ED: From a very early age I have been in love with film. Some love books or music, but for me my medium was film. When I was really young, what I now know as special or visual effects, was never really questioned, and merely intertwined into the films narrative only leaving me in awe of the spectacle. The skeleton fight in Jason and the Argonauts was a particular moment of wonderment. It was magnificent, glorious, beautifully executed and equally terrifying.
We simulated FX for smoke and atmosphere. Created digital ropes and wires pulling carts and their contents. All of which finally end up within a compositors realm ready to assemble together into a realistic composition.
The degree was enjoyable but I slowly fell out of love with most of the tasks a product designer did, bar the presentational side mocking up 3D renderings of my designs. So off I went to Dublin. I liked the idea of somehow continuing within 3D and very soon found an opportunity as a Runner within a small Post Production House. There I was surrounded by talented people creating visuals for Commercials, TV and Film. Spending all my extra time learning and offering up my 3D modelling abilities to support the team ended up with me being promoted from Runner to a 3D Generalist. It was in this capacity I learned my trade and over time and into another company as I shifted into Head of 3D before becoming a Visual Effects Supervisor.
ED: Yes. Most shows start with a script in parallel with a vision. A director will know how they wish to tell their story visually. Doing the first read through of a script allows my brain and the directors to align. Through doing breakdowns and discussing relevant scenes both parties can be confident of singing from the same hymn sheet.
Of course one of the main reasons for doing a breakdown is to ascertain how VFX is needed and thus a cost. Through each iteration of script and talks about each shots approach a visual effects, a shot list will be created. We also might do some concept work or pre-visualization to help firm up the design and look.
ED: There is never really an average episode. Ripper Street is story telling heavy. This means some episodes, like Whitechapel Terminus, require a vast amount of visual effects to tell the story. Others may not.
Of course many of the larger London landmarks are still here today. Which means we are capable of photographing and de-aging back to Victorian times. For many of our big wide establishing shots we would build our landmarks in 3D, thus allowing us to ensure we can use for the correct angle, lighting and time of day.
However, there are so many films and TV shows that are littered with invisible VFX work that the audience never notices and therefore never criticizes or complements. The story telling is merely supported perfectly by the use of VFX.
After Waldo supplied this beautiful model, we were able to digitally sculpt using it as a wonderful physical reference. Our team then added subtleties like tongue movement and spit dribble to really sell the horrific look and also the negative space through depth cues.
DAMIAN: You mentioned Whitechapel Terminus earlier and the epic train crash from that episode from series three was obviously another highlight that stands out. What can you tell us about that?
Over the 125-plus years since the Ripper murders, there have been endless theories speculating who the killer was, why he committed the crimes and who else may have been in on it. On our Ripper-Vision tour, we sort the facts from the fiction, detailing what we know happened on each fateful night from the evidence we have to hand.
With one of our expert Ripperologists leading the way around the streets of Whitechapel, you will be in safe hands, which is more than the victims could say. Our guides live and breathe the Jack the Ripper case, knowing every last minute detail to the letter.
Not only are our tours led by the most knowledgeable guides in the game, but they are also the friendliest, ensuring that you leave our tour with a smile on your face. With great facts and great craic, this is the tour to be on.
On our tours, you will be shown all of the original crime scene photos taken at the time of the murders. Not only that, but we deliver the most in-depth insight into the original Scotland Yard files that may hold the key to discovering the identity of Jack the Ripper once and for all.
Ripper-Vision is your look into the past. Our tours make full use of state-of-the-art projectors that bring the London of 1888 into the present day, showing what the streets of the capital used to look like through 5ft images on the streets of Whitechapel. Not only that, but our tour guides will display other relevant media to complement the overall experience.
No. Even if the tour that you are on is fully booked, you will still be able to clearly see the 5ft projection wherever you are in the group. Our tours are designed so that everyone with a ticket can experience Ripper-Vision to its full potential.
All of our tour guides are expert Ripperologists who know the facts of the Jack the Ripper crimes like the back of their hands. There is no guesswork in relaying facts, with our tour guides all being highly respected in their field. We encourage all of our guests to ask our tour guides as many questions as they want.
