@akacrash: That was my problem with the series. I have it all but have only watched the first two episodes because it was just really, really stressful. Since I don't have time to sit down and marathon shows right now, I just can't get into a show where I take an hour out of my day to feel really bad.
So who wants to start bets on whether or not Catwoman's gonna bite it? I love Nolans films and all, but his female characters have a pretty high death toll.
I wish I had that comic that showed that nearly all of Nolan's films contain the plot 'my girlfriend/wife/lover is deeeeeaaaad'
I wish I had that comic that showed that nearly all of Nolan's films contain the plot 'my girlfriend/wife/lover is deeeeeaaaad'
@TheGreat&PowerfulTurtle: Read some of the stuff he's in recently, espectially Gail Simone's. He's not just a 90's musclehead, he's a really intellectual character and a great foil
You know what the kids are going to be saying these days? Because kids have no idea what the Smurfs are, and they're going to look at them and associate them with the next, nearest familiar thing they resemble.
So kids everywhere are going to wonder why America's House-elves are blue.
So kids everywhere are going to wonder why America's House-elves are blue.
de Lint is one of my favorite authors - we live in the same city so I've met him twice so far, once when I was fairly young and my mum was interviewing him and once in college when we went to the little pub he played fiddle in. Really got me into my urban exploration kick and love of the genre.
What I love best about this stories is how CANADIAN they feel, even if they're ambiguously set in the States. Up here, especially in Ontario, we're really saturated with American media and a lot of times Canadian stories set in cities can come out feeling like they're trying to appeal to American audiences. But de Lint's writing really feels Canadian in a really wonderful way, and some of his stories like Jill the Giant Killer you can really read an Ottawan vibe off of. There's a lot of Ottawa and Toronto written into his city and it just makes the story that much cozier to me.
What I love best about this stories is how CANADIAN they feel, even if they're ambiguously set in the States. Up here, especially in Ontario, we're really saturated with American media and a lot of times Canadian stories set in cities can come out feeling like they're trying to appeal to American audiences. But de Lint's writing really feels Canadian in a really wonderful way, and some of his stories like Jill the Giant Killer you can really read an Ottawan vibe off of. There's a lot of Ottawa and Toronto written into his city and it just makes the story that much cozier to me.
@Megxers: Someplace To Be Flying is one of the best ones I'd recommend. It's a murder mystery/gang plot with two normal people getting mixed up in it, only it involves magical folk too, but not in the 'werewolf cop' sort of way. Just folk who've been around a while.
It's a great introduction to his writing style and his characters, since he uses a lot of the same characters in a few of his books.
It's a great introduction to his writing style and his characters, since he uses a lot of the same characters in a few of his books.
@apizzagirl: Whoever wins, we lose.
@jetRink: Well, originally most small dogs were bred to hunt rats and stuff. Basically, to be cats that listened (slightly) better.
Also I could never cuddle my cat the way I can my boston terrier - my cat would remove my eyes.
Also I could never cuddle my cat the way I can my boston terrier - my cat would remove my eyes.
@SusanDeath: There's a 'Black guy accent'?
@Meredith Woerner: Haha, thanks. I've only just gotten my coffee, so it was a confusing mass clicking as I tried to figure out what was happening.
I'm no Green Lantern reader, so someone help me out here: who the heck is the big-headed creep that I'm assuming is the villain? Shown in pics 20 and 22, which aren't loading for me at all* and I'm totally confused and in the dark.
*seriously, I click on 20 and it loads up 21, click on 22 and it loads of 23, click on any of the next or previous buttons and it still completely skips those two pictures/blurbs. Is it a conspiracy?
*seriously, I click on 20 and it loads up 21, click on 22 and it loads of 23, click on any of the next or previous buttons and it still completely skips those two pictures/blurbs. Is it a conspiracy?
@Hannah Vogel: Yeah, I like it too. The first thing that came to mind when I heard it wasn't Big Bang Theory, it was creepy weird carny folk that bite the heads off of live chickens. It's an apt name.
@a.seivewright: I read that in Oprah's voice.
@HidingInCanada: I think the reason most people dislike motion capture, or at least the most common reason I've heard being an animator, is that it feels entirely pointless. Are you trying to make a real character that interacts with real people and has to feel real, like Gollum or the Navi? Then motion capture makes sense. You're getting a certain actor and you're bringing those nuances into the actor. We animators are mostly humble enough to know that our hive mind isn't perfect enough to perfect those nuances without the little nodes helping us. When it's such an important role in an otherwise life action movie and it needs to blend seemlessly, while still being a character utterly impossible to acomplish with real humans and makeup, then it's a great solution.
