Animation programmer. 4A-GAMES. Ukraine. Arsenal. Arteta In.
Khotiv, Ukraine.
Joined June 2012
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Нормально так політично детокснувся. Раз на рік хочеться пописати лайна і вилити душу. Попустило, можна далі йти працювати і жити життя. Але ж які деякі люди зазомбовані — жах. Ну не враховуючи тих хто на зарплаті у росіян чи хочуть бути нетакусями і пишуть дурню за лайки.
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Sure, your eyes aren’t tricking you. That clip looks better than the new trailer, and the reason has nothing to do with talent. The VFX supervisor on Amazing Spider-Man 2 in 2014? Jerome Chen. The VFX supervisor on Brand New Day? Also Jerome Chen. Same person. Completely different system around him.
In 2014, Chen had 50 effects artists at Sony Imageworks, the largest VFX crew the studio had ever put on a single project. They handled about 1,000 of the film’s 1,600 VFX shots on a $255 million budget. The crew shot on real film (not digital), on location in actual New York City, scanned Times Square with 36,000 photographs of over 100 billboards, and built physical lighting rigs on set so the CGI would match the real world.
Now look at how Marvel makes Spider-Man movies. No Way Home had 2,500 VFX shots spread across 12 studios and about 3,000 artists. The budget was $200 million, $55 million less than TASM2 despite having 56% more VFX shots. Digital Domain, one of the VFX vendors, was delivering final shots days before the December 17, 2021, release. They kept reworking shots into mid-January, after the movie was already in theaters.
Zoom out, and the math gets worse. Marvel released 6 films between 2008 and 2012. From 2023 to 2025, they pushed out 7 films and 7 TV shows. The Hollywood union representing VFX workers reported that Marvel pays artists about 20% below industry average and staffs one person where other studios hire three. Artists described 64-hour weeks and breakdowns on the job. Then, in February 2025, Technicolor, the parent company of MPC (three-time Oscar winner for Life of Pi, The Jungle Book, and 1917), collapsed almost overnight. 4,500 jobs gone globally. The studio had been actively working on Disney and Paramount films when the lights went out.
Brand New Day has four months before release, and trailers routinely show unfinished shots. But the gap between a 2014 Spider-Man and a 2026 Spider-Man has nothing to do with technology going backwards. The industry has been asked to do three times the work for less money per shot while its biggest studios are going under.
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In the early days of computing, especially around systems like IBM mainframes, there weren’t thousands of blog posts explaining errors. There wasn’t even Google. If you wanted to learn, you read physical manuals thick printed books that came with the machine or the language. Languages like FORTRAN or COBOL shipped with binders full of documentation. That was your “tutorial.”
Most people learned in universities, research labs, or directly on the job. A senior programmer would literally sit beside you and teach you. It was mentorship and apprenticeship more than self-study. You didn’t watch a video rather you watched someone type.
Debugging was even tougher. There were no friendly error messages. Sometimes you wrote code on paper or punch cards, submitted the job, waited hours for it to run, and if one tiny mistake existed, the whole thing failed and you started over. That pain forced people to understand the system deeply. You couldn’t copy-paste; you had to know what every line did.
Communities still existed, just offline. People shared knowledge through textbooks, classroom notes, conferences, mailing lists, and user groups. You might wait weeks for answers instead of seconds. But because information was scarce, programmers read more, experimented more, and reverse-engineered a lot.
Ironically, many early developers became extremely strong problem solvers because they had no shortcuts. Today we search errors. Back then, they reasoned them out.
Кайфую від істерики бабів через те що в соц мережі де треба ділитись думками тепер не можна ділитись своєю сракою. Народ панікує, а я в захваті, що стане трошки менше соціоблядизму, і народ буде більш стримано ділитись тим чим не треба.
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“They won’t challenge for the title this season”
“They’ll be lucky to make top 6”
“City Away, they’re gonna get killed”
“Oh no, they won’t survive the run-in, look at all the games they have to play”
“They’re going to finish second haha”
- Stages of a rival fan’s mental illness
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My top three programming tips:
- Get enough sleep
- Go for a walk
- Lie down and think about it
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