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Webcast of "Bunny"
Dr. Jest
writes "Blue Sky Studios is webcasting their computer animated
short "Bunny" at certain times from March 15-24. You have to
register your name and email address to watch it, but it's
more than worth it. The broadcast quality is excellent, as is
the music by Tom Waits. "
Bunny is awesome. Don't miss it. The lighting and hair
are both stunning. Some of the best Computer Animation
I've ever seen.
I'm all verklempt
heh
I watched it an thought it was good. The story was a bit weak, but the animation was great. The RealMovie encoding did hurt the quality quite a bit (compared to the short mpg clip they provide on their website).
I see several folks asking for mpgs and qts of the movie. Please, hold off on this. First, it's just plain not nice. It's like taking a videocamera to a free showing of a movie then passing out bootlegs. Not very respectful of the artist. Second, making a mpg or qt of the RM feeds won't make them better quality.
Wait for the actual artists to post a mpg or qt. If they don't want to do that, don't just rip them off and do it anyway.
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Jason Eric Pierce
I couldn't find it on the site :(
The first Jurassic Park was the last movie I saw where I was impressed by special effects. There's now NOTHING that impresses me as far as CGI FX go. Which is not to say I don't like CGI movies, A Bugs Life was quite good, but I enjoyed it because it had a good story, good characters and was well 'shot'. The WOW factor is gone.
OOOOOH look at that bunny's hair! It looks like my hair! Oh wow this is sooo cool!! not
No problem. I found it at:
http://bunny.blueskystudios.com/pho to_page.html
At the bottom, there is a very nice, large size clip (5 megs worth).
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Jason Eric Pierce
Yeah, I know what you mean. Ever since I saw my first semiconductor, it's all been more of the same.
1 GHz? *yawn*
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Jason Eric Pierce
The web page recommends getting RealPlayer G2 or Windows Media Player. I had checked out the Windows Media Player for Linux and chucked it because it sucked and MS blantly disregarded the requirements of the LGPL. RealPlayer 5.0 for Linux has been o.k. but some of the sites recommending G2 actually need G2 for viewing. Has anyone actually watch this while in Linux? The fact that this was posted by CmdrTaco makes me wonder if it is even worth registering to view. Not only does he fail to write an objective movie review (IMDB has better written movie reviews for both ST:Insurrection & WingCommander in the "User Comment" area), but some of his comments seem to indicate that Linux is far from being his primary OS. :-(
Oh, yeah. Just what we need.
Ally McBeal dancing with a perfectly-rendered rabbit.
I'd rather see the short in an actual theater than watch a clip distributed ad nauseam (keep it out of email, you yonks!)
Here's an alternative URL... getcha the same thing w/o registering or waiting for a showtime. And if it fails to work for ya, it means I was /.'ed! -pegr
http://w3.one.net/~pegr/bunny.html
Yea, technically it was cool, but the story just really kind of went nowhere AFAIC. I'm sorry, but Pixar is still the best in the biz when it comes to CGI shorts.
There isn't anything wrong with the crux of your argument. However, if it's against the wish of the authors, you should respect that. Kinda like the whole GPL thing.
Maybe you should read the comment after yours.
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Jason Eric Pierce
OK, I registered, went there at the appointed time, and no response.
For that matter, the web site only has buttons to download certain viewers. There is no viewer description page which mentions which viewers are compatible (such as RealPlayer 5.0 for Linux...)
I just watched it on my Linux box using RealPlayer 5. Quite cool, although I agree that the streaming video doesn't do the technical quality any favors. I sure hope these guys get a feature deal soonest.
I was very much impressed with the animation. Cute story too.
--Matthew
They sent out snail mailers about this event, too.
Even tho the streaming video just murdered the quality.
:)
From what you could see tho...it's quite well done...right up there with Pixar studios
worth the trouble to go through to see..
Yay! How about direct digital to DVD! I think Disney is doing that for A Bug's Life (although they're still their clueless old self about not putting any extras on the disc).
