This makes the $30K/yr I pay to go to school almost worth it!
I liked the first episode
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Dark+Paladin
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· Score: 5, Interesting
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.
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.
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.
-- -- Kate
How about a link?
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Anonymous Coward
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· Score: 5, Informative
Re:Download Format Question
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Sgs-Cruz
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· Score: 5, Informative
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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Re:What is it?
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Sancho
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· Score: 4, Informative
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).
XVid AVI conversion
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nstrom
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· Score: 4, Informative
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:What is it?
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sweetooth
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· Score: 5, Informative
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
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?"
Bittorrent Link
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Robotech_Master
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· Score: 4, Informative
FYI, Donkax.com is offering a bittorrent download of the large version of the movie.
-- Editor Emeritus and Senior Writer, TeleRead.org
Re:Download Format Question
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FrostedWheat
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· Score: 4, Insightful
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.
Well that's my guess:)
Grrr. Forget the animatrix...
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swordgeek
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· Score: 5, Funny
I thought it said the dominatrix!
Now I'm all hot and bothered.
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Re:What Is The Animatrix?
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Eristone
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· Score: 5, Funny
Here we are folks, watch Animatrix starring.... the Animaniacs! Or maybe The Matrix sequel should have been called Cinematrix
Aww.. come on now. That would have been fun. Could you just see...
Yakko as Morpheus "What is The Matrix? Well, it isn't your Father's Matrix, that's for sure.."
Wakko as Neo "Whoa. I just learned Kung Fu. I'm hungry, when do we eat?"
Dot as Trinity "I'm cute."
Pinky and the Brain as Agents "What are we going to do today, Agent Brain I mean Smith?" "The same thing we do every day, try to take over Zion!"
Slappy Squirrel as the Oracle "C'mon, here. I ain't gettin' any younger ya know."
Re:For those of you that haven't seen it yet:
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fenix+down
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· Score: 4, Funny
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!
Slashdot Mirror
direct download (157MB)
At that point my download will be finished. I thank you for your cooperation.
Dacels Jewelers can't be trusted.
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
mplayer is your friend.
I wish I had a kryptonite cross, because then you could keep Dracula and Superman away.
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'"
The second episode of Animatrix is now available. Slashdot it here.
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.
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 :)
Karma: pi (Mostly due to circular reasoning in posts).
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).
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.
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.
Check out all the info here.
From the site:
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
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?"
FYI, Donkax.com is offering a bittorrent download of the large version of the movie.
Editor Emeritus and Senior Writer, TeleRead.org
My question is, why offer what is already a seriously compressed file within another set of, practically useless, compression?
.mov file, they will try to play it in the browser window. However it will simple download a ZIP file.
:)
When most browsers see a
Well that's my guess
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
[Script Kiddie]: Do not try and slashdot the site. That's impossible. Instead... only try to realize the truth.
[Neo the
[Script Kiddie]: There is no site.
[Neo the
[Script Kiddie]: Then you'll see, that it is not the site that crashes, it is only yourself.
[Neo the
getSexySig();
Here we are folks, watch Animatrix starring.... the Animaniacs! Or maybe The Matrix sequel should have been called Cinematrix
Aww.. come on now. That would have been fun. Could you just see...
Yakko as Morpheus
"What is The Matrix? Well, it isn't your Father's Matrix, that's for sure.."
Wakko as Neo
"Whoa. I just learned Kung Fu. I'm hungry, when do we eat?"
Dot as Trinity
"I'm cute."
Pinky and the Brain as Agents
"What are we going to do today, Agent Brain I mean Smith?"
"The same thing we do every day, try to take over Zion!"
Slappy Squirrel as the Oracle
"C'mon, here. I ain't gettin' any younger ya know."
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!
WEND SPOLER!