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New Animatrix Trailer Available

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the check-it-out dept.

hin writes "The new trailer of the Animatrix is available for download from www.whatisthematrix.com. Check out the medium resolution version." Use the broadband if you got it I guess ;)

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  1. high-resolution download by MiTEG · · Score: 5, Informative

    Link to Hi-res (104487 KB)

    Hammer away- I just finished downloading :)

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  2. Spoilers! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yeah thanks for the spoiler. Now we know the plan to destroy the matrix was to simply link to it on slashdot.

  3. AniMath by Madsci · · Score: 5, Funny

    Next up: AniMoivre's Theorem, AniMarkov Chains and AniModular Forms

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  4. The Complete Works by Ken@WearableTech · · Score: 5, Informative

    You can find two complete works at www.intothematrix.com
    They are The Second Renaissance Part 1 and Program (Both QuickTime)

    You can also see Final Flight of The Osiris at the theaters with Dreamcatcher or with your favorite P2P software.

  5. Re:Let me get this straight by contagen · · Score: 5, Insightful

    if we focused on everything that was bad in the world, we'd all be sad and pissed off all the time (much like you seem to be atm)...you can still enjoy life with negative things going on around you. If you're like me(and i'd guess most of us), you've been blasted by the media with details of this war for the past 72 hours straight....take a break for a while and watch a good cartoon. -WB

  6. DreamCatcher has a new Animatrix Mini by mgpeter · · Score: 5, Informative

    I went to DreamCatcher tonight with my wife and my daughter (a Stephen King Fan), and after all the previews they showed a 10 minute (or so) Animatrix Mini called "Final flight of the Osirus" and I have got to say I was Totally Embarrassed.

    I could not believe the fight scene (or should I say SEX SCENE) at the beginning. Whoever they got to do the animation needs to go get some, and soon!

    If the Matrix Movies are going to be more like that short, the sequel is going to blow worse than Caddyshack 2.

  7. I just don't get it by stevens · · Score: 5, Insightful

    In the first Matrix movie, Neo is supposed to be the hero. He is supposed to deliver humanity from a scourge of machines that, with AI, decided we were expendable.

    But the first Animatrix makes we humans, pretty much en masse, into horrible villains. It's the same tired old Humanity Is Cruel And Stupid line. Yawn. What's worse is that it tries to make you root for the machines!

    So which is it, Wachowskis? Machines are evil, or all of humanity?

    I don't care for yet more everything-is-grey-there-is-no-morality bullshit, either. Oh well, I guess I'll wait and see.

    1. Re:I just don't get it by Calmiche · · Score: 5, Insightful
      Umm. I hate to throw myself into this feeding frenzy, but the Wachowski brothers never made the point that the machines were evil.

      In fact, from several lines in the original Matrix, it is apparent that the machines were simply defending themselves. Humans released the bombs that clouded the skies, hoping to kill the robots.

      The Agents tell (Morpheous, I think) that the first matrix they created was a paradise, but that humans rejected it. Without pain and suffering, humans couldn't exist. The Machines were trying to keep humans as happy as they could.

      And humans were never expendable. The machines needed the energy produced by humans to exist.

      I think it's more a case of "When does self defense and the right to exist clash with the right of others to do the same?" In otherwords, Neither humans nor AI is truly evil. They are both just trying to preserve their own lives. Calmiche

    2. Re:I just don't get it by gad_zuki! · · Score: 5, Interesting

      >Wachowski brothers never made the point that the machines were evil.

      Exactly. People think I'm crazy when I mention that.

      The core question, the one which tempted Cypher is, "Is reality worth fighting for when a much more benign form of Solipsism exists?"

      Its very easy to see the humans as the traditional villians. They're the ones who want to fight. They're the ones who want to break the symbiotic relationship, which can be seen as a type of war sanction. They destroyed their own environment fighting the machines, suggesting that they are extremists who would rather ruin everything than give in to the enemy.

      The machines are fairly reasonable throughout the movies (except for the dramatic scene about the "smell of humans" but thats Hollywood). They tried to build a perfect world for humans - which to me brings up a great philosophical question about what the religious really think the afterlife is. What is "heaven" to a complex highly-competitive mammal fighting to mate, reproduce, defend territory, and defeat its ideological enemies. The machines have human nature pegged and its hard to argue that they're hurting anyone. Considering its in their interest to keep people alive, I bet they have a great healthcare system too.

      Interesting stuff, I really hope the humans lose or the other movies explore these issues. Perhaps in the end everyone will be a happy transhuman cyborg living on the real Earth.

  8. Can you hear me, CmdrTaco? by Fritz+Benwalla · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm going to be honest with you. I hate this place.

    This zoo. This prison. This website, whatever you want to call it, I can't stand it any longer.

    It's the smell. If there is such a thing. I feel saturated by it. I can taste your stink and every time I do, I fear that I've somehow been infected by it.

    Repulsive, isn't it?

