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posted by Unknown at 9:14 PM
Thursday, July 29, 2004
Midnight Eye review: Casshern (Kazuaki KIRIYA - 2004)
Midnight Eye review: Casshern (Kazuaki KIRIYA - 2004)
Perhaps the day's not far off when desperate studio executives snap up the rights to classic kid's cartoon character Anpan Man, an anthropomorphic bean jam roll, and some hot young aesthete with a point to prove reinterprets the rosy-cheeked hero as a tragic Aristotelian avenger reborn from genetically modified yeast. Resurrected at the behest of an omnipotent multinational baked goods manufacturer by his creator Uncle Jam, Anpan Man will engage in a one-bun battle against the megalomaniacal Bacteria Man only to discover the batter-churning truth that he was in fact raised from the same dough as his nemesis. The turgid epic eventually concludes in an apocalyptic showdown that turns the world to croutons.
All flippancy aside, that's essentially what has happened with Casshern. This exhausting superhero morality play is an almost unrecognizable update of a minor animated series from Tatsunoko Pro made in the early 1970s. In a fairly straightforward saga of good vs. evil, powerful androids being developed by kindly scientist Azuma are brought to life by a freak bolt of lightning and instantly get in touch with their hatred for the human race. When they begin to terrorize mankind with an army of killer robots, Tetsuya, Azuma's son, valiantly volunteers to be reborn as the bionic hero Casshern in a desperate bid to save the world. He is joined by the cyborg dog Friender, who also helps him cut down on travel expenses by conveniently morphing into a spiffy jet from time to time.
Unfortunately for Friender, a victim of his own implausibility, his role has been reduced to a brief cameo appearance in the live-action remake. But just like the cast-iron pooch, only superficial traces of Casshern's original form remain in the new version. What was once a simple tale of a selfless hero taking on a clearly malevolent enemy has been transmogrified into a grandiose and convoluted statement on the destructive nature of humanity, embellished by a heavyweight cast of morally ambiguous characters and an all-consuming visual aesthetic that permeates every frame.
Now Azuma (played by Akira Terao) is a troubled geneticist obsessed with developing a cure for his angelic wife Midori (Kanako Higuchi)'s debilitating illness, a by-product of the environmental devastation wrought by fifty years of conflict between the Greater Eastern Federation and Europa. Their headstrong son Tetsuya (Yusuke Iseya), who can no longer bear to stand idly by while his friends go off to fight, enlists in the Federation army to the disapproval of his family and his beatific fiancé Luna (Kumiko Aso).
To alleviate the suffering of the ailing populace, Azuma has devoted himself to the development of a restorative "neo-cell" technology. His work is scorned by the Health Ministry, but secretly brought under the wing of the military by duplicitous businessman Naito (Mitsuhiro Oikawa) on behalf of the Federation's geriatric generalissimo Kamijo (Hideji Otaki), whose son (Hidetoshi Nishijima) is scheming to usurp his authority. Just as Azuma's grand experiment appears to be on the verge of producing results, a freak incident at the research facility causes a huge vat of regenerating body parts to reintegrate into humanoid form. The military reacts instinctively by annihilating the abominations, but a meager band of survivors manage to abscond to a deserted castle in the mountains with Midori as their hostage. After uncovering a dormant robot arsenal, the mutants' wild-eyed leader Brai (Toshiaki Karasawa) vows bloody revenge and unleashes an all-out war.
Elsewhere, during a traumatic tour of duty, Tetsuya is killed in combat. His body is returned to the desperate Azuma, who revives him using the neo-cell technology but the process renders his physiology highly unstable. Luna's military scientist father (Fumiyo Kohinata) comes to Tetsuya's aid by bestowing him with a prototype body armor, and with his newfound powers the physically and emotionally scarred hero sets out to save his mother and put an end to the carnage wrought by Brai and his minions. However, in the tenebrous world of Casshern, innocence is a scarce commodity, and even the righteous are not without sin...
It's almost as if first-time feature filmmaker Kazuaki Kiriya thought he was only ever going to get one shot at making a movie, and then proceeded to cram as many different ideas into it as he could. Hardly an industry insider, the U.S.-based photographer and sometime music video director jumped the queue to auteurdom apparently on the strength of his comprehensive vision for the project, and his hands-on approach encompassed editing, shooting and co-writing Casshern. Working with a reported budget of only 600 million yen (less than six million US$), Kiriya and his collaborators have transcended their financial limitations to produce a visually sumptuous fantasy that more than holds its own against comparable European and American productions.
The production managed to attract a stellar lineup of familiar veterans and popular new faces, and even has the luxury of casting the likes of Mayu Tsuruta (Owl's Castle) and the late Tatsuya Mihashi (Not Forgotten) in minor roles. The tone of the acting varies from character to character: Iseya smoulders with internal anguish, while Karasawa invests his overripe villainous spiel with a Shakespearian weight. But even with such an impressive array of reliable talent on board, discussion of the quality of the performances is virtually moot. The real stars of the show are Kiriya, production designer Yuji Hayashida, visual effects supervisors Toshiyuki Kimura and Koji Nozaki, CG supervisor Haruhiko Shono, and the rest of the team that has given Casshern its painstakingly detailed look. Every frame has been so meticulously designed that the sheer volume of visual information sometimes becomes a chore to process. Consequently, the density of the film's imagery is both its greatest strength and its most overwhelming flaw.