Ripper-Vision brings a visual element not available on other Jack the Ripper walking tours. Instead of trying to imagine present-day London in 1888, Ripper-Vision takes you back 130 years to the exact same streets that Jack the Ripper roamed. Ripper-Vision takes away the guesswork of what the crime scenes used to look like, providing a definitive answer to your questions.
Yes, Ripper-Vision does work in the daytime. Whether you book yourself onto an afternoon or evening Jack the Ripper tour, you will experience the full benefit of the world famous Ripper-Vision, exclusive to our tours only.
To book a tour with Ripper-Vision, simply head to the booking page on our website where you will find all of the tours and dates available. Tours run every day at 2.30pm and 7.30pm, seven days a week, enabling you to take a tour at a suitable time for you.
Our tours last for one hour and 45 minutes, during which time you will learn facts about the crime scenes and the methods that the police employed. Before the end of the tour, our guides will use Ripper-Vision and modern-day criminal profiling to reveal who the police should have been looking for. It is certainly not something to be missed!
The Bust A Gem extension adds "Go to Definition" for Ruby projects in VS Code. It will create a TAGS file using the ripper-tags gem, and then use the tags for Go to Definition. Fast and easy.
Second, Bust A Gem uses the excellent ripper-tags gem to build a TAGS file for your project. Open an Integrated Terminal in VS Code (using View > Integrated Terminal) and run gem install ripper-tags. That should put ripper-tags into a spot where VS Code can spawn it. If you are still getting errors about ripper-tags, use Help > Toggle Developer Tools to see more debug info.
Bust A Gem doesn't rebuild TAGS automatically. Use the "Rebuild" command to rebuild the TAGS File. You'll want to do this periodically as you work on your project, or after change the bustagem.gems setting.
You probably want to set bustagem.gems. Initially, Bust A Gem will only index your project. Add gem names to bustagem.gems to instruct Bust A Gem to add some of your gems to the TAGS file. Bust A Gem uses bundler and your Gemfile to find those gems. Don't forget to run "Rebuild" to rebuild the TAGS file!
ripper-tags is fast. It only takes a second or two to rebuild TAGS for my project. If this is too slow for your needs, you may be able to switch to ctags -e ... using the bustagem.cmd.rip setting. ripper-tags is much better at ripping Ruby files. For example, ripper-tags indexes Ruby method aliases and ctags does not. But ctags is faster.
A new character visual of Jack the Ripper (voiced by Souma Saitou) has been unveiled for the upcoming Undead Girl Murder Farce TV anime series. The show is scheduled to premiere sometime in July 2023.
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Case presentation: A 55-year-old woman with a past medical history of hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and iron deficiency anemia presented to the emergency department with three days of headache, nausea, vomiting, and visual changes. Her vital signs were within normal limits. She was noted to have a left cranial nerve six palsy on exam.
Results: Her laboratory testing revealed leukocytosis, hyponatremia, and hypokalemia. A non-contrast computed tomography scan of the head revealed an enlarged sella turcica and pituitary gland with hemorrhage and deviation of the optic chiasm.
For the last twenty-five years, one user interface style has reigned supreme: the Macintosh-style graphical user interface. It's now reached its limits, however, and will be replaced by a style that partly reverses some of its most treasured interaction principles.
Compared with earlier interaction paradigms, the Mac-style GUI's features are far more usable: rather than typing in commands and parameters, users select commands from menus, freeing them from typing errors. Menus, toolbars, and dialog boxes operate on the screen's visual objects, which faithfully represent user goals. This is known as WYSIWYG, or What You See Is What You Get. I refer to this style as "Mac-style," even though it originated at Xerox PARC and was first commercialized in the Xerox Star and Apple Lisa.
WYSIWYG was a great advance over earlier interactions, in which users specified their goals more abstractly and didn't see the results until far later. To make text bold in a WYSIWYG interface, for example, you highlight the text with the mouse and choose the "Bold" command from a formatting menu. Easy. And, even more important, as soon as you choose the formatting command, the document's screen appearance changes to reflect the new formatting. At any given time, what you see on the screen is what you've built and what you'll get if you print it.
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