In recent days, everyone has only one on the lips – Pokemon GO. It can be treated differently, but the fact is a fact-the game made a lot of noise, simultaneously raising the cost of Nintendo shares to heaven (the corporation is now more expensive than Sony).

If you spend at least a few minutes a day, you should definitely hear about dozens of completely crazy things, sometimes accompanying the cherished Pokemon around the world. Today, when some of you are already playing, while others are just waiting for an official release in Russia, we decided to make a selection of the most interesting cases.

Vaporeon in Central Park

If you have doubts about the popularity of Pokemon Go, then after watching this video, they should be dispelled. No, these are not shots with free pizza distribution or presidential elections. Just a rare vaporeon appeared in the Central Park of New York.

Complete dive

Love to catch Pokemon near reservoirs – look under your feet! This, by the way, is far from the first time that the gaping "coach" accidentally falls into the water. The authorities of many settlements around the world have already issued appeals to residents with a request to be a little more careful.

However, while these measures do not bring much success, and the poor continues to fall into ponds and even sewage ditches, like Amalthhea-, a user of Reddit. Amalthea- managed to fall into a ditch and break the bones after only half an hour from the moment the game was released.

Hold the steering wheel with both hands

There is no limit to human stupidity, and therefore some manage to hunt Pokemon not only for their two, but also sitting behind the wheel. Fortunately, there were no serious incidents yet, but a certain resident of the city of Obern, in the state of New York, crashed into a tree, too carried away by driving while driving. Escaped with a slight fright and injured property. Let's hope that what happened will be a lesson not only for him.

This is what kind of Pokemon?

Pokemon Go often makes players run in search of rare pocket monsters. Often everything ends quite peacefully, but it happens that, having left “hunting”, the player discovers not at all what he https://sister-site.org/jackbit/ wanted. For example, someone's corpse. There is no general statistics on the world yet, but in one America there have already been found at least three bodies.

Cops and Robbers

It would be strange if the criminals bypassed Pokemon GO. Think for yourself: a bunch of people in all countries, without taking their eyes off the smartphone, dangles for hours on the most dull nooks of their native cities in search of Pokemon. Too tidbit. Dozens of cases are known when the attackers put Lur (a thing that lure Pokemon) somewhere on the outskirts and were waiting for gullible “coaches”, who were then relieved of valuable things. Hence the lesson: do not walk alone in unfamiliar places, especially in the evening. Pokemon is not worth.

The situation is also funny with the police. From the same Reddit, news periodically comes to the fact that the cops during patrol helped someone to catch Pokemon and threw home. Believe or not to believe such messages is how you decide.

But there are more curious cases. For example, recently several New York policemen fell into someone's lens while playing Pokemon Go at the workplace. And the policemen from the Fauntin Hills in Arizona shot a funny video (see. Below) about the hunt for MUTU, which ends with a reminder of the need to observe elementary safety measures during the "hunt". Here it is, dedication to the cause!

In pursuit of a dream

Someone is looking for Pokemon on the way to work. Someone for them gets out of the house in the evening or walks the whole weekend. And New Zelendets Tom Curry decided to approach the case more “responsibly” and simply quit his job to become a “coach for a full day”.

The brave guy had already booked about twenty bus tours throughout New Zealand, in order to catch each of one hundred and fifty -one Pokemon available in the next two months (there are already ninety -ninety -ears in Tom’s collection). We can only wish him good luck in this difficult matter!

Correct priorities

But Tom Curry is far from the only one to whom Pokemon fishing replaced the values ​​of real life. So, a certain Jonathan Theriot did not break away from his beloved business, even while in the ward with a giving birth to his wife. And rightly – the child will not go anywhere, but Pigi still catch!

But one thing is a loving and understanding wife, and quite another – a policeman reading you rights. However, nothing will stop the real "coach"!

Do not shoot, this is a snake!

