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Doug Chiang's Robota

Posted by michael on from the floyd-not-looking-where-he-was-going dept.

inherent writes "Doug Chiang's studio has released a trailer for his upcoming book. The book is a collaboration with Sci-Fi author Orson Scott Card of Ender's Game fame, and will include 75 pieces of Chiang's artwork. Chiang is the Concept Art Director at Industrial Light and Magic (and thus the concept art guy for the Star Wars prequels). Here is a previous slashdot story on him with a link to an interview."

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  1. Re:Huh? by Tirel · · Score: 3, Informative

    RTFA, it's a book *and* an animated movie.

  2. Re:since it's a "film book"... by grug0 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Why not link to the faq while you're at it?

  3. Slashdot "news" by marvin2k · · Score: 2, Informative

    For those who have followed this Robota thing:
    This is *not* a new trailer. It's the same one that has been up there for six months now.

    And no I don't mean to complain about this story since we all know already that the definition of "news" on Slashdot is pretty wide :P

  4. Re:Matrix Reloaded Reloaded by Scrameustache · · Score: 4, Informative
    Is it just me, or does everything sound like a rehash of the Matrix/Terminator concept? Humans build robots, robots take over...

    Isaac Asimov (the guy who coined the term "robotics") gave that theme a name dozens of years ago, he called it the Frankenstein complex. That is why he wrote the 3 laws of robotics, to move away from that theme.

    BTW, the polish play in wich the name "robot" was coined (to mean mechanical anthropomorphic labourers) was also about "men make robots, men abuse robots, robots go awry and take over".
    Way, WAY before matrix/terminator (in the 20's IIRC).

    ...humans form a rebel team to fight the robots

    Battlestar Galactica! Again, before terminator/matrix.

    --

    You can't take the sky from me...

  5. Out of date info by malducin · · Score: 2, Informative

    Also as a reference, Doug Chiang is no longer at ILM. He worked on the 2 prequels but left last year. He is the Art Director for Robert Zemeckis' Polar Express. VFX by Imageworks under the supervision of Ken Ralston:

    Doug Chiang update

    Also in his place Feng Zhu has joined the art team for Episode 3. He is this incredible artist that worked at Blur Studios. You can see more here:

    Meet the Episode III Art Department
    Feng Zhu - Concept Artist