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1st Episode Of Animatrix Released

Posted by timothy on from the there-isn't-one dept.

Devistater writes "The official Matrix page has word of the first officially released widescreen Anime episode of the Animatrix for download (in quicktime format). This is the first of 4 free episodes that will be released on the web. A total of 9 episodes will be availible for purchase on DVD within the next few months. The feature-quality anime shorts range in length from 6 minutes to 16 minutes. There's a trailer availible if you want to get a taste for what they will be like."

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  1. Download link... by Corrupt+System · · Score: 5, Informative

    Here it is: The Second Renaissance Part 1

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  2. wget + $this.url(); by danalien · · Score: 5, Informative

    eeyy.

    for lame masterl, simply do: wget http://progressive.stream.aol.com/wb/gl/wbonline/p rogressive/thematrix/us/med/animatrixlgfinal_dl.mo v

    !note it's mov not mo v :P

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  3. Two more links... by Corrupt+System · · Score: 5, Informative

    And the other resolutions:

    320x136
    480x204
    640x272

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  4. URL, Impression and Kudos by limekiller4 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Here is a to the 640-width trailer for everyone who would like to perhaps save it locally and not use the imbedded junk. I hate that.

    As for the trailer ...wow. Aren't I articulate? This is, essentially, fanfic. And it is pretty damned good.

    God bless timothy for posting this at 6:49AM. =)

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    1. Re:URL, Impression and Kudos by Flounder · · Score: 3, Informative
      Actually, some of the stories in The Animatrix are created by the Wachowski Brothers. The rest are independantly created, but given approval by the brothers.

      I believe that this one is created by the brothers, as it pretty much gives the origin of The Matrix.

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  5. Re:Damn by Pathwalker · · Score: 3, Informative

    Hmmm - the codec is Photo-Jpeg.

    Basically a bunch of normal jpegs in sequence, not even Motion-Jpeg. It's about as simple as you can get for a video codec.

    I am amazed that mplayer would have trouble with that...

  6. Here are the direct download URL's by Khyron · · Score: 4, Informative
    Someone please mod these up! Here are the actual URL's for the Quicktime files of episode one. Since the site is pegged at the moment, few people can even navigate the pages. However these links should feed you the movies directly, at least until The Slashdot Effect inspires WB or Apple to move them, hehe.

    I would reccomend using a tool like wget or lftp to grab them, as my connection reset several times while downloading (due to the traffic I imagine).

    Small (30MB+):
    http://progressive.stream.aol.com/wb/gl/wbonline/p rogressive/thematrix/us/med/animatrixsmfinal_dl.mo v

    Medium (90MB+):
    http://progressive.stream.aol.com/wb/gl/wbonline/p rogressive/thematrix/us/med/animatrixmedfinal_dl.m ov

    Large (140MB+):
    http://progressive.stream.aol.com/wb/gl/wbonline/p rogressive/thematrix/us/med/animatrixlgfinal_dl.mo v

  7. Re:Way to download those ? by chamenos · · Score: 4, Informative

    Animatrix Trailer (high res)

    Animatrix Part 1

    just right click and choose "save as" if you're using IE =)