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Anime and the Future of Digital Animation

Posted by michael on from the moving-pictures dept.

Glog writes: "According to Wired Magazine Manga Entertainment has announced the release of their first digital anime feature Blood: The Last Vampire to theaters. The movie showcases a unique blend of japanese anime and computer animation. It will be streamed live for 24 hours all day Tuesday (August 28, 2001)." Jump straight to blood.sputnik7.com to see the movie; Real and Windows Media only.

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  1. Re:Anime" - a fancy name for cartoons. True sorta. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting
    Anime = animation in japanese.

    Um, no. Anime is a french term the japanese borrowed.

  2. But how long was the film? by justien · · Score: 2, Interesting


    I saw this with friends about a fortnight ago on video, here in Oz.

    We were terribly disappointed because the vid only ran for 60 minutes, and then was followed
    by a skin-crawling self-congratulatory "making-of" doco, which padded the overall runtime of the vid to 90 minutes.

    So, is the movie longer than 60 minutes? I hope so.
    The version we were subjected to was slow; we're talking people walking as if they were on tranquillisers(!),
    so that shots of characters going from a car to a building took 10-15 seconds - way too long for an action flick.
    We eventually decided they did this to stretch the film to even get to 60 minutes at all, and not for an atmosphere of dense terror.
    It just became utterly frustrating, when compared to the pace and intrigue of the opening scene.