Live-Action Anime: Casshern

Silverhammer writes "Apple Japan is hosting the trailer (Quicktime required, of course) for an upcoming movie called simply CASSHERN. There have been many attempts at so-called 'live-action anime', but this is possibly the most impressive attempt I've ever seen. Part 'Final Fantasy', part 'Brazil', with CG and green screen work that puts even 'LoTR' to shame. (Hat tip: Penny Arcade)."

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Fish

[melatonin]

The fish is our friend. Or maybe not; see if you find this useful. I got it off the story section of the Casshern site.

As for there, the history which we walk the world where you walk the history which differs completely. The great war continues, as many as 50 years as for the world calls large Asian federal republic and European combination, it had divided into two camps. On end of the long fight, victory it did large Asian federal republic, controlling the east Asian Eurasian continent tract reached the point of. But, those which are obtained with the victory in devastation of human nature, the chemical weapon and the germ weapon, the sequela of the chemical injury and the virus and the radioactivity etc. which the nucleus brings were just the ground which becomes rough. Does the mankind sitting down, just receive loose end?

Um, yeah.

First live action anime?!

[hashwolf]

This is *MUCH* better than the Power Rangers! ;-)

I'm Troy McClure

[Anonymous Coward]

Hi. I'm Troy McClure. You might remember me from such live-action anime films as "Akira IV: Electric Boogaloo" and the NC-17 nude version of "Yu Gi Oh Calcutta!"

Re:Matrix?

[Anonymous Coward]

You killed that site you insensitive clod!

Re:YESS, that's called Kyashan in Italy

[dave_mcmillen]

Guys, that's gonna be great . . .

After seeing it, I just have a couple of concerns:

1) Nobody's eyes are anywhere near big enough. An anime character's eyes should occupy at least half of the surface area of their face, and quiver dramatically in moments of tension.

2) Will there be enough tendrils? It doesn't count as anime unless something (preferably an entire city) gets consumed by a pulsating mass of tendrils.

Re:BitTorrent

[betelgeuse-4]

God uses apache.

English = exoic

[No Such Agency]

Hence the chance that on the street in Tokyo you might see a 12 year old girl wearing a t-shirt with "Free Vagina" on it. Of course, she's the spiritual cousin of all the white North Americans who have Asian-language tattoos, which could translate as "Stupid Honky" for all they know...

Are you sure...

[missing_hed]

are you sure this is a movie based on anime? i didn't see a single person with blue hair...

Strong Bad: ... and for some reason, i got blue hair. ya gotta have blue hair!

Oops!

[mariox19]

And someday I'll enter my golden age of spelling, and not misspell "filmmakers" twice, after having it spelled correctly in the parent post!

Pfff....

[IntergalacticWalrus]

"Live Action Anime" ?! Yeah right, according to the trailer there is not even ONE weirdly colored hairdo.

Re:YESS, that's called Kyashan in Italy

[drinkypoo]

It doesn't count as anime unless something (preferably an entire city) gets consumed by a pulsating mass of tendrils

An entire city? Kinky. I was just gonna say "a blonde".

Re:weta... and color depths

[steveoc]

If I recall correctly from biology class :

Each human eye contains an array of exactly 5760 x 4608 receptors, each of which act as a 16bit CCD.

Data is sampled from this array at a rate of exactly 148Hz, transferred to a framebuffer, and then pushed up along the optic pipeline, where it undergoes various transforms, such as flipping about the X axis so it does not appear to be upside down.

You will note that the resolution of 5760x4608 pixels is an exact multiple of PAL standard resolution 720x576 (8 times, to be exact)

So, if you are having trouble with Gollum appearing a little 'fake', then its probably because you are watching LOTR on a silly NTSC resolution of 720 x 480. This can create banding and other visual artifacts caused by incorrect interpolation along the optic pipeline.

Watch LOTR in PAL format, and you should notice that Gollum is anything but fake.

On a side related issue, it should also be noted that the biological processes which combine the left and right optic framebuffers to produce 3D perception rely on the gathering of meta-data from the environment to aid as hints in the calculations.

The format of this meta-data conforms closely with OpenGL 1.4 standard. For this reason, you will find that a lot of OpenGL based games appear a lot more realistic than their DirectX brethren, since the emitted meta-data is compatible with human internal data processing.

This may change soon, since Microsoft is pushing the DirectX format, and it is widely known that certain processed foods contain genetic mutagens which when combined with exposure to DirectX meta-data cause a 're-programming' of the optic pipeline to use 3D algorithms which are closer to DirectX's meta data than OpenGL's.

So, if you have been playing a lot of XBox games, and merrily munching down McDonalds, then your visual perception may well have been morphing slowly towards a new format.

Worth considering.

Re:Great, now i gotta learn Japanese

[kundor]

Rethink that before it's too late!

http://www-unix.oit.umass.edu/~thoureau/japanese.h tml

Having taken japanese for two years, I can confirm that it is all true.