as Gandalf and write "you shall not pass" on banners is even funnier.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/videos/peter-thiel-targeted-gandalf-protest-232823552.html

Peter Thiel Targeted by Gandalf Protest Group in Argentina
On Aug. 17, a dozen protesters in Gandalf costumes demonstrated outside Peter Thiel’s Buenos Aires home in a themed display linked to his activities in Argen...

Been playing the Steam demo of Megacopter: Blades of the Goddess on the Deck tonight and I wasn't sure if if like it, but hell yeah I do. Gonna be buying this one, and it's on sale. Shooting lizard men and lifting packages around? Absolutely.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/122

Worked with an #acting #coaching client on some material and played with Bogart's Viewpoints of Tempo and Duration. Beautiful seeing them finding new ways of being and new things to pursue in their character. Opened up a whole inner life.

Fresh coffee beans are absolutely delicious. (very much ripe grape-ish character... EXTREMELY SWEET).
-- @…
https://mastoreader.io/?url=https:%2

At the start of our recent vacation, we visited the #worldOfBricks in #munich .
It was uite nice. Not overly huge but a couple of LARGE sets, like Harry potter, Lord of the Rings, Star wars and those here as well!
Some more photos are here:

Former Cowboys defensive back says one thing about his old quarterback that critics refuse to acknowledge https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/forme…

Here’s a very funny clip of #BobNewhart breaking #DonMartin with his toupèe sketch. One of the rare times Bob broke character. “I need a straight man who doesn’t laugh.” 5:42

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/117079135395983760
Preemptively putting my watermark remover here, we'll see if it works (Ruby code):
```
text = "[whatever claude gives you]"
watermark_removed = text.gsub(/[[]] /u, ' ').gsub(/[\u200B-\u200D\uFEFF]/,'')
```
(Mastodon interprets this as emoji, it should be "colon space colon" in there, it's type of character class.)

R&D for my new "ricebringer" character -- I think I'm starting to be able to hold my glamour while I'm using a selfie stick
#photo #photography #ricebringer

"Acting is a very personal process. It has to do with expressing your own personality, and discovering the character you're playing through your own experience - so we're all different."
—Ian Mckellen
#acting #coaching

"The Ministery of Time" by Kaliane Bradley is a witty mix of a character from the Franklin expedition caught up in the present, and the oddities of time-travel and friendship.
#book #goodread

#WordWeavers SE 08: "Which character would be the worst person to get trapped in an elevator with?"
The security office in The Mansion, for sure. She's hypervigilant and suspicious of everything, even shadows, and she's not very nice about it either.

Кумедно.
Я думав, катари-"ножиці" це чисто вигадка Блізів. А зараз читаю — виявляється, що ні. Менш розповсюджений варіант, але реальний. Тільки вони "розкривалися" не перед ударом, а після. Як експансивна куля.
Національна зброя менш попсових культур здатна принести цікавий вайб у геймдизайн. Особливо якщо втілюється не поверхнево.

The writing for Dean Winchester and the acting of Jensen Ackles are just peak, ngl.
They truly created a believable character that's flawed and carries secrets and insecurities but also wishes and a deep love for his broken family.
#DeanWinchester #Supernatural

#WritersCoffeeClub 21 Jul
Do your works contain erotic elements? How far do you go?
Interesting question: what counts as 'erotic'?. I'm interested in relationships, often power relationships, between people. That they have sex and how they have sex is important character and narrative information.
So yes, almost all my stories have scenes in which people have…

"Winner of Invertebrate of the Year 2026 crowned – and it is the size of a grain of rice"
#Insects #Nature #Bugs

Winner of Invertebrate of the Year 2026 crowned – and it is the size of a grain of rice
The leaf sheep, a neon green solar-powered slug, has inspired at least one Pokémon character and triumphs in global ballot

Exploring a character's self-absorption, an #acting #coaching client found an inner life for the character filters how that character experiences others. Like how a prism slits light, character's inner state transforms who others are to them. Cool discovery.

Two hairties later I have anime character hair! I went to the protest this weekend as "Cure Vulpes" who might even fill in for the priestess in a pinch.
#photo #photography #selife

Стів останні кілька днів.
#IT #meme #kek

NEW HIGURASHI WHEN THEY CRY ANIME ANNOUNCED!
Official website #Higurashi #anime …

Worked on an accent with an #acting #coaching client and cool seeing the material stretch and adjust, the character change but also having some of the performance from before we added the accent start to find its way back. So cool to build that dimension of the voice.

