Film, animation and video

Ten sources on moving pictures and the tools behind them.

These sources concern moving pictures and the tools behind them. Several are reference pages. This page lists ten sources, oldest first where dated.

Themes here: Given away (2), Taste and judgment (1), Invented worlds (1).

Runaway to the Stars: Page 5

Jay Eaton. 13 April 2024. Single webcomic page with transcript and reader comments.

The page is one comic page, and the art was not viewed. The text reaches only a short author note, a transcript and 29 reader comments. Most comments are excited reactions to the comic going public.

Post about Hell-Cats from Venus (1955)

Posted by multiversalplus.bsky.social, with replies from other users. 20 March 2025. Bluesky post with four film stills and a plot blurb.

The post is short and was probably saved for its four images. The text gives the film's title, director, year and a joking summary. Replies add jokes and one note on production.

Show HN: ClipJS – Edit your videos from a PC or phone

Posted by mohyware, with replies from many commenters. 21 May 2025. Hacker News thread about a Show HN post for a browser video editor.

The thread has 152 points and many replies from the author mohyware. It gathers bug reports, feature requests and links to similar editors. The evidence is user reports and the author's answers, with no benchmarks.

Try the Metal Heroes. The Rescue Trilogy to be exact.

Posted by rangerdonald.bsky.social. 1 January 2026. Short Bluesky reply with one recommendation.

The post is a single sentence and gives no reasons. It answers a quoted question from another account about realistic armored rescue fiction. It offers no detail about the shows themselves.

Post about the film Hardware (1990)

Posted by oleivarrudi.bsky.social, with replies from other users. 31 March 2026. Bluesky post with three images and a short thread.

The post is a brief opinion with three images. It gives no sources for the claim of influence. The author's own follow-up ties the film to a game series.

Udo Kier

Not stated. Last edited 3 November 2026. Wikipedia biography of an actor.

This is a volunteer-written encyclopedia article with numbered citations. It covers Kier's early life, career, personal life, death and documentaries. The detailed filmography sits in a separate list article.

Outbursts of Everett True

Strip by A.D. Condo; page text by Barnacle Press. Undated. Comic archive index page with a short editor's introduction.

The page has a short editor's introduction and a list of strip dates. The strips themselves were not viewed. The page reports 494 items across 18 pages.

The Closet — Browse Every Criterion Spine

Oliver and Patrick Evans. Undated. Fan-made web app for browsing a film collection.

The fetched page is short and holds mostly interface labels. It describes a browsable shelf of 1,327 films with filters and a shareable picks card. The film list itself was not loaded.

FreeMoCap | Free Motion Capture for Everyone

Not stated. Undated. Open-source project landing page.

This is the project's own landing page. It explains setup in four steps and states its mission. It gives claims and no test results.

Mars Express (2023) directed by Jérémie Périn • Reviews, film + cast • Letterboxd

Not stated (hosted by Letterboxd Limited, film data from TMDB). Undated. Film database page with synopsis, credits and short user reviews.

The page is a film database entry. It gives a synopsis, credits, release dates and a few user reviews. It offers listings and short opinions, not analysis.

Glossary

Android
A robot built to look and act like a human.
B-movie
A low-budget commercial film, often made as a second feature.
Bug ferrets
An alien crew species named in the page text.
Character actor
An actor known for playing distinctive supporting roles rather than conventional leads.
ChArUco board
A printed checkerboard with coded markers, used to calibrate cameras.
Cytherean
Of Venus; the word comes from the planet's old poetic name.
Fallout
A series of video games set after a nuclear war.
FBX
A common file format for 3D models and animation.
FFmpeg
A widely used open-source program for converting and editing video.
IndexedDB
A database built into web browsers for storing data on the user's own device.
Letterboxd
A social site where people log, rate and review films.
Markerless motion capture
Recording body movement in 3D from video, without suits or reflective dots.
Metal Heroes
A Japanese franchise of armored hero television series.
Remotion
A library for making videos from React code.
Sentai
A Japanese genre of colour-coded hero teams.
Show HN
A label on Hacker News for posts where someone shows a project they made.
Spine number
The number Criterion gives each release in its collection.
Supplement
An extra section of a site, here one collecting old comics.
Teddy Award
A prize given at the Berlin film festival for films with queer themes.
TMDB
The Movie Database, a community-edited source of film information.
Tokusatsu
Japanese live-action fiction with special effects, often about costumed heroes.
Torchship
A spacecraft that burns fuel continuously for fast travel.
VFX
Short for visual effects, the work of creating or altering images for film.
Voice actor
A performer who provides the voice for animated or game characters.
WebAssembly
A format that lets compiled programs run inside a web browser.
Wikidata
A free, shared database of facts maintained by volunteers.