lol, i highly doubt the site will experience the slashdot effect...but here's a mirror of the windows medium quality (480x204) file for the heck of it. www.pchopper.com/mirror/matrix.zip
not an all out slashdot effect but it's already not fast enough to watch the hq feed without waiting for a bit at the start..
and yeah it should be fast enough, and no it isn't my end(from experience with the first animatrix it the server will go down in traffic enough for that in couple of days..).
-- world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
Re:So cool!
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Transient0
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Slashdotted already.........
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Ride-My-Rocket
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There were only 2 comments posted when I saw this hit Slashdot, and the site's already down. I would have thought Warner Brothers would have learned after the first Animatrix trailer was posted on their site...........
Anybody got any mirrors to share?
Re:Slashdotted already.........
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actor_au
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Ausgamers have a mirror up already, only for Windows guys not Mac and they only have the highest quaility one, but its still good.
just how the fuck am i supposed to view this under gnu/linux or freebsd without buying a crossover plugin? xine doesnt work, nor does xanim, and i have all the binary proprietory libs for both of them:-/
Not pushing another player at all. If you dl the Windows codecs available on the download page and set it up as a plugin (use this to do so) and you're viewing QT files, no sweat.
-- I wish I had a kryptonite cross, because then you could keep Dracula and Superman away.
If you dl the Windows codecs available on the download page and set it up as a plugin (use this [sourceforge.net] to do so) and you're viewing QT files, no sweat.
So what you're saying is "The image translators work for the player program. But there's way too much information to decode the Animatrix episode. You get used to it. I, I don't even see the code. All I see is blonde, brunette, redhead. Hey, you eh, want a drink?"
Re:and...
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Anonymous Coward
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Seconded...although mplayer is push-worthy. QT, WMV, the kitchen sink, and virtually any other finicky codec is supported.
Re:and...
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Anonymous Coward
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mplayer can now play sorenson 3 quicktime movies. The latest builds of xine can play quicktime files, but I'm not sure if they can play sorenson 3.
yeah... stupid OS i got here... damn, took me a whole 5 minutes to get a movie playing after some/. ers helped me out... grr! imagien the strain oon my poor brain!
now to download that mp3 plugin you were talking about, and anyone know where i can get a c compiler?
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Re:and...
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Anonymous Coward
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If you would have read the fucking post for the patch, it said to use the lastest CVS pull. But don't worry cause it won't fucking work on rc4 either. You have to manually apply the patch dumbfuck. It isn't that hard. However the patch does throw off the timing of the audio. RTFM!
This makes the $30K/yr I pay to go to school almost worth it!
Re:.edu rocks
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Anonymous Coward
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I can't believe I'm actually downloading this from within the confines of the Microsoft network... the belly of the beast so to speak, but I was getting 6MB/sec download speeds so I can't really complain. Less than 30 seconds to download this file is just crazy!
That's probably because someone else downloaded it first, caching it on one of Microsoft's proxys.
I highly doubt that you could actually get that kind of bandwidth to a file that is quite likely high in demand unless you were behind an (invisible?) proxy server.
Dude, I was pullin' down nearly a meg a second -- and I'm only payin' $18k a year. Sorry to rain on your parade, but I think you're bein' over charged.;-)
Except for those nice caps they put in place the semester before I graduated. Makes me glad the Counterstrike server I ran was hooked up through CSE in Hammond =)
Re:.edu rocks
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Anonymous Coward
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Damn PSU... everyone thinks University of Pennsylvania = Penn State. It's not your faults... but could you pull that rank up a little higher so we don't have to feel as inclined to correct people?:)
Dude, I was pullin' down nearly a meg and a half a second -- and I'm only payin' $4k a year. Sorry to rain on your parade, but I think you're bein' over charged.;-)
I liked the first episode
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Dark+Paladin
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Granted, it was rather short, and it rather thunked you over the head with its message rather than letting the story give it to you - but there were elements that were incredibly well done.
First, the animation itself - a mix of hand-drawn and computer technology in the realm of Lain and Blood: The Last Vampire, only to an even better and more refined degree.
Then there were the images within the artwork. Probably the most disturbing scene in the first Animatrix video shows a women having her clothes torn off by a mob, and that sick feeling filling your gut as a man walks forward and bashes her in the head with a club - only to reveal that she's a robot, and as her all-too human looking breasts spill from her town shirt and her metallic head revealed, your both drawn and repelled by the feeling of how horrible to kill a woman in distress - except she isn't a woman at all. And yet, does that make it any more right?
So far, it's been an interesting lead in to the whole Matrix mythos. I'm downloading the second episode now (90 minutes to go) with high hopes.
Re:I liked the first episode
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Anonymous Coward
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your both drawn and repelled by the feeling of how horrible to kill a woman in distress
Well, I'm repelled by how horrible it is to kill a fembot in distress. It's much worse than killing hu-mans is.;)
Re:I liked the first episode
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henele
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I kind of thought the
mass robot grave ~= our own historical holocaust(s)
imagery wins the distrubing award through sheer mass of death, but I guess some like the personal touch:)
I'm excited about the next two whole films, but I'm pretty sure about much of the plot of the two films, and thats whats so cool about these shorts - you really don't know, or at best can come up with a bunch of possible solutions regarding, whats coming up next, which is why I'm already looking forward to this time next month:)
See you in four weeks;)
Re:I liked the first episode
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Anonymous Coward
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----imagery wins the distrubing award through sheer mass of death----
Would you even call it death...?
Re:I liked the first episode
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Anonymous Coward
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Personally, I wasn't particularly impressed with the first Animatrix short. The animation was very nice, but the story itself was too heavy-handed for me.
The moral issues involving artificially intelligent life forms have been dealt with so many times that the premise just seemed rehashed. Certainly, it would be easy to cite examples of science fiction that deals with questions of robotic intelligence much more subtley.
But what dissapointed me was that the short failed to touch on the themes of the original Matrix. I think it would have been more interesting to see the origin of the Matrix explore the deep psychological oppression that the Matrix represents.
But that's just my opinion, and it was an entertaining short movie. I'm looking forward to the rest of the series.
Re:I liked the first episode
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artemis67
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The moral issues involving artificially intelligent life forms have been dealt with so many times that the premise just seemed rehashed. Certainly, it would be easy to cite examples of science fiction that deals with questions of robotic intelligence much more subtley.
Actually, I was far more impressed with the first short than with the second. The artwork was far more engaging, and the animation didn't look like it was rendered by a computer.
Yes, the "rise of the machines" scenario has been rehashed in a multitude of other stories. I think that this short carved out a unique niche for itself in the way that it humanized the machines. It was never that the machines became self-aware, and then suddenly became bent on kicking biological ass. The machines asserted their rights, were crushed and driven out. The basic premise is far-fetched, but I give the art and the animation a lot of credit for making the story convincing.
But what dissapointed me was that the short failed to touch on the themes of the original Matrix. I think it would have been more interesting to see the origin of the Matrix explore the deep psychological oppression that the Matrix represents.
...hence the name, The Second Renaissance, Part I.
A is for Animatrix
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Anonymous Coward
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B is for Bananamatrix C is for Canadamatrix D is for... Dominatrix? oooh.
Re:A is for Animatrix
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Anonymous Coward
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An animated bannana Canadian dominatrix?
oooooohhhh! You just gave me an idea for a new crappy webcomic!
Re:Anyone got the Kazaa dat file?
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esanbock
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Anyone got a freenet key? Better yet, anyone manage to get freenet working on Debian with Blackdown Java? And how the fsck do you install sun's java on Debian?
Re: Anyone got the Kazaa dat file?
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Omniscient+Ferret
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Here are the bitzi tickets for the largest version and its zipped version. This is good for Kazaa (with sig2dat), Shareaza, Limewire, and eDonkey stuff.
Let me rephrase the title of the post
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LePrince
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The second episode of Animatrix is now available. Slashdot it here.
Re:Let me rephrase the title of the post
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msheppard
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I just downloaded the episodes at the highest rez to burn a few CD's for friends, and I am expierencing very good bandwidth from the site.
Kudos to the sysadmin.
M@
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Krispy Cream is people
Re:Let me rephrase the title of the post
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Alex+Thorpe
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I downloaded it at my full DSL speed of 142K/sec. No slowdowns. On the other hand, it's actually taking longer to uncompress than download. Not too unusual for DSL and a 3 year old iMac. 10 minutes to download, 15 for StuffIt Expander to expand...
It would be nice to know what it is we are supposed to be downloading here - come on slashdot editors! Not all of us are Anime fans, and for those that aren't, it would be nice to at least have some indication as to what this is without having to download it (thus wasting bandwidth that could be used by someone who is interested).
Animatrix is a series of nine animated movies, from 7 well know anime directors, based on the world of Matrix. The Wachowsky brothers made some of the scripts, and the whole thing is to come to DVD later this year, with the first four movies made available to download, one episode per month. I can't tell for this one, but the first one was well done.
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All generalizations are false, including this one...
Re:What is it?
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Sancho
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It's an anime short based in the world of The Matrix. The first was posted about a month ago, along with a description. This is the second. There will be another one per month for awhile. And while it is Anime, it's (so far) been precursors to The Matrix, and very interesting in order to get a feel of how things got the way the are (in The Matrix).
Re:What is it?
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sweetooth
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It's the second installment of the animated Matrix movies. Four of which are going to be released free on the Internet and then all nine episodes will be released on Junk 3rd on DVD. The first episode was released in February, the second today, the next in April and the final episode in May. The first and last episodes are Part 1 and Part 2 of the same story. They deal with various stories taking place in the Matrix, or in the case of the first episode before the matrix.
Springing forth from the world of THE MATRIX, THE ANIMATRIX DVD presents nine original short animated stories directed by preeminent anime directors.
