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With a rich family history in Aviation, former Oil Trader & Royal Marines Reservist, Richard Browning, founded pioneering Aeronautical Innovation company, Gravity Industries in March 2017 to launch human flight into an entirely new era.
The Gravity JetSuit uses over 1000bhp of Jet Engine power combined with natural human balance to deliver the most intense and enthralling spectacle, often likened to the real life Ironman.
In this episode of the Shot List, we break down the 12 principles of animation, how they work, and why animators continue to use them to this day.
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Squash and Stretch: Deforming objects or characters to emphasize their weight, elasticity, or flexibility.
Anticipation: Preparing the audience for an upcoming action by showing a brief movement or change in expression.
Staging: Presenting ideas or actions in a clear and visually interesting way, directing the audience’s attention to convey the intended message.
Straight Ahead and Pose to Pose: Two different approaches to animating movement. Straight ahead animates each frame in sequence, while pose to pose plans key poses first.
Follow Through and Overlapping Action: Continuing movement after the main action stops and parts of a character or object moving at different speeds or times.
Slow In and Slow Out: Gradually increasing or decreasing the speed of movement at the beginning and end of an action.
Arcs: Animating objects and characters along curved trajectories, mimicking real-world motion.
Secondary Action: Additional movements that complement the main action, adding depth and context to a character’s performance.
Timing: The speed and rhythm of movements in animation, essential for conveying weight, energy, and emotion effectively.
Exaggeration: Pushing movements and expressions beyond reality to make them more dynamic and expressive.
Solid Drawing: Creating characters and objects with volume, weight, and dimensionality, making animation appear more believable and three-dimensional.
Appeal: Making characters and animation visually interesting and appealing, designing characters with unique personalities and maintaining consistency in design and performance.
Smartphones and a marked change to our digital media environment are part of the reason for the demographic shift changing our world, including how low birth rates are shrinking the workforce. Chief data reporter John Burn-Murdoch presents his lastest findings on this challenge faced by most nations.
High frequency trading has transformed Wall Street into a universe of algorithms. No other firm captures this digital upheaval quite like Jane Street. Barely on the radar a decade ago, the market maker made a record-setting $39 billion in trading revenue last year, outearning the big banks and rivals. Many are wondering what’s behind its unprecedented success.
Earlier this year, SpaceX filed an application with the FCC petitioning to launch up to a million satellites as part of an “orbital data center.” It’s also become a big part of Elon Musk’s pitch to investors ahead of his massive SpaceX IPO.
WSJ asked an engineer to break down the biggest technical hurdles and costly barriers to putting data centers in space.
Intercontinental Exchange CEO Jeffrey Sprecher discusses the NYSE’s 234th anniversary, discussing its history as the bedrock of American capitalism during ‘Sunday Morning Futures.’
Electric vertical takeoff and landing aircrafts, or eVTOLs, promise a futuristic vision of the world. One company, Pivotal, is taking a different approach with an eVTOL looks different from the rest of the market. Their ultralight consumer eVTOL weighs just 348 pounds, has eight propellers and does not require a pilot’s license to operate.
WSJ explores how Pivotal’s ultralight eVTOL works.
Kyle Chayka, a writer for The New Yorker, discusses how social media has changed over the years and why “normal people” have stopped posting their personal lives online.
The main points of the discussion are:
Over the past 45 years, few industries have changed as radically as Wall Street. From the rise of electronic trading to shrinking bid-ask spreads and increased regulation, the trading floor of the 1980s is almost unrecognizable today. In this episode of Experts By Decade, we sit down with three veteran traders to explore how the financial industry has transformed — and what it’s like to survive the seismic shifts.
In this video, we explore the unsettling implications of the increasingly popular philosophy known accelerationism, which, in some form or another, is quietly taking hold on the zeitgeist of the modern world. What does the future look like if technology continues to progress at the compounding rate it currently is? What is the end goal of technology’s seemingly unending and uncontrollable progress? Is it good for us? Do we even have a say in it?