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Taiwan Tabloid Sensation Next Media Recreate News

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the what's-the-story dept.

Ant writes "Next Media Animation (NWA) became popular due to its animated and sometimes humorous renderings for world news. Their official videos can be found on YouTube." They start by covering the Tiger Woods animation that made these guys known, and then talk about the process and the people behind it. I've attached an Apple video that you might have bumped into recently as well... it's worth the watch if you haven't seen it yet.

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  1. headline by canderley · · Score: 1

    Is it just me, or should there be an "s" at the end of "Recreate?"

    "Taiwan Tabloid Sensation Next Media Recreates News" seems to make a lot more sense.

    1. Re:headline by Shikaku · · Score: 1

      News is plural, so no.

    2. Re:headline by Qzukk · · Score: 1

      "News" has nothing to do with it. In English, verb plurality is determined by the subject, not the object.

      The issue is whether or not "Next Media" is plural or not.

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    3. Re:headline by FuckingNickName · · Score: 2, Funny

      That's the great thing about Latin - you can put object before subject for emphasis and establish meaning from case.

      Oh wait...

    4. Re:headline by WrongSizeGlass · · Score: 1

      "News" has nothing to do with it.

      That's right, because this story isn't news ...

    5. Re:headline by aliddell · · Score: 2, Informative

      News is plural the way sand is plural, and "news" is not verbing; "Next Media" is.

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      What do you think, sirs?
    6. Re:headline by discord5 · · Score: 2, Interesting

      "News" has nothing to do with it.

      That's right, because this story isn't news ...

      I see what you did there!

      Seriously though, slashdot. Is this front-page worthy? What's next? A video of a dog that thinks its people? Do the people running this site even care anymore about the content, or has their inner geek died over the years?

      "It's technology related because it's on the internets!" does not make news for nerds.

  2. Adult Swim Anyone? by mattwrock · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Adult Swim has been running these periodically for about six months now. The first one I remember was Andy Dick causing trouble in a bar....

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  3. wow by MagicM · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Next Media Animation (NWA)

    Seriously? It's like we're not even trying anymore.

    1. Re:wow by rotide · · Score: 1

      No one around here has been trying for a while. Check out ArsTechnica for the news stories you'll see here in the next few hours/days. When you do get a submission it's just a copy/paste from another site/blog. Really, Slashdot has become nothing more than a really slow news aggregation site with, arguably, the best commentary around. At least I haven't been able to find a suitable replacement in that regard.

    2. Re:wow by game+kid · · Score: 1

      That's just the abbreviation for their nickname, Niggaz With After Effects.

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    3. Re:wow by jgtg32a · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Exactly, the comments are the only reason I still come here. There are some really smart people here, as well as the most worthless trolls on the internet.

    4. Re:wow by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

      Check out ArsTechnica for the news stories you'll see here in the next few hours/days.

      Don't worry! Ars has been heading the way of the content aggregator for a while now, and has recently started featuring articles from affiliates. It's only a matter of time before Ars turns to shit too. Would you like some more iPhone stories? No? How about some iPad then for a change? There you go.

      Soon we'll get meta-articles on slashdot where they repost an article about ars posting an article originally written by Wired about the latest thing in mobile devices. And we all know how shitty Wired is.

      Yeah, news for nerds, 3D animations wow, etc

    5. Re:wow by Arthur+Grumbine · · Score: 1

      ...as well as the most worthless trolls on the internet.

      /. has the most worthless trolls on the internet?!? Have you been to 4chan? eBaums? Youtube?!

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    6. Re:wow by mobby_6kl · · Score: 1

      Yeah, everyone knows that Next Media Animation is correctly abbreviated as NAMBLA.

  4. The future of slashdot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    In the unlikely event that geeknet continues to run this site as a going concern, can someone make sure they get the memo about removing the "idle" and "entertainment" sections?

    Thanks.

  5. NWA? by jbigboote · · Score: 1

    why is it NWA, and not NMA?