It's also yet another movie of late to adopt the retro sci-fi look, including Innocence, Steam Boy, and the forthcoming American film Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow. As with the latter movie, most scenes have been digitally manipulated either partially or in their entirety, which has a powerful initial impact that gradually distances the viewer from the human element of the story as it wears off. Nevertheless, Casshern represents a massive technical achievement, one even more remarkable when you consider that the gargantuan workload was largely done by a sweatshop of young CG artists, who toiled almost around the clock on PCs assembled from spare parts procured from electronics mecca Akihabara.
It's not a totally binary affair though; there's even room for a bit of cute stop motion animation and home video-style footage. Although it may appear out of step with the overall look of the film, this isn't a total departure from its intermittently sentimental tone. Where it really lays it on too thick is a montage sequence that includes actual war footage, a great deal of it instantly recognizable to anyone who's watched television news in the last fifty years. Probably the most blatant artistic conceit in the whole film, it achieves the opposite of its intended effect by emphasizing its shallowness; a symptom of trying to be too showy when a more subtle approach would have paid greater dividends. This is especially true in some of the action sequences, where choppy editing and optical overload sometimes detracts from their fluidity.
Kiriya's music industry connections, including million-selling pop singer and spouse Hikaru Utada, were possibly another factor in getting the film off the ground. This would be confirmed somewhat by the soundtrack CD, which features a separate disc of songs "inspired" by the film, many from high-profile musicians that have worked with Kiriya in the past. The score, while not inherently unpleasant, runs incessantly at a low level throughout Casshern's entire duration like designer elevator music. This becomes particularly grating during scenes when a little silence would have gone a long way, and its constant presence coupled with the lush art direction occasionally makes you feel as if you're watching an anthology of Kiriya's music videos.
Depicting a totalitarian industrialist future which is strikingly evocative of what may have happened if the Axis powers had won World War II and Japan had accomplished its Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere, Casshern attempts to pack a whole shopping list of earnest issues including pollution, scientific ethics, ethnic genocide and war crime into what is ostensibly a special effects-driven event flick. As a result, the story offers a great deal more to chew on than that of your average CG spectacular in the rare moments when the visual onslaught lets up a little, but the convoluted strands of plot entangled around its unsophisticated anti-war message make for sometimes unnecessarily confusing viewing. The characters are painted in shades of grey so thin that almost everyone is guilty of some crime, and not even the innocent escape punishment, which gives Casshern the dubious distinction of being perhaps the most unrelentingly austere and humorless superhero film of all time.
Considering the recent success of similarly pessimistic glimpses of the future such as Battle Royale and Dragonhead, perhaps we are witnessing the birth of a new, uniquely Japanese mutation: the unapologetically nihilistic commercial blockbuster.
Perhaps the day's not far off when desperate studio executives snap up the rights to classic kid's cartoon character Anpan Man, an anthropomorphic bean jam roll, and some hot young aesthete with a point to prove reinterprets the rosy-cheeked hero as a tragic Aristotelian avenger reborn from genetically modified yeast. Resurrected at the behest of an omnipotent multinational baked goods manufacturer by his creator Uncle Jam, Anpan Man will engage in a one-bun battle against the megalomaniacal Bacteria Man only to discover the batter-churning truth that he was in fact raised from the same dough as his nemesis. The turgid epic eventually concludes in an apocalyptic showdown that turns the world to croutons.
All flippancy aside, that's essentially what has happened with Casshern. This exhausting superhero morality play is an almost unrecognizable update of a minor animated series from Tatsunoko Pro made in the early 1970s. In a fairly straightforward saga of good vs. evil, powerful androids being developed by kindly scientist Azuma are brought to life by a freak bolt of lightning and instantly get in touch with their hatred for the human race. When they begin to terrorize mankind with an army of killer robots, Tetsuya, Azuma's son, valiantly volunteers to be reborn as the bionic hero Casshern in a desperate bid to save the world. He is joined by the cyborg dog Friender, who also helps him cut down on travel expenses by conveniently morphing into a spiffy jet from time to time.
Unfortunately for Friender, a victim of his own implausibility, his role has been reduced to a brief cameo appearance in the live-action remake. But just like the cast-iron pooch, only superficial traces of Casshern's original form remain in the new version. What was once a simple tale of a selfless hero taking on a clearly malevolent enemy has been transmogrified into a grandiose and convoluted statement on the destructive nature of humanity, embellished by a heavyweight cast of morally ambiguous characters and an all-consuming visual aesthetic that permeates every frame.
Now Azuma (played by Akira Terao) is a troubled geneticist obsessed with developing a cure for his angelic wife Midori (Kanako Higuchi)'s debilitating illness, a by-product of the environmental devastation wrought by fifty years of conflict between the Greater Eastern Federation and Europa. Their headstrong son Tetsuya (Yusuke Iseya), who can no longer bear to stand idly by while his friends go off to fight, enlists in the Federation army to the disapproval of his family and his beatific fiancé Luna (Kumiko Aso).
To alleviate the suffering of the ailing populace, Azuma has devoted himself to the development of a restorative "neo-cell" technology. His work is scorned by the Health Ministry, but secretly brought under the wing of the military by duplicitous businessman Naito (Mitsuhiro Oikawa) on behalf of the Federation's geriatric generalissimo Kamijo (Hideji Otaki), whose son (Hidetoshi Nishijima) is scheming to usurp his authority. Just as Azuma's grand experiment appears to be on the verge of producing results, a freak incident at the research facility causes a huge vat of regenerating body parts to reintegrate into humanoid form. The military reacts instinctively by annihilating the abominations, but a meager band of survivors manage to abscond to a deserted castle in the mountains with Midori as their hostage. After uncovering a dormant robot arsenal, the mutants' wild-eyed leader Brai (Toshiaki Karasawa) vows bloody revenge and unleashes an all-out war.
