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.
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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Karma: pi (Mostly due to circular reasoning in posts).
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
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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"People who do stupid things with hazardous materials often die." -- Jim Davidson on alt.folklore.urban
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."
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
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'"
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 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
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
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."