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New Wallace and Gromit Shorts
disco_stu00 writes "Aardman Animations has produced 10 new one-minute Wallace and Gromit shorts entitled Cracking Contraptions in preparation and training for the upcoming feature length film. BBC News has the first short available for download."
Clearly with the Soccermatic Wallace is looking to expand into the US Soccer Mom market, the domestic version will of course continue to be called the "Footymatic"
More Cheese Gromit ?
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I had a look at this at lunch, and I'm relieved to say that it's clear that we're in for a treat with the new movie - if this clip is anything to go by. People have suggested that W&G is old and stale now (as Chicken Run wasn't *amazing*). But this made me giggle, and I can't wait! Nice Work!!
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Don't you mean 'trousers', instead of 'shorts'?
Yeah yeah, 'boo', 'hiss' and all that.
But what gets me here is that it is Real Player content, and Real One is available for Linux, but they add a console and bang! it won't work in Linux :(
I made the switch to Linux a long time ago as my main desktop OS, and I can say that the main thing I go back to Windows for is for streamed content. Not because Linux doesn't support it, but because there is too much obfuscation on the part of streaming providers, they virtually want you to be running Windows XP with the latest media player in order to let you see their content. I can handle Office files, I can handle any email you throw at me, I can do VPN and SSL and all that, I can even get reasonable HTML rendering with Opera or Mozilla, but why no sensible Real Player content available? Why oh why is there always loads of javascript bullshit?
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more convenient link
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...I was hoping for actual clothes.
Lately democracy seems to be based on the skybox, the Happy Meal box, the X-box, and the idiot box.
Umm maybe that's just my confession that all of these items currently exist in my household. Plus a single solitary Gromit.
One.. two.. three.. baaaah!
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So glad they are producing the feature in the same medium and not moving to the computerized version of W & G. Stop motion animation has such a great feel to it.
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Stanley Matthews, Tom Finney and Nobby Stiles and of course the club in question Preston North End
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Is there a choice, or is QuickTime just the *default* transport?
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It's QuickTime not Real - it's the discussion forum which appears to require Real for some reason..
I'm probably exposing my ignorance here: is there anything which plays Quicktime movies on Linux?
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Best line: "Cracking toast, Grommit!"
Best Scene: Grommit releasing the parking brake on the rocket.
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People in real jobs often have to perform cost analysis, which usually includes a study of potential client demographics, etc.
Exactly. I worked for a VoIP dot-com a couple years ago. Netscape was getting to be such a hassle that when we saw less than 6% of our users were on it (the absolutely horrid Netscape 6 had less than 1%) we just said, "forget it" and moved on.
Don't get me wrong. Linux was the OS of choice for most of our developers, but when it came to making money, we had to go where the money was. It isn't in Linux.
The "official" website for the series.
The National Museum of Photography, Film and Television , in Bradford actually has a couple of the sets from the Wallace and Gromit films. They are only about 2m x 2m in size, but the attention to detail is absolutely amazing. It really brought home just how special the work these guys do is.
... can't wait for the new film!
The short is great
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Did anyone else read "Cracking Contraptions" and immediately think of the DMCA and illegal circumvention devices??
Anyone from Arizona?? That was a great show.
I suppose that means that there's no NTSC version of the tape. I guess I'll have to settle for having 'em online, then. Ah, well.
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New shorts. Wrong trousers.
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See the link above, he was a World Cup (a competition involving the majority of the world's countries) winner in 1966 for England.
:-)
If it had been a real Nobby Stiles he would have run at Gromit, jumped on him two footed then punched him. Nobby wasn't the most elegant player in the world
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They will be viewable on the internet on a pay-per-view site from Wednesday
there's no way I'm going to pay-per-view them, even if it's a penny. It's just not worth pulling out a credit card and registering.
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Great product, sack the marketing department. The PR people might be able to get a job with a well known OS company if they promise to switch their CPUs in public.
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Since BBC only seems to support "in-browser" playback (and needs popup windows to be enabled - buah)... Here are the download links, extracted and reassembled:
Have fun.
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It's a pitty the only format proposed is QuickTime.
from "Cracking Contraception"... Not the kind of subject you would expect in a claymation about a man and his dog.
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Ok, I know you were being ironic... or at least I hope so (like, you'll blend into most UK pubs with your accent, for sure) :-)
Surely as a good Yorkshireman Wallace would have gone with Norman "bite yer legs" Hunter, as a Leeds United and England hardman rather than our Nobby who was a Manchester United player even though in the 66 Final team.. :-))
Unfortunately, you are mistaken about RealOne. With the release of RealOne, Real has dropped support for Linux. The same is true for the latest version of Flash, and QuickTime 4+ and Windows Streaming Media never did work with Linux (big surprise). So if you're using Linux, get used to being excluded from streaming content. This is another case of the Linux crowd failing to pay attention to critical issues until it's too late. Linux's viability on the typical end-user desktop is doomed unless this lockout is corrected.
Actually, if they follow the same general methods as they did in Chicken Run, there will be some CGI, just not for the characters. In Chicken Run they used CGI for shots such as the explosion of the factory. It is very difficult (if not impossible) to do good stop motion plasticine models of exploding liquids.
Of course, "Wallace & Gromit" is rhyming slang for "vomit."
But how many people knew that it was originally the name of a wassail?
(How many care?)
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In general, how do you find the
Should mozilla have a mod to show all these links... or is there one already?
1. 2.
Does anyone know how to convert a file like this (Sorensen v3 Quicktime) to MPEG1? I'd love to do it in Linux, but I know that transcode and mencoder don't support Sorensen v3. Are there any WIN32 tools that can do this?
Ultimately I'd like a VCD of all of these shorts.
i know amazon is the trendy mall of the internet and all, but they have a damn good selection, i'm not sure if this is what you wanted but here are ntsc dvds of Creature Comforts(four shorts; Creature Comforts, Wat's Pig, Not Without My Handbag and Adam) and The Incredible Adventures of Wallace and Gromit (the original three shorts)
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I tried your link and on this particular .mov the rad tools can't convert the sound (uninformative error message).
The output video-only output with divx5 is twice as big too.
Did anyone get better luck?
- The Trailer @ 700kbps
- Soccamatic @ 700kbps
Note that the files are zipped . . . Also it looks like if you buy all of them (for $10) online, you get the downloadable versions as well, so you're not stuck with streaming. Happiness!Al Qaeda has ninjas!
Eh, downloaded, unzipped, shucked into xine.
Video is great.
Sound is non-existant.
???
There's a problem w/ your computer, then, 'cause the sound plays fine over in my neck o' the woods. :) Of course, I was using mplayer, not xine, so I suppose maybe they're in some strange format that xine can't cope with...
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Hm, well xine plays other sound fine.
Still, I'll give mplayer a whirl.
Loading codec DLL: 'divxa32.acm' /usr/lib/win32/divxa32.acm, /usr/local/lib/win32/divxa32.acm :(
Win32 LoadLibrary failed to load: divxa32.acm,
Can't open library divxa32.acm
ACM_Decoder: Unappropriate audio format
Could not load/initialize Win32/ACM AUDIO codec (missing DLL file?)
ADecoder preinit failed
Couldn't initialize audio codec! -> no sound
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