See blorph on Wiktionary
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(coined by Ken Ralston/Sony Pictures Imageworks)", "forms": [ { "form": "blorphs", "tags": [ "plural" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": {}, "expansion": "blorph (plural blorphs)", "name": "en-noun" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "noun", "senses": [ { "categories": [ { "kind": "topical", "langcode": "en", "name": "Animation", "orig": "en:Animation", "parents": [ "Mass media", "Culture", "Media", "Society", "Communication", "All topics", "Fundamental" ], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "topical", "langcode": "en", "name": "Computer graphics", "orig": "en:Computer graphics", "parents": [ "Computing", "Technology", "All topics", "Fundamental" ], "source": "w" }, { "_dis": "51 49", "kind": "other", "name": "English entries with incorrect language header", "parents": [ "Entries with incorrect language header", "Entry maintenance" ], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "51 49", "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with 1 entry", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "51 49", "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with entries", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" } ], "examples": [ { "ref": "2013 March 4, “Phil Tippett – Monster Legacy”, in MonsterLegacy.net, archived from the original on 2023-01-30:", "text": "One way Jeremy approached that was purely procedural — he got in there and digitally grabbed the Brain Bug’s flesh and warped it all over the place. For the actual wriggling mounds of flesh, Jeremy used another shader, created by Doug Epps, called ‘Blorph’.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "2016 December 11, Ian Failes, “10 Unforgettable Morphs in Film, TV, and Music Videos”, in Cartoon Brew, archived from the original on 2023-01-07:", "text": "Meanwhile, Digital Domain crafted its own blorph for the final long shot in Titanic where the camera dives down into the sunken ship and then transitions from the murky deck into a pristine 1912 ship. The studio combined miniatures, motion control footage, live-action plates, and cg elements to make the shot possible.", "type": "quote" }, { "ref": "2017 July 10, Aidan Roberts, “The famous mirror shot in ‘Contact’ was almost something else entirely”, in vfxblog.com, archived from the original on 2023-01-27:", "text": "But anyway, the blorph was, we were in Socorro, we’re up in the satellite area. We come down, we’re on a crane if I remember right, we drop down with Jodie in the frame, we start to follow her on the crane arm. And as it touches down, there’s a Steadicam operator on that crane who steps off and he just keeps going, and he chases her towards the door.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "A visual effects technique in which an entire setting morphs from one appearance into another (as opposed to the morphing of an object or character within that setting)." ], "id": "en-blorph-en-noun-QBNRQPxy", "links": [ [ "computer graphics", "computer graphics" ], [ "animation", "animation" ] ], "qualifier": "animation", "raw_glosses": [ "(computer graphics, animation) A visual effects technique in which an entire setting morphs from one appearance into another (as opposed to the morphing of an object or character within that setting)." ], "topics": [ "computer-graphics", "computing", "engineering", "mathematics", "natural-sciences", "physical-sciences", "sciences" ] } ], "sounds": [ { "enpr": "blô(r)f" }, { "ipa": "/blɔː(ɹ)f/" }, { "rhymes": "-ɔː(ɹ)f" } ], "word": "blorph" } { "etymology_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "en", "2": "blend", "3": "morph" }, "expansion": "Blend of blend + morph", "name": "blend" } ], "etymology_text": "Blend of blend + morph. 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