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Wall-E Supervising Animator Tells His Story
Denofgeek wrote in to tell us about their story where "Pixar's supervising animator Angus MacLane gives an interesting interview about the technical challenges in bringing Wall-E to the screen. Plus he squeezes in a bit on his love of Lego, too..."
It started as a bet. Hemos bet I couldn't fit a softball up my asshole.
Robin 'Roblimo' Miller.
I think some should do a psychological study on what drives trollers on the internet. What in their past instigates their fetish? for
a). Frist psoting
b). polluting the internets with the kind of foulness even sewage tanks are ashamed of harboring
c). specifically, is it something about Slashdot?
d). Or just the nature of free anonymity in general?
I'm not joking, I bet one could get a PhD with a thesis on one of the above.
Get your priorities right people. I submitted a story around about the same time as this, about yet another huge breach of privacy by Facebook (Here's the story if anyone is interested: http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/security/soa/Logged-in-or-out-Facebook-is-watching-you/0,130061744,339284281,00.htm/). I watched my submission get closer to the red as time passed and this ridiculous advertisement for a film about an animated robot get closer to the black. Now it's on the front page and mine is resigned to the fate of whatever happens to washed up submissions.
Sigh.
CmdrTaco taking money from from Pixar? Maybe he just likes cartoons? Or maybe I need to get a life...
a). Frist psoting
Attention.
b). polluting the internets with the kind of foulness even sewage tanks are ashamed of harboring
Lulz.
c). specifically, is it something about Slashdot?
Nope.
d). Or just the nature of free anonymity in general?
Yup.
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Have you driven a fnord... lately?
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The annual SIGGRAPH meeting is in 24 days August 11-15 at the Los Angeles Convention Center. Its the premiere event for seeing how entertainment graphics is done (great parties too). It can be attended very economically too: day passes are in the $50 range. One day-pass lets you see most of the technical exhibit and a different the film animation. The $800 pass is for attending the technical papers and courses (buy the proceedings) which good if you have all week and a generous boss. I'm flying in one morning, attending two days, leaving the following evening. There is light rail direct from LAX to the conventions center (slow). To me its like a science-fiction convention turned live- with all the futuristic computer graphics hardware and software (and great parties too).
I think he does it because stretching your asshole feels good. Maybe it's endorphins or all those nerve endings. Shrug. Why would someone take pictures and post them on the internet... probably because roblimo was proud of his accomplishment and other (like minded) people would be interested. Different strokes for different folks.