You have the normally painted animation, and you have a mask for the lighting element which is mostly black, leaving a hole where it shall shine... Repeat for each glowing element with a different color. First you film the animation, then rewind. Second [exposure] is the matte, with a light under the table switched on. Usually you will have a color filter or gel in front of the camera now. This pass will create some lighting with a sharp edge. Sometimes an additional frosted gel is used for blurring that shine, but that takes some light inside the edge of the matte which may not be desired. In that case a third pass is done with the same matte, but out of focus, or with a slightly frosted gel, and/or some additional effects lens
Or any of the computer bits in that episoder really. By the way don't watch Golden Boy if there are any people who are not, uh, extremely cultured around.
wanda 5 hours ago [-]
At a glance, Battle Programmer Shirase and Patlabor also seem to be absent.
justsomehnguy 7 hours ago [-]
> What's this NASA-ish one from?
Uchū Kyōdai
manbash 5 hours ago [-]
...but do watch Golden Boy when given the opportunity!
chao- 7 hours ago [-]
Lots of classics here, but was also hoping to see the ZERO System from Gundam Wing (1995):
Later in life I would think of it as being inspired by the UK's SAGE defense system, even though it probably wasn't. You can't exactly see from the image, but the screen is a glass dome:
Are there? there is one evangelion one, almost no actual classics. I have no idea who is liking this, or why.
chao- 5 hours ago [-]
Akira, Cowboy Bebop, Serial Experiments Lain, Space Brothers, Dirty Pair, a few Gundams. You don't have to agree, of course. There is no accounting for taste.
gregdaniels421 5 hours ago [-]
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josephg 5 hours ago [-]
I think the images are awesome and inspiring. If there are greener pastures for you, why bother commenting? Go do whatever makes you happy. I enjoy seeing this cool art.
gregdaniels421 4 hours ago [-]
Lol anyone can post 50 pictures and post it, most are not of UIs. Maybe aim higher and ask more of people.
josephg 4 hours ago [-]
So? Anyone could make this set of a pictures. But we didn't.
I enjoyed seeing these pictures. If you think you can make better content, do so. I look forward to upvoting what you make.
But until then, telling people to "investigate themselves" for enjoying the 'wrong thing' isn't quality content. Its just wasting everyone's time. I like what I like.
EvanAnderson 6 hours ago [-]
Was hoping for more Serial Experiments Lain. There are references in it to the Apple OS codename Copeland or Rhapsody-- I don't remember which.
Philpax 5 hours ago [-]
Copeland! I was quite surprised to see that myself.
jaqalopes 8 hours ago [-]
These are so sick. As a 34 year old whose first computers were already Windows 98, it's so weird to imagine a past where this is what the future of computing looked like, as opposed to what we actually got.
sublinear 7 hours ago [-]
Just because recent history has been extremely user hostile, doesn't mean the future (or present) can't look like this.
What these anime-futuristic designs have in common are an abundance of information and controls. They're clearly inspired by the equipment that was contemporary to the art at that time (construction, military, etc.)
The consumer interfaces we have today were dumbed down due to low computer literacy and the resulting low trust in consumers to not shoot themselves in the foot, but even Apple eventually had to dumb it down less with each new iPhone.
"AI" seems to be the breaking point for the user hostility, but it also opens up new opportunities for a lot more information to clutter a dashboard. It can't automate things reliably, but it can make information more accessible, so we'll see what's next.
crooked-v 6 hours ago [-]
I feel like you've got it the other way around: high computer literacy as the assumed default was a result of devices and interfaces that were impossible to use without it.
It's the same thing with cars: a lot of people not knowing how to maintain their cars is the result, not cause, of car designs and machinery becoming more durable and more idiot-proof.
sublinear 5 hours ago [-]
I don't think we have much of an argument here since your opinion is so opposite to mine.
Apart from some details like responsive web design and other miscellaneous interoperability and accessibility efforts, the past few decades of interface designs were not progress.
We gimped the living shit out of everything to narrow the scope of every product and extract more money from the consumer.
I mentioned AI because tech is only becoming a dead end when the consumer choice is illiteracy. It's pretty clear that's reversing and people do want a lot more information and control.
LelouBil 4 hours ago [-]
I don't think you are so opposite.
You are saying the chicken came first and they are saying the egg came first.
sublinear 4 hours ago [-]
Why must you trivialize this? I definitely explained what the disagreement is.
marethyu 1 hours ago [-]
I need source for each image
BLKNSLVR 7 hours ago [-]
What I'm finding interesting here is that the "user interface" is either the screen (what I/we normally expect of the term 'user interface') or the input/interaction interface or both.
