yeah, alien 5.
apparently 20th century fox doesn't have an issue with a movie made with a digital camera and hasbro toys though i do remember they shut down a modifcation pack released by amateurs that allowed players of 'doom 2' to fight against the alien.
in retrospect, that was probably when early talks were going on for a game called alien vs predator (based on the comic book and then made into a movie).
so here you go, all four 'chapters' of the original alien 5.
Showing posts with label animation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label animation. Show all posts
Friday, March 9, 2007
Wednesday, February 14, 2007
red vs blue season 1 complete
not sure how someone managed this, but season one of the insanely popular red vs. blue season one has managed to compile all twenty or so webisodes into one piece that clocks in at around 71 minutes.
always wanted to know what the whole machinima buzz was all about? or heard about the red vs. blue (and no, for those of you south of the 49 we are not talking about the last election) thing and didn't know wtf they were speaking on? well now, you too with the help of youtube.com can experience the joy, the sorrow, the flat out weird drama that put a bunch of texans in the museum of arts and led them to slowly stop working for others and work for themselves.
as an aspiring artist - the idea of working for your own art is the platinum ring. (it once was the gold ring but the global conspiracy of inflation forced me to up the ante - make the cost of living go down and perhaps i'll re-adjust. you know who you are - shape it up)
for those late to the whole 'net thing:
machinima = animation goodness created by mashing up footage from video games.
red vs blue = popular animation utilizing the halo 2 game
the amazing thing is that microsoft, while they might have their heads lodged places they should not be when it comes to operating systems, managed to get it right this time and not serve a bunch of creative smart alecks with entire too much time on their hands any sort of cease-and-desist letter. perhaps they realized, much like maxis did, that they could sell more copies if they stopped treating their customers like criminals and more like, well, intelligent, hopeful and creative human beings.
there's hope that who ever led the gaming division down this enlightened path will get promoted over the OS department. otherwise - the only folks using the m$ OS will be the drones in the suits at the office.
so, here without anymore snarkiness is red vs blue: season 1
always wanted to know what the whole machinima buzz was all about? or heard about the red vs. blue (and no, for those of you south of the 49 we are not talking about the last election) thing and didn't know wtf they were speaking on? well now, you too with the help of youtube.com can experience the joy, the sorrow, the flat out weird drama that put a bunch of texans in the museum of arts and led them to slowly stop working for others and work for themselves.
as an aspiring artist - the idea of working for your own art is the platinum ring. (it once was the gold ring but the global conspiracy of inflation forced me to up the ante - make the cost of living go down and perhaps i'll re-adjust. you know who you are - shape it up)
for those late to the whole 'net thing:
machinima = animation goodness created by mashing up footage from video games.
red vs blue = popular animation utilizing the halo 2 game
the amazing thing is that microsoft, while they might have their heads lodged places they should not be when it comes to operating systems, managed to get it right this time and not serve a bunch of creative smart alecks with entire too much time on their hands any sort of cease-and-desist letter. perhaps they realized, much like maxis did, that they could sell more copies if they stopped treating their customers like criminals and more like, well, intelligent, hopeful and creative human beings.
there's hope that who ever led the gaming division down this enlightened path will get promoted over the OS department. otherwise - the only folks using the m$ OS will be the drones in the suits at the office.
so, here without anymore snarkiness is red vs blue: season 1
really - try the animachine
it's one of those moments when i hear the sky open up and the theme from akira comes thundering through it into my head.
well, especially from the opening motorbike sequence that's for sure. beats 90% of the stuff that the 'mouse' ever created that's for certain.
anyways, the thing is this - i was checking out animation on wikipedia (ah, wikipedia - the most addictive web site i know - one could almost call it infocrack.. ji ji ji) and stumbled upon a last entry for an israeli site named aniboom which looks like your standard short film share site.
except (and here's where the drums start in my head) there is this most excellent thing called the animachine which is this built in animation stand (not unlike the previous post).