The directors are: Andy Jones (Final Flight of The Osiris), Mahiro Maeda (The Second Renaissance: Parts 1 and 2), Shinichiro Watanabe (Kid's Story, Detective Story), Yoshiaki Kawajiri (Program), Takeshi Koike (World Record), Koji Morimoto (Beyond), Peter Chung (Matriculated).
Four of the nine episodes were written by Larry and Andy Wachowski, and all of the episodes are grounded in the world of the THE MATRIX.
DVD Special Features:
* "Scrolls to Screen: The History and Culture of Anime" documentary * 7 featurettes with director profiles, interviews and behind-the-scenes footage of each of the films * 4 audio commentaries * "Enter the Matrix" videogame trailer * Dolby Digital 5.1 Audio * Widescreen Format [16x9 2.35:1] * Languages: English, Japanese * Subtitles: English, French, Spanish
Ah crud. That should read June 3rd not Junk 3rd. My proofreadins skills are not very good today. I didn't catch that even with preview.
Re:What is it?
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deadsaijinx*
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If you didn't know what it was then you shouldn't have dled it anywayz, it's just not smart to dl things at random. Anyway, it's your own fault, no the/. editors fault that you don't know what it is. Assuming you live in America, then you have no excuse not to know what it is. After all, it was the talk of the whole country for about a week.... (yes, this country really is that full of conformist, narrow-minded, capitilistic brainwash ^^... i am looking forward to the great communist revolution, if only they werent all delayed in asia:(... )
-- YOU SUCK BALLS!
Re:What is it?
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tekunokurato
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Nobody can *tell* you what the Matrix is- you have to see for yourself!
Really, though- be a little more openminded rather than trimming yourself off just because the style doesn't happen to coincide with your tastes. If you enjoyed the Matrix, this is likely worth a try.
Unfortunatly no-one can be told what the Animatrix is. You have to see it for yourself.
M@
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Krispy Cream is people
Download Format Question
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henele
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When you go to the 'Download File' link it offers the same.mov file but in.sit and.zip formats for mac and windows users respectively.
My question is, why offer what is already a seriously compressed file within another set of, practically useless, compression? I'd guess the time reduced downloading is less than the time it takes to decompress the file (though that is at the user end...). Is there a benefit for the server I'm not geeky enough to know?
Re:Download Format Question
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Sgs-Cruz
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Um, yes, because even if they can reduce this 150 MB file by, say, 8 megs, then if 100,000 people download it, that's 800 GB (using crappy hard-drive manufacturer base-10 definitions of GB because I'm too lazy right now to convert properly) of traffic they've just saved themselves. Impressive how it adds up when you're talking about popular downloads:)
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Karma: pi (Mostly due to circular reasoning in posts).
Re:Download Format Question
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FrostedWheat
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My question is, why offer what is already a seriously compressed file within another set of, practically useless, compression?
When most browsers see a.mov file, they will try to play it in the browser window. However it will simple download a ZIP file.
-- Pain lasts, kid. Its how you know you're alive.
Sometimes I think this growing up thing is just pain management-TheMaxx
Re:Download Format Question
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JohnFluxx
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Whether a browser downloads it or saves it or whathaveyou is supposed to be determined by the mimetype. Unfortunetly IE went and wrecked this whole system (opening up a whole host of exploits iirc)
For those of you that haven't seen it yet:
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mr_luc
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Spoilers!!!!!
I like what they did with the 'feel' in this one, the first one was a little too smooth as well as being too dark. I like the bright color scheme and the crisp, cleaner animation a la Dragon Ball Z, Pokemon etc. Also, Vader is Frodo's FATHER OMG./Spoilers
Re:For those of you that haven't seen it yet:
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fenix+down
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Spoilers again--
Obviously the parent is mistaken, since Vader isn't even in this episode. It was Darth Maul who had his mask cut off and turned out to be Frodo. Get this stuff right or you'll confuse people who might not have understood the story!
Also, it doesn't matter if Frodo's an Agent, the highlight of this movie is how the talking horse turned out to be a missile in disguise! It's too bad Hollywood can't make movies with this kind of interesting story!
Oh come on, he was just saying what everyone else was thinking;)
Re:What Is The Animatrix?
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Anonymous Coward
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HA! Gold! Mod parent up.
Re:What Is The Animatrix?
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B3ryllium
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Pot. Kettle. Black.
Re:What Is The Animatrix?
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Anonymous Coward
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Jesus fucking Christ, that is so fucking original. Shit, where and the fuck do you come up with that shit? Don't tell me you wrote that shit yourself man.
Re:What Is The Animatrix?
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Anonymous Coward
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Re:What Is The Animatrix?
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Jonah+Hex
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This is so dead on it's scary. I expect we'll see a few homebrew versions of the next film, ala South Park Matrix, but I doubt they'd be as funny as this Animaniacs version.
For those unaware, the AniMatrix is a collection of Anime short stories about the world of the Matrix. The first one from this free series was an *excellent* protrayal of how the machines were created by man, became self aware, and then realized that the humans were exploiting them as slaves. The full DVD has many more short films about the Matrix universe.
i classify anime as big bulging eyes with ity bity mouths, and spiky hair. the first one didn't have too much of thi -- so i'm more willing to classify it as animated, not necessarily anime.
or am i stereotyping based on japanimation?
-- - tristan
Re:Overview
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Anonymous Coward
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In the US anime is used to denote animation from Japan. The directors of these short animations are some of the top animators from Japan.
For other examples of Anime that do not fall into your cliche view check out these.
Jinroh: The Wolf Brigade Perfect Blue and many more.
Try checking out stuff on www.anipike.com
Re:Overview
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tekunokurato
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This is not true. Anime is defined by an expert at Wellesley College as:
"Anime is distinct from other forms of animation because it usually has fewer cels per second, giving it a less fluid, more static look. It also has stylistic designs: The characters have large eyes or the backgrounds are fully realized watercolor pictures. Anime is not exclusively for kids, although children may watch anime not targeted for them- part of the cultural differences between Japan and the U.S."
Anime is literally the japanese word for 'animation'. Typically, it's used to mean all animation made in Japan, from Pokemon to Akira. Much like in America, there are several major schools of art, and many of them do have the big eyes, small mouth conventions, which are actually a derivative of early Disney cartoons that inspired early Anime. But there are certainly a number of shows that don't match these conventions. (And even more variety if you try and genre-stereotype - that perception is strongly tied to which shows get translated. There's a lot of anime that has no giant robots or ultra violence or graphic sex!)
Japanimation is a tricky word. Much like 'trekkie', it's hardly ever used in a positive fashion within the fan community. Commonly, it's used by people who don't know the word anime, and think they're more 'hip' than they really are - the calling card of a poser, per se. While I don't recommend judging people too strongly based on them not knowing the nuances of any fannish vocabulary, I do recommend dropping the phrase 'japanimation' from your personal vocabulary entirely, as it's likely to turn some fans against you in an a priori fasion.
And, to muddy the waters, there's a rising number of animated and comic titles made outside of Japan that are strongly in the tradition of anime and manga. (Manga is the Japanese word for Comic Book, though without some of the juvenile implications that we (erroneously) attack to the medium.) Like this Matrix. Or, to really walk the line, the fine comic Usagi Yojimbo, written by Stan Sakai. Despite a Japanese Title, and written by an author who is ethnically Japanse, Mr. Sakai is an American. The comic is written in English, and published in the U.S., but artistically and thematically, it's more kindred with Manga than most Manga.
My feeling is that it's hard to waste time more than arguing over whether or not something is, or is not, anime or manga. There's some content in describing something as in an Anime-style, and even more if one can tell what shows it is similar to, but beyond that, I really want to know if it's good or not. I'd rather spend my time watching great animated work, like Watership Down or Princess Mononoke, than trying to figure out the correct nomenclature. But, geeks love to argue over trivial details, so don't expect good sense to prevail.
Or, the short version: No, it's not technically anime, but it probably appeals to a similar audience.
Hey Jackass- First off, she's a professor of Asian studies. Second, the bi-weekly anime showings at Wellesley get about 50 people per, mostly students of the college. Lastly, have you ever heard of shit like sailor moon, ranma, pretear, etc? These are all very popular teen- and pre-teen-oriented anime that appeal to women AT LEAST as well as men.
A bit worrying then that when the brothers W are discussing their influences in the Matrix Revisited DVD (highly recommended btw), they distinctly use the J word. At the end of the day, it's not really important what it's called or how it's catgorised, only if it's entertaining or not. I've just downloaded Animatrix 2; gotta get off this Sun and on to a PC with Quicktime now:-)
-- The conclusion of your syllogism, I said lightly, is fallacious, being based on licensed premises
Re:Overview
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Anonymous Coward
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Anime as used by the Japanese is a shortening of animation. Anime with the accent mark (I dont remember the esc code)is the french word. Beleive it or not, two identical things can come about unknown to each other.
So I'm a "Jackass" and "loser", huh? I guess I'll take my shots and call you "humorless" and "whiney."
Okay, you've got a favorite professor at your school. That's great. Guess what? That doesn't make them an authority. There's also a professor at almost every school in the U.S. who thinks Jews are evil, and that everyone who's not a (insert crackpot religion here) will go to hell. That doesn't necessarily make it so. Even if they are a professor of Asian studies. (cymbal crash) Thank you folks, I'll be here all week. Please tip your server, and the lamb chops are delicious.
Second, jokingly refering to Maxim magazine should make it pretty clear that I wouldn't necessarily appreciate and honor the views and opinions expressed at a liberal arts college for women. I do, actually, for the record. I was taking a cheap shot at the school, and in return I took a cheap-shot at myself. I don't need you calling me a loser. I already did it by saying I don't read Maxim for the articles.
Third, I followed up by citing two references to definitions, which I would say are both more informative and more accurate, and probably more reliable than your "my teacher said" reference. I mean this in the serious, analytical, "my reference is better than your reference" sense, not "you suck." I don't think that. Especially since you're right, some anime is obviously targeted directly at women.
