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fly me to the moon
Scrappy Little Flies Save The Apollo 11 Mission
A trio of flies follow their hearts on board NASA's Apollo 11, and end up saving the lives of America's first moon-walkers in the animated movieFly Me To The Moon. Follow Nat, IQ and Scooter as they dream big and end up sharing a space suit with Buzz Aldrin (who voiced his own CGI character). Other familiar voices include Tim Curry and Christopher Lloyd. The movie, coming out August 8, is more proof that animated movies are going through a scifi fad, with Wall-E, Space Chimps, Planet 51 and Escape From Planet Earth coming out this year and next. [Fly Me To The Moon]
ufo viral marketing
CGI Artist Did Not Create UFO Pics -- Who Did?
On Friday, I posted about a series of mysterious UFO pictures that have been circulating on the internet, suggesting they were part of a viral marketing campaign. Many commenters said the UFOs were the work of one Kris Avery, a 3D graphic artist who made a music video for Drone filled with images of the spiny ships. So I wrote to Avery to get to the bottom of the mystery, but his response only made the images more mysterious. Apparently, he did do the music video but he did not create the pictures of the UFOs. He based his video on images he'd seen online in UFO enthusiast forums. He actually made the video to prove to "believers" that the original images could have been faked with CGI. And now he's been accused of creating them as a viral marketing campaign. Here's his weird story. More »
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Admiral Adama's Death Race With A Rocket Bike
Battlestar Galactica's post-apocalyptic leader, Edward James Olmos, races his sportscar through a world of flying cars, elevated trains and missile-firing rocket bikes, in this commercial for Farmers Insurance. Olmos has been appearing in Spanish/English Farmers ads for a while now, but this one features CGI world-building by Zach Mandt, who just finished working on Speed Racer. Also, that exploding building Olmos drives up to at the end? According to reader cde, it's the original Mighty Morphin Power Rangers' Command Center, where Zordon and his cylon-esque robot Alpha-5 hung out. Click through for a side-by-side comparison. More »
cj7 review
Attack of the Cute Alien in Stephen Chow's CJ7
Stephen Chow's E.T.-inspired CJ7 opens this weekend, and although it's been critically kicked around like the lowest dog on Earth, we loved the cute little thing. It's not your typical science fiction movie, and it's not even a typical Stephen Chow movie, who is best known for comedies like Kung Fu Hustle and Shaolin Soccer. But this tale of a boy and his cute alien friend was the most fun we've had going to the theater in a long time. Spoilers and clips below. More »
9:04 AM on Thu Mar 6 2008
By Kevin Kelly
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Latest by n/a: I know the clips above were subtitled, but does anyone know if the US release is dubbed? I'd love to take my 6-year-old, and if it's dubbed, that's a no-brainer, but if it's subtitled, I'm not sure that he'd get more »
cloverfield
Secrets Of The CGI In Cloverfield
Cloverfield was best known for its shaky-cam handheld amateur-documentary style. But it actually deserves more props for its ambitious and sweeping scenes of New York in flames and rubble, which appeared in the background of almost every shot. Now a "showreel" from digital effects designers Double Negative shows how a small soundstage or single-block area got "opened up." You can seewhere the actual destruction ends, and the digitally painted stuff begins. And the joins aren't as obvious as you'd expect. (Note: video has no sound.) [Double Negative, via 1-18-08]
Astro Boy Is Actually Sixteen Year Old Candy Factory Owner
Freddie Highmore of Willy Wonka fame will be lending his voice to the upcoming animated version of Astro Boy set to arrive in theaters next year, and we wonder why they chose a 16-year-old with an English accent to play the titular hero. In the manga, Astro is only nine years old... will audiences buy Highmore as a little robo-boy? At least he has the spiky hair down. [Comic Book Movie]
Freddie Highmore of Willy Wonka fame will be lending his voice to the upcoming animated version of Astro Boy set to arrive in theaters next year, and we wonder why they chose a 16-year-old with an English accent to play the titular hero. In the manga, Astro is only nine years old... will audiences buy Highmore as a little robo-boy? At least he has the spiky hair down. [Comic Book Movie]
triviagasm
Teleport Into The Secret History Of Tron
With Jumper opening today and everyone abuzz about teleportation, it seemed like the perfect time to remind everyone of another movie about teleportation: Tron. The device that zaps Jeff Bridges into the video-game world is actually built to teleport matter from one place to another. Learn the secret history of Tron, after the jump.More »
architecture
Construction is nearly complete on the Beijing Olympic Stadium, shaped like a massive steel bird's nest, and the swimming-pool-filled Water Cube, which looks like a piece of glowing alien machinery. This is an actual photo of the buildings at night. We've also got some less-surreal glimpses of them too.