Elsewhere, during a traumatic tour of duty, Tetsuya is killed in combat. His body is returned to the desperate Azuma, who revives him using the neo-cell technology but the process renders his physiology highly unstable. Luna's military scientist father (Fumiyo Kohinata) comes to Tetsuya's aid by bestowing him with a prototype body armor, and with his newfound powers the physically and emotionally scarred hero sets out to save his mother and put an end to the carnage wrought by Brai and his minions. However, in the tenebrous world of Casshern, innocence is a scarce commodity, and even the righteous are not without sin...
It's almost as if first-time feature filmmaker Kazuaki Kiriya thought he was only ever going to get one shot at making a movie, and then proceeded to cram as many different ideas into it as he could. Hardly an industry insider, the U.S.-based photographer and sometime music video director jumped the queue to auteurdom apparently on the strength of his comprehensive vision for the project, and his hands-on approach encompassed editing, shooting and co-writing Casshern. Working with a reported budget of only 600 million yen (less than six million US$), Kiriya and his collaborators have transcended their financial limitations to produce a visually sumptuous fantasy that more than holds its own against comparable European and American productions.
The production managed to attract a stellar lineup of familiar veterans and popular new faces, and even has the luxury of casting the likes of Mayu Tsuruta (Owl's Castle) and the late Tatsuya Mihashi (Not Forgotten) in minor roles. The tone of the acting varies from character to character: Iseya smoulders with internal anguish, while Karasawa invests his overripe villainous spiel with a Shakespearian weight. But even with such an impressive array of reliable talent on board, discussion of the quality of the performances is virtually moot. The real stars of the show are Kiriya, production designer Yuji Hayashida, visual effects supervisors Toshiyuki Kimura and Koji Nozaki, CG supervisor Haruhiko Shono, and the rest of the team that has given Casshern its painstakingly detailed look. Every frame has been so meticulously designed that the sheer volume of visual information sometimes becomes a chore to process. Consequently, the density of the film's imagery is both its greatest strength and its most overwhelming flaw.
It's also yet another movie of late to adopt the retro sci-fi look, including Innocence, Steam Boy, and the forthcoming American film Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow. As with the latter movie, most scenes have been digitally manipulated either partially or in their entirety, which has a powerful initial impact that gradually distances the viewer from the human element of the story as it wears off. Nevertheless, Casshern represents a massive technical achievement, one even more remarkable when you consider that the gargantuan workload was largely done by a sweatshop of young CG artists, who toiled almost around the clock on PCs assembled from spare parts procured from electronics mecca Akihabara.
It's not a totally binary affair though; there's even room for a bit of cute stop motion animation and home video-style footage. Although it may appear out of step with the overall look of the film, this isn't a total departure from its intermittently sentimental tone. Where it really lays it on too thick is a montage sequence that includes actual war footage, a great deal of it instantly recognizable to anyone who's watched television news in the last fifty years. Probably the most blatant artistic conceit in the whole film, it achieves the opposite of its intended effect by emphasizing its shallowness; a symptom of trying to be too showy when a more subtle approach would have paid greater dividends. This is especially true in some of the action sequences, where choppy editing and optical overload sometimes detracts from their fluidity.
Kiriya's music industry connections, including million-selling pop singer and spouse Hikaru Utada, were possibly another factor in getting the film off the ground. This would be confirmed somewhat by the soundtrack CD, which features a separate disc of songs "inspired" by the film, many from high-profile musicians that have worked with Kiriya in the past. The score, while not inherently unpleasant, runs incessantly at a low level throughout Casshern's entire duration like designer elevator music. This becomes particularly grating during scenes when a little silence would have gone a long way, and its constant presence coupled with the lush art direction occasionally makes you feel as if you're watching an anthology of Kiriya's music videos.
Depicting a totalitarian industrialist future which is strikingly evocative of what may have happened if the Axis powers had won World War II and Japan had accomplished its Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere, Casshern attempts to pack a whole shopping list of earnest issues including pollution, scientific ethics, ethnic genocide and war crime into what is ostensibly a special effects-driven event flick. As a result, the story offers a great deal more to chew on than that of your average CG spectacular in the rare moments when the visual onslaught lets up a little, but the convoluted strands of plot entangled around its unsophisticated anti-war message make for sometimes unnecessarily confusing viewing. The characters are painted in shades of grey so thin that almost everyone is guilty of some crime, and not even the innocent escape punishment, which gives Casshern the dubious distinction of being perhaps the most unrelentingly austere and humorless superhero film of all time.
Considering the recent success of similarly pessimistic glimpses of the future such as Battle Royale and Dragonhead, perhaps we are witnessing the birth of a new, uniquely Japanese mutation: the unapologetically nihilistic commercial blockbuster.
posted by Unknown at 1:24 PM
CASSHERN TRAILER AND MOVIE CLIPS (Yusuke Iseya, Toshiaki Karasawa) - TheMovieBox.Net
posted by Unknown at 1:19 PM
Wednesday, July 28, 2004
Transportation Futuristics : A Presentation of the Harmer E. Davis Transportation Library
posted by Unknown at 8:52 AM
Tuesday, July 27, 2004
Monday, July 26, 2004
http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~uv2t-adc/shun-ya/gallery/top/galleryTOP_08.htm
posted by Unknown at 5:04 PM
The Lord Of The Rings Movie - Available Now!