Cockpit images are interesting in an input context because there are buttons and switches surrounding the user.
oofoe 8 hours ago [-]
Good old Metal Skin Panic Madox 01. What NOT to do when a fully equipped battle exoskeleton falls off the back of a truck and into the junkyard you work at...
The opening is worth a watch if you have a minute 12. Airwolf flashing blueprint feel, although soundtrack wasn't as good. Lotta weird little easter eggs if you can pause while the text is shown.
I'm partial to anything that looks like a nuclear control room (saw one in this list). It's like a while different generation of UX but derived from totally different parts, goals, users, and of course a lot of the people who designed these had been military. Not a lot of room for fluff, lots of room for clarity.
Love to see the dizzying array of ways people imagined data can be shown. Everything these days feels so flat. Appreciate the share.
Findecanor 8 hours ago [-]
One GIF is a clip from the Hollywood movie WarGames (1983).
Not that there isn't animation in it, but... the animation was projected onto a large screen and then that screen with other things around it was filmed.
cgannett 8 hours ago [-]
oh yeah, this is nice
gregdaniels421 5 hours ago [-]
I am now 80% sure this is a submarine ad for a graphics tablet or HN is letting shit get wild and bot controlled.
saratogacx 4 hours ago [-]
Right now I see you are 11 of 34 comments on this post and all follow this same dismissive tone. Lighten up and let people enjoy stuff.
pizzaballs 6 hours ago [-]
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gregdaniels421 5 hours ago [-]
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applfanboysbgon 5 hours ago [-]
As opposed the the 30 AI-generated blog posts / "think pieces" on the front page every day, lol. This is hardly the problem with HN's front page. And who says it's low effort? A curated collection of themed screenshots from across dozens of television shows sounds fairly high effort to me. You do realize if you set out to do this yourself, it would entail dozens of hours of watching content keeping an eye out for things to add?
gregdaniels421 5 hours ago [-]
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gregdaniels421 8 hours ago [-]
It is maybe 60 pictures, and a decent chunk of them have absolutely no focus on UI.
What do you think user interfaces are? User interfaces are how users transmit or recieve information. Any information display is a user interface. Any button or other control is a user interface. There are even user interfaces that don't have to do with computers, like the user interface of a book (among that being its cover, pages and the information written on them). I don't see a single image here that doesn't contain a user interface.
The acronym 'UI' as typically used in computing often refers to specific types of user interfaces. That is not how TFA uses more generally 'User Interfaces', which practically covers anything that exposes information to or receives information from users
gregdaniels421 6 hours ago [-]
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imprettypointle 4 hours ago [-]
This Tumblr page first appeared on Wayback Machine in 2017. By 2019 many of the images that we see today were on the page including the image you linked to.
This collection was almost certainly hand-curated over time by a single individual who likes the wacky sci-fi aesthetic. Some classic animes in there and some I haven't seen. Pretty cool.
Definitely not slop. And definitely not an astroturfing campaign to sell graphics tablets.
LoganDark 3 hours ago [-]
Does TFA not always mean the submission? (I could have worded it better.)
Flashing lights to communicate information counts as a user interface.
phoghed 5 hours ago [-]
Every comment I don’t like is AI and every post I don’t like is slop.
gregdaniels421 5 hours ago [-]
Bro, what article? tell me. This is a low effort tumbler page, if you live and you defend this, live better.
phoghed 5 hours ago [-]
They said TFA not meaning an actual article dude. You’re taking it overly literally just to score a point, and it’s obvious to anyone reading this.
You accused them of being AI when there’s zero indication their comment is AI authored.
Roughly 1/88th of the images on the tumbler page don’t have a UI visible.
Maybe take your own advice.
WillAdams 6 hours ago [-]
For folks who want a real world implementation, Wacom has not yet sold out of their Special Edition Evangelion MovinkPad Pro 14:
I own this tablet: For the Japanese price, it is worth it to buy it for the bundled accessories.
The tablet itself: Other than the screen and APU being good, it is a heavily stripped down tablet missing a lot of the features that other tablets in its price range or even cheap tablets will have. No haptics, biometrics, and so on. It is very focused on the screen interaction experience and that is basically it.
gregdaniels421 5 hours ago [-]
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Washuu 3 hours ago [-]
Blatant about what? I actually own this tablet and I bought it for reading sheet music and doodling.(Also for Android development for a project that I'm working on.)
The Eva interface is pretty cool, but it is not worth what I paid for it. I would recommend people look for other options or maybe wait for something better to come out.
gregdaniels421 5 hours ago [-]
Is this just an Ad for a tablet?