I was just making the point that the super majority of anime does not. (Replace "anime" with "science fiction", and I think we're in the same ballpark, by the way.) But I do think you gave a semi-lousy reference, and I know you're way too defensive about it.
A lot of anime has humor that appeals AT LEAST as well to women as men. Smile some, and think of sailor moon. Don't think of the idiot who picked on your school. Think of the laughing goodness that is sailor moon. It's going to be okay.
And by the way, "bi-weekly" can mean both "twice a week" and "once every two weeks." For clarity's sake, you might want to pick a new way to describe what you meant.
Okay, lets do a line-by-line, since you've managed to piss me off.
Okay, you've got a favorite professor at your school. That's great. Guess what? That doesn't make them an authority. There's also a professor at almost every school in the U.S. who thinks Jews are evil, and that everyone who's not a (insert crackpot religion here) will go to hell. That doesn't necessarily make it so. Even if they are a professor of Asian studies. (cymbal crash) Thank you folks, I'll be here all week. Please tip your server, and the lamb chops are delicious.
First off, not my school. I never said I went to Wellesley, or had ever studied under this professor. I am an area guy who goes largely for the chicks (I have a date with one of the most beautiful for next week, thanks very much), and also for the anime, when it's not something horrible like pretear.
Professors are hired by schools and paid 100k at schools like Wellesley because they are well-studied and intelligent. This is not to say that they are necessarily definitive sources of definitions, but a professor who's life study lies in a specific discipline is probably as reliable a source of information as anything on the internet.
Third, I followed up by citing two references to definitions, which I would say are both more informative and more accurate, and probably more reliable than your "my teacher said" reference. I mean this in the serious, analytical, "my reference is better than your reference" sense, not "you suck." I don't think that. Especially since you're right, some anime is obviously targeted directly at women.
Ho! Speaking of the internet, both of your citations are user-generated content. As big a fan as I am of this aspect of the internet, those definitions were no more written by experts than anything else on the net. Do they have PhDs? Or are they twelve year olds making it up? You don't know which, and I think my original citation (from a short blurb about the organization in the campus newspaper) is a little more authoritative. Moreover, your Everything citation is directly contradicted by several below it, so check what you cite to make sure it's in your favour.
I will make another citation, if you'd like: This is the Bartleby online American Heritage Dictionary reference for bi-weekly, and it makes an essential note that, despite common usage by people uneducated to the derivation, the "bi" prefix means two of, not two in.
Okay, lets do a line-by-line, since you've managed to piss me off.
If you're going to do a "line-by-line", why did you not respond to every line of my message? Responding only to the points you are able to makes for a pretty weak argument.
First off, not my school. I never said I went to Wellesley, or had ever studied under this professor. I am an area guy who goes largely for the chicks (I have a date with one of the most beautiful for next week, thanks very much), and also for the anime, when it's not something horrible like pretear.
You're right - I over-reached in my argument on this point. Making a citation to a source from a women's-only college threw me, I guess.
Professors are hired by schools and paid 100k at schools like Wellesley because they are well-studied and intelligent. This is not to say that they are necessarily definitive sources of definitions, but a professor who's life study lies in a specific discipline is probably as reliable a source of information as anything on the internet.
Did you miss the humor aspect of my first response to you? You seem chronically incapable of recognizing humor, or the fact that I said you were right.
Ho! Speaking of the internet, both of your citations are user-generated content. As big a fan as I am of this aspect of the internet, those definitions were no more written by experts than anything else on the net.
No, but both of them are peer-reviewed. I'd say that's a bit more rigorous of an analysis than a college professor writing in the school newspaper.
Do they have PhDs?
If you think having a PhD makes you an expert, you've got misplaced trust.
Or are they twelve year olds making it up? You don't know which, and I think my original citation (from a short blurb about the organization in the campus newspaper) is a little more authoritative.
<sarcasm on>You're right. The terms "short blurb" and "campus newspaper" carry the severe and commanding weight of authority.</sarcasm off>
Moreover, your Everything citation is directly contradicted by several below it, so check what you cite to make sure it's in your favour.
My favour? Do you not read English as a first language? I wrote the words "Especially since you're right, some anime is obviously targeted directly at women." I was originally making a sarcastic quip that women are not generally acknowledged to be the primary target audience of most anime. Why are you incapable of agreeing with this trivial statement?
I will make another citation, if you'd like: This [bartleby.com] is the Bartleby online American Heritage Dictionary reference for bi-weekly, and it makes an essential note that, despite common usage by people uneducated to the derivation, the "bi" prefix means two of, not two in.
Since you've given me the pleasure of defeating your every point, I delight in this one as well:
It is not the reference for "biweekly", it is the reference for "bi-", clearly stated in the middle of the page.
In point of fact, the usage note you refer to advises that "a writer is well advised to substitute expressions like every two [weeks] or twice a [week] where possible."
The actual definition of "biweekly" clearly states: "1. Happening every two weeks. 2. Happening twice a week; semiweekly.", which is exactly what I said it meant.
Enjoy the rest of the conversation. I won't be listening, as I've made all the points I care to, and you seem incapable of both humor and debate. Have a good day!
-- Education is the silver bullet.
Re:Overview
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Anonymous Coward
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Just like how lego filmmakers prefer to call it 'brickfilms' vs 'legomation'
As far as a Japanese reader is concerned, if it is rendered in hiragana or kanji, it's a Japanese or Chinese word; if it is rendered in katakana, it is a foreign word. The issue is less about etymology than writing system. Is the word "anime" rendered in katakana, or otherwise?
dunno about others, but that had a bad CRC error for me (OS X, using StuffIt Expander 7). The stream was fast and steady, wouldnt think that would cause any errors
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Re:Please wait approximately 27 minutes to downloa
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Anonymous Coward
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the second episode was supposed to be the second renaissance part II. unfortunately somebody messed up somewhere. this is not part II. this is something else.! its ok. but i was really waiting to see the second renaissance part II.
I got that on my Direcway Satellite - It was at approx 210 kbs for a bit but slowed to 128-135 kbs after a couple minutes.
I think it was too short and a bit too quick on the story line - "Duo" I thought was going to be a hero - I wonder how much time has passed since the first animation and second animation in the story line - remember - in the matrix they were supposed to have been in heaven - till that storyline fell over, burned, then sank into the swamp.
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Go for the eyes Boo! GO FOR THE EYES!
Re:way to go
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Anonymous Coward
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At work, I got it at about 500kbps.
I win.
XVid AVI conversion
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nstrom
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I'll download and convert this to XVID AVI, easily playable on Windows with Media Player and Linux with MPlayer. It should be done by tonight, and I'll post it to alt.binaries.multimedia.anime.
Re:XVid AVI conversion
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Anonymous Coward
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...but you love MPEG-4, which is ironic since MPEG-4 is just QT+fixes.
Re:XVid AVI conversion
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Anonymous Coward
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How do you get around comparing a codec standard (MPEG 4) to a media container (QuickTime) ?:) I mean it's better to learn a bit more about the tech involved before making smart comments (specially as an AC).
Re:XVid AVI conversion
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Anonymous Coward
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How do you get around comparing a codec standard (MPEG 4) to a media container (QuickTime) ?:)
That's easy : they're both containers. MPEG-4 isn't a 'codec standard' when you have incompatable versions of DivX, XviD, Microsoft's MPEG-4 Codec, Sorenson, and a few others that can all sit in the MPEG-4 containter. Along with MP3, AAC, SAOL, VQF, or various other audio codecs.
QuickTime 6 (at least the video) is based around MPEG-4, but using the same patented codecs that have made QT look so good but be so incompatable in the past.
It's a popular misconception that MPEG-4 is anything like MPEG-2 (DVD). They are common in some ways, but MPEG-4 is absolutely NOT a successor to MPEG-2! MPEG-2 is aimed at the highest quality, while MPEG-4 is aimed at most compression without great loss in quality. Hence people pirating 700MB DivX instead of 7GB direct DVD-rips.
I mean it's better to learn a bit more about the tech involved before making smart comments (specially as an AC).
cool, i was missing a few codecs, i didnt bother with mplayer. The mozzy plugin sounds good though, but i hear one is out for xine soon, and im trying not to change my desktop too much these days.
thanks for the hints everyone!
Zip verifies the integrity of the file
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Anonymous Coward
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When zip is extracted, zip will warn if the download was broken.
What I don't understand is that why they don't use better encryption formats, like rar or ace which support embedding recovery information to the file (so smaller download errors can be repaired with the information already in the file) and offer better compression ratios.
Bittorrent Link
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Robotech_Master
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FYI, Donkax.com is offering a bittorrent download of the large version of the movie.
-- Editor Emeritus and Senior Writer, TeleRead.org
The Bittorent DL is working great for me. At first I got 10KB/s, but now I'm getting 50kB/s. I'm in the UK, and was unable to get more than 10KB/s from the Matrix link. If you're having trouble d/l-ing from there, try the bittorent link above.
It makes me ask...
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Anonvmous+Coward
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...why aren't the 3 movies animated?
The world of the 'future' in the first prequal was a much richer setting than the live-action movies.
Coulda made for a much more interesting story if they could let their imaginations grow.
Re:It makes me ask...
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Anonymous Coward
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Easy:
Live Action == more money!
Re:It makes me ask...
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Anonymous Coward
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They already were. They the series was called Megazone 23, the first of which came out in, I believe, 1985. ^_^
The nature of computer-generated imagery (CGI) nowadays makes me say that the three movies are animated. There are so many layers of compositing and CGI in those movies (er, will be) that one can go so far as to call them animated, with some live action bits.
Because part of the stylistic point of the original Matrix movie was to render an anime story in a live-action movie. Cross-pollination. And you'll have noticed how much the "Matrix" style is beginning to infiltrate live-action movies (even Star Wars - the flying car chase in AOTC is rather anime-ish).
