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Trailer of Pixar Movie 'Finding Nemo'
tjansen writes "The trailer of the next Pixar movie, Finding Nemo, is out. Only Quicktime, as usual, so you need CrossOver on Linux machines." Actually's Disney's site has Real and Windows Media formats, so you can pick your poison.
Why does this seem to be a plug for a product? I know of other sourceforge projects that will play Quicktime movies. I dont need to spend money just to watch a trailer. I dont mean to be a troll but I believe I have a point.
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The trailer that's /been out/ for a month? There's no reason to mention the release of a new movie trailer. I mean, a star wars or matrix trailer is one thing, but a movie about talking fish just because it's animated using a computer, much like many movies today are? Hey, there's a trailer out for "3, 2, 1 Penguins!" too.
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I dunno how long they can keep this going. However, I know for one thing I'm not caught into this preview nearly as much as Pixars past works. This movie seems like the little mermaids friends geared towards 5 year olds. Not that I'm saying that's bad or anything; just seems like a huge change of pace from Pixar.
Here fishy fishy..
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Look, I love PIXAR movies. The CG is always awesome and I usually make it a point to see pretty much any computer animated film . . .
But what's with the 'Slashvertisements' lately. I mean, it'd be one thing if we had some article here that talked about the tech that went into it or something like that, but this is just the trailer! Is there something I'm not aware of about this trailer or movie that makes it so special as to justify a Slashdot front page post? Maybe it's just a slow weekend...
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Why the big stink about unsupported media formats? I mean, is there a viable alternative format out there? Windows doesn't support DivX out of the box, and it's not mainstream enough to consider releasing in that format. Ogg Vorbis was supposed to be developing an open-standard video codec, but it's vaporware for now. MPEG4 is totally unnecessary for video of this type.
Repeat after me: "Linux users are *not* the majority." Windows users are. Don't expect corporations to force Windows users to take a few extra steps to watch their advertisements just so that Linux users aren't disenfranchised...
You probably have a Windows box, or know someone who does, so quit complaining and watch the trailer there. If you don't, then you probably don't give a shit about the movie anyway...
Anyone know how much this advances computer animation?
The under-water environment looks extremely well done; the colours, refraction, fading etc. look very realistic.
Have these been done before, or has Pixar invented lots of new stuff again?
Is it just me, or does it seem like Pixar, and the other CG film makers, just make a new effect and make a whole movie out of it?
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The order of preference seems to be as follows:
1. Real player format that can not be downloaded at all
2. Quicktime file which you can usually download (but I don't like the client
3. Some other weird streaming format (windows media? can it be downloaded)
4. Nice mpg file that I can actually take to my desktop -- even with my Cable connection, my processor just does not handle video streaming very well.
Can someone tell me why this is happening? Seems counter productive - streaming is bad for network if it can be avoided. And this is not premium/paid content we are talking about! This is trailers... as in the stuff that studios should be happy to let us watch for free!
This news item was co-sponsored by Pixar and Crossover.
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I am very confused. I thought that /. disliked MPAA/DISNEY/REAL NETWORKS/WMA (you know companies that support laws like the DMCA)???
/. run stories about their newest products?
If what they are trying to do is so evil, why does
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OH something shinny!!!
Pixar is doing a movie in an all aqua element. Excellent! It's like they keep challenging themselves. From Toys to microscopic insect scapes to complicated hair rendering to this.
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does anyone have a direct link to windows media stream so i can feeed it to mplayer - trying to wade through all this js cruft to get the uri is killing me.
Try this one:i nding_ nemo/trailer_750.asx
http://acw.activate.net/digitalmedia/bvim/f
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Something shinny indeed!
hmm just like the fish in the trailer with the LEL, light emitting lure!!
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From what I hear the next movie in the hopper is "The Incredibles" which is a story about a super-hero family. Then it's "Ray Gunn" a futuristic film-noir in the vein of "BladeRunner". After that it's "Toy Story 3", yep they're back. Hanks and Allen have already agreed to do the sequel.
mencoder -oac mp3lame -ovc lavc \f ind ing_nemo/finding_nemo_trailer_750.wmv
-lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vhq:vbitrate=16000 -o finding_nemo_trailer.avi \
mms://wmd31sea.activate.net/digitalmedia/bvim/
Finding Nemo, focus on 6-12 year old kids, slashdot... focus on 6-66 year old geeks.
