The standard tools for this are Animo and Toonz AFAIK. Our animator uses Animo the most - these things are very much a matter of personal preference of course. Flash is hopeless for TV productions, take it from me.
You must have missed JURASSIC PARK then... what the hell are you on about? Almost all movie SFX are CGI now, what you're describing sounds EXACTLY like E1 or Tron or even the Last Starfighter to me.
Antz comes off like Citizen Kane next to Shrek. I actually enjoyed Final Fantasy, but it was a fairly anime plot for sure - I gave it a 6/10. Bug's Life, Toy Story 2 and Monsters Inc all did it for me - excellent. I don't understand how people can speak of garbage like Shrek in the same breath as the Pixar movies. Ice Age looks like a lovely job judging from the trailers - can't wait to give it a look.
I'd much rather see a bunch of PhD geeks taking the money than Sly Stallone, Michael Douglas, Keanu Reeves etc etc. Face it, most "actors" are nothing of the sort - they're just pretty faces with nice asses. maybe we can get away from the Pretty-ocracy a little.
I was in the back of a london cab the other day that had a video system called "cabview" installed - ran for about 2mins and then bluescreened. As an ardent Machead, I took a picture.
excuse my ignorance - I thought there was a second reactor installed at Sellafield since the Windscale disaster? I've never been there myself - sounds like maybe I should...
nope, both the UK and France are marginally bigger according to US government stats. Having said that, what is the population of California these days? - I'm guessing around 40 million, which shows up impressively against the 60-odd million that both UK and France have and the 80-odd million Germans. Anyway, now that China has overtaken Italy, we can anticipate Calif, France, UK and Germany falling behind them also in fairly short order - just shows how urgent the need for democracy is in China.
the parliament may be democratic (ish anyway - party lists? very nasty). But the real power in Europe is wielded by the European Commission as you well know. They MAY be benign we can't guarantee that, they certainly are NOT democratic.
Wow! Nice back up. The French/British question (ie who is richer) is directly related to what currency you calculate their respective GNPs in - if you use US dollars, then UK wins but I think the real story is that they're effectively the same size. Out of curiosity - is California the "richest" US state? My previous post assumed so, but, for all I know, Texas or Illinois might be. I'll bet any money you like that Alaska produces more wealth per head than any other US state...
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Citizens of Eire have long had the right of abode in the UK and the abilty to stand as an MP in the UK amongst others. No such reciprocal rights were granted by Eire to UK subjects. Ireland IS dominated by the UK, it's not a political thing it's just that the only state Ireland shares a border with is the UK, Ireland was part of the UK for hundreds of years, there has been major irish immigration into the British mainland for a long time, Ireland has had it's currency pegged to Sterling for much of it's history and, the plain fact is that Eire is a state of maybe 3M citizens sharing the same archipelago with a state of 58M subjects, Ireland is pretty much dependent on the UK for defence - to a much greater extent than the UK depends on the USA. The EU is changing the relationship between the UK and Eire, as is Irish economic prosperity, but hard facts are there to be seen.
thanks for that - consider me schooled! in the UK we also had/have the Guinea but God knows whether it's still a real coin with a real value or not. I think race horses are usually priced in Guineas FWIW.
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damn shame - Euros look really dull. Guilders, Sterling and French Francs are (were?) all IMHO beautifully designed.
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I like it! But surely the Spaniard would be sleeping in preparedness for another great night out. In many ways, your post shows just how f*cking COOL Europe is, so many amazing places to go and people to meet. It seems crazy that the ECB should be in Germany though. German industry is legendary, but the UK leads the world in market-making - London is SO obviously the financial centre of Europe. I live in London, have lived in Paris and grew up in the USA (born in England though). I predict that Europe will once again take pre-eminence in the world during this new century, there's just so much potential here.
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I wrote "mainland UK" though, didn't I? Mainland is ALWAYS a relative term.
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So, according to your definition, the British Isles includes the Falklands and Ascension (and OZ and NZ when they were Imperial possesions?)? Bollocks. the British Isles is the name given to the archipelago including Great Britain and Ireland the Orkney, Shetland, Scilly and Channel Islands.
yeah, the name is completely stupid. The most "European" name for the currency would be the Crown/Shilling/Penny, but it doesn't really fit in well with the EU makeup. Does anyone know where "Dollar" comes from? Dinar? Drachma? Cents are obviously from % or Centime. Seems kind of strange that the USA didn't end up with some kind of Pound variant to me.
I'm a British Euro enthusiast but, with the best will in the world, the Euro has hardly been a roaring success so far has it? And your point about the cost of living is fine, but the same could be said about adopting the US Dollar, no?