Rendered at 07:59:06 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) with Vercel.
https://animationobsessive.substack.com/p/dangerous-light
Keu quote:
You have the normally painted animation, and you have a mask for the lighting element which is mostly black, leaving a hole where it shall shine... Repeat for each glowing element with a different color. First you film the animation, then rewind. Second [exposure] is the matte, with a light under the table switched on. Usually you will have a color filter or gel in front of the camera now. This pass will create some lighting with a sharp edge. Sometimes an additional frosted gel is used for blurring that shine, but that takes some light inside the edge of the matte which may not be desired. In that case a third pass is done with the same matte, but out of focus, or with a slightly frosted gel, and/or some additional effects lens
I didn't spot any of the weirdpunk machinery from Wings of Honneamise:
https://www.inetres.com/gp/anime/woh/woh07.jpg
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DaYuAvpp7S6/
Or Golden Boy's computer made out of paper: https://youtu.be/A1R1Du2PsZ4?t=610
Or its Japanese-phonetically-respelled SunOS rc script: https://youtu.be/A1R1Du2PsZ4?t=1196
Or any of the computer bits in that episoder really. By the way don't watch Golden Boy if there are any people who are not, uh, extremely cultured around.
Uchū Kyōdai
https://gundam.fandom.com/wiki/ZERO_System?file=W_ZERO_Syste...
Later in life I would think of it as being inspired by the UK's SAGE defense system, even though it probably wasn't. You can't exactly see from the image, but the screen is a glass dome:
https://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/real-time-computi...
Are there? there is one evangelion one, almost no actual classics. I have no idea who is liking this, or why.
I enjoyed seeing these pictures. If you think you can make better content, do so. I look forward to upvoting what you make.
But until then, telling people to "investigate themselves" for enjoying the 'wrong thing' isn't quality content. Its just wasting everyone's time. I like what I like.
What these anime-futuristic designs have in common are an abundance of information and controls. They're clearly inspired by the equipment that was contemporary to the art at that time (construction, military, etc.)
The consumer interfaces we have today were dumbed down due to low computer literacy and the resulting low trust in consumers to not shoot themselves in the foot, but even Apple eventually had to dumb it down less with each new iPhone.
"AI" seems to be the breaking point for the user hostility, but it also opens up new opportunities for a lot more information to clutter a dashboard. It can't automate things reliably, but it can make information more accessible, so we'll see what's next.
It's the same thing with cars: a lot of people not knowing how to maintain their cars is the result, not cause, of car designs and machinery becoming more durable and more idiot-proof.
Apart from some details like responsive web design and other miscellaneous interoperability and accessibility efforts, the past few decades of interface designs were not progress.
We gimped the living shit out of everything to narrow the scope of every product and extract more money from the consumer.
I mentioned AI because tech is only becoming a dead end when the consumer choice is illiteracy. It's pretty clear that's reversing and people do want a lot more information and control.
You are saying the chicken came first and they are saying the egg came first.
Cockpit images are interesting in an input context because there are buttons and switches surrounding the user.
The opening is worth a watch if you have a minute 12. Airwolf flashing blueprint feel, although soundtrack wasn't as good. Lotta weird little easter eggs if you can pause while the text is shown.
Love to see the dizzying array of ways people imagined data can be shown. Everything these days feels so flat. Appreciate the share.
Not that there isn't animation in it, but... the animation was projected onto a large screen and then that screen with other things around it was filmed.
and more, come on man
The acronym 'UI' as typically used in computing often refers to specific types of user interfaces. That is not how TFA uses more generally 'User Interfaces', which practically covers anything that exposes information to or receives information from users
This collection was almost certainly hand-curated over time by a single individual who likes the wacky sci-fi aesthetic. Some classic animes in there and some I haven't seen. Pretty cool.
Definitely not slop. And definitely not an astroturfing campaign to sell graphics tablets.
Flashing lights to communicate information counts as a user interface.
You accused them of being AI when there’s zero indication their comment is AI authored.
Roughly 1/88th of the images on the tumbler page don’t have a UI visible.
Maybe take your own advice.
https://www.wacom.com/en-us/products/wacom-movinkpad-pro-14-...
The tablet itself: Other than the screen and APU being good, it is a heavily stripped down tablet missing a lot of the features that other tablets in its price range or even cheap tablets will have. No haptics, biometrics, and so on. It is very focused on the screen interaction experience and that is basically it.
The Eva interface is pretty cool, but it is not worth what I paid for it. I would recommend people look for other options or maybe wait for something better to come out.