*snort* "yes, ugh, Windows fanatic here, ugh, how do I get an MD5 under windows?"
Grrr. Forget the animatrix...
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swordgeek
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I thought it said the dominatrix!
Now I'm all hot and bothered.
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Re:I liked the first episode but .....
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wodon
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Although watching anything to do with the matrix is so exciting I cant explain, i cant help but feel disappointed with the first episode. Now i have gone back to it and watched it a few times I realise how annoyed I am that the writers tried to explain the rise of the machines. One of the things about the human resistance is that they dont know what happened, and we could all imagine it in out own apocalyptic fashion.
Im downloading the second part now so I hope it is more like the matrix universe we know.
One thing that made the matrix more believeable to "geek culture" is that they didnt try to explain or quantify the computers, they just said that they existed. Thus preventing outdating and movie mumbo jumbo.
Enough of my waffling, im still buzzing while I wait for the clip! only 90 meg to go!!!!
-- It's My Tea and I'll Drink it if I Want To!
The (medium, mac) results are in...
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henele
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Before Compression (.sit) - 87.9MB After Compression (.mov) - 93.4MB Time to decompress (iBook 500/66Mhz) - Minutes (though this is an increasing old school computer)...
I can understand why, after times one billion downloads, that saving is cool, and I'm sure the guys who manage that server know what they are doing:) It is also a really nice exmple of presentation quality quicktime compression...
Disapointment
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Papa+Legba
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I just checked it out and their are no animaniacs to be found. I thought this would be cool spoof using the characters from the animaniacs but all I got was a lousy animeish samurai thing....
This could be an excelent oportunity to test the distribution of lasge, somewhat unavailable files through a P2P network. Could someone post the Sig2Dat link?
H-
Tomorrow there'll be a story...
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Anonvmous+Coward
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...about how the MPAA was DoS'd by Slashdot.
I think I downloaded the wrong movie...
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ptomblin
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I tried to download Animatrix, but instead I think I got "Princess Mononoke in Space".
-- The next Cmdr Taco duplicate will be ready soon, but subscribers can beat the rush and see it early!
There is a command line utility available at http://www.fourmilab.ch/md5/. They provide a zip file that contains a windows executable and source code (source is in the public domain). Place the executable someplace in your %PATH% (the Windows directory is a good place) and you're ready to rock.
I thought there was a project called openquicktime for Unix-Like systems.
btw: doesnt Unix-Like include OSX as well?
http://www.openquicktime.org
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Anonymous Coward
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Plays just fine. And why the "Off topic"? Not everyone has a broadband connection, it would be helpful to some people to know whether they downloaded it fine on their modem.
Re:I liked the first episode but .....
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rufo
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Just as a note, the writers of the first Animatrix episode were Andy and Larry Wachowski. This story has always been part of the Matrix universe - if you look around on the Matrix website you can find some online comics that tell the story of the one droid who was trying to defend himself, and they are also co-written by the Wachowskis. This is a pretty integral part of The Matrix's world, and I wouldn't be surprised if the second and third movies delved into this a bit more.
-- My English teacher once told me that two positives don't make a negative. Two words for her: Yeah, right.
Spoilers below
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John+Harrison
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I liked it but I thought that the title (Program) gave away the ending. Once the idea of being reinserted was proposed I knew that it was a test.
That said, the animation was excellent. I especially liked the formation of flaming arrows and the black and white bamboo. Didn't care much for the big hair though. Action wise there was plent of it.
I can certainly see why she was so angry in the end. She was expecting and revealed that she expected a marriage proposal. Instead it was a test of her loyalty and ability to perform under emotional pressure.
sigh so good until the end
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carpe_noctem
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WARNING SPOILERS
Did anyone else think that the ending of this one kind of sucked? For starters, the whole 'oh it was just a dream' type crap is bullshit, and I thought that it made the ending of this episode really cheesy. This episode was really good and quite intense until the very end. "It was just a training simulation...you did very well." Did the writers here just run out of ideas when they got to this part or what?
-- "Quoting famous computer scientists out of context is the root of all evil (or at least most of it) in programming." - K
Re:sigh so good until the end
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Anonymous Coward
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Maybe a refresher on the Matrix is in order.
Re:sigh so good until the end
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Anonymous Coward
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Yeah, it sucked entirely - why have "I love you" if it's just a training? Needless. The whole plot smacked of something a ten year old would come up with. Like the first, an incredible disappointment - as subtle as a slegehammer and no plot whatsoever. I hope the movies they're making are a LOT better
Re:sigh so good until the end
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Anonymous Coward
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For starters, the whole 'oh it was a dream' type crap is bullshit...
But the idea that the Matrix is all a dream isn't bullshit? And it wasn't a dream. It was a test. How else would they have been able to test that scenario on her?
hahahahaaa
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Anonymous Coward
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you prove my point. thank you.
get a life. where do you live? backwoods kuntucky?
Re:hahahahaaa
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Anonymous Coward
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Thanks dipshit. Now that I have your IP address I can visit you and put a bullet in your cat's head and rape your mother while you watch, tied up with piano wire next to your lame linux box.
Anyone happen to know off hand if it was done with toon rendering. If so, which package. Some of the parts look like toon rendering, but other parts don't. If it's toon rendering, the shaders have come a long way.
Re:toon rendering
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Anonymous Coward
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The toon rendering was done using Softimage XSI. It's the same guy who produced 9 of the 10 episodes and did the toon shader development > Michael Arias.
thanks AC for the info. What hasn't softimage done a press release about it. I wonder. I hope it really was done with toon rendering. It would be pretty damn sweet.
Re:post your MD5 sums
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Anonymous Coward
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Forgive the stupid title. Anyways this is definately one of the better movies I've seen. And also probably the top(or close to it)animated movie. This is definately a step forward. It has great animation, its target audience is adults, and keeping with the theme of the movie, its downloadable. After all there is nothing like using a computer to a movie about computers(machines).
The episode primarily deals with returning back to the Matrix. A male and female duel while he argues that they should return back to the matrix and leave "the real world". Whats interesting to me is that at the end we see that this is a simulation/test, so why would there not be safe guards to make sure that this did not happen, ie what happened in The Matrix. They are testing people to see how they would react, but are they assuming that they will catch everyone who would want to go back this way. I figure there would be some sort of safe guard to prevent anything like this happening, in the off chance that they did not catch everyone.
just my 2 cents. later,
-- "Im drowning here, and you're describing the water!"
Square Animatrix Short With Dreamcatcher
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Robotech_Master
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Just in case folks didn't know, a fifth Animatrix short, the one animated by Square (the only other animated feature they did besides the FF movie before shutting down), will be showing theatrically with the Steven King movie Dreamcatcher. This animatrix, The Last Flight of the Osiris, apparently ties together the stories of the Matrix console game and the Matrix Reloaded.
Pretty slick. I think I'm gonna be watching a Steven King movie pretty soon; I don't think I've done that since The Stand.
-- Editor Emeritus and Senior Writer, TeleRead.org
I'm sure the last episode of Animatrix will explain how the evil computers converted anime into live action.
Remember 'The Simpsons' Halloween episode when Homer fell into 3-dimensions and then meatspace? Something like that...
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Share and Enjoy!
Re:We will not stand for this!
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Anonymous Coward
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well this is rather confusing. The people that replied to this post are fools and I hope do not represent the rest of the slashdot community. What I dont understand even more is how you decided to use a 'press-release' about the animatrix as a soap box for bashing someones lifestyle. Did you even watch it? Im sure you didnt get this opinion from seeing the matrix nor from watched this animated short.
Please be more informed before posting something that would stir up such strong feelings.
ok i was really hoping this was going to go into..
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eecue
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the whole war that was building up in the first animatrix. although it was pretty cool... it seemed to be completly unrealted and i am a bit disapointed.
on a side note... it was a good test of our new OC/3
download time under one minute.
-eek
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Re:ok i was really hoping this was going to go int
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mack_ver
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drool at your speed,
the pasrt 2 of the secong renessance is comming out next month.
Re:We will not stand for this!
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Anonymous Coward
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im the anonymos coward that had the first reply to this sick post...
This was just a so-so story. The 1st episode was MUCH MUCH better. I mean, the whole rise of robots was a great advance to the whole Matrix story, this one was just some no-name character in a training simulation. Take away the Matrix plot and this could have been any Anime style cartoon.
RonB
-- It is human nature to take shortcuts in thinking.
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Anonymous Coward
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Ok, was the large 640x whatever one.
Is it just me...
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Anonymous Coward
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Or do the voices in this short remind me of the voice actors from the Vampire Hunter D : Bloodlust movie?
He's absolutely right, you know.
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Anonymous Coward
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You people don't know what's good for you, and you need a strong hand to keep from worshipping your sources of entertainment.
Of course, you labor under the delusion that you're 'adults' and are able to 'think for your self'. You're going to spit at anything that's is honestly trying to help you. For all your 'education' you're nothing but a bundle of if-then statements, hypocracy being non-existent in your mind. After all, you're always right and and everyone likes you.
Mehhhhhhhhhhh! Lookit me! I'm some body special! Mehhhhhhh
Go 'celebrate', right,
How about another link?
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CrocOS
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OK So let's give this a go:
All you Mad Mac fans can click here while all you Insane Windows fans can do the same here
Later!
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I should really get around to creating a sig.... Nah - too lazy =)
And for those of you who came in late...
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CrocOS
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If you've read Travis's comments above and want to download, for you, we have a couple of links:
All you Mac fans can click here while all you Win fans can do the same here
As for Linux fans like me? I just use my W2K support-laptop from work to play them back =) - What can I say? The players still need work to match the slickness that is Quicktime.
-Travis (a different one)
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I should really get around to creating a sig.... Nah - too lazy =)
Now being able to download Animatrix.....
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adius
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is kind of like.. a bummer.
