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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. 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.

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