http://oi39.tinypic.com/bakxt.jpg
― lebron traveled (am0n), Monday, 16 April 2012 18:07 (twelve years ago) link
is this real orhttps://twitter.com/#!/HologramTupac
― lebron traveled (am0n), Monday, 16 April 2012 18:10 (twelve years ago) link
"We worked with Dr. Dre on this and it was Dre's vision to bring this back to life," said Nick Smith, president of AV Concepts, the San Diego company that created the hologram. "It was his idea from the very beginning and we worked with him and his camp to utilize the technology to make it come to life."
Smith said he wasn't allowed to talk about the creative aspects of the production — including how the hologram was able to seemingly perform the set in synch with Snoop and whether all the vocals were 'Pac's — but he did say that his company has the ability to recreate long-dead figures and visually recreate them in the studio. "You can take their likenesses and voice and ... take people that haven't done concerts before or perform music they haven't sung and digitally recreate it," he said.
The hologram was the latest visual magic pulled off by AV, which is also behind the 2005 Grammys performance featuring Madonna and the holographic members of the Gorillaz, as well as holograms used in concert by Celine Dion and the Black Eyed Peas.
The Tupac hologram was several months in the planning and took nearly four months to create in a studio and though Smith was not able to reveal the exact price tag for the illusion, he said a comparable one could cost anywhere from $100,000 to more than $400,000 to pull off. "I can't say how much that event cost, but I can say it's affordable in the sense that if we had to bring entertainers around world and create concerts across the country, we could put [artists] in every venue in the country," he said.
The life-size Tupac was amazingly life-like, down to the late rapper's signature tattoos, Timberland boots, jewelry and movements, all of which were also recreated under the direction of Dre.
― lebron traveled (am0n), Monday, 16 April 2012 18:12 (twelve years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/cIbe1.gifpac to enterprise...
― man down (D-40), Monday, 16 April 2012 18:17 (twelve years ago) link
is that from real footage of tupac? otherwise seems like you could just get a body double, do some motion capture, pull the same tricks that movie companies do to cash in when a star dies during filming
― dayo, Monday, 16 April 2012 18:25 (twelve years ago) link
no that's not how he died
― iatee, Monday, 16 April 2012 18:25 (twelve years ago) link
of course it's real footage of him from an actual concert he performed, what else would it be?
― some dude, Monday, 16 April 2012 18:44 (twelve years ago) link
lil wayne
― lag∞n, Monday, 16 April 2012 18:45 (twelve years ago) link
actually the article am0n posted makes it sound like that's maybe not entirely the case, nvm
― some dude, Monday, 16 April 2012 18:45 (twelve years ago) link
lol sd I couldn't tell if you were being sarcastic or not
― dayo, Monday, 16 April 2012 18:49 (twelve years ago) link
they used a archival recording of him saying "what up, coachella"
― lebron traveled (am0n), Monday, 16 April 2012 19:02 (twelve years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/cIbe1.gifhttp://cdn.wg.uproxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/poochie.gif
― lebron traveled (am0n), Monday, 16 April 2012 19:04 (twelve years ago) link
yeah i haven't seen the footage or anything so i was talking outta my ass, sorry
― some dude, Monday, 16 April 2012 19:04 (twelve years ago) link
Looked like a good 3d model that had been animated either using motion capture or with software that does video analysis or maybe just a really good animator. The "smoothness" of it might be off due to the video quality I saw, but it really doesn't look incredibly different from a realistic video game character.
Basically what I'd saying is they just projected the Tupac character from his upcoming cameo in the new Grand Theft Auto.
― mh, Monday, 16 April 2012 19:09 (twelve years ago) link
citation: watched the video about ten times on my phone at work
― mh, Monday, 16 April 2012 19:10 (twelve years ago) link
it looked jerky and video gamey to me too
― lag∞n, Monday, 16 April 2012 19:13 (twelve years ago) link
definitely motion capture imo
― dayo, Monday, 16 April 2012 19:15 (twelve years ago) link
feel like if it were cribbed from an existing tupac concert video, the original footage would have been revealed on youtube by now
Kind of funny that they don't want to share the "secrets" of how he interacted
hologram dudes, it looks like Tupac was doing some sort of idling standing there animation and then does the "react to Snoop saying canned line" move when you hit the circle button on your PS3 controller
― mh, Monday, 16 April 2012 19:20 (twelve years ago) link
as a dead man in a hollogram he's doing better then these fake ass rappers alive lol so much they make a hollogram :Ddonaldc60 14 minutes ago
― same old song and placenta (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Monday, 16 April 2012 19:23 (twelve years ago) link
http://ridwankhodabux.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/16289-84953-mk1png-550x.jpg
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 16 April 2012 19:40 (twelve years ago) link
do our younger generation still kno 2pac and the influenced he left for other rappers and niggers/wiggers who were in a strugle to get ut of the thug life/ghetto.?