The Lord Of The Rings Movie - Available Now!: "The Movie Version of
The Lord of the Rings - -
Available Now!
Sooo! You thought you would have to wait for December of 2001 to see a movie version of The Lord of the Rings, and then still be annoyed because Peter Jackson was only releasing it a third at a time? You've watched the notorious and unfinished Bakshi version so often you could deliver all the miswritten dialogue yourself? Your videotape of Rankin-Bass' 'The Return of the King' has been viewed so many times that holes are being worn through the mylar? Have you been finding yourself wishing that Zimmerman's version of the movie had been filmed, however badly, just so you could have a complete film to watch?
Well, fear no more! After long and extensive digging through private film archives, the staff of the Tolkien Sarcasm Page has been able to uncover the complete movie version of The Lord of the Rings! And through the miracle of the Internet and the latest advancements in compression technology, this movie epic can now be made available for immediate download!
You will need Apple's QuickTime Movie Player, version 4 or later, to view the movie. QuickTime is freely available for both Apple and Windows platforms, though if I may say so they're lagging somewhat behind on Linux support.
The movie file is 18.5 MB in size, and takes approximately 45 to 70 minutes to download from a good 56K modem connection. This is not bad, considering that Mr. Jackson required 27.5 MB to release just the trailer for his version."
The Lord of the Rings - -
Available Now!
Sooo! You thought you would have to wait for December of 2001 to see a movie version of The Lord of the Rings, and then still be annoyed because Peter Jackson was only releasing it a third at a time? You've watched the notorious and unfinished Bakshi version so often you could deliver all the miswritten dialogue yourself? Your videotape of Rankin-Bass' 'The Return of the King' has been viewed so many times that holes are being worn through the mylar? Have you been finding yourself wishing that Zimmerman's version of the movie had been filmed, however badly, just so you could have a complete film to watch?
Well, fear no more! After long and extensive digging through private film archives, the staff of the Tolkien Sarcasm Page has been able to uncover the complete movie version of The Lord of the Rings! And through the miracle of the Internet and the latest advancements in compression technology, this movie epic can now be made available for immediate download!
You will need Apple's QuickTime Movie Player, version 4 or later, to view the movie. QuickTime is freely available for both Apple and Windows platforms, though if I may say so they're lagging somewhat behind on Linux support.
The movie file is 18.5 MB in size, and takes approximately 45 to 70 minutes to download from a good 56K modem connection. This is not bad, considering that Mr. Jackson required 27.5 MB to release just the trailer for his version."
posted by Unknown at 1:07 PM
Windows Howto
Windows Howto
This is a howto for making files available via BitTorrent for people runing Windows. If you're not running Windows, or prefer command line interfaces, you should follow the instructions in README.txt in the source distribution.
1. Get a tracker
You need a tracker for downloaders to be able to find each other. Because a tracker should be on a very reliable net connection, it's strongly recommended that you use a tracker run by someone else, especially if you don't have a co-located machine. Everyone else making files available via BitTorrent will be using a tracker, you should ask one of them for the url of theirs. (A single tracker can handle a huge number of files with very little load.) Don't use anyone's tracker without their permission, that's rude. (Tracker urls are contained in .torrent files.)
If you want to run your own tracker, follow the instructions in the README.txt in the source distribution.
2. Set up a web server
Any web server will do, but you must associate the extension .torrent with the mimetype application/x-bittorrent. You should ask your web server's administrator to set it up.
If you are the web server administrator, either add the line
AddType application/x-bittorrent .torrent
To httpd.conf, or
application/x-bittorrent .torrent
to mime.types.
3. Make the .torrent files
Download and install completedir from the download page. It will install under Start -> All Programs -> completedir.
Next, take all the files you would like to make .torrents for and put them in a single directory. If there's a whole directory you'd like to make a single .torrent for, make it a subdirectory. If you only want to make a .torrent of one file, put it in a directory by itself.
Then run completedir. Click on 'select' and select the directory which you put all the files in. Enter the url of the tracker you're using in the 'announce url' field. You can leave the piece size at the default value. (Smaller piece sizes cause better performance, but make bigger .torrent files.)
Click 'make' and .torrent files will be created. For a file named 'spam', a file named 'spam.torrent' will be created.
If you want to create more .torrents, you don't have to remove the old files, just add the new files to the directory and click 'make' again. Completedir checks for existing .torrents and doesn't regenerate them.
4. Put the .torrent files on your web server
Do this however you normally put files on your web server - .torrent files are just ordinary static files.
5. Install BitTorrent on your machine
Given that you're reading this you've probably installed BitTorrent already, but if not get it from the download page.
6. Start a complete downloader
For people to download it is necessary for there to be at least one downloader which has everything to begin with. Enter the url you put the .torrent file at into your web browser, and select the complete local file as the location to save to. After checking that the file is intact, the downloader will report that the download has succeeded, and wait for peers to upload to.
If there are multiple files you'd like to distribute, you have to start a separate downloader for each of them.