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Britain is NOT holding on to NI, the majority of the population of NI simply wants it so. The insanity of the situation is that - within the EU - there's no need for any borders anyway. Ask the majority of mainland UK citizens whether they want NI in the UK and the answer would be overwhemingly no. NI costs the UK a LOT of money and lives.
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a war?? oh come on! luckily they never had to and never did - look at the atrocities that Cromwell committed in Ireland. No one ever wants to see that kind of nightmare again.
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Britannia has 3 nations on it - Scotland, Wales, and England, together known, rather grandly, as "Great Britain". Rather grandly? Great Britain is so-named because it derives from "Grand Bretagne" which distinguishes it from "Bretagne" proper in the Norman mind and tongue. It may not be considered so now, but England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland were all taken by the Normans.
That's nonsense, with the exception of the issue of Sellafield (a British Nuclear power station) the UK and Irish governments have NO major policy clashes. Even Northern ireland isn't really a point of controversy, as both governments seem to accept that NI should determine it's own destiny if at all possible. Sure, there are elements in each state that have different opinions - but the actual goverments of the UK and Eire are a pretty reasonable and pragmatic bunch - as you'd expect in a couple of successful democracies.
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As a Briton, even I would have to say that the D-mark was the strongest currency in the EU by FAR, possibly with Sterling coming second. In purely economic terms, Germany outranks the UK easily. Go ask the OECD, UK and France are fairly even with Italy and Spain next. For comparison purposes, the Spanish economy is around the same size as Mexico's. If you think of European states as you would American ones, then Germany, the UK and France all outrank California or NY.
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WTF? The island of Ireland is part of the British isles, but most certainly an independent state. ireland has always been, and to a certain extent will always be dominated to a degree by England/britain, but only because of shared history/population and the relative sizes of the two states. Irish citizens are accorded several special priveleges in the UK that even other EU citizens do not get, and some say that there are as many Irish living in Britain as there ae in Eire (not including NI even). Apart from the obvious problems in NI, all the "British" nations get on with each other remarkably harmoniously - as an English man myself - I wish foreigners would understand this and try to respect the various identites that make up the nations of the British isles - I would particularly appreciate it if American idiots wouldn't fund terrorism in my country - we've all seen now what a nightmare that is.
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are you a man? If you have a buyer prepared to take a male nipple for a couple of grand - I'd take that offer straight away. Actually, could you put me in touch with them? I could use a new sofa...
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The standard tools for this are Animo and Toonz AFAIK. Our animator uses Animo the most - these things are very much a matter of personal preference of course. Flash is hopeless for TV productions, take it from me.
You must have missed JURASSIC PARK then... what the hell are you on about? Almost all movie SFX are CGI now, what you're describing sounds EXACTLY like E1 or Tron or even the Last Starfighter to me.
Antz comes off like Citizen Kane next to Shrek. I actually enjoyed Final Fantasy, but it was a fairly anime plot for sure - I gave it a 6/10. Bug's Life, Toy Story 2 and Monsters Inc all did it for me - excellent. I don't understand how people can speak of garbage like Shrek in the same breath as the Pixar movies. Ice Age looks like a lovely job judging from the trailers - can't wait to give it a look.
I'd much rather see a bunch of PhD geeks taking the money than Sly Stallone, Michael Douglas, Keanu Reeves etc etc. Face it, most "actors" are nothing of the sort - they're just pretty faces with nice asses. maybe we can get away from the Pretty-ocracy a little.
I was in the back of a london cab the other day that had a video system called "cabview" installed - ran for about 2mins and then bluescreened. As an ardent Machead, I took a picture.
excuse my ignorance - I thought there was a second reactor installed at Sellafield since the Windscale disaster? I've never been there myself - sounds like maybe I should...
nope, both the UK and France are marginally bigger according to US government stats. Having said that, what is the population of California these days? - I'm guessing around 40 million, which shows up impressively against the 60-odd million that both UK and France have and the 80-odd million Germans. Anyway, now that China has overtaken Italy, we can anticipate Calif, France, UK and Germany falling behind them also in fairly short order - just shows how urgent the need for democracy is in China.
the parliament may be democratic (ish anyway - party lists? very nasty). But the real power in Europe is wielded by the European Commission as you well know. They MAY be benign we can't guarantee that, they certainly are NOT democratic.
Wow! Nice back up. The French/British question (ie who is richer) is directly related to what currency you calculate their respective GNPs in - if you use US dollars, then UK wins but I think the real story is that they're effectively the same size. Out of curiosity - is California the "richest" US state? My previous post assumed so, but, for all I know, Texas or Illinois might be. I'll bet any money you like that Alaska produces more wealth per head than any other US state...