(small rant)
here is where the rubber meets the road in the whole web 2.0 thing. the companies that 'get it' are the ones that recognize that we, the visitors, aka those that spend the moolah/dinero/rupees/rubles/bolivars/pesos/loonies are not the enemy.
perhaps it's a competition thing - one of those 'you just wouldn't understand' kind of things - whereby those that are able to combine a certain amount of talent with a whole lot of '... kissing' are able to get to a point where their vision of reality - their whoring of their talent - their attempt to pick your pocket by making you stay through a crappy excuse for a plot - are simply frightened by the same force that brought the world linux, the internet, digg.com and the like. they don't like to have to compete - to actually have to stopping taking the botox injections long enough to actually put several brain cells together.
that kind of attitude is pre web 1.0 - it's the same short sightedness that led them to crying foul over vhs in the early 80's yet by last count it's the one thing that has saved may a liquid lunch from being denied to many a studio exec in crappy suit.
web 2.0 as it's known (bad moniker i agree) allows the customer to comment, invites them to participate and focuses on one thing and one thing only. soon will be gone the days of websites that try to do 80 bazillion things and do them poorly.
(end of rant)
so - take a shot, make your first film and send me a link at cuervos(dot)laugh(at)gmail.com and if i like it enough i'll review it.
well, especially from the opening motorbike sequence that's for sure. beats 90% of the stuff that the 'mouse' ever created that's for certain.
anyways, the thing is this - i was checking out animation on wikipedia (ah, wikipedia - the most addictive web site i know - one could almost call it infocrack.. ji ji ji) and stumbled upon a last entry for an israeli site named aniboom which looks like your standard short film share site.
except (and here's where the drums start in my head) there is this most excellent thing called the animachine which is this built in animation stand (not unlike the previous post).
(small rant)
here is where the rubber meets the road in the whole web 2.0 thing. the companies that 'get it' are the ones that recognize that we, the visitors, aka those that spend the moolah/dinero/rupees/rubles/bolivars/pesos/loonies are not the enemy.
perhaps it's a competition thing - one of those 'you just wouldn't understand' kind of things - whereby those that are able to combine a certain amount of talent with a whole lot of '... kissing' are able to get to a point where their vision of reality - their whoring of their talent - their attempt to pick your pocket by making you stay through a crappy excuse for a plot - are simply frightened by the same force that brought the world linux, the internet, digg.com and the like. they don't like to have to compete - to actually have to stopping taking the botox injections long enough to actually put several brain cells together.
that kind of attitude is pre web 1.0 - it's the same short sightedness that led them to crying foul over vhs in the early 80's yet by last count it's the one thing that has saved may a liquid lunch from being denied to many a studio exec in crappy suit.
web 2.0 as it's known (bad moniker i agree) allows the customer to comment, invites them to participate and focuses on one thing and one thing only. soon will be gone the days of websites that try to do 80 bazillion things and do them poorly.
(end of rant)
so - take a shot, make your first film and send me a link at cuervos(dot)laugh(at)gmail.com and if i like it enough i'll review it.
you too can be walt disney
actually, you can be better than that dude.
seriously, the man had some serious issues to shake. most people just don't know. they think he was this God and family kind of guy but really he was much less than that.
so, there is the start of a kind of industry of turning the tools of the digital age into the hands of the end users.
digitalfilms.com tries to do that by providing the visitor with the ability to create a mix so to speak of characters, backgrounds, titles, and even music.
have at it and hit me back with your film at cuervos(dot)laugh(at)gmail.com
seriously, the man had some serious issues to shake. most people just don't know. they think he was this God and family kind of guy but really he was much less than that.
so, there is the start of a kind of industry of turning the tools of the digital age into the hands of the end users.
digitalfilms.com tries to do that by providing the visitor with the ability to create a mix so to speak of characters, backgrounds, titles, and even music.
have at it and hit me back with your film at cuervos(dot)laugh(at)gmail.com
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