It is essential that your complete downloader be able to receive incoming connections. If you're behind a firewall or NAT, you should forward ports 6881 through 6889 to your machine. (The first downloader uses 6881, the next 6882, etc.)
7. Link to the .torrent file
You can link to the .torrent file as an ordinary hyperlink. Sending the url in email also works.
Have fun!
This is a howto for making files available via BitTorrent for people runing Windows. If you're not running Windows, or prefer command line interfaces, you should follow the instructions in README.txt in the source distribution.
1. Get a tracker
You need a tracker for downloaders to be able to find each other. Because a tracker should be on a very reliable net connection, it's strongly recommended that you use a tracker run by someone else, especially if you don't have a co-located machine. Everyone else making files available via BitTorrent will be using a tracker, you should ask one of them for the url of theirs. (A single tracker can handle a huge number of files with very little load.) Don't use anyone's tracker without their permission, that's rude. (Tracker urls are contained in .torrent files.)
If you want to run your own tracker, follow the instructions in the README.txt in the source distribution.
2. Set up a web server
Any web server will do, but you must associate the extension .torrent with the mimetype application/x-bittorrent. You should ask your web server's administrator to set it up.
If you are the web server administrator, either add the line
AddType application/x-bittorrent .torrent
To httpd.conf, or
application/x-bittorrent .torrent
to mime.types.
3. Make the .torrent files
Download and install completedir from the download page. It will install under Start -> All Programs -> completedir.
Next, take all the files you would like to make .torrents for and put them in a single directory. If there's a whole directory you'd like to make a single .torrent for, make it a subdirectory. If you only want to make a .torrent of one file, put it in a directory by itself.
Then run completedir. Click on 'select' and select the directory which you put all the files in. Enter the url of the tracker you're using in the 'announce url' field. You can leave the piece size at the default value. (Smaller piece sizes cause better performance, but make bigger .torrent files.)
Click 'make' and .torrent files will be created. For a file named 'spam', a file named 'spam.torrent' will be created.
If you want to create more .torrents, you don't have to remove the old files, just add the new files to the directory and click 'make' again. Completedir checks for existing .torrents and doesn't regenerate them.
4. Put the .torrent files on your web server
Do this however you normally put files on your web server - .torrent files are just ordinary static files.
5. Install BitTorrent on your machine
Given that you're reading this you've probably installed BitTorrent already, but if not get it from the download page.
6. Start a complete downloader
For people to download it is necessary for there to be at least one downloader which has everything to begin with. Enter the url you put the .torrent file at into your web browser, and select the complete local file as the location to save to. After checking that the file is intact, the downloader will report that the download has succeeded, and wait for peers to upload to.
If there are multiple files you'd like to distribute, you have to start a separate downloader for each of them.
It is essential that your complete downloader be able to receive incoming connections. If you're behind a firewall or NAT, you should forward ports 6881 through 6889 to your machine. (The first downloader uses 6881, the next 6882, etc.)
7. Link to the .torrent file
You can link to the .torrent file as an ordinary hyperlink. Sending the url in email also works.
Have fun!
posted by Unknown at 9:16 AM
Sunday, July 25, 2004
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Browse Top Level > Moving Images > SIGGRAPH > Animation Screening Room 2001
posted by Unknown at 12:16 PM
Program Details for Cartoon Network's ''Quick Draw El Kabong''
Program Details for Cartoon Network's ''Quick Draw El Kabong''
Cartoon character ''Quick Draw McGraw'' becomes EL KABONG the HERO and fights EL BAD GUY with his steel guitar. El Kabong & Babalooie ride into a garishly colored small town in Mexico that is inhabited by Day of the Dead skeleton townfolk. El Bad Guy and his cohorts are generally out to get the townfolk. El Kabong saves them and heroine Linda Neigh from certain disaster at the end of the piece, and El Bad Guy gets his just desserts.Hand-painted characters and backgrounds were scanned into the MAC and animated in MAC After Affects. Music by the band CALEXICO.
Director: George Evelyn
Producer: Liz Gazzano
Production Company: Wild Brain, Inc.
Contact information:
sharonr@wildbrain.com
www.wilbrain.com
2650 18th Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
United States
415-216-2026
Fax: 415-553-8009
Keywords: Animation Screening Room 2001
This piece is copyrighted. No use other than non-commercial viewing by individuals is authorized without the express consent of owners, listed above.
Cartoon character ''Quick Draw McGraw'' becomes EL KABONG the HERO and fights EL BAD GUY with his steel guitar. El Kabong & Babalooie ride into a garishly colored small town in Mexico that is inhabited by Day of the Dead skeleton townfolk. El Bad Guy and his cohorts are generally out to get the townfolk. El Kabong saves them and heroine Linda Neigh from certain disaster at the end of the piece, and El Bad Guy gets his just desserts.Hand-painted characters and backgrounds were scanned into the MAC and animated in MAC After Affects. Music by the band CALEXICO.
Director: George Evelyn
Producer: Liz Gazzano
Production Company: Wild Brain, Inc.
