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by trojanalert 759 days ago
This is so over-engineered, it tells you that when you have billions, you do the most whacky things. A 5-minute VFX job will yield the same results. But no, there's so much f*k you money, they had to do this.
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I would love to see the results of your 5 minute VFX job.
Traditionally, one of Microsoft's weaknesses was how crappy it looked against Apple. Maybe they are trying to say "we care a lot about making this look good".
My favourite is a production team spending millions on something trying to make it look like a home movie, etc.
On the other hand this will be shown to bilions of people almost everyday as a front screen of Windows
I hope that the artists creating the image knew that whatever they submitted would be the most displayed image worldwide, for a couple of years.
The cost of this shoot would pale in comparison to the marketing budget.
That was my first impression too. Curious what is the cost of wallpaper.