Mike's All-Nite Brain Carnival of Mayhem Sat, 13 Jun 2026 03:21:50 +0000 Sat, 13 Jun 2026 03:21:50 +0000 RedBanned.com https://redbanned.com/forums/unit-m3.82/ Thu, 19 Nov 2020 01:43:03 +0000 https://redbanned.com/threads/uncle-bourbons-election-night-special.1268/ https://redbanned.com/threads/uncle-bourbons-election-night-special.1268/ invalid@example.com (Mike Verta) Mike Verta Uncle Bourbon Returns - Live!
with Special Guest Miss Love

Tuesday, November 3rd
3pm PST
https://www.youtube.com/c/MikeVerta]]> 3 Tue, 28 Apr 2020 18:45:45 +0000 https://redbanned.com/threads/on-the-softness-of-shadows.1089/ https://redbanned.com/threads/on-the-softness-of-shadows.1089/ invalid@example.com (Martin Hoffmann) Martin Hoffmann @Mike Verta: I just watched the part of your redpill video about teaching Draco how to draw. I think it's worth taking a look at the concepts presented in the book "Drawing on the right side of the brain" by Betty Edwards. As far as I know the theory of the roles of the brain hemispheres as she presents them has largely been debunked, but the concepts she teaches still work all the same. I think for a beginner artist it's a useful mental model to think of these two modes. The...

On the Softness of Shadows]]> 8 Mon, 27 Apr 2020 16:18:24 +0000 https://redbanned.com/threads/mikedrop.1061/ https://redbanned.com/threads/mikedrop.1061/ invalid@example.com (Mike Verta) Mike Verta
Having a couple...

MIKEDROP]]> 2 Fri, 25 Jan 2019 10:58:05 +0000 https://redbanned.com/threads/building-a-tardis.677/ https://redbanned.com/threads/building-a-tardis.677/ invalid@example.com (Mike Verta) Mike Verta

]]> 6 Wed, 21 Nov 2018 01:07:40 +0000 https://redbanned.com/threads/my-warrior-sister.473/ https://redbanned.com/threads/my-warrior-sister.473/ invalid@example.com (Mike Verta) Mike Verta


Anyway here's a convenient link:

https://mshealthandfitness.com/2018/loretta-verta


Thanks!]]> 1 Sat, 29 Sep 2018 23:21:09 +0000 https://redbanned.com/threads/mikes-cg-tardis.410/ https://redbanned.com/threads/mikes-cg-tardis.410/ invalid@example.com (Mike Verta) Mike Verta
https://tardisbuilders.com/index.php?topic=8651.0

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My name is Mike Verta - VFX artist and OCD sufferer. I tend to get more than a little obsessive about details and realism in...

Mike's CG TARDIS]]> 41 Sun, 02 Sep 2018 14:02:55 +0000 https://redbanned.com/threads/tron-lightcycle-v1.533/ https://redbanned.com/threads/tron-lightcycle-v1.533/ invalid@example.com (Mike Verta) Mike Verta
It wasn't my intention to match any shot from the original film, but after I finished I did this:



And my quick recreation:...

TRON Lightcycle v1]]> 13 Sun, 17 Jun 2018 02:18:00 +0000 https://redbanned.com/threads/we-are-the-world.461/ https://redbanned.com/threads/we-are-the-world.461/ invalid@example.com (Mike Verta) Mike Verta

]]> 14 Tue, 24 Apr 2018 10:45:20 +0000 https://redbanned.com/threads/criticism-flowchart.398/ https://redbanned.com/threads/criticism-flowchart.398/ invalid@example.com (Mike Verta) Mike Verta ]]> 16 Mon, 19 Feb 2018 20:10:50 +0000 https://redbanned.com/threads/anybody-know-a-girl-scout-for-cookies.354/ https://redbanned.com/threads/anybody-know-a-girl-scout-for-cookies.354/ invalid@example.com (Mike Verta) Mike Verta
Let me know!

_Mike]]> 2 Thu, 04 Jan 2018 18:12:53 +0000 https://redbanned.com/threads/i-like-star-wars-so-much-i-fuck-it.14/ https://redbanned.com/threads/i-like-star-wars-so-much-i-fuck-it.14/ invalid@example.com (Mike Verta) Mike Verta unfuck it. Here, see what I mean:

The Star Wars Legacy Edition 4K Restoration]]> 6 Thu, 28 Dec 2017 16:01:14 +0000 https://redbanned.com/threads/dracos-ghostbusters-proton-pack.270/ https://redbanned.com/threads/dracos-ghostbusters-proton-pack.270/ invalid@example.com (Mike Verta) Mike Verta
Draco recently saw and became obsessed with the original Ghostbusters. Now wants an all-GB X-Mas. I found a cheap proton pack toy which I knew I could upgrade a bit...

BEFORE:


AFTER
]]> 10 Sun, 17 Dec 2017 05:38:42 +0000 https://redbanned.com/threads/harvey-one-stain.220/ https://redbanned.com/threads/harvey-one-stain.220/ invalid@example.com (Mike Verta) Mike Verta
This is roughly equivalent to the news reporting they'd found a grain of sand on the beach.

Harvey is a drop in the ocean of irredeemably horrifying people in Hollywood.

I have lived in this town since 1990, and for various reasons and through various associations, have found myself improbably in the inner-est of circles with the richest, most...

Harvey One-stain]]> 12 Tue, 10 Oct 2017 22:57:41 +0000 https://redbanned.com/threads/a-little-shakespeare.219/ https://redbanned.com/threads/a-little-shakespeare.219/ invalid@example.com (Mike Verta) Mike Verta

I've watched this many times, and not just because it's fascinating to see a young Ian McKellen, Patrick Stewart, Judi Dench, Ben Kingsley and others learning their craft, but because every second of it puts me in the company of masters studying from masters, with their whole attentions on their craft.

We get like the people we're with. Thanks to the internet, we can be surrounded nearly 24 hours a day by people smarter, more...

A Little Shakespeare]]> Tue, 22 Aug 2017 01:17:05 +0000 https://redbanned.com/threads/the-vi-control-situation.11/ https://redbanned.com/threads/the-vi-control-situation.11/ invalid@example.com (Mike Verta) Mike Verta
The VI-Control "Situation"]]> 45 Sat, 19 Aug 2017 00:18:42 +0000 https://redbanned.com/threads/insulted.145/ https://redbanned.com/threads/insulted.145/ invalid@example.com (Mike Verta) Mike Verta It's weird to feel personally insulted by someone we don't personally know.

Even if they do know us, in order to feel insulted by somebody, we have to voluntarily give the person value first. We have to value who they are, and we have to value their words. This is just a simple statement of fact, I know, but it's strange that we don't seem...

Insulted?!]]> 8 Wed, 16 Aug 2017 18:32:51 +0000 https://redbanned.com/threads/i-just-gotta-say.101/ https://redbanned.com/threads/i-just-gotta-say.101/ invalid@example.com (Mike Verta) Mike Verta
I Just Gotta Say...]]> 7 Sun, 09 Jul 2017 00:53:12 +0000 https://redbanned.com/threads/its-easier-to-buy-stuff-than-to-learn-stuff.51/ https://redbanned.com/threads/its-easier-to-buy-stuff-than-to-learn-stuff.51/ invalid@example.com (Mike Verta) Mike Verta
I'm super-grateful for the tools and the developers, but I'm equally saddened about the number of young composers especially who think that libraries will make them good, and they must constantly spend money they barely have trying to "keep up."

In all the years I've been reviewing pieces, the "otherwise great composition that is being let-down by...

It's Easier to Buy Stuff than to Learn Stuff]]> 14