I agree. I remember when "Reboot" was first showing on TV. A bunch of my friends were all going nuts over it. I watched a couple of episodes and said "So what? The plot stinks." Maybe I watched the wrong episodes, but I don't think so.
I'm all for the advancement of CGI, but movies are to tell stories, not to show off SGI's latest box.
Gee, I thought it was a happy ending...
Don't just spoil the ending for us!
I understand that it takes a lot of time and effort to put this out there - I don't think that the automatic assumption should be that people who are asking about it are trying to rip anyone off. The nearest film festivals to me are a three hour drive and the cost to get there is out of my budget range...
Leilah
(hoping this is still being monitored by blue sky
~ Leilah
While I would love to see it, I don't think any streaming video program is robust enough to do the short any justice, especially with CGI involved. Streaming audio is not terribly strong yet, and streaming video is a nightmare, even within a T1 connection. I can only imagine the horrors this will do to CGI animation.
Let's all hope for some sort of download to be available. MPG would be best.
-Augie
Hope they have some mpg's of this when its all done. /me wants to watch it on his 17inch monitor :)
Natas
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That's just a silly thing to say around here. Do you remember the dancing baby? That original avi made it around the world in massive circulation two years ago mainly because it was given away. Character Studio could have never advertised like that by having people login and wait for a cruddy video stream. Firstly, the bandwidth still sucks, and secondly, I'd like to see it again --and not just every 3 hours. Besides, the dude isn't making any $$ from the video -just some good advertising. What better way than to circulate the video all over the net? Put your name in the 1st few frames and at the end and your name is everywhere. Get a clue!!!
Please explain how this is done.
Awesome animation. Great storytelling. Excellent screen shots and attention to detail. But Damn does it piss me off to see video shorts (or movies for that matter) that have endings like that!! Why can't I get a happy ending or something that doen't depress me? If I want reality (like death and crap like that) I can watch CNN. I like movies that allow me to escape from reality. Give me what I want dammit!!!!
but some of his comments seem to indicate that Linux is far from being his primary OS. :-(
So what?
So he likes BeOS.
Big deal--his prerogative.
Get a life.
sheesh.
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- Sean
It's a fine line between trolling and karma-whoring... and I think I just crossed it.
- Sean
Mpeg and QUICKTIME I hope. Stuff like this (and the Star Wars trailer) should be in as many formats as possible. QuickTime and mpeg are good portable formats that can reach many users.
Hope somebody converts this to an mpeg file like they did with the Star Wars trailer.
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InstantCool
The animation was beautiful, but the story?! I didn't find it funny or even clever. Guess I missed the point... if there was one. Oh well.
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InstantCool
For those who care...
Circumventing the showtimes for bunny are easy. Once you succesfully log in for a show just save the asx redirector or real media file. Then you can show your frineds the movie whenever you like.
Thanks for the comment about not ripping people off. We at Blue Sky have decided to provide people
with the chance to see the entire film even though
its lower quality than we want. This film was produced on 35 mm film and is of theatrical quality. There is not any format that will have the same kind of quality that you'd see on the big screen.
This film is making the circuit as part of individual film
festivals and a travelling animation festival. The
best way to see it is to (dare I say it) *pay* to
see it projected.
The Bunny website also include medium resolution stills and a pretty decent mpg clip.
http://bunny.blueskystudios.com/
Enjoy it.
We're working on having both Bunny at a theater
near you AND the possibility of being able to
purchase the video. Keep listening to the
bunny website for details. New film festivals
are popping up every day. Los Angeles Independent
Film Festival was announced today!
besides the animation...the story was really good.
bunny had a much more realistic look and feel to anything i've seen produced by pixar. then again it's only a couple minutes long, whereas all the pixar works i've seen span much longer.
didn't rob receive a copy of Bunny on VHS or something? i remember him mentioning Bunny in one of the "goodies i get through slashdot" postings. maybe he could rip an mpeg version. =]
the story went nowhere? the bunny dies...lonely and bitter, but ends up with her husband. the moth just showed her the way er something....