Contact information:
sharonr@wildbrain.com
www.wilbrain.com
2650 18th Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
United States
415-216-2026
Fax: 415-553-8009
Keywords: Animation Screening Room 2001
This piece is copyrighted. No use other than non-commercial viewing by individuals is authorized without the express consent of owners, listed above.
posted by Unknown at 12:11 PM
Program Details for Platonic Chain
Program Details for Platonic Chain
It's a innovational Japanese Cel Animation tasted full 3D CG Animation. These short-story series are written by japanese popular writer KoujiWatanabe, and these near-futuristic stories narrate the life of japanese teens girls with broad-band mobile phones in Tokyo.We could show to produce traditional japanese-style animation perfectly by using full 3D ComputerGraphics based approach.We use many softwares as 3DstudioMAX, Ink'n'Paint(courtesy of Blur Studio),Discreet combustion,Adobe AfterEffects,and so on.We use many Dual Pentium3 based PC as hardware.Further, we have adopted optical-based motion capture system to animate CG characters.
Director: Jun Asakawa
Producer: Nanae Fujisawa
Production Company: ACiD inc.
Contact information:
hk@acid-inc.com
www.acid-inc.com
""3-6-6 Nishi-Azabu,Minato-ku""
Tokyo, 106-0031
Japan
81-3-3445-0111
Fax: 81-3-3445-0115
Keywords: Animation Screening Room 2001
This piece is copyrighted. No use other than non-commercial viewing by individuals is authorized without the express consent of owners, listed above.
It's a innovational Japanese Cel Animation tasted full 3D CG Animation. These short-story series are written by japanese popular writer KoujiWatanabe, and these near-futuristic stories narrate the life of japanese teens girls with broad-band mobile phones in Tokyo.We could show to produce traditional japanese-style animation perfectly by using full 3D ComputerGraphics based approach.We use many softwares as 3DstudioMAX, Ink'n'Paint(courtesy of Blur Studio),Discreet combustion,Adobe AfterEffects,and so on.We use many Dual Pentium3 based PC as hardware.Further, we have adopted optical-based motion capture system to animate CG characters.
Director: Jun Asakawa
Producer: Nanae Fujisawa
Production Company: ACiD inc.
Contact information:
hk@acid-inc.com
www.acid-inc.com
""3-6-6 Nishi-Azabu,Minato-ku""
Tokyo, 106-0031
Japan
81-3-3445-0111
Fax: 81-3-3445-0115
Keywords: Animation Screening Room 2001
This piece is copyrighted. No use other than non-commercial viewing by individuals is authorized without the express consent of owners, listed above.
posted by Unknown at 12:06 PM
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Thursday, July 22, 2004
Clipart deSIGN Vector FLAMES Store - Tribal Flames, Vinyl Flames, Free Vector Flames Samples
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Club Tokyo :: Kaiju Collectibles Reference Database :: Online Godzilla, Gamera, Ultraman, and Kaiju Toy and Collectible Reference :: ISSN # 1547-8866
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Descensor, landscape procedural game engine for games and simulators in realtime.
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D Sculptor
D Sculptor
D Sculptor 2
D Sculptor 2 is a program that allows you to quickly create sophisticated 3-D models of real-world objects using nothing but a PC and an ordinary digital camera. It differs from previous 3-D modelling software products as it is able to model not only regular polygonal objects, but also intricate organic shapes.
D Sculptor 2
D Sculptor 2 is a program that allows you to quickly create sophisticated 3-D models of real-world objects using nothing but a PC and an ordinary digital camera. It differs from previous 3-D modelling software products as it is able to model not only regular polygonal objects, but also intricate organic shapes.
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HexaSuper is a modeler that supports "3D Manga" and Pixar's subdivision surfaces.
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bitoogle :: the bit torrent file search engine (bittorrent)
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the torrent file search engine (bittorrent, bit torrent)
get torrent statistics (disabled)
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the torrent file search engine (bittorrent, bit torrent)
get torrent statistics (disabled)
(files, bytes, seeders, leechers, etc.)
for more options, advanced search...
searching a lot of sites | designed and interfaced by smash
(7/14/2004) note:
searching with torrent statistics has been disabled due to lacking system resources locking-up the search server. The 'show torrent statistics...' links are still functional.
this is not google. if that's what you're looking for, click here.
google interface for personal use only (this is non-commercial)
advertisements on the search results are exclusively to help cover bandwidth costs
any google sponsored ads shown outside of the banner are included to support google
want to donate bandwidth $$$? there's a paypal button here
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Space 1999
Space 1999: "Martin made 86 models for Space 1999 whilst working on this immensely popular and groundbreaking TV serial."
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Deep Discount DVD
Deep Discount DVD: "Batman is back in this Emmy-winning animated series. During the day mild-mannered millionaire Bruce Wayne seems like your average--albeit wealthy--Gotham City resident, but at night, when the crime comes out, so does his alter-ego. With the help of his trusty sidekick Robin, Batman attacks the evil forces that are constantly threatening to overpower Gotham City. Picking up where the comic book series left off, BATMAN THE ANIMATED SERIES introduces new and exciting storylines that will have viewers coming back for more. Contains twenty-eight action-packed episodes. "
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Japanese Sound effects and what they mean
Japanese Sound effects and what they mean: "
jabon = big splash (see also shapu, zabu, and bashan, picha, pisha for smaller splashes)
jaki = glint of something sharp
jan, jan jan = tada!
jiiiiii, jiiiin, jiiiito, jiiiton = the sound of staring, of silence, or of remaining frozen/ motionless. Often used in djs to indicate that a character is moved beyond words, stunned beyond words, or just generally beyond words. (see also shiiiin) As a word, jitto emphasizes being motionless, jiitto emphasizes the duration of being still.
jiku jiku = numbness
jiro, jiro-jiro-to = a hard look. 'Jiro-jiro-to' means 'in a fixed, staring manner.'
