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      12 hours ago

      how do you even fuck that up? just go buy cat’s eye lenses, any costume store has to have boxes piled ontop of each other filled with those

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          11 hours ago

          I mean, that at least didn’t look like a student film production. But the contact lens work in that show is so godawful, not just Geralt.

          • Justas🇱🇹@sh.itjust.works
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            10 hours ago

            Witchers are supposed to have 2 swords, an iron sword for humans, elves and dwarves and a silver sword for monsters. In the show Geralt only wields one sword.

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                9 hours ago

                because that’s actually not in the books lol.

                i honestly hate the show because it’s not at all accurate to the books either in spite of that being the bulk of their marketing. that said, the two swords things comes entirely from the games. in the books he makes comments a few times about the fancy metals in his swords helping kill monsters, but he only has one at a time.

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    11 hours ago

    This effect is relatively a very simple one to edit in post and would look a lot better than contacts. This looks so cheap

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      5 hours ago

      I just had a mini-revelation that this looks weird because the “pupil” is on the surface of the contact instead of under the lens of the eye. These aren’t bad contacts; contacts are just bad like that. Seems that post processing is really the only option.

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        4 hours ago

        Yes colored contacts have that effect always, but for a show you’d expect some effort into one of the main characters appearance

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          Especially for emotional acting scenes. Sure use contacts for fight choreography so you don’t have to retouch every frame where he’s facing the camera but for the close ups?