
Upon an old VHS tape box, there read A Lesson In Computer Animation . Easily no more than a half-hour long, it was comprised of short demos showing off things like walk cycles using 3-D penguins, shadows on pineapples, the video corresponding to Dire Straits' "Money For Nothing", and an early Pixar creation involving a bee and some crazy looking dork with funny eyes. We know our extent of computer tech has extended well beyond this scattered educational tape from the '80s. Though CGI was still a new thing, we all remember Tron . The 1982 [...]

The trailer for Tron Legacy the forthcoming sequel to the 1982 sci-fi cult hit Tron has hit the interwebs, inadvertently causing thousands of nerds (myself included) to shat their pants with lasers. The premise follows "Sean Flynn (Garrett Hedlund) the 20-something son of Tron protagonist Kevin Flynn (Jeff Bridges), whose curiosity about his father's disappearance leads him to the now-abandoned site of Kevin's old arcade. Inside the old building, Sean is transported into the Computer World and embarks on an adventure in which he learns what has happened to his father, [...]

Ponyo se estrenó antier en los cines de acá. Tengo que ir a verla pronto! Por ahora esto: Where the Wild Things Are Una vez más. Todos saben lo mucho que espero esta película. Tengo el libro, la camiseta y me gustan animales grandes. Spike Jonze dirige y Karen O musicaliza. Promete muchísimo. Ahora desde el sitio de Apple se puede descargar un featurette en donde entrevistan a Maurice Sendak [...]

WHY ARE MOVIE DIRECTORS REMAKING "CLASSICS" THAT DON'T EVEN NEED TO BE TOUCH. I REALLY DON'T UNDERSTAND TODAY'S SOCIETY IN REGARDS OF RIPPING OFF THE 80'S. I ALSO HEARD THERE REMAKING "TOTAL RECALL". BLAHHHHH. USE THESE GREAT MOVIES AS INSPIRATION, DON'T RIP OFF / BITE CLASSICS.. ALTHOUGH, I CAN'T WAIT TO HEAR THE SOUND TRACK If you're going to film the sequel to a 1982 film about evil computers, you might as well get France's finest robot DJs to do the soundtrack. None other than Daft Punk have signed on to write the score [...]
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