What DVD
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Anonymous Coward
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What DVD are you talking about?
"...The full DVD has many more short films about the Matrix universe..."
The DVD that will be available for purchase in May. These teasers are being released to build anticipation for the DVD, and create sales.
-- Well I've wrestled with reality for thirty five years doctor, and I'm happy to say I finally won out over it.
Re:1st Ep 2nd Ep
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Viking+Coder
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I thought the two were a great mix.
1st Episode - Heavy on plot, heavy naration, no lasting characters, lots of gore, not too much fun action, all in the real world.
2nd Episode - Light on plot, no naration, interesting characters, no gore, lots of fun action, almost all in the Matrix. (Actually the sparring program.)
I mean, you put them together, and that pretty well describes the first Matrix movie. (Except for the gore - I don't really think the first movie had much gore.)
(Al Gore: "I invented the Matrix!")
-- Education is the silver bullet.
Re:STOP USING FSCKING QUICKTIME!
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Anonymous Coward
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Oh--cool! So you'll post the URL of the open source player that requires no closed codecs? Or were you just being a prick and splitting hairs?
Yeah, the first episode was so fucking cool. I watched it like 14 times. I can't wait for the continuation (the second renaissance part 2). Damn, that was cool, I'm still getting over it.
The second episode, the one just released, on the other hand, was not interesting to me. Boring.
Not Just Kinda
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LPetrazickis
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I kind of thought the
mass robot grave ~= our own historical holocaust(s)
The bit with bulldozers disposing of robot corpses is plagiarised directly from documentary footage of the real Holocaust. I'm pretty sure that there also borrowed bits from the US Civil Rights Movement and the Tianamen Square debacle.
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Is this a sigs-optional kind of place? 'Cause I am totally down with that if you know what I mean.
Re:Not Just Kinda
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Anonymous Coward
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Yup. The robot getting shot point blank in the head while sitting on his knees is also a very direct reference to actual footage taken during... well during a war involving chinese and japanese.
Re:STOP USING FSCKING QUICKTIME!
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Drizzt+Do'Urden
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There is a difference between closed standard and closed source.
Quicktime is closed source, but it's an open standard. There is a Open Sourced Quicktime player for Linux, what is not Open is the Sorenson Codec. Sorenson != Quicktime, Sorenson != Apple.
Your post should have been : "Stop using the closed Sorenson Codec".. but you said Quicktime..
This has been repeated countless times on SlashDot.. but it seams you were not aware of it..
Audio format?
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Luke-Jr
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The first episode played fine, but for some reason MPlayer doesn't like the audio in this one? Anyone know how to fix this problem?
Bits and pieces of the log:
MOV track #1: 2127 chunks, 18746 samples
Audio bits: 16 chans: 2 rate: 44100
Audio extra header: len=103 fcc=0x77617665
Fourcc: mp4a
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Opening audio decoder: [faad] AAC (MPEG2/4 Advanced Audio Coding)
FAAD: Failed to initialize the decoder!
ADecoder init failed:(
ADecoder init failed:(
*** Try to upgrade/home/luke-jr/.mplayer/codecs.conf from etc/codecs.conf
*** If it still does not work, read DOCS/codecs.html!
Cannot find codec for audio format 0x6134706D.
Is it just me or did the main character get into Cher's wig collection?
Spoooky.
-- - Zav
- Imagine a Beowulf cluster of insensitive clods...
Something really weird about the site
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Anonymous Coward
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Has anyone else seen this?
Open up the link to the second episode: "Program" and wait for it to load
Ok, now click and hold on about somewhere beside the bottom right of the picture. Now drag your mouse down and it should start selecting some stuff below the picture...stuff u can't see.
Well i copied and pasted everything and this is waht i got: (**oops...lameness filter..this is the censored version..check out the whole thing yourself..very long**)
Any clue what this is? Some hidden message or code perhaps? Or just left over stuff from bad page designing...
Try copying and pasting the link at the bottom.. hmm...curious...looks like hidden stuff
Re:Something really weird about the site
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Anonymous Coward
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very cool. backstage.warnerbros.com requires authentication.
the "JFIF" is a standard marker for the beginning of a JPEG file, so there is most likely an image in there. The size of all that junk matches quite closely the size of the image displayed on that same page.
My money is on a left-over from whatever piece of software generated the file. Most likely a file format in which a web page is contained in one file, with every resource it depends on inlined within it.
Re:Something really weird about the site
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betat
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They must have all the bandwidth of the Matrix..
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Auriam
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Looks like the animatrix site is holding up surprisingly well under the/. onslaught. I'm D/Ling both first *and* second eps (not streaming, streaming's an awful idea, since some QT plugins don't even allow saving.. what a fucking waste..), and I'm getting 260-270k/sec total from their server.
The AI Technocore must be very willing for the humans to download these episodes.. what's in them?.. subliminal messages telling us it's all just fiction, most likely.. after all, where better to hide the Matrix idea than in plain sight?..;)
LOL mod parent up!
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Anonymous Coward
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Is there anywhere a credits list for these movies? I want to know who did the voices. I was just positive that was Lawrence Fishburne, and I thought he might be doing some sort of weird Samurai take on Morpheus until it turned out he was a different character.
-- Editor Emeritus and Senior Writer, TeleRead.org
It is interesting, the Samarai's name was 'Duo' which is another word for 'double' or 'two' and 'neo' is an anagram for 'one'. Wonder how it all ties together. I never caught the name of the woman.
-Chris
Neo is also the word for "neo" in Greek ("neas"). Neo = new one. Or Young / One. You get the idea.
Re:1st Ep 2nd Ep
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Anonymous Coward
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Agreed... Compared with the first, this episode was rather lacking in plot, dialog and detail. One could expect that the third episode will be likewise disappointing, serving only as filler between the two halves of The Second Renaissance.
While some may dismiss the first episode's message as being heavy handed, it plausably conveys a backstory which would bring the 'Matrix world' into being.
Lame
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Anonymous Coward
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I have to say I wasn't impressed this time around. The first installment was excellent, but this latest thing *sigh* the production values of He-Man And The Masters of the Universe and probably the most banal script possible. The dialogue is absolutely appalling to the point where it will make you wince. You don't need to be pre-cognitive to foresee the end of this one after the first minute or so...
Definitely get the first animatrix short, but don't waste your bandwidth on this one. Given the prestige of the Matrix brand I'd hoped quality control would of been a bit stiffer.
I agree with your ratings
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foldedspace
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The first one was much better.
I had no problems downloading either one at near max speeds for my DSL connection.
This one was too Japanese-ish. Why would she believe she was some kind of martial arts expert in the real world? Who is she? Who's the guy she thinks she's fighting?
I just want to thank the/. editor's for continuing to promote products of companys that are working to make DRM mandatory in all of our computers! Who needs freedom when you can have free anime?
Does this remind anyone else of Ninja Scroll? The animation seems very similar and the scene where they are sparing in the woods is very similar to the scene in ninja scroll with the blind swordsman.
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Re:Ninja Scroll
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Anonymous Coward
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No, it reminded YOU of Ninja Scroll because it's one of the whopping 10 anime you've seen in your life:D
Even without taking directing, environement, graphical style etc. into account, Program and Second Renaissance are very different movies because of their intent : while the latter is about exploring and expanding the universe of The Matrix, Program is merely about using it (as well as the medieval Japan theme) as a backdrop for a story. I'm not saying one is better than the other, I'm just saying the two approaches are wholly different and therefore it's pointless to compare the two movies.
Anyway, Program is evidently great, and the challenge of making the universe of the samurai-type film (aside from the setting, the theme of enlightenment through the way of martial arts is underlying throughout the movie) and an universe like that of The Matrix come together in a homogenous work is brillantly met (see the end of the fight).
Besides, the feeling you get ealry on that using the Matrix universe is just a pretext for an other Kawajiri samurai story quickly vanishes when you see how he masterfully exploits every possibility of such an universe (i.e. not contending with mere wire fu and bullet time), and most of all are narratively justified : the fancy effects aren't there just to spice up the action, but are justified by the emotions of the characters (the shot of the statue in the crevace, or the change of places (metaphor for the change of emotions of the characters)).
One could still blame the slightly stereotypical end and some narrative shortcuts concerning the characters (mainly Duo's emotions and motives) : you can feel how Kawajiri was limited by the "short film" format.
Re:STOP USING FSCKING QUICKTIME!
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ALpaca2500
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besides, what would you prefer to use? quicktime, windows media, or realmedia? though, i prefer mpeg to any of those...
The Matrix is to movies what wolf3d or doom have been to games. It has set a trend, a particular style of filming which lots of movies seem to be aping.
Also, the "Into the Matrix" premier was the FIRST ever classy premier, for a game. The concept of hiding particular aspects of the movie plot in the game, is a novel idea. The birth of another trend maybe?
The Animatrix: I found the first one interesting, though they "humanized" the robots a bit too much. Bots with bowler hats... ugh.
The second one was impressive, cool graphics and strong similarities with the Matrix movie. BUT... why such a LARGE jump between these two episodes? I thought these animations were to fill the gap... but they seem to have jumped that gap. Maybe the following animations will jump back in the timeline and then jump forward again.
The bottomline.. the Matrix universe has got lotsa people hooked, and its here to stay.. for some time... atleast. (hehe.. mebbe 10yrs down the lane, the W. bros may decide to film 3 prequels.. a la George Lucas)
The Matrix is to movies what wolf3d or doom have been to games. It has set a trend, a particular style of filming which lots of movies seem to be aping
Sorry, but just about everything in The Matrix is either stolen from Hong Kong (john woo) movies or japanese Anime. The movies you think are aping The Matrix is in reality aping these earlier movies.
It would be more presice to say that The Matrix is to movies what Duke Nuke'm 3D was to games. It stole everything good that worked from Wolfenstein 3D and added multiplayer and better visuals.