We will not go into the political, social and cultural reasons for the prevalence of weapons in America, but there are many guns there, this is a fact. Everyone is ready to protect private property – also a fact. Combine these two facts, and then remember that Pokemon go sometimes appear in the most unusual places, and now you are already a bunch of cases when unlucky players almost got a bullet because of some charmanter.

On the one hand – complete stupidity. But think for yourself: in the middle of the night, a car stops near your house, and several suspicious guys are falling out of it, who, luminous with phones, mutter something like “We’re Gonna Get Him!". What would you do?

Korean Pikachu

If you are sometimes embarrassed by the policy of our state regarding the Internet and various services, then here is an interesting fact: in the whole of South Korea in Pokemon Go you can play in a single city-Sokcho, on the northern coast of the country. You feel better?

If you set aside jokes to the side, the fact is that Pokemon Go uses Google Maps service to place Pokemon on the map. And in the territory of South Korea, this service is completely prohibited. The country's government said that it would remove the ban if Google deleys data on military facilities, but so far both sides have not come to anything.

However, it so happened that it was the city of Sokcho that did not fall under this digital cap – there it works properly both MAPS and Pokemon Go. Needless to say, now huge crowds of tourists who want to catch the cherished Pokemon flow into the city almost around the clock?

How to react to such a gap in defense of the Korean government is not yet known. However, in Sokcho itself, the turmoil is very favorable: points for charging smartphones are placed all over the city, the zone of free Wi-Fi has been increased, and a cloud of guides walks on the network on the topic of where the novice “coach” can eat and live inexpensively and live. On the streets of the city, you can even meet entrepreneurial people who are ready for a moderate fee to help you with the hatching of Pokemon eggs.

In Pokemon GO, as in the version for pocket consoles, so that Pokemon hatches from the egg, you must go a certain distance indicated under the egg (from two to ten kilometers). The rates of cunning Korean assistants are near the dollar per kilometer, which is quite tolerant if you are lazy to walk yourself. These are the things!

Moreover, if you are ready to compromise with a conscience, you can always be frozen. But we didn't tell you anything.

08 December 2016kin and TV shows

Work on visual effects in the cinema is an ungrateful thing. Very high requirements are put forward to the graph, it can also exal and bury the film, and the breaks -down extends for the preparation of the effects. Moreover, people working on graphics, as a rule, remain in the shade.

Today, one of these people will leave the dusk. We talked with Andrei Emelyanov, General Director of the Studio Filmdirection FX , which is now engaged in the visual effects of the film "Viking".

In the personal dossier of Andrei Emelyanov – "Night patrol" , "Daytime patrol" , "Particularly dangerous" , "One and a half rooms, or a sentimental trip to homeland" , "Paper Soldier" , "Black Lightning" , "Generation P" , "Metro".

Filmdirection FX was engaged in projects "Hammer" , "Icebreaker" , "Vysotsky. Thank you for alive " , "Vii 3D" , "Battle for Sevastopol" , "Quiet Don" , "Groom" , "Courier from paradise" , "Obli Sheep" , "Christmas tree-1914" , short film "Experiment-64".

Something more spectacular

From the "Night Watch" to "Viking" – a rather long road for both you and the market. How you evaluate changes in your work and how the industry works today?

Andrey Emelyanov: The changes are striking. “Night Watch” was created even when the industry was in our bud. And “Viking” is a project that is already done by a mature studio, a mature industry and … probably, it will sound pathetic, but still at the world level. Including regarding VFX – visual effects.

This phrase often sounds: "On the world level". We seem to go out and go to this level … and how?

Andrey Emelyanov: We are equal to this level, and, importantly, those people who order us a graphics and call us for projects. The viewer is used to a certain quality of graphics and effects. And we want, having come to the Russian film, he did not think, “Is this our movie?". So that he see something spectacular at the level that he is used to, or even higher. This is our goal.

Therefore, saying that we are “at the level”, I mean that the quality of graphics on this project visually complies with Hollywood standards. That is, it is clear that the industry is different. We are much less, we have less experience in different projects, but we do everything to take the bar set by both the viewer and the customer. Like this.

