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Animatrix Trailer
NeoCode writes "Like The Matrix? Like anime? Well, feast your eyes on this. The Matrix web site has released a preview trailer for Animatrix, a series of 9 anime stories set in the world of matrix, to be released on DVD. They are done rather beautifully, by the looks of the trailer, in both traditional anime and using computer graphics."
Low budget eastern films influence big western producers to create gigantic megabuck flick;
:-D
for a follow up?
Why not export huge megabuck flick story line in an Eastern visual medium?
Oh well, at least Anime kicks ass for fight scenes.
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"Wait a minute ! If this is real, why does everything still look like a cartoon ?!"
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NeoCode writes "Like The Matrix? Like anime? Well, I downloaded the trailer before submitting this story, and you can't have it. Neener neener neener."
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that they would publish Ma(rketing)trix the Movie, where they reveal how they managed in this :) These guys really know how to exploit and squeeze every penny out of the idea. The most amazing part of this is that everything is well done and thought, we consistent. You could believe for example, that you could ruin the matrix concept like this, but somehow they have managed to keep it in order.
From the art style, I could recognise:
* Studio that made: Ghost in the Shell, the movie (not sure about this one)
* Studio that made: Ninja Scroll and Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust (new version of VHD)
* Square studio that made: Final Fantasy, the movie.
* The American studio that made: Aeon Flux, Sci-Fi animation for BBC's Liquid TV and MTV. (not sure about this one either).
Anyone else have any additions or corrections?
- -- Truth addict for life.
So now big eyes == anime?
I mean, I dunno. I would hardly call the CG one 'anime'. But what really should we call the others? Is all high quality animation amed at adults now "anime"?
Ah well, who knows. Btw, if you like this stuff you can find a bunch of Matrix inspired here here. Some of them are pretty cool.
autopr0n is like, down and stuff.
Second Renaissance Part 1
Mahiro Maeda (Blue Submarine No. 6)
Second Renaissance Part 2
Mahiro Maeda
Program
Yoshiaki Kawajiri (Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust, Ninja Scroll, Wicked City, X (the series, not the movie))
Kid's Story
Shinichiro Watanabe (Cowboy Bebop, Macross plus)
World Record
Takeshi Koike (Don't know)
Beyond
Koji Morimoto (Episode 1 of Memories: Magnetic Rose)
Matriculated
Peter Chung (Aeon Flux)
Detective Story
Shinichiro Watanabe
The Final Flight of the Osiris
Square U.S.A (Final Fantasy et al)
"Wake up Neo."
"Fucking stupid KaZaA messages, I thought I turned that shit off."
"The Matrix has you."
"U r 2 14m3 4 m4 sk177z! 1 vv177 h4x0r j00!"
"Fine then, fag - stay in the Matrix!"
later at work, a FedEx package arives
"What is this? Why am I talking to myself?"
Neo opens the package and six high density floppies fall out.
"Oh my GOD! NOO!!!! It's Windows 3.1!!!!"
The phone at Neo's desk rings, he answers it.
"Hello."
"Hello fag."
"Oh, the asshole from KaZaA... Hey, how'd you get my number?"
"There's no time for that now. Did you get the package I sent you?"
"Yea. Why the fuck you send me Windows 3.1?"
"It is very important that you install it right away."
"But..."
"No butts, find a computer and INSTALL IT!"
"Okay, whatever."
"At the end of the hall there's a computer with Windows XP. Reformat the hard drive and install Windows 3.1"
"That's a Mac running OS X, doushebag."
"A Ma.... Oh, my bad, after reading Matrix code for years you begin to see things that aren't there. I thought it said OS XP."
"What the fuck, OS XP? You're a tard."
"Change of plans, I just realized this wasn't as urgent as I thought. We can get back to this tomorrow. I'll be watching you, Neo."
"Sure you will. Fag."
Since when is anime low budget?
As far as the 'visual medium' goes the only thing that we've borrowed is the stylization of the characters. Animation was invented in the west. And that visual style was borrowed from early western style anyway.
I'm not saying that 'the west created everything' or anything like, obviously the japanese have really come up with the majority of advances in Animation lately, but I would hardly call it an "eastern visual medium"
autopr0n is like, down and stuff.