jiri, jiri jiri = something scraping on the ground. Sometimes used for a charater inching forward or backward
jitabata = flail one's arms and legs (or one's tail, in the case of 'The Mermaid Princess' ) (compare to dotabata for running around in confusion)
jiwa = tears welling up
jiwa jiwa = slowly but steadily
jo, joro joro = water/liquid flowing or pouring (see also dara dara, jururu, zururu)
jabon = big splash (see also shapu, zabu, and bashan, picha, pisha for smaller splashes)
jaki = glint of something sharp
jan, jan jan = tada!
jiiiiii, jiiiin, jiiiito, jiiiton = the sound of staring, of silence, or of remaining frozen/ motionless. Often used in djs to indicate that a character is moved beyond words, stunned beyond words, or just generally beyond words. (see also shiiiin) As a word, jitto emphasizes being motionless, jiitto emphasizes the duration of being still.
jiku jiku = numbness
jiro, jiro-jiro-to = a hard look. 'Jiro-jiro-to' means 'in a fixed, staring manner.'
jiri, jiri jiri = something scraping on the ground. Sometimes used for a charater inching forward or backward
jitabata = flail one's arms and legs (or one's tail, in the case of 'The Mermaid Princess' ) (compare to dotabata for running around in confusion)
jiwa = tears welling up
jiwa jiwa = slowly but steadily
jo, joro joro = water/liquid flowing or pouring (see also dara dara, jururu, zururu)
posted by Unknown at 9:56 AM
Manga Sound Effects...
aaaaa - ahhh
bachi - blink
ban - bam/bang
biku - perk/jerk/flinch
bikun - perk/jerk/flinch
Bo----- - blahhhh/duhhhh
boroboro - something falling apart/sound of tears dropping
boso - whisper/speaking quietly
bu--- - fart/bzzzz (you’re wrong!)
chira - flicker/glancing at someone noise
chu - smooch/squeak
daaaa - dash
dadadadada - stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp
dandan - bam, bam (knocking loudly on door)
doka - smack
doki - heart thump
dokin - heart thump
dokun - heart thump
don - boom
dosun - thud
fanfanfan - siren noises
fu--- - sigh (romantically/tiredly)
furafura - feeling faint
furufuru - shivering noises
ga - smacking noise
gabaaaa - a glomping/clomping sound effect
gako - clunk
ga---n - gonnng/noise kind of like "damn my luck"
gara - sliding noise
gashan - CRASH
ge - ack
giku - gulp
gu - squeeze/grip/clench
gusu - very snotty sniffle
gyaaa - a lower-pitched shriek (usually male)
gyu - squeeze
goooooo - burning noises
ha(small tsu) - gasp!
haahaahaa - panting
hi--- eeeeek!/eeeeep!
hiku - hiccup
hiso - whisper
ho--- - sigh (of relief), "phew"
hogya hogya - crying baby
hyoi - umph
iraira - irritated sound effects
ja---n - ta-dah!
ji----- - stare
jiro jiro - stare
jita bata - struggling to get away noises
kaaaa - blush/flush
kacha - click
kachin - cha-ching! (as in money, most of the time)
kasa - rustle
kashan - crash
ki - glare
kiii - screech
ki---n ko---n ka---n ko---n - the school bell
kirakira - sparkle
konkon - knock, knock
kokun - nod
koron - tumble
koso - sneak
kunkun - sniff, sniff (smelling)
kuru - whirl
kusu - giggle
kusun - sniffle
kyaaaa - shriek
mo--- - a cow’s moo
mu - pissed off/offended noise
muchu - smooch
muka - pissed off/offended noise
ni - grin
nikkori - smile
niko - simle
nikoniko - smile
nya - grin
nyari - grin
ogya ogya - crying baby
pachi - blink
pachipachi - clap, clap, clap (applause)
panpan - pat, pat (as in dusting off hands)
patan - sound of a door closing
peko - bow
peko peko - growling stomach
perapera - sound of someone talking
pero - lick
pi - beep
piiii - the sound of a whistle
piku - perk
pita - perk (you were doing something, like walking, then you suddenly stop)
po--- - blush (in a daze/romantically)
pon - poof
puchi - snap
pun - to smell/stink shi----n - silence
shu - whoosh!
shun--- - depressed sound effect
(small tsu) - at the end of words/other sound effects, it sort of serves as a silent "p" or an exclamation point.
supan - slap
suppon - splash
sutasuta - sound of shuffling feet
tatatatata - running noises
tsu/(small tsu) - ouch!
tokun - heart thumping softly
ton - pat
ueeeee (with " attached) - barf
uki - monkey noises
waaaaa - sound of a man/boy screaming
wai wai - excited noises
waku waku - nervous/excited noises
wan - woof
yoroyoro - wobble, wobble
za - slash/rustle
zaaaaa - sound of the ocean or pouring rain
zawa zawa - sound of a crowd murmuring
zoku - chill
zukin - sound of someone being struck with emotional/physical hurt.
bachi - blink
ban - bam/bang
biku - perk/jerk/flinch
bikun - perk/jerk/flinch
Bo----- - blahhhh/duhhhh
boroboro - something falling apart/sound of tears dropping
boso - whisper/speaking quietly
bu--- - fart/bzzzz (you’re wrong!)