And within the framework of the Russian industry, Viking goes to where? How progressive is this project?

Andrey Emelyanov: I think that this project is not only progressive, it is unique in its advancedness: there are few historical cinema on the market, and in general, we did not have such a scale and level of paintings. From the point of view of production, post -production and graphs here are a number of tasks that are solved for the first time on this scale. An increase in the number of digital masses, the expansion of locations, the tasks that it is historical cinema as a schedule – all these are issues resolved here on an unprecedented scale and quality, taking into account the challenges of historical cinema and its specifics.

Please give an example.

Andrey Emelyanov: If we say that we need to propagate the mass and make digital doubles, then there will be one amount of mass in the action movie and there are only requirements for it. And in historical cinema, like Viking, where large battal scenes, where thousands of people participate in battles, are already different. The tools are similar. But the quantity and filling of what is happening in the frame is noticeably different.

Eternal race

But these special tasks are new for your studio or for the industry as a whole?

Andrey Emelyanov: It will probably be more correct only for yourself to answer. We are here with completely different problems. Many tasks were completely new, we never worked with such. And they had already done something before, but on this project they looked at these tasks on the other hand, because the requirements for the result have changed. Therefore, we had to change something in the approach and in tools.

You can give an example besides the extras?

Andrey Emelyanov: Passing is precisely from the tasks that they demanded to raise the bar. I will explain now. In principle, Filmdirection FX has long been specialized in the production of characters, especially those whom we call “woolen”, with wool, that is,. A tour rushing through a snow -covered forest is a character who, even with our experience, turned out to be one of those new tests for the studio. He was too significant for the frame to make it as before. The approach had to be changed – both in terms of animation, and in terms of technological solutions regarding how wool should look like.

Before that, we solved some problems with our self-signature tools. And when they started working on the tour, we realized that we could not do what the director and producer are asked from us, with the tools and technology that we have. Everything had to be redone. For all the time of work on the project, we remade the tour from scratch three times. Everything in order to get exactly what we were asked for.

The technology race is very felt? Say, with a tour is an isolated case, or in all areas like this?

Andrey Emelyanov: Everywhere. People solve some problems in our or foreign market and, according to the results, share a certain technology. And the technology, as a rule, either gives the best visual result, or more capabilities in settings, or just works faster. If we understand that we can take this technology to work, then, of course, we take.

"We tried almost everything"

And there is already at this stage what can be said “we are proud of this” or “it was interesting to do”?

Andrey Emelyanov: It was interesting that we did on this giant project, on which I have been about five years old. We tried almost all of what we knew, and from what we did not know. Something was cut off, left something, changed something. Wherever you are a shirt, something original and unusual turned out everywhere. On this project, we began to use a photogrammetry on an unprecedented scale, which allowed us to get detailed 3D characters based on real people. We took a real mass on the site, organized the pavilion … And the whole mass went through the apparatus of the photogrammetry.

The factory is such?

Andrey Emelyanov: Yes, the factory. This was the only right decision. At that time, we did not even know how correctly we did. Because at first everything was at the level of “this is just in case”, “it can come in handy”, and when a movie began to take shape … in the frame, when you have a shooting day, it seems that everything is fine, and everything is really fine with segments. When the cinema develops, when the installation appears, the director with the producers watch it on the screen and understand that people are not enough, that he wants more, and this is less. But they did not specifically display anything, did not prepare for this. When the frame was filmed, he did not at all assumed graphs at all. Having got the base of photogrammetry, we no longer asked ourselves the question: “And where do we get these people?"She allowed to increase the number of people against the background and make a frame richer.

Let's all redo it all

And often such "Wishlist" arise when you have to finish something or redo something?

Andrey Emelyanov : Constantly. Both us and the people with whom we work … Cinema is our common brainchild. And everyone tries to contribute to make it more spectacular, larger. Everyone tries on his part: the director complements with his vision, we also help and put forward proposals. And, of course, everyone wants to constantly add something, somewhere to redo, embellish. Sometimes in the scenes, as a result, 20-30% of the shot remains, and we redraw the rest.