Animatrix_Trailer_640.mov - 18MB (the one you want)
Animatrix_Trailer_480.mov - 13MB
Animatrix_Trailer_320.mov - 7MB
Animatrix_Trailer_240.mov - 3MB
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I mean, the matrix website is hardly a bastion of usability...
autopr0n is like, down and stuff.
Clearly, you are much smarter then everyone else who might happen to enjoy well crafted and entertaining movies that don't happen to have storylines equaling the highest literary standards in academic America.
Your distain for Anime only hightens that point, as no truly intelegent person could enjoy artwork that moves for christ sake!
autopr0n is like, down and stuff.
Oh thank God. I was reading a post by Tycho a couple hours ago and was curious enough to follow his link that went like this:
- Animatrix: Holy shit.
Pulled theFigures. I would find this just after watching Ghost in the Shell.
"...America's great minds of today, teaching America's great minds of tomorrow. Poor bastards." -- A Beautiful Min
If you don't like movies with lots of CG and no message, don't watch them. I don't. I haven't seen AOTC, and I don't plan to. CG is also medium and not message, and I saw no message in the previews for AOTC. Lots of new anime is being done almost entirely in CG. Does that mean it's good or bad? No, the medium is irrelevant to my enjoyment.
Stop trolling with bad examples.
This post expresses my opinion, not that of my employer. And yes, IAAL.
Does anyone know the name of the music they used in that promo?
Nope, not a bad example.
All I've said is that combining fiction with fiction is much easier than combining real movie with fiction. Results produced by the second one are often made lame and obvious, you always notice what's real and what's CG added. While on the other hand fiction in fiction blends more into a complete product
LOTR destroying culture? Never said that. I'm a fan of Tolkien. Movie adaptation of the book SUCKS MAJOR. Sometimes is good to take time and read a good book instead watching a lame movie adatation.
Starship troopers? At least the movie was going somewhere and wasn't 3 hour of lame shoot without feeling based on a well known book, ST is a light weight movie with action going on and that's it. Lame too, but better CG.
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Both are made lame and using overdose of CG and SF? But movies are different, I agree
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Suuuuuure... and I was expecting Yakko as Morpheous, Wakko as Neo, and Dot as Trinity. Sure, go ahead and spoil my expectations!
What if it is just turtles all the way down?
It was funded by american money, and the US was the primary target, I think.
autopr0n is like, down and stuff.
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"I'm not anti-anything, I'm anti-everything, it fits better." - Sole
2002-08-30 18:06:15 What is The Animatrix? (articles,news) (rejected)
What the fuck do you have to do to get something submitted around here?
I'd love for you to lay out why you think that FoTR "SUCKS MAJOR". How would you have changed it to make it more faithful to the book?
The only things that readily come to mind are: 1) putting Arwen in her proper place and 2) actually featuring Tom Bombadill and the Barrowwights.
But those two issues hardly constitute enough to make a movie MAJORLY SUCK...
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Don't forget Ozzy Matrix, Sopranostrix, and of course, Girls Gone Wildtrix.
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Does this sound like pure merchandising to anyone else? It reminds me of those music-inspired-by-the-movie "soundtracks".
Then the Matrix has you...
I mean damn man, do you really expect to see yourself?
signed, the real life Neo..
It's obviously a good ol boys submission system when shit like "A Guide to the Dance Dance phenomenom" gets posted. I mean really, what good is a karma system if you don't use it for something? Sure, it's used in moderations, but that's it? Mine is "Excellent". I've submitted 12 stories and every fat one of them has been rejected. Sure, some of em may be bad, prempted, etc, but all of them? And for a busted review on a year old U571 movie rant? DDR?! I feel for you bro...
Take the points, big dogs. Doncha wish you could mod past -1?
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In my copy of QuickTime 5 for Windows, I immediately unchecked the option (Start > Settings > Control Panel > QuickTime > File Type Associations) to associate with Windows file types and Internet file types.
That's more work than necessary. Apple should not assume that you need their program to view files for which there is a perfectly good program for that comes pre-installed with nearly every OS. I can't limit the associations beyond Windows, Mac, or Internet file types, whatever that means. I've got programs that are better at viewing "Macintosh" files than Apple's own software, all except for Sorenson-encoded MOVs. They should at least let you pick associations for each file type, and should never take associations from other programs. And, in a perfect world, they'd just install a system codec and let any application use it.