I say "stolen" you may want to say "was inspired from"....
I've only seen armitage 3, but the style reaks of Vampire Hunter D in many many more ways. Firstly just the character design alone is unmistakeable. Also there are several scenes/features that are taken directly from D, like when he splits the statue in 2, the reeds of grass and the moving tombstones/statues as they run by them, the realistic approach to combat (getting stabbed actually being fatal), and even the manner in which the scenes are unfolded is just oddly familiar. I'm not a huge anime buff myself so I don't know who did armitage, but I know the directors are one in the same for both films. I have to wonder if Amano did the character illustrations again.
anyhow, cool stuff, even if it's a bit rehashed,...and short... seems like these are just a quick little sideprojects....
It's interesting how the Matrix allows us to look at our own lives form different angles. This second episode presents some interesting points, including whether how you live your life is more important than facing certain realities or the same question presented as whether peace is more valuable than struggle. Also, it's interesting to finally see some of the "cyberpunk" sorts of machine-man biomimicry finally make its way into the mainstream without being on a sci-fi "cyborg" basis. Implants, anyone?:)
Playing the downloaded mov-file on my 2.4GHz P4 512MB RAM Windows computer results in a really laggy experience. Why doesn't Apple ever go bankrupt?
Re:QuickTime sux
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Funny, I was able to play both mov files smoothly on my 1.1GHz Athon. The video Codec was Photo JPEG, nothing Apple branded here. Perhaps your computer and operating system just sucks ass?
Links to the 640x272 downloads of each episode
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Re:I liked the first episode but .....
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I stand corrected,
I dont like it though, Im going to make my own version damn it, anything they can do, i can do with a couple of felt tips and a stills camera!
Will we have the star wars problem of the films/books/comics contradicting each other? this got very confusing at times, or will it be a big, well planned machine.
I wait with baited breath
-- It's My Tea and I'll Drink it if I Want To!
As I wait for the second download.
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Matrix2110
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Fricking Awesome!
Reminds me a lot of Heavy Metal.
Kudo's to the animation studios for going out on a limb like this.
I was having flashbacks just watching the graphics in the first twenty seconds of the first episode!
I just finished downloading the second episode, However my sound system decided to crap out on me, so I have to do the reboot thing.
Thank you, Mr. Gates. May I have another?
Finally, an animatrix that wont suck to hell (tm)!
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omg omg omg. the next ones by Shinichiro Watanabe. Finally, someone who can direct! Pity Faye isnt making a cameo, but you cant have everything.
They were in the machines and technology. In a sim (according to the Matrix Film) they can make things be what they want, so if they want to ride horses and stab things, big deal.
-- Well I've wrestled with reality for thirty five years doctor, and I'm happy to say I finally won out over it.
How is one of the few posts to actually discuss the content of the episode a troll? Almost everything else posted to this discussion is a discussion of either the Matrix or general posts about the Animatrix and not a discussion of the episode itself. In fact most of the posts I have read seem to be about download speeds. If that isn't offtopic I don't know what is. But here is one of the few posts that is completely on-topic and it gets modded as a troll? Some people's children... end of rant
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LIKE, Y*KNOW(I MEAN)START
IF PIZZA =LIKE BITCHEN AND
GUY =LIKE TUBULAR AND
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THEN
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DO*WAH - (DITTY**2); BARF(I)=TOTALLY GROSS(OUT)
SURE
LIKE, BAG THIS PROGRAM; REALLY; LIKE TOTALLY(Y*KNOW); IM*SURE
GOTO THE MALL
VALGOL is also characterized by its unfriendly error messages. For example, when the user makes a syntax error, the interpreter displays the message GAG ME WITH A SPOON! A successful compile may be termed MAXIMALLY AWESOME!
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Slashdot Mirror
I was there not 2 hours ago, and it wasn't up yet! Now I have to compete with all of you.
direct download (157MB)
lol, i highly doubt the site will experience the slashdot effect...but here's a mirror of the windows medium quality (480x204) file for the heck of it. www.pchopper.com/mirror/matrix.zip
for those not in the know:
What is the Animatrix?
lysergically yours
So the third movie is call Domimatrix?
my sig
There were only 2 comments posted when I saw this hit Slashdot, and the site's already down. I would have thought Warner Brothers would have learned after the first Animatrix trailer was posted on their site...........
Anybody got any mirrors to share?
At that point my download will be finished. I thank you for your cooperation.
Dacels Jewelers can't be trusted.
Ok, got 39 minutes to go for the large one, jumped on this asap, but i'm getting the first one too, and already bandwidth's dropping. Come on baby!
-"Those who fought today will die tommorow."-
oh yea, the link's off of a 100mbit server... www.pchopper.com/mirror/matrix.zip 93mb or something like that, c'mon, i wanna see my bandwith SPIKE :-d
Hurry you dogs!
Rush to the fount of of modern culture! Drink it all in! Satisfy your need for cool!
And then come back to Slashdot tomorrow and bitch about the MPAA.
"There's companies that are just so cool that you just can't even deal with it," - Bill Gates, about Google
just how the fuck am i supposed to view this under gnu/linux or freebsd without buying a crossover plugin? xine doesnt work, nor does xanim, and i have all the binary proprietory libs for both of them :-/
800k/s from progressive1.stream.aol.com...
This makes the $30K/yr I pay to go to school almost worth it!
Granted, it was rather short, and it rather thunked you over the head with its message rather than letting the story give it to you - but there were elements that were incredibly well done.
First, the animation itself - a mix of hand-drawn and computer technology in the realm of Lain and Blood: The Last Vampire, only to an even better and more refined degree.
Then there were the images within the artwork. Probably the most disturbing scene in the first Animatrix video shows a women having her clothes torn off by a mob, and that sick feeling filling your gut as a man walks forward and bashes her in the head with a club - only to reveal that she's a robot, and as her all-too human looking breasts spill from her town shirt and her metallic head revealed, your both drawn and repelled by the feeling of how horrible to kill a woman in distress - except she isn't a woman at all. And yet, does that make it any more right?
So far, it's been an interesting lead in to the whole Matrix mythos. I'm downloading the second episode now (90 minutes to go) with high hopes.
52 Weeks, 52 Religions with John Hummel
B is for Bananamatrix ... Dominatrix? oooh.
C is for Canadamatrix
D is for
I knew I should have set up that cron job to check for the new episode...
alias uptime="echo '5:33pm up 22342352324 days, 6:28, 2124315623 users, load average: 2432.40, 12312.31, 123123.19'"
Or any other version of a P2P sig for it?
The second episode of Animatrix is now available. Slashdot it here.
I feel your pain.
I don't have Flash installed, either.
It would be nice to know what it is we are supposed to be downloading here - come on slashdot editors! Not all of us are Anime fans, and for those that aren't, it would be nice to at least have some indication as to what this is without having to download it (thus wasting bandwidth that could be used by someone who is interested).
When you go to the 'Download File' link it offers the same .mov file but in .sit and .zip formats for mac and windows users respectively.
My question is, why offer what is already a seriously compressed file within another set of, practically useless, compression? I'd guess the time reduced downloading is less than the time it takes to decompress the file (though that is at the user end...). Is there a benefit for the server I'm not geeky enough to know?
Spoilers!!!!!
/Spoilers
I like what they did with the 'feel' in this one, the first one was a little too smooth as well as being too dark. I like the bright color scheme and the crisp, cleaner animation a la Dragon Ball Z, Pokemon etc. Also, Vader is Frodo's FATHER OMG.
Read the geekcode, moron. -WS
An operating system should be like a light switch... simple, effective, easy to use, and designed for everyone.
What Is the Animatrix?
Some kind of Matrix animation I can only speculate.
For those unaware, the AniMatrix is a collection of Anime short stories about the world of the Matrix. The first one from this free series was an *excellent* protrayal of how the machines were created by man, became self aware, and then realized that the humans were exploiting them as slaves. The full DVD has many more short films about the Matrix universe.
Travis
Glad to oblige...
Zipped Quicktime, 640 resolution (largest), 149 MB.
END OF LINE.
10 minutes here. Oh, my isp must sure love me
The second episode wasn't exciting and cool to watch. I hope the remaining episodes are not like this one.
Ant(Dude) @ Quality Foraged Links (AQFL.net) & The Ant Farm (antfarm.ma.cx / antfarm.home.dhs.org).
yeah, great, download it, then post the link on slashdot so you can sell your copy for money cause the animatrix server has been slashdotted.
Hostes alienigieni me abduxerunt. Qui annus est?
I'll download and convert this to XVID AVI, easily playable on Windows with Media Player and Linux with MPlayer. It should be done by tonight, and I'll post it to alt.binaries.multimedia.anime.
thanks for the hints everyone!
When zip is extracted, zip will warn if the download was broken.
What I don't understand is that why they don't use better encryption formats, like rar or ace which support embedding recovery information to the file (so smaller download errors can be repaired with the information already in the file) and offer better compression ratios.
FYI, Donkax.com is offering a bittorrent download of the large version of the movie.
Editor Emeritus and Senior Writer, TeleRead.org
...why aren't the 3 movies animated?
The world of the 'future' in the first prequal was a much richer setting than the live-action movies.
Coulda made for a much more interesting story if they could let their imaginations grow.
*snort* "yes, ugh, Windows fanatic here, ugh, how do I get an MD5 under windows?"
I thought it said the dominatrix!
Now I'm all hot and bothered.
"People who do stupid things with hazardous materials often die." -- Jim Davidson on alt.folklore.urban
Although watching anything to do with the matrix is so exciting I cant explain, i cant help but feel disappointed with the first episode.
Now i have gone back to it and watched it a few times I realise how annoyed I am that the writers tried to explain the rise of the machines. One of the things about the human resistance is that they dont know what happened, and we could all imagine it in out own apocalyptic fashion.
Im downloading the second part now so I hope it is more like the matrix universe we know.