And you, of course, when such a “Wishlist” comes, so joyful: “Hurray! Redo!"

Andrey Emelyanov: (laughs) differently. Some tasks of those that we have already run around, we perceive quite calmly. Sometimes even agree that the frame from this will only become better. If we understand that we can do this efficiently and meet the deadlines, we certainly do so. But, as a rule, everything always rests during. Here you need to find a compromise, decide what we will do. If you give an infinite amount of time and resource, not a single movie, probably, would not have been completed. There is always what can be improved. And if we talk about technology, then in five years there will be a jump again, you will have to redo everything again.

To the question of a long project and your contribution. Immediately recalled a fairly famous joke from Alesi Petrovna, which EPRST2000. Once they also did a historical project-and everyone was so tired of drawing cavalry that they attributed to each spear … uh … the name of the male genital organ.

Andrey Emelyanov: I understand where you are. Let's say, I don't know for sure that one of ours was so fun, but I do not exclude. After all, this will not be seen in the frame (laughs). Everyone may have already been noted, but only he knows where and how.

We and them

A more global question: a couple of years ago there was a big scandal in the special effects industry around the Rhythm & studio Hues, ruined after a breathtakingly beautiful Life of Pi. Then they said that the market has a difficult situation, since there is cheap labor from other countries, including from Russia and Eastern Europe; These are the same people who are ready to do everything with high quality and cheap. This opinion is true?

Andrey Emelyanov: At the moment, we can confidently compete with foreign quality companies. Question in the amount of our industry, in its readiness for such a stream production. Another moment is the experience that foreign companies have in certain tasks.

There is a turnover of people from Russia in foreign studios, they are actively attracted, hired, because people are talented, they know a lot; Our average specialist can go to the level of the project manager. Abroad, a fairly low basic level of each performer. Just such a specificity of production. There is a large turnover, people are hired under the project, while the rotation occurs painlessly and very quickly. This allows foreign companies to quickly gain people with thousands under the project and just as quickly switch them or throw them out of the team when you need.

The industry lives all the time. But lives very large blocks. I think that if we now calculate the number of people in Russia throughout the industry, then we will hardly collect as many people as it worked on one Hollywood blockbuster. We have all small studios.

On large Hollywood projects, we make small pieces of work. So far there are enough local orders, Russian, because they are becoming larger and more complicated. And this is very cool, because it is on such projects that the industry is swinging, people get experience, knowledge and all-all-all.

Where did we come

This is a slow process, progressive?

Andrey Emelyanov: In recent years, Russian projects saturated with complex graphics have become an order of magnitude more. And this is due, it seems to me, with a number of reasons, including the fact that the producers began to trust the schedule of our studios. Not all projects that were in the tanning of the producers, not all those scenarios could be implemented in our market.

However, going to the Americans, Canadians, to someone with our budgets is problematic. Now it's just a huge problem in connection with the course. Therefore, someone wanted Professor Wins sister sites, but could not, or wanted, but did not trust. And now it turns out that the industry copes: already ours give a good result, in which the producers believe. And everything can be done with those budgets that they have. Therefore, more complex projects went, more ambitious, and this automatically began to develop the industry. People grow in the skill. If the studio has done well some type of effects and developed its specialists in this direction, then they will be able to do something similar much more efficiently, faster and cheaper.

It's like with fur and hair in your studio.

Andrey Emelyanov: Yes! This is also not a quick story. There was self-written software, we developed it, somehow coped. It was even in the context of another studio. It's about the project Wanted : For him, everyone created it and then gradually improved. And at the moment we do not use the self -signature, we have gone to standard solutions, which have become much better at that time and now meet the requirements of the market.

Here we can talk about a fracture in perception from the inside of the existence?

Andrey Emelyanov: Global fracture, so that everyone suddenly began to think differently, probably was not. But, based on my own experience, I can say that seven years ago, when any project was developed, it was not easy to convince producers and sell it to the VFX-Supervizer site so that it controlled everything.

