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Archive for April, 2008

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Published at Wednesday, Apr 30th, 2008 in Journal. Closed
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K2 Release 6

Published at Tuesday, Apr 29th, 2008 in Clippings. Closed

Largely thanks to Steve’s hard work, you can now pick up release 6 of K2.

Del Toro Hates Heroic Fantasy… Just Saying

Published at Saturday, Apr 26th, 2008 in Clippings. Closed

I don’t want to rub it in, nor do I want to be rabid about it, so I’ll shut up from now until we see a trailer. But this at least deserves mentioning:

First of all, hasn’t anybody noticed that del Toro has repeatedly said he doesn’t like Tolkien, and that he never finished reading “The Lord of the Rings”? Here’s what he told me in Cannes in 2006, when I asked him about the influence of Tolkien and C.S. Lewis on his own work: “I was never into heroic fantasy. At all. I don’t like little guys and dragons, hairy feet, hobbits — I’ve never been into that at all. I don’t like sword and sorcery, I hate all that stuff.” # (via)

Oh, and Hellboy sucked. Just saying…

Oh No. Del Toro for The Hobbit

Published at Friday, Apr 25th, 2008 in Clippings. Closed

In a major step forward on “The Hobbit,” Guillermo del Toro has signed on to direct the New Line-MGM tentpole and its sequel. #

Some might call it a ‘step forward’, others, me, might call it a catastrophic choice of biblical proportions.

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The Making of A New Hope’s CGI Effects

Published at Monday, Apr 21st, 2008 in Journal. Closed

To see the making of these effects ‘in action’ is truly remarkable. Particularly remarkable is how the 3D ‘modeller’ is controlled, by dials. Pulling together various sources, most prominently from Droidmaker, here’s what I could find on Larry Cuba’s CGI effects for Star Wars.

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Coudal does Stanley Kubrick Again

Published at Friday, Apr 18th, 2008 in Clippings. Closed

Coudal has a wonderfully extensive collection of Stanley Kubrick-related links, which was extensively updated yesterday.

Halfway. A Third Done.

Published at Tuesday, Apr 15th, 2008 in Journal. Closed

April 15th, and Script Frenzy is half empty. Me, I like to think of it as: “ARGH! Two Weeks!? Twooo Weeeeks!?”

Now, first off, let me just correct a common mistake made by quite a few people I know. I didn’t quit Script Frenzy, I quit Cheap Cyborg, and in its place, I’m writing… a drama… comedy… I don’t know.

A script.

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