― WhO WaNtZ 2 b A 2pAc!, Thursday, April 22, 2004 2:47 AM (7 years ago)
― lebron traveled (am0n), Monday, 16 April 2012 20:08 (twelve years ago) link
there's a failed Cheryl Lloyd single buried in there somewhere
― an independent online phenomenon (DJP), Monday, 16 April 2012 20:10 (twelve years ago) link
WWTHD
― mh, Monday, 16 April 2012 20:10 (twelve years ago) link
strugle
― lebron traveled (am0n), Monday, 16 April 2012 20:11 (twelve years ago) link
Dr. Drenkenstein
― spacemindy, Monday, 16 April 2012 20:12 (twelve years ago) link
2Pac hologram jokes are real surface level. could use some deeper cuts
― azealia canks (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 16 April 2012 20:26 (twelve years ago) link
Like, does he only have one holographic testicle?
― azealia canks (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 16 April 2012 20:27 (twelve years ago) link
not a lot of substance to him
― mh, Monday, 16 April 2012 20:27 (twelve years ago) link
tbh, "The Tupac Hologram" sounds like one of the lesser Deep Space Nine episode titles
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 16 April 2012 20:31 (twelve years ago) link
Can I get the Tupac Hologram to babysit my children, or should I stick with the Michael Jordan cutout fastened to an electric train set;.
― pplains, Monday, 16 April 2012 20:33 (twelve years ago) link
I, Tupac
― lebron traveled (am0n), Monday, 16 April 2012 20:37 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah my guess is the CGI route, and they could motion capture some of his movements from old footage and apply those to 3D armatures. Or just have a guy wear a suit and capture it there.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 16 April 2012 21:22 (twelve years ago) link
http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g265/hipandpop/2007/tupac_shakur.jpg
― lebron traveled (am0n), Monday, 16 April 2012 21:28 (twelve years ago) link
That's the Stone Mountain statue? Every time I go, I forget to check it out.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 16 April 2012 21:36 (twelve years ago) link
Tupac Shakur, 19th Century wilderness preacher.
― i don't believe in zimmerman (Hurting 2), Monday, 16 April 2012 21:37 (twelve years ago) link
oh lord tupac please talk to these holograms
― J0rdan S., Monday, 16 April 2012 21:40 (twelve years ago) link
new bourne movie finally named: the tupac hologram
― dayo, Monday, 16 April 2012 21:41 (twelve years ago) link
also name of new sherlock holmes movie, weird
― spacemindy, Monday, 16 April 2012 21:45 (twelve years ago) link
and these suckers project it in 3-d and made it look like garbage thats why we get judge so much cause these shit dont be making sence
― lebron traveled (am0n), Monday, 16 April 2012 22:20 (twelve years ago) link
http://lh4.ggpht.com/_m0YtPN5vgmI/TN4E8Ry0BnI/AAAAAAAAVLY/meyWTLAQ3F4/dancing%20bear.gif
― Thoughts? You must have loads. (a hoy hoy), Monday, 16 April 2012 23:25 (twelve years ago) link
Now they need to do an MJ one and the world will be alittle less of a strugglethetiger117 1 minute ago
― same old song and placenta (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Monday, 16 April 2012 23:26 (twelve years ago) link
thetiger117 otm
― dayo, Monday, 16 April 2012 23:26 (twelve years ago) link
bugger
― Thoughts? You must have loads. (a hoy hoy), Monday, 16 April 2012 23:26 (twelve years ago) link
i remember when i first heard of "the Hologram" on the internet, it was so nice to have 2pac back, i welcomed him
― Thoughts? You must have loads. (a hoy hoy), Monday, 16 April 2012 23:27 (twelve years ago) link
:)
― hologram ned raggett (The Reverend), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 00:22 (twelve years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/RKsoK.gif
― these pretzels are makeing me horney (Hungry4Ass), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 01:53 (twelve years ago) link
http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2lm9nq4ay1roxf0bo1_500.jpg
Another Star Wars 'shop, but better imo.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 02:33 (twelve years ago) link
Tupac Hologram and the I Ching
"Tupac Hologram" is a numerological formula that purports to calculate the ebb and flow of "novelty", defined as increase over time in the universe's interconnectedness, or organized complexity.[81] According to Terence McKenna, the universe has a teleological attractor at the end of time that increases interconnectedness, eventually reaching a singularity of infinite complexity in 2012, at which point anything and everything imaginable will occur simultaneously. He conceived this idea over several years in the early to mid-1970s while using psilocybin mushrooms and DMT.[81]McKenna expressed "novelty" in a computer program which purportedly produces a waveform known as "Tupac Hologram" or the "Tupogram". Based on McKenna's interpretation of the King Wen sequence of the I Ching,[52] the graph appears to show great periods of novelty corresponding with major shifts in humanity's biological and sociocultural evolution. He believed that the events of any given time are recursively related to the events of other times, and chose the atomic bombing of Hiroshima as the basis for calculating his end date of November 2012. When he later discovered this date's proximity to the end of the 13th b'ak'tun of the Maya calendar, he revised his hypothesis so that the two dates matched.[82]
― los blue jeans, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 02:41 (twelve years ago) link
i cannot tell you how happy it makes me to see 'terence mckenna' and 'tupac hologram' in the same post
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 02:45 (twelve years ago) link