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Animated Tron Spoof Coming to UPN
Gudlyf writes "Sci Fi Wire is reporting that executive producers of 'That 70's Show,' Marcy Carsey, Tom Werner and Caryn Mandabach, are doing a CGI-animated midseason replacement show for UPN called 'Game Over,' which is best described as a sitcom spoofing 'Tron.' The show centers on the Smashenburns, an ordinary suburban family who live in an alternate video-game universe inhabited by action heroes, monsters and cartoon characters. Patrick Warburton and Marisa Tomei will be voicing the husband Rip and wife Raquel respectively."
More seriously, perhaps the people in th US are finally realizing that animation isn't just for children.
perhaps you meant that people in the world are finally realizing this. the US has been responsible for shows like The Simpsons, Futurama, Family Guy and Beavis and Butthead (and more i am sure).
i don't know what country you're from, but it seems the US makes the best adult oriented animated shows. why do i think this? why, here in Russia i can see all the shows mentioned above. of course, the voice overdubs in Russian are sometimes lame, but oh well.
I once saw a short film that was pretty much like that. The characters lived in an alternate video game universe in which daily life involved the usual violence of a FPS and dodging death in various forms. The main character was a boy who was playing a video game in which he had to be nice in order to succeed (e.g. helping an old lady across the street instead of shooting her).
I won't give away the ending. I can't remember the title of the film but it was made in England.
In the early days of cinema (1920's and 1930's) Walt Disney, and others, made a concerted effort to portray animated features as "only for children." This label has stuck, and to some extent has been re-enforced by recent actions of the Walt Disney Corporation. For example, when Disney got the US distribution rights for Princess Mononoke, they showed previews for it before children's movies such as Winnie the Pooh. When the movie actually played in theaters, the dominate audience was mothers with young children, who left after the first decapitation. Surely those mothers now view all adult-oriented animation as extremely dangerous.
Galium Arsenide is the material of the future, and always will be.
Yeah, apparently producer Guber (fuckwit to the stars, and the man responsible for the amount of neon in the last two Batman films) really wanys Kutcher, having failed to get him into the Superman job.
Nolan, rightly, thinks this is a fecking horrible idea, and wants his Memento star Guy Pearce for the role. Personally, I think Pearce would make a great Batman - he's got the chin for the suit, while at the same time being able to play a convincing Wayne when out of it. Getting both right at the same time has been a problem with all of the films so far, to some degree.
"I Know You Are But What Am I?"
For the most part, the stations get it. Do NOT align your shows with other stations so that you're vying for the same demographic. This was dilbert's failure, and this is why it tanked.
If / when this Tron-clone show fails, I hope it's not because of their poor choice on where to have it.
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Just before I got to slashdot, I finished reading an article on the way people are using Sims to create their own sitcoms. http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,59461,00.ht ml This is truly a way in which animation can be used by the masses for expression. I am sure other products using this concept will soon come in the market and make it a legitimate market.
What is interesting in the Sim's story is how many people are using the characters to deal with many deep issues. Right now it is being done using the Album feature, but for his part, "Wright hopes to incorporate the storytelling as a more prescribed feature in next year's The Sims 2, and would like to find a way to let players use motion in order to make movies. " The unintended use of the album feature as what Wright terms "a tool of self-expression" is an example of a phenomenon known as emergence. Eric Zimmerman, the CEO of gameLab and designer of the Web-based game Sissyfight, says emergent play is among the best parts of game designing.
Players "go to a lot of trouble to get the Sims to do things they don't want to do," Wright says, explaining that players must keep their would-be actors fed, clean, rested and happy before they will even consider playing their parts. "So in that sense, it's almost like they're a director.... It's almost like a real movie shoot." Initially, it was all superheroes all the time. But users quickly began making the albums richer, with multilayered characters and multiple episodes. "It went way beyond my expectations," Wright said. "They were sort of like small novels."
What no one imagined -- least of all The Sims' designers -- was that thousands of players would quickly bypass the album's intended use and instead use it to create dozens of staged snapshots, crafting what can be complex, scripted, multi-episode social commentaries, graphic novels or even movies, as it were, with the Sims starring in the lead roles.
Users' sophistication in the current version continues to impress him, [Wright] particularly given the difficulties of getting Sims to perform the roles required of them.
To see a world in a grain of sand, and then to step back and see the beach where the sand lies
1) Star Blazers
2) Battle Of The Planets
I saw a trailer for Spy Kids 3 recently, and it revolves around some evil virtual reality game called Game Over.
Get off my launchpad!
Actually, in the 20s and 30s, animation was aimed towards all age groups and Walt knew that. While many of the "classic" fairy tales told by Disney were based on children's stories, Walt chose them because they lent themselves well to the animation process.
Ask any child what he or she thinks of Fantasia (and later, Fantasia 2000) and you'll undoubtedly hear that it's "boring" or "too long" or something to that effect. Walt may have been producing children's stories but he was also pushing forward the art of animation.
Your point about modern Disney is well taken, but it's public perception that has typecasted animated films, not Disney.
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