Now it is hard to imagine without this shooting?

Andrey Emelyanov: Yes, but this was introduced by a teaspoon in the mind of all people participating in the filming process. Because the old school of directors and operators generally thinks on the principle of “graphics-graphics … and they shot before you!". The new school is better, but at that time it, too, is still not strong enough to go out with her opinion. With blood, they achieved that our man was on the site.

And now seven years have passed, and now it is impossible to think in a project where there is computer graphics, there is no person responsible for visual effects on the set. This is nonsense. Because people already understand that everything that will be removed not so on the site, then it will result in an increase in budgets. And most importantly, this can affect quality. Not everything that is removed can be redone qualitatively to get the desired result. This happened.

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After the conversation, Andrei showed us the studio. We walked up and down on a cozy building, which, like Tardis, is much more inside than it seems outside … And everywhere people, bending over the monitors, concentrated the graphics for Viking. “The deadlines, as always, are squeezing,” Andrei says coldly. “But nothing, we will have time”.

September for air channels – a special month. The whole progressive world celebrates the New Year in January, but the bosses of television studies live on a different calendar and all the serious premieres of the series are saved by the beginning of autumn. To release the full season of a popular series in the summer can afford Netflix , working on subscription, but not Fox , CW And Starz.

Together with a couple or two of interesting innovations, new seasons of series already loved by the public are released. Some of them are delayed in the broadcasting grid for a good ten years, the actors bathe in the rays of fame … even a bad. For the sake of an extra dollar, the producers are ready to release more and more series of long -completed and annoying stories.

Following the covenants of Zhvanetsky, we urge you to protect your time and throw them without torment. In our current selection – the most ripe shows of the season. Some of them will return only by January, but now it is known that these series that have exhausted themselves will definitely get a continuation.

The Big Bang Theory Theory of Big

Next series: 19.09.2017 (10th season)

► In nine years, the "theory" has turned into television fast food.

Interest in geeks and their eccentricities from the public arose with the exit "Computer scientists" ( The It Crowd ), but exactly "Big Bang Theory" turned sympathy into a real cult. Read comics, play video games and wear glasses suddenly became fashionable. Sheldon Cooper taught us to appreciate his place in the team and treat attacks by aggression with chamomile tea.

Asperger's syndrome has never been so funny. However, we really fell in love with this series not for the loop gravity and accident of the Markhod, we will be honest. Code three knocks on the door, the voice of the mother Howard is Volovitsa – and without a doctoral degree it was fascinating.

But does the last seasons have so many “theories” in common with the bright find of the times of 2007? Physicists arranged their personal lives and think about children. Even shy Raj ordered several girls at once. The eternal loser is now the episodic character, the seller of comics Stuart. There is no time to joke about amino acids, the typical plot of the series is a campaign with the whole company for shopping or to the cinema. Once successful jokes fought. The boredom accelerates only occasionally running into the light of Will Writon.

Alternatives: If you are looking for a seat about geeks – try "Silicon Valley" ( Silicon Valley ), it is naive, but still closer to reality than the "theory". If you like references to pop culture and Heroes-Chudakov, then "Filadelphia is always sunny" By his eleventh season, he still holds the brand.

And do not forget about the taken from the air "Community" , there is https://sister-site.org/winomania/ both.

"Grimm" (Grimm)

Next series: 06.01.2017 (6th season)

► "Grimm" We loved certainly not for makeup.

“Realistic” versions of fairy-tale plots are a beaten and even boring topic, but this simple series about an honest detective took something by the soul. The first stories mocked the canon of brothers-German brothers stylishly and with knowledge of the matter. Red hat disappears in the forest, listening to Sweet Dreams, three bears complain of penetration into the "smart home", and the intimidated watchmaker is engaged in yoga, just not to turn into a full moon in a toothy monster.