    1. Re:NWA? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      ... With Attitude

      Hey are these cartoons made using "THe Movies" or the Sims??

    2. Re:NWA? by amicusNYCL · · Score: 1

      You think "Asia's largest animation studio" uses games to do their animating, huh?

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    3. Re:NWA? by camperslo · · Score: 1

      why is it NWA, and not NMA?

      Typos and other strangeness generated while distracted by porn or similar -> Lickdicksia

  6. Wow! by Toe,+The · · Score: 2, Informative

    Bla, bla, bla, bla, bla, bla, bla, bla, bla, bla, bla, bla, bla, bla, bla, bla, bla, bla, bla, bla, bla, bla, bla, bla, bla, bla, bla, bla, bla, bla, bla, bla, bla, bla, bla, bla, bla, bla, bla, bla, bla, bla, bla, bla, bla, bla, bla, bla, bla, bla, bla, bla, bla, bla, bla, bla, bla, bla, bla, bla, bla, bla, bla, bla, bla, bla, bla, bla, bla.

    Sorry... just thought I'd post something more interesting than the OP.

    1. Re:Wow! by drolli · · Score: 1

      Indeed, the article could have tried to be a little more informative.

      Questions like: if they recreate a event wrong and its sent as "news" what are the possible legal consequences?

  7. Re:Yay, more crap by BobMcD · · Score: 5, Informative

    Good thing there are quality articles on the sciences to read here. Oh wait, it's just a stupid youtube promotion

    Hello and welcome to slashdot.org! Here you'll find a wide variety of articles on a range of topics. Typically they will be demarcated by a category name followed by a colon (:). For example this particular article is labeled with "Entertainment:" mark. You'll also note there exists an icon to the right of the summary which generally follows the topic. In this case we have a foot.

    Now, assuming you don't like this story you could:

    A) Post a flame attracting dispute about his this does or does not apply to 'nerds', 'news', and/or 'science'

    OR

    B) Stop electing to view stories labeled with "Entertainment:" or a foot icon.

    Have a nice day, and enjoy your '-1' mods!

  8. Re:Yay, more crap by WrongSizeGlass · · Score: 3, Interesting

    B) Stop electing to view stories labeled with "Entertainment:" or a foot icon.

    There are a lot of smart people here at /., and there's the rest of us ... surely the smart people should have figured out that voting on stories doesn't always work to the advantage of the this site. Democracy is the best form of government but it's not necessarily the best way to decide which stories get posted here.

  9. Meh Bad South Park by guantamanera · · Score: 1

    South Park does it better.

  10. Re:Yay, more crap by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    He didn't say vote for it. He said deselect it entirely.

  11. Re:Yay, more crap by dtml-try+MyNick · · Score: 1

    Democracy is the best form of government but it's not necessarily the best way to decide which stories get posted here.

    You mean something like the way the new digg.com works?
    Or what's left of it anyway ;-)

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  12. Sarah Palin by Tablizer · · Score: 1

    I don't know if this Palin animation is from the same company, but it's funny as hell. Sarah's palm notes are shown with "Norwegians = Dutch, sorta", and with "Drill Baby Drill" crossed off after the BP fiasco. And a Trigger-happy Trigg. (Anybody translate Chinese here?) Enjoy:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWfktZQKL48
         

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    1. Re:Sarah Palin by Tablizer · · Score: 1

      Update: It is one of theirs. I eventually found it on their list. Here is their copy:

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYzU3wSfoq8
         

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  13. No, it's not by Chelloveck · · Score: 1

    it's worth the watch if you haven't seen it yet

    No, it's not, and I want those two minutes back.

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  14. Re:Yay, more crap by Phoghat · · Score: 1

    Actually the best form of government would be a benevolent dictatorship.

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  15. Benevolent dictatorship by tepples · · Score: 1

    Democracy and enumerated powers are tools to keep your dictators benevolent.

  16. Re:Yay, more crap by Eightbitgnosis · · Score: 1

    Pretty words

    But it still has nothing to do with the sciences. It's a news show