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Beijing Olympic Campus Looks Like CGI
Construction is nearly complete on the Beijing Olympic Stadium, shaped like a massive steel bird's nest, and the swimming-pool-filled Water Cube, which looks like a piece of glowing alien machinery. This is an actual photo of the buildings at night. We've also got some less-surreal glimpses of them too.
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Dark Swarm... Of B-List Actors
A swarm of deadly aliens has attacked the Earth and eaten up everyone and everything on the planet, except for a small group of survivors. What do you do? Make a B-movie of course. Dark Swarm is just that: a CGI alien-infested monster movie, complete with an infestation of B-grade scifi TV actors in its lone band of survivors. They include actors from Stargate, Babylon 5, and Eureka, which might just slate it for the direct to DVD shelves. At least Christopher Judge can finally play a role without having that giant thing that looks like an @ symbol branded onto his forehead. [IESB]
A swarm of deadly aliens has attacked the Earth and eaten up everyone and everything on the planet, except for a small group of survivors. What do you do? Make a B-movie of course. Dark Swarm is just that: a CGI alien-infested monster movie, complete with an infestation of B-grade scifi TV actors in its lone band of survivors. They include actors from Stargate, Babylon 5, and Eureka, which might just slate it for the direct to DVD shelves. At least Christopher Judge can finally play a role without having that giant thing that looks like an @ symbol branded onto his forehead. [IESB]
found footage
The Only Scene In "Last Starfighter" That Shows Starfighting
Thank the star-gods that CGI effects have improved since 1984's The Last Starfighter. Just check out this climactic scene, where our trailer-park video-game champ finally uses his skillz in the space battle you've waited the whole movie for. It looks like an unfinished version of modern CGI effects. Starfighter also takes the "young hero rejects call to adventure" cliche way too far. More »
found footage
The Only Minute Of Burton's Apes You Need To See
The best parts of Tim Burton's Planet of the Apes remake are like a simian version of 300 . The giant ape army looks totally badass, and the "running apes" special effect still looks cutting-edge. Few films since then have used CGI to create such a convincing non-human society. And the explosion, with the apes raining from the sky, is priceless. Too bad the rest of 2001's POTA was so boring we ended up grooming ourselves for long stretches.
planet 51
New Line Cinema announced today that it will be distributing Planet 51, Europe's biggest CGI film ever, in 2009. The $60 million dollar film features astronaut Captain Chuck Baker landing on a planet filled with 1950s-era aliens who live in complete fear of aliens, namely Chuck himself. Gallery of cute aliens after the jump. More »
A Planet of Cute, Human-Hating Aliens
New Line Cinema announced today that it will be distributing Planet 51, Europe's biggest CGI film ever, in 2009. The $60 million dollar film features astronaut Captain Chuck Baker landing on a planet filled with 1950s-era aliens who live in complete fear of aliens, namely Chuck himself. Gallery of cute aliens after the jump. More »
beowulf
Beowulf, the CGI 3D monstrosity that hits theaters Friday, was originally an alliterative Old English poem. Instead of composing a review of this cinematic epic, I'll just go Old English on your ass and alliterate. Below the fold are your spoilers, in verse.
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The Good Shit From Beowulf, In the Form of an Alliterative Poem
Beowulf, the CGI 3D monstrosity that hits theaters Friday, was originally an alliterative Old English poem. Instead of composing a review of this cinematic epic, I'll just go Old English on your ass and alliterate. Below the fold are your spoilers, in verse.
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