ENDA Episode 93→ The time when ENDA faces a Screen Burn-in (Part 3)

In a previous episode, we created a planar track that worked for the whole shot, and it was finally safe to move on to the fun part: designing the new screen graphics.

The concept? Inspired from Spike Jonze’s Her (2013): the character is chatting with an AI that’s just beginning to grasp love. To sell that idea, the monitor now shows an 8‑bit‑style command prompt at the top (think vintage DOS) while an animated waveform similar to Samantha pulses beneath it and then shows animated hearts, expressing his feeling to what the other character confess her. Kudos to the chunky 8‑bit font for the system name.

Of course, none of this would blend without matching the original flicker. It was a big question for a while, but thanks to another mentoring session, I learned how to recreate elements through Nuke’s Curve Tool, charting max‑and‑min pixel values over time. So with those animated values from the original plate, I was able to replicate the monitor’s flicker almost beat for beat.

Next on the list: dialing in a true CRT feel: improving the glitch effects, improve details of edges, and that subtle border glow that leaks onto the borders.

New challenges are coming, so… stay tuned!

The journey continues…