Things like Polar Express are cheap because there's no point. You can use real people - why hire Tom Hanks to voice and act a character, and then design it to look EXACTLY like Tom Hanks? Uncanny valley aside, it feels like a blow. It's saying to both animators AND actors, 'the computer does all the work, we just need you for the grunt stuff'
And doing motion capture for a cartoon feels pointless. It's a cartoon, it should act like a cartoon. It should be animated like a cartoon. Just like an animator can't replicate all the perfect nuances that make life so believably lifelike and unique, an actor can't perfect the timing, motion and acting that makes a cartoon so vivid and appealing.
It looks great in screenshots, but in my nitpicky heart it just doesn't feel right.
Things like Polar Express are cheap because there's no point. You can use real people - why hire Tom Hanks to voice and act a character, and then design it to look EXACTLY like Tom Hanks? Uncanny valley aside, it feels like a blow. It's saying to both animators AND actors, 'the computer does all the work, we just need you for the grunt stuff'
And doing motion capture for a cartoon feels pointless. It's a cartoon, it should act like a cartoon. It should be animated like a cartoon. Just like an animator can't replicate all the perfect nuances that make life so believably lifelike and unique, an actor can't perfect the timing, motion and acting that makes a cartoon so vivid and appealing.
It looks great in screenshots, but in my nitpicky heart it just doesn't feel right.
I picked up the book on Monday and it's just great. There's a lot of really nice designs in the book, especially of Megamind himself, and I like how they explain the thought processes too.
The layouts are also gorgeous.
The layouts are also gorgeous.
@meh_siah:
Hopefully the new zombies. While truthfully I just want zombies to stop being popular because I'm utterly terrified of them, mostly I'd rather they be the subject replaced because vampire romance is stiff enough without computers
"'Oh 3-DW-4rD why won't you love me?'
'I am able to love you. But my programing means we must be apart. Beep.'
Hopefully the new zombies. While truthfully I just want zombies to stop being popular because I'm utterly terrified of them, mostly I'd rather they be the subject replaced because vampire romance is stiff enough without computers
"'Oh 3-DW-4rD why won't you love me?'
'I am able to love you. But my programing means we must be apart. Beep.'
I'm so okay with this.
I feel like there's a good nickname we can come up for this team. Both their names are colours...
I feel like there's a good nickname we can come up for this team. Both their names are colours...
While concept art is always awesomer than the finished product, that is some damn awesome concept art and makes me excited for the finished project.
I'm no Green Lantern nerd, but I'm really interested in seeing how this plays out. So far it looks delightfully alien and scifi.
I'm no Green Lantern nerd, but I'm really interested in seeing how this plays out. So far it looks delightfully alien and scifi.
I think it looks good. Why? Because I bet every single one of you looked at it and recognized what it was. I'm no Green Lantern fangirl, but I immediately knew what it was. Granted, I do work in a comic store and this look is subconcious to me now, but still. Not an avid fan, immediate recognition.
As quaint as it is to have the classic lantern used in the comics, it looks silly in a scifi movie pov. Not to mentioned, and I'm just going to put this out there, the comic lanterns are so ingrained as comic lanterns with billions of merchandise things, that it looks like a toy now. If Ryan Reynolds charged his ring in a comic lantern, I wouldn't be able to take the movie seriously. Maybe it's just me. But not only is it's look a little nonsensical considering the actual origin of the lantern, but if they used a replica from the comics it would bring me, and probably a number of people, right out. I'm not looking to see a dude in bright spandex stick in his in a 300$ collectible, that's what Halloween's for. I want to see a high budget, high effect, completely new and outside take on the different elements of the store. I want the aliens to look alien, and that includes their gear. As long as the story's good, they can change the visuals all they want.
And obviously I'm not alone.
As quaint as it is to have the classic lantern used in the comics, it looks silly in a scifi movie pov. Not to mentioned, and I'm just going to put this out there, the comic lanterns are so ingrained as comic lanterns with billions of merchandise things, that it looks like a toy now. If Ryan Reynolds charged his ring in a comic lantern, I wouldn't be able to take the movie seriously. Maybe it's just me. But not only is it's look a little nonsensical considering the actual origin of the lantern, but if they used a replica from the comics it would bring me, and probably a number of people, right out. I'm not looking to see a dude in bright spandex stick in his in a 300$ collectible, that's what Halloween's for. I want to see a high budget, high effect, completely new and outside take on the different elements of the store. I want the aliens to look alien, and that includes their gear. As long as the story's good, they can change the visuals all they want.
And obviously I'm not alone.
@honorabright: Yeah, I've recently realised that I break out far worse when I spend all day drinking coffee/tea as opposed to water. That 8 glasses thing is no bull.
