Animated Short - This Wonderful Life

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Animated Short - This Wonderful Life

Posted by michael on Friday September 24, 2004 @02:08PM from the hamster-havoc dept.

dfluke2 writes "It's been around for awhile, but Lian Kemp's This Wonderful Life is a very impressive animated short. Over at rendernode there is an interview with Lian, where additional background information can be found about the flick, including other plans for more animated movies. The author also features a gallery with photo shoot style images of the female actress from the short."

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Victory! by daishin · 2004-09-24 14:21 · Score: 5, Funny

Now everyone on slashdot can have a girlfriend!

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1. Re:Victory! by mingrassia · 2004-09-24 15:33 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  Now everyone on slashdot can have a girlfriend!
  
  That's okay, I already have all I can afford.
  
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Yow, Slashdotted already by The+I+Shing · 2004-09-24 14:21 · Score: 3, Funny

Putting the word "female" into a Slashdot post is like pointing a loaded gun at this poor guy's server and pulling the trigger.

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Sheesh by JoeShmoe · 2004-09-24 14:22 · Score: 3, Funny

You'd think with all the time they spend putting little tiny hairs all over her body, they would have found some time to give her some "down there".

Or am I the only one seeing "virtual camel toe"?

http://www.this-wonderful-life.com/various01.htm

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Re:Nothing particularly *advanced* by PolyDwarf · 2004-09-24 14:29 · Score: 3, Funny

I don't know about you, but I'm plenty excited seeing the pictures.
Re:Something about that virtual actress... by Anonymous Coward · 2004-09-24 14:41 · Score: 2, Funny

A nice touch was the subtle camel toe. Problem with that is the contours of the bathing suit fabric overlying the camel toe. Not enough wrinkles in the right places. I'm an expert.

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UHF reference? by j1m+5n0w · 2004-09-24 14:42 · Score: 3, Funny

What's in the box?!

Kuni: Ahhh, a red snapper! Mmmmm, very tasty! Okay, Weaver, you can either hold onto you red snapper... or you can go for what's in the box that Hiro-San is bringing down the aisle right now!
[Hiro-San emerges, carrying a table with a box]
Kuni: What's it going to be, Weaver?
Phyllis Weaver: I'll take the box! The box!
[Applause]
Kuni: You took the box! Let's see what in the box!
[box is opened]
Nothing! Absolutely nothing!! Stupid!! You're so stupid!!!
-jim
1. Re:UHF reference? by Deliveranc3 · 2004-09-24 15:57 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  "Turtles are also natures suction cup!"
  
  *Splat*
  
  "See look it sticks!!!!"
2. Re:UHF reference? by Farrside · 2004-09-24 18:27 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  "Are you ready, Fifi? Are you psyched?"
  
  "ARF Arf arf THUD!"
Re:All I can say.... by Chuqmystr · 2004-09-24 14:48 · Score: 2, Funny

Yup, works for me....
fap fap fap fap fap fap...
Hey! shut the door damnit!
What does a geek do if he wants a chick? by melted · 2004-09-24 15:02 · Score: 4, Funny

That's right, he creates a virtual one. This guy REALLY needs to get laid.
Hair on chest? WT* by GQuon · 2004-09-24 15:06 · Score: 3, Funny

5) Hair - too perfect.
6) Skin on chest

Dude! I read that as "Hair on chest".
Read slashdot while drowsy, be creeped out.

Seriously, though, tiny see-through hairs are natural, but not thick hair. If you're a seriously underweight girl, you risk getting more body hair growth to compensate for the loss of body heat.

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Re:Something about that virtual actress... by lukewarmfusion · 2004-09-24 15:28 · Score: 2, Funny

A conversation about "looking too perfect" and you pick Tommy Lee Jones?!
if you just save a dollar every day ... by n3k5 · 2004-09-24 15:29 · Score: 2, Funny

[...] they would have found some time to give her some [hair] "down there". Or am I the only one seeing "virtual camel toe"?
There is a dark line in the crotch that makes it look like a camel toe, but this would be caused by too tight a panty; no normal amount of pubic hair would counteract this. But don't wore Joe, one day you too will get to check out the anatomy of a vulva. Just follow these simple rules: Be nice and respectful, shower and brush your teeth, and bring cash; that slot is not for credit cards.

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Re:Something about that virtual actress... by glwtta · 2004-09-24 15:34 · Score: 2, Funny

people don't normally move like that, but androids and animations do
Oh good, now I'll be able to pick out all those androids that are running around!

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Re:it's still too perfect... by EricTheMad · 2004-09-24 15:35 · Score: 5, Funny

It is a little similar to what I call Stump the Baby. Babies shown a box where two cars go in and two come out will loose interest quick. Show them two going in and only one coming out- or the opposite- and they'll stare at it for much longer...

Actually, most babies will just pick up the box and use it as a hat.

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Let's get this out of the way. by Anonymous Coward · 2004-09-24 16:12 · Score: 3, Funny

Yup, those are definitely fake.

-ShadeOfBlue
Re:it's a total waste of render-time, really by QuantumG · 2004-09-24 16:54 · Score: 2, Funny

Your reference to uncanny valley combined with his "photoshoot gallery" totally suggests what this guy should be doing: making porn. Sure, it's cheaper to get a DV cam and some chicks who wanna make a few bucks together than it is to make a CGI short but uncanny valley suggests to us that the experience of watching porn vs the experience of watching rendered porn would be two very different things. Different reaction == different market, and as there's no-one in the business of making rendered porn (at least that I know of) that's a market that this guy could own. Of course, that assumes there someone out there who wants to watch rendered porn, but I think it's a given that the range of human perversen is infinite.

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Dig those backgrounds! by jkmartin · 2004-09-24 18:52 · Score: 2, Funny

I liked this better the first time I saw it and it was called "The Sims 3".
Re:Something about that virtual actress... by FauxPasIII · 2004-09-24 20:12 · Score: 2, Funny

Isn't their a statute of limitations on spoilers? For instance, if I were to say "ROSEBUD IS A SLED",
surely you couldn't hold that against me at this late date. ;)

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Re:Something about that virtual actress... by CommanderData · 2004-09-25 01:52 · Score: 3, Funny

Data is dead you insensitive clod !

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Female actress? by Colonel+Cholling · 2004-09-25 02:08 · Score: 2, Funny

The author also features a gallery with photo shoot style images of the female actress from the short.

Somebody mod this phrase -1 Redundant.

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