man this movie didn’t have to go there like that but they did anyway.
This is the funniest spoiler for this movie because if you tell someone, they won’t and can’t believe you.
Normal Horoscope:
Aries: We cannot know ourselves. Souls are not stones, they are rivers. Forgive yourself.
Taurus: The ability to spit dead in someone’s eye rarely comes in handy, but it’s sure as hell effective when it does. Appreciate your talents, however small.
Gemini: Bad friends may as well be emotional meat grinders. You’re better than emotion sausage.
Cancer: Sometimes making a rude gesture and telling the world to shove it is the right answer. Dont take too much pleasure in it though.
Leo: Hatred is like holding onto a hot coal to throw it at someone. Organized property damage is much more effective.
Virgo: I asked the stars how to be cool. They didn’t say anything but one of them put on some big sunglasses and another made finger guns at me. Point is, dont get too hung up on that.
Libra: The past is history, the future is a mystery, today is a gift, that’s why it’s called the present. Keep in mind there is nothing stopping the present from being full of dogshit.
Scorpio: Your desire to change the past is like a kangaroo, it cannot move backwards. This gives you the tactical advantage.
Sagittarius: The human brain is a sexual katamari. Anything, and I mean anything, can be incorporated. This is wonderful and terrifying.
Capricorn: A blessing is a blessing. In this day and age we recommend you take every scrap of holy energy you can.
Aquarius: You have two choices. Change it or wallow in it. Many things really shouldn’t be wallowed in.
Pisces: Our brains at night can be terrifying places. Luckily, comedy is the sawed-off shotgun of emotional defenses. All comedy is fear.
A nice and long article about special effects in Good Omens! :) A lot of info, such as:
Can you explain in detail about the design and the creation of the Wings?
Crowley and Aziraphale both have large wings when seen in their real forms. Initially, our concept artist Grant Bonser designed bat-style wings for Crowley but Neil Gaiman preferred to have feathers for both the demons and angels.
We built each feather based on swan wings – which was most appropriate to the concept. We started building the feathers in geometry so that we had a map for our groom team to develop each feather. The wings were laid out in an anatomically correct way, with primary feathers (the long finger like feathers that feature at ends of wings); secondaries (above those on the ends of the wings) and coverts (top wings / fluffier wings). The wings were then re-groomed into feathers using Yeti. We modelled in a swan’s wing bone structure and this was then all passed to the rigging team to ensure the feathers folded correctly and worked well together. Working together, the groom, modelling and rigging and animation teams refined the wings, referencing heavily the way a swan’s wing physically folds and behaves to ensure that when doing our wing simulations, everything behaved realistically.
We decided to create the wing texturing in the look development phase. It was all shader based so that we could have complete control over colour variants and no one feather was the same hue, to break up the overall look making it more realistic.
Getting the right balance of iridescence on the black feathers and then ensuring the white feathers had enough detail and variation to stand out was challenging. We spent time in the look development stages tweaking the shaders and then when we got to actual shot production we were working very closely with Neil and our groom and creature effects team so that we were able to get a look that he and Douglas were really happy with.
Some of the shots needed to have a bespoke groom set up as we soon realised that when the animators were posing the wings at some angles they would not capture the correct shape or volume that was required for that specific shot, but this gave us the freedom to sculpt the groom and make sure that none of the detail was lost and so the wings looked and felt a part of the actors as they progressed thought the scene.
This is all very lovely but I’m stuck on the fact that they are actually swan wings. Where’s that post that says these wings are made for hitting and that’s just what they’ll do?
wait they’re based off swan wings????
where’s that post that talks about the white swan and the black swan meeting on the pond just as Aziraphale & Crowley meet in the Victorian era????
@kedreeva have you seen this?
Bahaha I haven’t but swans were my guess so it’s gratifying to see I was correct. Also, fuckin good. The way they USED their wings was like swans too, for example here’s the time to fight pose:
Look familiar? It should:
I’ll be honest their wings were very good, my only complaint would be the actual width of the feathers (primaries and secondaries) needed to be wider, to leave fewer gaps between them (gaps aren’t good for flight after all), for example here:
You can see, even when raised up to fight or spread in flight, the feathers overlap to form a solid structure around which air can flow to provide lift.
Either way though, the wings were lovely and I enjoyed them immensely. They’re right about them moving realistically AND like a swan’s wings. The way they fold up screams swan, it’s a really unique fold that gives them that ‘boat’ appearance on water and gives you those great photos of mama swans with their babies on their backs. They are GREAT wings and I’m really glad they went with swan over, for instance, any bird of prey like you normally see.
I’m not sure if you’re into Good Omens, @elodieunderglass , but the swan wings thing feels right in your wheelhouse
The swan wing pose where they half-raise their wings to display is called “busking” and is unique to the family
I had class at the gardens today and while I was eating lunch by the pond, watching the family of ducks that comes into the picnic area to beg for food. Today, the mother mallard had her offspring in tow. The sight was very adorable and resulted in much salad and fries being thrown thier way. I was only sort of paying attention to thier movments when the following conversation took place at the next table over:
Toddler, just learning how to talk: *excited gasp* A FUCK!
Mother: JENNA NO!
Jenna, bouncing up and down with glee: BABYS! BABY FUCKS! BABY FUCKS!
Mother, hissing whisper of desperation: J e n n a p l e a s e !
Jenna, ecstatic:FEEDA FUCKS! FEEDA FUCKS!
Jenna, turning to me and gesturing: BABY FUCKS!!
Me: Yeah! Did you know a baby Duck is called a Duckling?
Jenna: !!!!!
Jenna: MOMMY! FUCKLEYS!
Mother: I’m so sorry.
Me: Are you kidding? This is the highlight of my week.
Jenna, chanting as shes loadedint the stroller and wheeled away: BA-BY FUCK-LEY! BA-BY FUCK-LEY! BA-BY FUCK-LEY!
The ducks continued their search for fries, uncaring.
Liz is already three, but she still has problems with pronouncing “f” (so the opposite of Jenna’s pronunciation quirk). She usually replaces it with “ch” (“kh” for you Westerners). That turns into a problem when she wants to show her disgust by saying “fuj” (Polish equivalent of “eww”) and ends up calling the disgusting thing a dick. We try not to make a big deal of it, lest she catches on and starts doing it on purpose, but it’s really hard to ignore.
Oh don’t worry, Glassbab has their own unique approach to speech, in which many things fall under the umbrella of a good clear shout of “COCK.” Roosters (UK: cockerels) and clocks are the obvious ones, though the association with “glue” and “forks” is more confusing. It is also an exclamation of disgust and protest, and something to yell loudly in museums. Fine! Fine! Whatever! Whomst among us hasn’t?? Is my question for those who are shocked.
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