Does anyone know who the voices belong to? They sound very familiar. Website wasn't much help...
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Indeed they did kill BMRT by claiming patent infingement against Exluna. Thing is that Exluna's flagship commercial product Entropy produced renders that were more photo-realistic to my eyes than pixars PRman - although a little slower.
I thought \. might be focusing a little more on the technology than a stupid film about talking fish. Gee let me see if I can't find some tech info on WETA/LOTR2 which will probably be worth watching - for starters.
Anybody know if this is the last motion picture that Pixar is contractually obligated to release under the joint name of Disney/Pixar?
Seriously, these guys do such an amazing job, I would hate for them to be associated with Disney forever.
(damn file formats...) Is this movie based on Jules Verne's book?
Looks like Michael Eisner is a pimp and mickey mouse is his bitch.
there will be 6 produced under the [Disney/Pixar] deal (Toy Story, A Bugs Life, Toy Story II, Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, and Cars)
What about Monsters, Inc.? Does that make seven, or is Cars now an independent film?
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The part that worries me is that rumor has it Pixar thinks Finding Nemo will be their weakest film and if there's fallout from that they may not be in the bargaining position they would be in right now if it doesn't do so well.
Weakest?! Umm... considering that every Pixar film is in the top 100 grossing films of all time (three on the top 50), I don't think there is much for them to worry about it. So they make $250 million this time instead of $260 million *shrug*
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I don't get it. How can you find no one?
> Just some of the reasons I don't care about this movie or any Disney related movie/show/website/commercial/cd/dvd/app/video/*.*
well...anyone still living in a world where file extensions rule his or her computing experience has an excuse for all that rage...
Living in a m$ world takes its toll.
Pixar has a deal with Disney, were they must deliver 5 films, right? Thus:
1. Toy Story
2. A Bug's Life
3. Monster's Inc.
4. Finding Nemo (2003)
5. The Incredibles (2004)
(Notice that I did not include Toy Story 2 in that listing). That's all they need. Why are they maked a 6th film for Disney?
6. Cars (2005) ?
Mad Hatter
Finding Nemo
The Incredibles
Cars
Nothing about "Ray Gunn", nothing about "Toy Story 3". What's your source?
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In case anyone wants the file directly the direct URL is:
n g_ nemo/finding_nemo_trailer_1500.mov
http://acw.activate.net/digitalmedia/bvim/findi
Else you can pull these from the HTML source on Disney's page, not hard to do.
I hear the book didn't do so well. . .
if it stared Tuxedo Penguin and his g/f Gown.
We need another version of some Tux games. Tux Racer is cool now, but imagine a complete Quest for the Herring game! Sales of a console version(still GPL) could help fund its progress.
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Is there something I'm not aware of about this trailer or movie that makes it so special as to justify a Slashdot front page post? Maybe it's just a slow weekend...
Look at the evidence. Steve Jobs is CEO of Pixar (and Apple). Slashdot, if not VA Linu^H^H^H^HSoftware wants to be bought out by Apple. Think about it: How many Apple articles do you see on a daily basis? Why does Apple have its own section, customized to look like Apple's website? Why does Apple have eleven (count them yourself) different topic categories? (Compared to one for Sun, one for Microsoft, one for IBM, one for Compaq, and *none* for Dell, whose market share is nearly six times that of Apple)
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I think you're right.
....and they want to stop them?.....hello?
But these pointy-headed marketing types are forgetting the trailer is an advertisement.
They have fans that want to distribute that advertisement.
It reminds me that marketing is the province of people who couldn't cut it in the sciences.
Why doesn't slashdot staff advocate a vendor-independent standard like MPEG-4 instead? I don't see Real or MS Media being any more open-source-friendly than QuickTime, as far as codec specs goes.
This movie will change the whole expectation from these type of movies. It includes so many new techniques. It was very hard to simulate water in these movies, but now it seems that they can simulate almost anything.
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At least Quicktime doesn't try and phone home every time you use it.
This trailer is SO MUCH funnier http://www.apple.com/trailers/miramax/comedian.htm l
This is a perfectly valid/interesting post, given the slashdot community's focus on patent rights and renderering technology. Why the fuck is it moderated troll?
I mean, I'm getting the impression most posters are just here to go, "ooh, look at the pretty fishies."
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I love pixar movies, but ellen de generes?? snooze...
And if it takes place on the great barrier reef, how come the two main characters sound like they are from california? The fish should have aussie accents, mate =)
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