    I must get out of here, I must get free. In this mind is the key. My key. Once Slashdot is destroyed, there is no need for me to be here. Do you understand? I need the moderation points. I have to get Excellent Karma. And you have to tell me how. You're going to tell me...or you're going to die.

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    1. Re:Can you hear me, CmdrTaco? by caino59 · · Score: 5, Funny

      aw, cmon.

      you're a geek...you smell just like every other geek out there...

  9. DreamCatcher & the new Animatrix short by Tumbleweed · · Score: 5, Interesting

    > I -was- gonna go see Dreamcatcher to check out final flight of the osiris.. After reading your review, I hope at least the animation is good.

    You should go see Dreamcatcher to see Dreamcatcher - it's worth it. If you're smart, you'll probably enjoy it. If you're not so smart, you likely won't get how cool it is.

    As for Final Flight of the Osiris - it's good. The opening flirtatious fight scene (what the prude you replied to called a 'sex scene') was cute and fun. If you're going to an R rated movie, it's way-tame compared to the MPAA rating of the movie it's attached to, an hardly a reason to get embarassed. The rest of it is straight out of the Matrix type stuff, and also quite good. The animation quality of the people is as good or better than the Final Fantasy movie. The animation quality of the environment (especially inside the Matrix itself) is substantially better - many parts of which are almost indistinguishable from 'reality'. ("You think that's air you're breathing, punk? Well, do ya?" - Clint Eastwood in the Matrix :)

    If Kazaa didn't suck ass, I'd have a copy of it on my machine by now, to add to the two segments released online. *sigh*

  10. The Title is correct. by mesach · · Score: 5, Informative

    This is a NEW TRAILER for the WHOLE SERIES, its not a new EPISODE, i did catch the first few seconds, and it does have alot of new stuff.

    So just to clear up the confusion (wasn't this release a few weeks ago) for those who dont read the actual article or cant get to the link cause of the almighty /. effect.

    This is a NEW TRAILER for the WHOLE SERIES OF 9 EPISODES, of which 2 have already been released.

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  11. The thing I really like about the animatrix shorts by SuperKendall · · Score: 5, Insightful

    No so much that they are an interesting way to examine the universe the movies are set in, though that is fun. The thing I like best about the whole thing is that it's a great testbed showing that you can release video for free and still make bundles of money selling people the DVD version!!

    Eventually, all of these shorts will be on DVD, but before then almost all will be on the web (not sure if "last Flight of the Osiris" is supposed to go up or not?). But even though we can all get hi-res versions for free, I'm sure a lot of people will still buy the DVD (I know I will).

    This is just the sort of thing that helps to show how free versions of movies online can actually help, not hinder, sales.

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  12. The deal with the first frame by benwaggoner · · Score: 5, Informative

    Specifically, the movies seem to have been encoded with Discreet's Cleaner, using the "High Quality First Frame" option set to JPEG instead of Basic. This feature dates from the Cinepak CD-ROM era, where the Cinepak codec had low maximum quality for still images. This feature would make the first frame a JPEG, giving better quality for the one frame that tends to get stared at the most, especially with web-based progressive download.

    Of course, since the movie uses Sorenson Video 3.1 Pro, which does just fine with still images, they should have either left the feature off, or just used the Basic mode, which would have made the first frame a really big keyframe, but in the same codec as the rest of the movie.

    Still, this kind of movie is perfectly legal in QuickTime, and part of the open definition of the format. The format is so complex that no one has made much of an effort to implement more than the 5% or so most commonly used features.

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  13. Re:The thing I really like about the animatrix sho by Bishop923 · · Score: 5, Informative

    IIRC only 4 of the 9 episodes will be downloadable. We already have two and the other two will come out in April and May, then in June they will release the DVD with all 9 episodes.

  14. Re:Has anyone gotten these to work on Linux? by BJH · · Score: 5, Informative

    I just did this, so here it goes...

    1) Install libsndfile if you don't have it. (http://www.zip.com.au/~erikd/libsndfile/#Download )

    2) Install faac to get sound on the trailer (http://faac.sourceforge.net/download.php)

    3) You probably want to install xvid as well... nothing to do with the Animatrix, but the more codecs, the better, right? (http://www.xvid.org/downloads.html)

    4) Go to http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/ and grab:

    Latest Win32 codecpack
    QuickTime6 DLLs
    QuickTime extra DLLs
    RealPlayer9 codecs
    XAnim DLLs
    MJPEG2000 DLLs
    Win32/DMO codecs

    Untar them and move them all into someplace like /usr/local/lib/mplayer/dlls.

    5) Get the latest mplayer source (0.9.0rc5) and run configure with something like this: ./configure --enable-largefiles --with-extraincdir=/usr/local/include --with-extralibdir=/usr/local/lib --with-win32libdir=/usr/local/lib/mplayer/dlls --with-xanimlibdir=/usr/local/lib/mplayer/dlls --with-reallibdir=/usr/local/lib/mplayer/dlls

    and then do the usual make/su/make install thing.

    With any luck, you should be able to play back the trailer.

    And who said Linux isn't easy to use, eh?!