The opening title sequence of The Kingdom is a nice 3.5 minute overview of the relationship between the US and Saudi Arabia. (via kottke.org :: home of fine hypertext products)I’m extremely interested in oil and fuel consumption but I had never looked pre-embargo on how we got to such a place. Any book or article you can recommend is appreciated.
one of the better uses of animated text I’ve seen in an opening credits sequence… oh yeah and I agree the content is quite interesting as well.
Happy Feet
Watching this movie was painful for me. I figured, hey, this movie won over Cars for an animated movie Academy Award, It can’t be too bad. I had very low expectations for this movie, and it didn’t even begin to meet them.
- Attempts realism and fails. The subtleties of real life are still out of reach for computer animation. See Final Fantasy, Polar Express and Beowulf. Happy Feet tried to be realistic and suffered because it constrained the medium they picked.
- Bad character design. It’s incredibly difficult to distinguish between characters because they’re rendered realistically and we all know penguins all look alike in real life.
1 out of 5 stars
— camh
I’d say this is a prettys good synopsis and it makes some very good points about animation today. In reference to “Attempts realism and fails.” I coulnd’t agree more. For some reason American animators are stuck in this repetitive realm of trying to simulate the real world. I had an animation instructor that would constantly remind us that animation is an extremely hard and time consuming process and that you should never use it for something that can just as easily and more realistically be captured via video camera. I wish American studios would take that more to heart and get off this whole 3D realism bandwagon. DISNEY - OPEN UP YOUR OLD 2D STUDIOS AND MAKE SOMETHING LIKE FANTASIA AGAIN!
“ just thank god you have someone that cares about you when you’re out in that boat all by yourself
my mother responding to my questioning of my grandmother calling me after the big storm yesterday and explaining that I’m an aquarius thus preferring to be surrounded by water alone in the ocean.
Is Kevin Spacey the greatest impersonator ever?
I just payed the same for a half gallon of milk as a gallon of gas
Is there some kind of shortage of cows I don’t know about?
Public Alley 810
This is what has been consuming my life for the past month, I hope any of you who follow this tumblog will check it out. This was my final project for my narrative for multimedia course and I am very satisfied with how it turned out. It is an experiment in showing a single narrative from 5 different perspectives… depicting how every event that occurs is a different experience for everyone that experiences it.
If you do end up going through it, lemme know what you think, we never really did any usability testing so I’m curious as to whether folks have problems with the navigation.
alexandersimoes@gmail ^_^
beautiful.
Less Sleep Means More Dreams
— audream
This is quite interesting. I have speculated about this concept for a while but never knew it was scientifically proven.