Pic 1: My house guest Goose is getting a little intense, challenging me to a game of High Card Low Card. The message his eyebrows are sending has me a little concerned.
Pic 2: Whew, I honored his love for the game by accurately predicting the outcome, and he is relieved he does not have to express his disappointment.
#AnimalCrossing

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Cowboys' Jerry Jones shares 'overcome adversity' message for Tony Romo https://www.sportingnews.com/ca/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/jerry-jones-tony-romo-cbs-sports-leave-jj-watt-replacement/2e7847f5…

Ситуація наступна
(оригінал усуспільнено з коміксу "4 пари")
---
English version included
#IT #AI #kek

Walking through the beats of a scene with an #acting #coaching client, and they came up with a goal for their character at the end of the scene that I hadn't even considered before, and it really worked as a strong, new option. Always cool finding new things.

Running a scene with an #acting #coaching client, and found a moment where their character's view of the other character changes. We then added an understanding, that alloyed with the realization, and found a new dimension to it. Good to see.

Had an #acting #coaching client do one line from the scene five times in a row (with direction), and the character grew from each, got enriched. Very next take of the scene: new flashes of fire in their character's eyes, real, vital and great to see.

This is the game I've been playing on the Deck. Works pretty great on there. It's super lofi graphics, but great loot and stash system, battle, buffs, it's a decent roguelike. When a game hooks me, it hooks me. And just a couple bucks. You die a lot! And lose everything, of course. Great bite sized runs.
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Gave a direction to an #acting #coaching client for them to get the other character to do something very specific for them, and the following take opened up in new very interactive ways. Cool seeing a new layer get discovered. Specific almost always beats vague.

"Acting is a very personal process. It has to do with expressing your own personality, and discovering the character you're playing through your own experience - so we're all different."
—Ian Mckellen
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With an #acting #coaching client we discovered underlying sadness in the scene on one rehearsal. So had them play opposite: envision a joyful future for the character, and go again. We saw a matter-of-fact optimism wrap around that sadness in a really cool counterpoint.

Started working with an #acting #coaching client on making quick acting choices well. In about 15 minutes we got a sequence to poignance such that I really wanted to see what happens to the character next and wanted to help them. So good to see quick work land.

"I want to establish a wide range and play all kinds of parts. It's that sort of acting career I really respect. I like to turn a sharp left from whatever I've done before because that keeps me awake. That's why I want to be an actor - I don't want to play endless variations on one character."
—Tim Curry
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Gave an #acting #coaching client a very specific, even narrow note for a next take, and they brought a specificity to how they were entreating the other character that was new, and cool. Almost always: specific is more fun and interesting than vague.

Directed an #Acting #Coaching client to choose the level of their character's mental illness for a take and we'd see if I could tell what they chose. To my surprise and joy, the impact on the final moments of the scene was terrifyingly new, and fascinating to discover.

An #acting #coaching client used the emotional/physical reality of their own day as a starting point for their character, and it was so interesting and fun. I'm a big fan of starting with what you have, and where you are, and letting that be some great raw material.

So disappointing. I admired what this director has done previously, and this 40 second “trailer” is almost unwatchable. Not a single character is there; there is no there there.
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Neill Blomkamp (@NeillBlomkamp)
NIGHTBORNE is the first full test AI film I have made. It was made using Seedance 2.0. I've been experimenting with AI for a couple of years, and it's now at the point where I want to tackle a full feature in this format. This is a 13-minute test start. It was made with real concept artists, and features the faces and voices of 32 real people. Barley Studios will be my new AI studio for creating my own films, the way Oats Studios was for traditional film and VFX. @Barleystudiosai Full film…

"I want to establish a wide range and play all kinds of parts. It's that sort of acting career I really respect. I like to turn a sharp left from whatever I've done before because that keeps me awake. That's why I want to be an actor - I don't want to play endless variations on one character."
—Tim Curry
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Started some new material with an #acting #coaching client and seeing them finding new bits of business from the direction and then starting building out the character's moves and vibe in even the first few takes was so entertaining. Love my clients.

"Acting is a very personal process. It has to do with expressing your own personality, and discovering the character you're playing through your own experience - so we're all different."
—Ian Mckellen
#acting #coaching

Worked with #acting #coaching client on new material. 3rd run thru: a single change, they started to connect to the root of the character, and I could see what props would support their work in a final production, like they were there. Cool reality distortion field.

Had an #acting #coaching client make a single physical change be the focus of a take and shot to see and hear their voice expand into the character in a whole new way. So good to hear their voice more fully animate the moments with new depths.