The comination of 3D backgrounds and 2D characters was very nicely intergrated.
I liked the story too. It was rather short, and the ending was a bit abrupt, but all in all I think it was a job well done. Not as ambitious as something like Final Fantasy or Titan A.E., but a much more straightforward plot. better emotional content too, IMHO.
I haven't seen a lot of Anime, but I've seen some good and some bad. This is good.
It seems like most of the posters here were reviewing it without having seen it. I thought slashdotters were supposed to be smart.
As far as a marketing concept is concerned, it worked for me. Now I want to see it on the big screen, and I know what I wiil be paying for. Other moviemakers take note. Give us a free taste of something good, and we will gladly pay for the full meal.
And if you like 3D animation, check out my 5 minute streaming movie, ROADTRIP. Quicktime required. Let me know what you think of it.
I am surprised at the low level of perceptions around here. This thing really does something most people just can't do any other way.
Playlists of (almost) your entire music collection?
In this day and age, most people just don't have the storage space for more than a dozen mp3 files on their main drive, and aren't into ripping mp3s, burning CDs, etc. This is no muss, no fuss, at home, at work, at a friends house, on vacation.
I submit the following list of all time great hacks, in roughly chronological order:
Pyramid at Giza Stonehenge Gutenberg's Press Tesla's AC motor Bell's Telephone Hughes' Spruce Goose Sikorsky's helicopter Nasa's Jetpack Kubrick's "2001: A SPace Odyssey" Apple's Macintosh
This is weird, because in the early seventies I was hanging around a lot of comp sci grad students at Yale University in New Haven (where I grew up). And I got my first taste of the Internet (which at the time was refered to as 'ArpaNet' I believe) By a friend who was working in a lab way off the beaten track (away from the rest of Yale's facilities, actually in the middle of the downtown business district). The point? He was working on a reading machine, that would take a book (stack of pages) from a hopper, scan them and read them aloud. I know, you say, 'OCR. what's the big deal?' But remember, this was 1972. When did YOU first see OCR in action? Maybe I am off the track here but I think somehow it relates...
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The comination of 3D backgrounds and 2D characters was very nicely intergrated.
I liked the story too. It was rather short, and the ending was a bit abrupt, but all in all I think it was a job well done. Not as ambitious as something like Final Fantasy or Titan A.E., but a much more straightforward plot. better emotional content too, IMHO.
I haven't seen a lot of Anime, but I've seen some good and some bad. This is good.
It seems like most of the posters here were reviewing it without having seen it. I thought slashdotters were supposed to be smart.
As far as a marketing concept is concerned, it worked for me. Now I want to see it on the big screen, and I know what I wiil be paying for. Other moviemakers take note. Give us a free taste of something good, and we will gladly pay for the full meal.
And if you like 3D animation, check out my 5 minute streaming movie, ROADTRIP. Quicktime required. Let me know what you think of it.
I am surprised at the low level of perceptions around here. This thing really does something most people just can't do any other way.
Playlists of (almost) your entire music collection?
In this day and age, most people just don't have the storage space for more than a dozen mp3 files on their main drive, and aren't into ripping mp3s, burning CDs, etc. This is no muss, no fuss, at home, at work, at a friends house, on vacation.
Wake up people: This is really something new.
I submit the following list of all time great hacks, in roughly chronological order:
Pyramid at Giza
Stonehenge
Gutenberg's Press
Tesla's AC motor
Bell's Telephone
Hughes' Spruce Goose
Sikorsky's helicopter
Nasa's Jetpack
Kubrick's "2001: A SPace Odyssey"
Apple's Macintosh
let's keep as close a watch on these guys as we can, shall we?
Echelon Watch
This is weird, because in the early seventies I was hanging around a lot of comp sci grad students at Yale University in New Haven (where I grew up). And I got my first taste of the Internet (which at the time was refered to as 'ArpaNet' I believe) By a friend who was working in a lab way off the beaten track (away from the rest of Yale's facilities, actually in the middle of the downtown business district). The point? He was working on a reading machine, that would take a book (stack of pages) from a hopper, scan them and read them aloud. I know, you say, 'OCR. what's the big deal?' But remember, this was 1972. When did YOU first see OCR in action? Maybe I am off the track here but I think somehow it relates...