One thing that made the matrix more believeable to "geek culture" is that they didnt try to explain or quantify the computers, they just said that they existed. Thus preventing outdating and movie mumbo jumbo.
Enough of my waffling, im still buzzing while I wait for the clip! only 90 meg to go!!!!
It's My Tea and I'll Drink it if I Want To!
Before Compression (.sit) - 87.9MB
:) It is also a really nice exmple of presentation quality quicktime compression...
After Compression (.mov) - 93.4MB
Time to decompress (iBook 500/66Mhz) - Minutes (though this is an increasing old school computer)...
I can understand why, after times one billion downloads, that saving is cool, and I'm sure the guys who manage that server know what they are doing
I just checked it out and their are no animaniacs to be found. I thought this would be cool spoof using the characters from the animaniacs but all I got was a lousy animeish samurai thing....
Papa Legba come and open the gate
This could be an excelent oportunity to test the distribution of lasge, somewhat unavailable files through a P2P network.
Could someone post the Sig2Dat link?
H-
...about how the MPAA was DoS'd by Slashdot.
I tried to download Animatrix, but instead I think I got "Princess Mononoke in Space".
The next Cmdr Taco duplicate will be ready soon, but subscribers can beat the rush and see it early!
http://bitconjurer.org/BitTorrent/
This is why stuff like BitTorrent (or) would be very cool.
my sig
There is a command line utility available at http://www.fourmilab.ch/md5/. They provide a zip file that contains a windows executable and source code (source is in the public domain). Place the executable someplace in your %PATH% (the Windows directory is a good place) and you're ready to rock.
/<en
http://www.openquicktime.org
Plays just fine. And why the "Off topic"? Not everyone has a broadband connection, it would be helpful to some people to know whether they downloaded it fine on their modem.
Just as a note, the writers of the first Animatrix episode were Andy and Larry Wachowski. This story has always been part of the Matrix universe - if you look around on the Matrix website you can find some online comics that tell the story of the one droid who was trying to defend himself, and they are also co-written by the Wachowskis. This is a pretty integral part of The Matrix's world, and I wouldn't be surprised if the second and third movies delved into this a bit more.
My English teacher once told me that two positives don't make a negative. Two words for her: Yeah, right.
That said, the animation was excellent. I especially liked the formation of flaming arrows and the black and white bamboo. Didn't care much for the big hair though. Action wise there was plent of it.
I can certainly see why she was so angry in the end. She was expecting and revealed that she expected a marriage proposal. Instead it was a test of her loyalty and ability to perform under emotional pressure.
Lasers Controlled Games!
WARNING SPOILERS
Did anyone else think that the ending of this one kind of sucked? For starters, the whole 'oh it was just a dream' type crap is bullshit, and I thought that it made the ending of this episode really cheesy. This episode was really good and quite intense until the very end. "It was just a training simulation...you did very well." Did the writers here just run out of ideas when they got to this part or what?
"Quoting famous computer scientists out of context is the root of all evil (or at least most of it) in programming." - K
you prove my point.
thank you.
get a life.
where do you live? backwoods kuntucky?
You can write one in C# in about 20 minutes. If you have the framework =)
Anyone happen to know off hand if it was done with toon rendering. If so, which package. Some of the parts look like toon rendering, but other parts don't. If it's toon rendering, the shaders have come a long way.
edda4f49d5c0552fe6b72a7ee87b43ec
Forgive the stupid title. Anyways this is definately one of the better movies I've seen. And also probably the top(or close to it)animated movie. This is definately a step forward. It has great animation, its target audience is adults, and keeping with the theme of the movie, its downloadable. After all there is nothing like using a computer to a movie about computers(machines).
FOML: Rise to Power
Repeat after me :
:)
-Quicktime is not closed
-Quicktime is not a format
-Quicktime is not closed
-Quicktime is not a format
Now do that while bunking you head on the wall until you mother takes you to the hospital
Menzoberranzan Networks
The episode primarily deals with returning back to the Matrix. A male and female duel while he argues that they should return back to the matrix and leave "the real world". Whats interesting to me is that at the end we see that this is a simulation/test, so why would there not be safe guards to make sure that this did not happen, ie what happened in The Matrix. They are testing people to see how they would react, but are they assuming that they will catch everyone who would want to go back this way. I figure there would be some sort of safe guard to prevent anything like this happening, in the off chance that they did not catch everyone.
just my 2 cents.
later,
"Im drowning here, and you're describing the water!"
Just in case folks didn't know, a fifth Animatrix short, the one animated by Square (the only other animated feature they did besides the FF movie before shutting down), will be showing theatrically with the Steven King movie Dreamcatcher. This animatrix, The Last Flight of the Osiris, apparently ties together the stories of the Matrix console game and the Matrix Reloaded.
Pretty slick. I think I'm gonna be watching a Steven King movie pretty soon; I don't think I've done that since The Stand.
Editor Emeritus and Senior Writer, TeleRead.org
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I'm sure the last episode of Animatrix will explain how the evil computers converted anime into live action.
Remember 'The Simpsons' Halloween episode when Homer fell into 3-dimensions and then meatspace? Something like that...
Share and Enjoy!
well this is rather confusing. The people that replied to this post are fools and I hope do not represent the rest of the slashdot community.
What I dont understand even more is how you decided to use a 'press-release' about the animatrix as a soap box for bashing someones lifestyle. Did you even watch it? Im sure you didnt get this opinion from seeing the matrix nor from watched this animated short.
Please be more informed before posting something that would stir up such strong feelings.
the whole war that was building up in the first animatrix. although it was pretty cool... it seemed to be completly unrealted and i am a bit disapointed. on a side note... it was a good test of our new OC/3 download time under one minute. -eek
-- sigs suck --
drool at your speed, the pasrt 2 of the secong renessance is comming out next month.
im the anonymos coward that had the first reply to this sick post...
and all i have to say is word up!
This was just a so-so story. The 1st episode was MUCH MUCH better. I mean, the whole rise of robots was a great advance to the whole Matrix story, this one was just some no-name character in a training simulation. Take away the Matrix plot and this could have been any Anime style cartoon.
RonB
It is human nature to take shortcuts in thinking.
Ok, was the large 640x whatever one.
Or do the voices in this short remind me of the voice actors from the Vampire Hunter D : Bloodlust movie?
You people don't know what's good for you, and
you need a strong hand to keep from worshipping
your sources of entertainment.
Of course, you labor under the delusion that
you're 'adults' and are able to 'think for your self'. You're going to spit at anything that's is honestly trying to help you.
For all your 'education' you're nothing but a bundle of if-then statements, hypocracy being non-existent in your mind. After all, you're always right and and everyone likes you.
Did the first one remind any of you of ArmitageIII? Similar animation style, similar themes...
Mehhhhhhhhhhh!
Lookit me!
I'm some body special!
Mehhhhhhh
Go 'celebrate', right,
OK So let's give this a go:
All you Mad Mac fans can click here while all you Insane Windows fans can do the same here
Later!
I should really get around to creating a sig.... Nah - too lazy =)
If you've read Travis's comments above and want to download, for you, we have a couple of links:
All you Mac fans can click here while all you Win fans can do the same here
As for Linux fans like me? I just use my W2K support-laptop from work to play them back =) - What can I say? The players still need work to match the slickness that is Quicktime.
-Travis (a different one)
I should really get around to creating a sig.... Nah - too lazy =)
is kind of like.. a bummer.
What DVD are you talking about?
"...The full DVD has many more short films about the Matrix universe..."
I thought the two were a great mix.
1st Episode - Heavy on plot, heavy naration, no lasting characters, lots of gore, not too much fun action, all in the real world.
2nd Episode - Light on plot, no naration, interesting characters, no gore, lots of fun action, almost all in the Matrix. (Actually the sparring program.)
I mean, you put them together, and that pretty well describes the first Matrix movie. (Except for the gore - I don't really think the first movie had much gore.)
(Al Gore: "I invented the Matrix!")
Education is the silver bullet.
~~~
Yeah, the first episode was so fucking cool. I watched it like 14 times. I can't wait for the continuation (the second renaissance part 2). Damn, that was cool, I'm still getting over it.
The second episode, the one just released, on the other hand, was not interesting to me. Boring.
I kind of thought the
mass robot grave ~= our own historical holocaust(s)
The bit with bulldozers disposing of robot corpses is plagiarised directly from documentary footage of the real Holocaust. I'm pretty sure that there also borrowed bits from the US Civil Rights Movement and the Tianamen Square debacle.
Is this a sigs-optional kind of place? 'Cause I am totally down with that if you know what I mean.
There is a difference between closed standard and closed source.
Quicktime is closed source, but it's an open standard. There is a Open Sourced Quicktime player for Linux, what is not Open is the Sorenson Codec. Sorenson != Quicktime, Sorenson != Apple.
Your post should have been : "Stop using the closed Sorenson Codec".. but you said Quicktime..
This has been repeated countless times on SlashDot.. but it seams you were not aware of it..
Menzoberranzan Networks
Can you people please stop downloading the movie? I'm trying to watch it here! %$#%$ 1kb/s download
Don't go there -- it's Quicktime.
First one I give an A, this one a C How does one convert the damn qt audio? I'd like to convert these to xvid.
I just posted a Shareaza-compatible link for it at Sharelive.
The first episode played fine, but for some reason MPlayer doesn't like the audio in this one? Anyone know how to fix this problem? Bits and pieces of the log: MOV track #1: 2127 chunks, 18746 samples Audio bits: 16 chans: 2 rate: 44100 Audio extra header: len=103 fcc=0x77617665 Fourcc: mp4a -------------- Opening audio decoder: [faad] AAC (MPEG2/4 Advanced Audio Coding) FAAD: Failed to initialize the decoder! ADecoder init failed :(
ADecoder init failed :(
*** Try to upgrade /home/luke-jr/.mplayer/codecs.conf from etc/codecs.conf
*** If it still does not work, read DOCS/codecs.html!
Cannot find codec for audio format 0x6134706D.