Citizens of Eire have long had the right of abode in the UK and the abilty to stand as an MP in the UK amongst others. No such reciprocal rights were granted by Eire to UK subjects. Ireland IS dominated by the UK, it's not a political thing it's just that the only state Ireland shares a border with is the UK, Ireland was part of the UK for hundreds of years, there has been major irish immigration into the British mainland for a long time, Ireland has had it's currency pegged to Sterling for much of it's history and, the plain fact is that Eire is a state of maybe 3M citizens sharing the same archipelago with a state of 58M subjects, Ireland is pretty much dependent on the UK for defence - to a much greater extent than the UK depends on the USA. The EU is changing the relationship between the UK and Eire, as is Irish economic prosperity, but hard facts are there to be seen.
thanks for that - consider me schooled! in the UK we also had/have the Guinea but God knows whether it's still a real coin with a real value or not. I think race horses are usually priced in Guineas FWIW.
damn shame - Euros look really dull. Guilders, Sterling and French Francs are (were?) all IMHO beautifully designed.
I like it! But surely the Spaniard would be sleeping in preparedness for another great night out. In many ways, your post shows just how f*cking COOL Europe is, so many amazing places to go and people to meet. It seems crazy that the ECB should be in Germany though. German industry is legendary, but the UK leads the world in market-making - London is SO obviously the financial centre of Europe. I live in London, have lived in Paris and grew up in the USA (born in England though). I predict that Europe will once again take pre-eminence in the world during this new century, there's just so much potential here.
I wrote "mainland UK" though, didn't I? Mainland is ALWAYS a relative term.
So, according to your definition, the British Isles includes the Falklands and Ascension (and OZ and NZ when they were Imperial possesions?)? Bollocks. the British Isles is the name given to the archipelago including Great Britain and Ireland the Orkney, Shetland, Scilly and Channel Islands.
yeah, the name is completely stupid. The most "European" name for the currency would be the Crown/Shilling/Penny, but it doesn't really fit in well with the EU makeup. Does anyone know where "Dollar" comes from? Dinar? Drachma? Cents are obviously from % or Centime. Seems kind of strange that the USA didn't end up with some kind of Pound variant to me.
I'm a British Euro enthusiast but, with the best will in the world, the Euro has hardly been a roaring success so far has it? And your point about the cost of living is fine, but the same could be said about adopting the US Dollar, no?
Britain is NOT holding on to NI, the majority of the population of NI simply wants it so. The insanity of the situation is that - within the EU - there's no need for any borders anyway. Ask the majority of mainland UK citizens whether they want NI in the UK and the answer would be overwhemingly no. NI costs the UK a LOT of money and lives.
a war?? oh come on! luckily they never had to and never did - look at the atrocities that Cromwell committed in Ireland. No one ever wants to see that kind of nightmare again.
Britannia has 3 nations on it - Scotland, Wales, and England, together known, rather grandly, as "Great Britain". Rather grandly? Great Britain is so-named because it derives from "Grand Bretagne" which distinguishes it from "Bretagne" proper in the Norman mind and tongue. It may not be considered so now, but England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland were all taken by the Normans.
That's nonsense, with the exception of the issue of Sellafield (a British Nuclear power station) the UK and Irish governments have NO major policy clashes. Even Northern ireland isn't really a point of controversy, as both governments seem to accept that NI should determine it's own destiny if at all possible. Sure, there are elements in each state that have different opinions - but the actual goverments of the UK and Eire are a pretty reasonable and pragmatic bunch - as you'd expect in a couple of successful democracies.
As a Briton, even I would have to say that the D-mark was the strongest currency in the EU by FAR, possibly with Sterling coming second. In purely economic terms, Germany outranks the UK easily. Go ask the OECD, UK and France are fairly even with Italy and Spain next. For comparison purposes, the Spanish economy is around the same size as Mexico's. If you think of European states as you would American ones, then Germany, the UK and France all outrank California or NY.
WTF? The island of Ireland is part of the British isles, but most certainly an independent state. ireland has always been, and to a certain extent will always be dominated to a degree by England/britain, but only because of shared history/population and the relative sizes of the two states. Irish citizens are accorded several special priveleges in the UK that even other EU citizens do not get, and some say that there are as many Irish living in Britain as there ae in Eire (not including NI even). Apart from the obvious problems in NI, all the "British" nations get on with each other remarkably harmoniously - as an English man myself - I wish foreigners would understand this and try to respect the various identites that make up the nations of the British isles - I would particularly appreciate it if American idiots wouldn't fund terrorism in my country - we've all seen now what a nightmare that is.
are you a man? If you have a buyer prepared to take a male nipple for a couple of grand - I'd take that offer straight away. Actually, could you put me in touch with them? I could use a new sofa...
get a Mac then man! I think X-Plane is a Mac first product - and the OSX native version is imminent. God, I love my Harrier!