chira - flicker/glancing at someone noise
chu - smooch/squeak
daaaa - dash
dadadadada - stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp
dandan - bam, bam (knocking loudly on door)
doka - smack
doki - heart thump
dokin - heart thump
dokun - heart thump
don - boom
dosun - thud
fanfanfan - siren noises
fu--- - sigh (romantically/tiredly)
furafura - feeling faint
furufuru - shivering noises
ga - smacking noise
gabaaaa - a glomping/clomping sound effect
gako - clunk
ga---n - gonnng/noise kind of like "damn my luck"
gara - sliding noise
gashan - CRASH
ge - ack
giku - gulp
gu - squeeze/grip/clench
gusu - very snotty sniffle
gyaaa - a lower-pitched shriek (usually male)
gyu - squeeze
goooooo - burning noises
ha(small tsu) - gasp!
haahaahaa - panting
hi--- eeeeek!/eeeeep!
hiku - hiccup
hiso - whisper
ho--- - sigh (of relief), "phew"
hogya hogya - crying baby
hyoi - umph
iraira - irritated sound effects
ja---n - ta-dah!
ji----- - stare
jiro jiro - stare
jita bata - struggling to get away noises
kaaaa - blush/flush
kacha - click
kachin - cha-ching! (as in money, most of the time)
kasa - rustle
kashan - crash
ki - glare
kiii - screech
ki---n ko---n ka---n ko---n - the school bell
kirakira - sparkle
konkon - knock, knock
kokun - nod
koron - tumble
koso - sneak
kunkun - sniff, sniff (smelling)
kuru - whirl
kusu - giggle
kusun - sniffle
kyaaaa - shriek
mo--- - a cow’s moo
mu - pissed off/offended noise
muchu - smooch
muka - pissed off/offended noise
ni - grin
nikkori - smile
niko - simle
nikoniko - smile
nya - grin
nyari - grin
ogya ogya - crying baby
pachi - blink
pachipachi - clap, clap, clap (applause)
panpan - pat, pat (as in dusting off hands)
patan - sound of a door closing
peko - bow
peko peko - growling stomach
perapera - sound of someone talking
pero - lick
pi - beep
piiii - the sound of a whistle
piku - perk
pita - perk (you were doing something, like walking, then you suddenly stop)
po--- - blush (in a daze/romantically)
pon - poof
puchi - snap
pun - to smell/stink shi----n - silence
shu - whoosh!
shun--- - depressed sound effect
(small tsu) - at the end of words/other sound effects, it sort of serves as a silent "p" or an exclamation point.
supan - slap
suppon - splash
sutasuta - sound of shuffling feet
tatatatata - running noises
tsu/(small tsu) - ouch!
tokun - heart thumping softly
ton - pat
ueeeee (with " attached) - barf
uki - monkey noises
waaaaa - sound of a man/boy screaming
wai wai - excited noises
waku waku - nervous/excited noises
wan - woof
yoroyoro - wobble, wobble
za - slash/rustle
zaaaaa - sound of the ocean or pouring rain
zawa zawa - sound of a crowd murmuring
zoku - chill
zukin - sound of someone being struck with emotional/physical hurt.
posted by Unknown at 9:50 AM
Stolen from Tokyo Damage Report...
One of the things that disturbs and amuses foreigners new to japan is the SOUND EFFECTS of their comic books.
The Japanese manga industry created tons of sound effects for things that are normally soundless. It seems silly at first , right? But think about it: Even though we all KNOW that there's no sound in outer space, Star Wars just wouldn't have been popular if there weren't loud-ass explosions, right? It just feels more satisfying to have a Death Star go KABOOM, even though it defies all laws of physics. So, Japanese comics are just doing the same thing. . . using sounds to add emphasis to actions which might otherwise not catch the reader's attention. Still, if you're like me, you will ask yourself, 'HOW THE HELL DO THEY DECIDE WHAT A WET VAGINA SHOULD SOUND LIKE??'
Take this handy quiz, and see if you can . . .
MATCH THE ACTION TO THE SOUND EFFECT
| SOUND EFFECT | ACTION |
| BUCHAN | penis going up a butt |
| NYARUUU | penis coming out of a butt |
| BIGU BIGU | penis being sqooshed between 2 bodies |
| KORI KORI | pre-cum forming on the tip of the glans |
| CHOBO | vigorous blowjob |
| RARO | penis being yanked |
| BERO | fist groping around inside a colon |
| GUI | penis bumping against resistant sphintcer |
| BYU | ejaculation |
| TORO TORO | nipple being twisted |
| BURUN | plug suddenly popping out of a butt |
| JURU | sphincter slowly closing after plug has popped out |
| BUCHU | spihincter being opened with thumbs |
| GUPU! | fist being suddenly inserted |
| GUGUGU | nipple being licked |
| . GUPO | fist being withdrawn from colon |
| DOPU | alien creature shoving oversized alien vibrator into victim |
Yes, all the sound effects here are taken from hardcore gay porn.
so if you get stumped by the quiz, just grab your hairy, sweaty partner and use the heuristic method. For those of you who don't speak Greek (or Latin for that matter), I'm talking about trial and error: try this at home and see if you can generate the appropriate sounds yourself. If - despite hours of diligent homosexual effort - you still can't make the sound, please email the magazine at gmen@gproject.com and complain about their unrealistic sounds. (FORWARD ME A COPY TOO!)
answers : ,
to find the answers is really simple -- just match the COLOR of the sound effect to the COLOR of the action.
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