It was in the Grimm that the talent of Silas Wayra Mitchell, an actor who used to get only the roles of psychos and criminals, has blossomed. Detective Nick Burkhard opened the secrets of his family and learned to hunt evil spirits gradually; All these attempts to charge an old crossbow and learn how to hold the club looked truly touching.

Unfortunately, the fuse with the scriptwriters ended quickly. Already in the second season, the series turned into a copy "Supernatural". Out of nowhere, missing relatives, powerful artifacts began to appear, the heroes either received or lost magical abilities, former friends became enemies, and vice versa. Absolutely everything was hated by the main character Juliet, this annoying and unnecessary heroine can be compared with JJ-Binx.

The Grimm gradually processed the format gradually moved to a through plot, with which he lost half of the charm. On the intrigues of ancient families and pursuit of magic coins, it was simply boring to watch.

Alternatives: The theme of werewolves in the real world was well revealed "Hemlock-Grow" , Although his finale may disappoint. And if we are talking about any devilry in a small town – how not to mention Stranger Things?

"Force Majors" (suits)

Next series: 14.09.2016 (final half of the 6th season)

► The main thing in the lawyer is not to win things, but to tell everyone how you did it.

The series about charming lawyers looks in one breath. All characters, from the senior partners of the PierSons-Khardman company to the last secretary,-how they have an impeccable taste in clothes, a rare sense of humor and are ready to spend the weekend and annual salary to save each other from trouble.

After the next brilliant dialogue, you forget that they are considering there for things, the series is not about legal wires, but about people. For five years, almost all the serial actors of Britain and the USA managed to appear in it, not only in episodes, but as full -fledged heroes. Conlett Hill (Varis from "Games of Thrones" ) even managed to visit the co -owner of the company.

Why is such a good series you should close?

A gun from the very first episode – the lack of a young genius Mike Ross Diploma of a lawyer – can no longer hang on the wall, the conflict has logically ended last season. Heroes achieved everything they wanted: the status of personalized partners, success in their personal life, worthy of punishment for criminals. Further-only pushing them with their foreheads, arrange dates and try to squeeze out a new drama with the participation of novice characters. Than in the new, sixth, season, the creators are trying Suits. It would be better to finish the series with dignity and shot something new … about the collector agency, for example.

Alternatives: Love investigations and impeccable costumes? Pay attention to the "white collar" from the same channel. Two main characters, a detective and a fraudster, is the best "broth" of television. If lawyers are needed, then eight seasons The Practice, and you will learn everything about the lives of Boston lawyers.

"Arrow" (Arrow)

Next series: 5.10.2016 (5th season)

► What is the “arrow” is better – the plot or costumes? Not so easy to answer.

The series from the CW television channel several years ago gave hopes. Then the telecomixes had not yet managed to fill in the sore. The plot intrigued: Oliver Kuinn, the Avenger in a mask, is alone looking for criminals and tries to stop a dangerous enterprise that threatens his native city. He made mistakes in his youth, but now he has embarked on the path of correction and is trying to help the city. Almost every series was packed with an action, which was occasionally diluted with romantic and friendly lines, and the flashbacks intrigued and forced to look forward to the next series.

Alas, by the end of the fourth season, the series became a victim of its own idea. The producers of Greg Berlanti and Mark Guggenheim began to actively develop a superhero theme, spin-offs rained down like a cornucopia: first "Flash" , then "Legends of tomorrow" And "SUPERGERL" , And now he is also preparing "Black Lightning".

The "arrow" changed the direction: the scriptwriters focused on a cheap drama in which dynamic scenes are rare. From the plot lines, the motives of the characters and the general logic of what is happening, I want to grab the head. A more or less decent show about the lonely seeker of justice turned into a bright booth of the Avengers into a little. And if the same “legends of tomorrow” can be forgiven, they thought so, then for the “arrow” it becomes simply insulting.

Alternatives: Superhero series about a lone avenger in a mask? Your option is "Daredevil". On the success of gloomy shows from Netflix in the universe Marvel Only the lazy did not write. If you want a reckless action and bright characters, pay attention to "Banshee".