This is why large corps often still use decades old software that may be terrible by that point, but impossible to move away from.

And sometimes those large corps slowly die off because of those decisions. Technology moves so fast that you can’t afford to be a dinosaur using 20 year old software.

It’s a bit funny. The short story is only 20 pages, and they allocated 17 minutes to the episode. Most of these short stories are within the 20 page mark with around 17 minutes an episode, but they run into this plot length problem all the time.

Beyond the Aquila Rift was also kind of all over the place with a rather dissonant ending, despite being my favorite episode of the season. The Very Pulse of the Machine cut out some important details. Swarm cut out the factions, but it was a Shaper-focused story, and the core story was still told well enough. Zima Blue actually managed to tell most of the short story in 10 minutes, though.

Don’t get me wrong. I really liked these episodes. But, it still boggles the mind that it’s so hard to cover a mere 20 pages in 15ish minutes. Some of these are dense concepts to express on a video medium, though.

I really liked the first season, and they had a lot of episodes in that one. I feel like that was the most explicit season because they were really trying to sell the whole Love, Death, and Robots angles. Kind of wished they didn’t temper that down with the rest of the seasons.

The second season was kinda meh, but there were some good ones here and there (Pop Squad, Snow in the Desert). I was disappointed at how few episodes there were. I still plan on doing a video on those two episodes, though.

Third season seemed to ramp back up with good episodes again (Bad Travelling, The Very Pulse of the Machine, Swarm, Jibaro).

All of the studios shifted to the Secret Levels (on Amazon) for video game related animation stories, and most of those were really good. Warhammer episode was fucking epic.

LD+R S4 isn’t bad so far. Spider Rose and 400 Boys were pretty good. I had to do a double-take when I recognized the Investor race in Spider Rose, which was another Bruce Sterling short story in the Schismatrix universe (same one as Swarm), and they actually reference the Shaper/Mechanist factions this time.

I think it needed more episodes, though. It feels like S2 again, and they are wasting their time on these goofy episodes (the mini claymation stuff, anything related to Three Robots). Golgotha felt like cheating, considering most of it was real acting and light on animation. And that Red Hot Chili Peppers music video was cringe AF.

Also, including Mr (Pedophile-Enabler) Beast in one of the episodes was not a good move.

Didn’t stop me from switching to Linux for my entire workflow. Industry standard is just a phrase. It doesn’t truly mean anything when viable and real alternatives exist.

I don’t mess with it enough, but DaVinci Resolve’s Fusion is rather powerful.

With GIMP 3 and DaVinci Resolve 20 out there, this seems like a very bad idea.

Something something slips through your fingers.