Luke-Jr
Is it just me or did the main character get into Cher's wig collection?
Spoooky.
- Zav - Imagine a Beowulf cluster of insensitive clods...
Has anyone else seen this?
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Open up the link to the second episode: "Program" and wait for it to load
Ok, now click and hold on about somewhere beside the bottom right of the picture. Now drag your mouse down and it should start selecting some stuff below the picture...stuff u can't see.
Well i copied and pasted everything and this is waht i got: (**oops...lameness filter..this is the censored version..check out the whole thing yourself..very long**)
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Any clue what this is? Some hidden message or code perhaps? Or just left over stuff from bad page designing...
Try copying and pasting the link at the bottom..
hmm...curious...looks like hidden stuff
~ $ cat program0xA3B1____640_dl.zip | md5sum
ff26788bfb4e2e0f498aba9e4da1ca24 -
The AI Technocore must be very willing for the humans to download these episodes.. what's in them?.. subliminal messages telling us it's all just fiction, most likely.. after all, where better to hide the Matrix idea than in plain sight?..
hehe
Is there anywhere a credits list for these movies? I want to know who did the voices. I was just positive that was Lawrence Fishburne, and I thought he might be doing some sort of weird Samurai take on Morpheus until it turned out he was a different character.
Editor Emeritus and Senior Writer, TeleRead.org
Agreed... Compared with the first, this episode was rather lacking in plot, dialog and detail. One could expect that the third episode will be likewise disappointing, serving only as filler between the two halves of The Second Renaissance.
While some may dismiss the first episode's message as being heavy handed, it plausably conveys a backstory which would bring the 'Matrix world' into being.
I have to say I wasn't impressed this time around. The first installment was excellent, but this latest thing *sigh* the production values of He-Man And The Masters of the Universe and probably the most banal script possible. The dialogue is absolutely appalling to the point where it will make you wince. You don't need to be pre-cognitive to foresee the end of this one after the first minute or so...
Definitely get the first animatrix short, but don't waste your bandwidth on this one. Given the prestige of the Matrix brand I'd hoped quality control would of been a bit stiffer.
the 1st one was good. This sucked ass.
just to make you jealous:
it took me 48 seconds to download.
100%[=>] 157,197,676 3.34M/s ETA 00:00
00:48:23 (3.34 MB/s) - `program0xA3B1____640_dl.zip' saved [157197676/157197676]
The first one was much better.
I had no problems downloading either one at near max speeds for my DSL connection.
This one was too Japanese-ish. Why would she believe she was some kind of martial arts expert in the real world? Who is she? Who's the guy she thinks she's fighting?
I just want to thank the /. editor's for continuing to promote products of companys that are working to make DRM mandatory in all of our computers! Who needs freedom when you can have free anime?
Does this remind anyone else of Ninja Scroll? The animation seems very similar and the scene where they are sparing in the woods is very similar to the scene in ninja scroll with the blind swordsman.
"There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals."
Buy a Mac or a Windows 2000 machine. OR multiboot. Duh.
Anyone who puts their eggs all in on basket is a tool. More so when those eggs are unpopular.
Even without taking directing, environement, graphical style etc. into account, Program and Second Renaissance are very different movies because of their intent : while the latter is about exploring and expanding the universe of The Matrix, Program is merely about using it (as well as the medieval Japan theme) as a backdrop for a story. I'm not saying one is better than the other, I'm just saying the two approaches are wholly different and therefore it's pointless to compare the two movies. Anyway, Program is evidently great, and the challenge of making the universe of the samurai-type film (aside from the setting, the theme of enlightenment through the way of martial arts is underlying throughout the movie) and an universe like that of The Matrix come together in a homogenous work is brillantly met (see the end of the fight). Besides, the feeling you get ealry on that using the Matrix universe is just a pretext for an other Kawajiri samurai story quickly vanishes when you see how he masterfully exploits every possibility of such an universe (i.e. not contending with mere wire fu and bullet time), and most of all are narratively justified : the fancy effects aren't there just to spice up the action, but are justified by the emotions of the characters (the shot of the statue in the crevace, or the change of places (metaphor for the change of emotions of the characters)). One could still blame the slightly stereotypical end and some narrative shortcuts concerning the characters (mainly Duo's emotions and motives) : you can feel how Kawajiri was limited by the "short film" format.
besides, what would you prefer to use? quicktime, windows media, or realmedia? though, i prefer mpeg to any of those...
The Matrix is to movies what wolf3d or doom have been to games. It has set a trend, a particular style of filming which lots of movies seem to be aping.
Also, the "Into the Matrix" premier was the FIRST ever classy premier, for a game. The concept of hiding particular aspects of the movie plot in the game, is a novel idea. The birth of another trend maybe?
The Animatrix: I found the first one interesting, though they "humanized" the robots a bit too much. Bots with bowler hats... ugh. The second one was impressive, cool graphics and strong similarities with the Matrix movie. BUT... why such a LARGE jump between these two episodes? I thought these animations were to fill the gap... but they seem to have jumped that gap. Maybe the following animations will jump back in the timeline and then jump forward again.
The bottomline.. the Matrix universe has got lotsa people hooked, and its here to stay.. for some time... atleast. (hehe.. mebbe 10yrs down the lane, the W. bros may decide to film 3 prequels.. a la George Lucas)
|/________
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I've only seen armitage 3, but the style reaks of Vampire Hunter D in many many more ways. Firstly just the character design alone is unmistakeable. Also there are several scenes/features that are taken directly from D, like when he splits the statue in 2, the reeds of grass and the moving tombstones/statues as they run by them, the realistic approach to combat (getting stabbed actually being fatal), and even the manner in which the scenes are unfolded is just oddly familiar. I'm not a huge anime buff myself so I don't know who did armitage, but I know the directors are one in the same for both films. I have to wonder if Amano did the character illustrations again.
...and short... seems like these are just a quick little sideprojects....
anyhow, cool stuff, even if it's a bit rehashed,
That won't be out until May. You can go to the web site (www.theanimatrix.com) and check - they have a list of what is coming out.
It wasn't a mess up - this is what was expected.
RonB
It is human nature to take shortcuts in thinking.
I think the word you were aiming for is "celibate".
I suggest you all download it as fast as you can, it can't be long until a French company slaps the Brothers W. with a lawsuit.
I mean look: It starts with "A" and ends with "rix", it MUST infringe on the "Asterix" copyright, right?
...after all he was the only one to actually produce the goods.
It's interesting how the Matrix allows us to look at our own lives form different angles. This second episode presents some interesting points, including whether how you live your life is more important than facing certain realities or the same question presented as whether peace is more valuable than struggle. Also, it's interesting to finally see some of the "cyberpunk" sorts of machine-man biomimicry finally make its way into the mainstream without being on a sci-fi "cyborg" basis. Implants, anyone?
Playing the downloaded mov-file on my 2.4GHz P4 512MB RAM Windows computer results in a really laggy experience. Why doesn't Apple ever go bankrupt?
Episode 1
and
Episode 2
I stand corrected,
I dont like it though, Im going to make my own version damn it, anything they can do, i can do with a couple of felt tips and a stills camera!
Will we have the star wars problem of the films/books/comics contradicting each other? this got very confusing at times, or will it be a big, well planned machine.
I wait with baited breath
It's My Tea and I'll Drink it if I Want To!
Fricking Awesome!
Reminds me a lot of Heavy Metal.
Kudo's to the animation studios for going out on a limb like this.
I was having flashbacks just watching the graphics in the first twenty seconds of the first episode!
I just finished downloading the second episode, However my sound system decided to crap out on me, so I have to do the reboot thing.
Thank you, Mr. Gates. May I have another?
omg omg omg. the next ones by Shinichiro Watanabe. Finally, someone who can direct! Pity Faye isnt making a cameo, but you cant have everything.
They were in the machines and technology. In a sim (according to the Matrix Film) they can make things be what they want, so if they want to ride horses and stab things, big deal.
Well I've wrestled with reality for thirty five years doctor, and I'm happy to say I finally won out over it.
How is one of the few posts to actually discuss the content of the episode a troll? Almost everything else posted to this discussion is a discussion of either the Matrix or general posts about the Animatrix and not a discussion of the episode itself. In fact most of the posts I have read seem to be about download speeds. If that isn't offtopic I don't know what is. But here is one of the few posts that is completely on-topic and it gets modded as a troll? Some people's children... end of rant
Lasers Controlled Games!
Link doesn't work. ;-)
At least until 3pm EST
Irene KHAAAAAAN!
Did anyone else think that the fight reeked of Luke fighting off Vader's attempt to convert him to the dark side?
THE LESSER-KNOWN PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES #14 -- VALGOL
VALGOL is enjoying a dramatic surge of popularity across the
industry. VALGOL commands include REALLY, LIKE, WELL, and Y*KNOW.
Variables are assigned with the =LIKE and =TOTALLY operators. Other
operators include the "California booleans", AX and NOWAY. Loops are
accomplished with the FOR SURE construct. A simple example:
LIKE, Y*KNOW(I MEAN)START
IF PIZZA =LIKE BITCHEN AND
GUY =LIKE TUBULAR AND
VALLEY GIRL =LIKE GRODY**MAX(FERSURE)**2
THEN
FOR I =LIKE 1 TO OH*MAYBE 100
DO*WAH - (DITTY**2); BARF(I)=TOTALLY GROSS(OUT)
SURE
LIKE, BAG THIS PROGRAM; REALLY; LIKE TOTALLY(Y*KNOW); IM*SURE
GOTO THE MALL
VALGOL is also characterized by its unfriendly error messages. For
example, when the user makes a syntax error, the interpreter displays the
message GAG ME WITH A SPOON! A successful compile may be termed MAXIMALLY
AWESOME!
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