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When Disney Went Digital

https://animationobsessive.substack.com/p/when-disney-went-digital
14•zdw•2d ago

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SlowTao•2d ago
I do like how things like CAPS would have been insanely difficult to do at that time simply due to the hardware limitations, not even going into the horrors of software on that era. And yet a decade or so later you could do similar stuff on the desktop.

For instance by 98/99 Futurama was doing this using SGI systems (I think?). Still hand drawn cels but entirely digitally coloured and composited.

alexjplant•1h ago
> [...] The Rescuers Down Under (1990), the first movie made entirely with the new process [...]

The first time I re-watched this film as an adult my mind was absolutely blown by the flight over the flower field in the opening sequence [1]. It looked too clean to be hand-drawn but I had some trouble believing that a studio like Disney was using computer animation as early as 1990. I did some research and discovered that it was the first fully CAPS-animated film.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjkdOAjtJ1k

Show HN: Kitten TTS – 25MB CPU-Only, Open-Source TTS Model

https://github.com/KittenML/KittenTTS
120•divamgupta•1h ago•75 comments

Open models by OpenAI

https://openai.com/open-models/
1642•lackoftactics•13h ago•622 comments

Marines now have an official drone-fighting handbook

https://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/your-marine-corps/2025/08/04/the-marines-now-have-an-official-drone-fighting-handbook/
72•Gaishan•3h ago•49 comments

Software Rot

https://permacomputing.net/software_rot/
61•pabs3•3h ago•19 comments

The Amaranth hardware description language

https://amaranth-lang.org/docs/amaranth/latest/intro.html#the-amaranth-language
36•pabs3•2h ago•7 comments

I'm Archiving Picocrypt

https://github.com/Picocrypt/Picocrypt/issues/134
75•jaden•3h ago•7 comments

Genie 3: A new frontier for world models

https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/genie-3-a-new-frontier-for-world-models/
1239•bradleyg223•16h ago•427 comments

Spotting base64 encoded JSON, certificates, and private keys

https://ergaster.org/til/base64-encoded-json/
263•jandeboevrie•10h ago•111 comments

Ollama Turbo

https://ollama.com/turbo
329•amram_art•11h ago•180 comments

Create personal illustrated storybooks in the Gemini app

https://blog.google/products/gemini/storybooks/
138•xnx•9h ago•42 comments

Ozempic shows anti-aging effects in trial

https://trial.medpath.com/news/5c43f09ebb6d0f8e/ozempic-shows-anti-aging-effects-in-first-clinical-trial-reversing-biological-age-by-3-1-years
230•amichail•15h ago•337 comments

Scientific fraud has become an 'industry,' analysis finds

https://www.science.org/content/article/scientific-fraud-has-become-industry-alarming-analysis-finds
338•pseudolus•19h ago•281 comments

Bourdain, My Camera, and Me (2021)

https://www.melaniedunea.com/essays/blog-post-title-one-phd62
5•NaOH•2d ago•0 comments

Consider using Zstandard and/or LZ4 instead of Deflate

https://github.com/w3c/png/issues/39
155•marklit•12h ago•87 comments

Things that helped me get out of the AI 10x engineer imposter syndrome

https://colton.dev/blog/curing-your-ai-10x-engineer-imposter-syndrome/
784•coltonv•16h ago•570 comments

Claude Opus 4.1

https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-4-1
729•meetpateltech•13h ago•271 comments

Ask HN: Have you ever regretted open-sourcing something?

175•paulwilsonn•3d ago•231 comments

uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari

https://apps.apple.com/app/ublock-origin-lite/id6745342698
1017•Jiahang•21h ago•398 comments

Build Your Own Lisp

https://www.buildyourownlisp.com/
240•lemonberry•18h ago•63 comments

The first widespread cure for HIV could be in children

https://www.wired.com/story/the-first-widespread-cure-for-hiv-could-be-in-children/
88•sohkamyung•3d ago•15 comments

US tech rules the European market

https://proton.me/blog/us-tech-rules-europe
62•devonnull•3h ago•34 comments

Kyber (YC W23) is hiring enterprise account executives

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/kyber/jobs/6RvaAVR-enterprise-account-executive-ae
1•asontha•9h ago

AI is propping up the US economy

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207•mempko•10h ago•214 comments

Show HN: Stagewise (YC S25) – Front end coding agent for existing codebases

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40•juliangoetze•15h ago•46 comments

Tell HN: Anthropic expires paid credits after a year

231•maytc•1d ago•98 comments

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89•babel16•12h ago•45 comments

US reportedly forcing TSMC to buy 49% stake in Intel to secure tariff relief

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Desperate-measures-to-save-Intel-US-reportedly-forcing-TSMC-to-buy-49-stake-in-Intel-to-secure-tariff-relief-for-Taiwan.1079424.0.html
369•voxadam•12h ago•411 comments

Los Alamos is capturing images of explosions at 7 millionths of a second

https://www.lanl.gov/media/publications/1663/dynamics-of-dynamic-imaging
120•LAsteNERD•15h ago•92 comments

When Disney Went Digital

https://animationobsessive.substack.com/p/when-disney-went-digital
14•zdw•2d ago•2 comments

Under the Hood of AFD.sys Part 1: Investigating Undocumented Interfaces

https://leftarcode.com/posts/afd-reverse-engineering-part1/
33•omegadev•2d ago•7 comments