{"id":1116,"date":"2006-12-09T01:30:01","date_gmt":"2006-12-09T06:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=1116"},"modified":"2006-12-16T16:18:26","modified_gmt":"2006-12-16T21:18:26","slug":"moving-pictures-three","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=1116","title":{"rendered":"Moving Pictures Three"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A couple of years ago, just in time for the holidays and cold days stuck inside, there was a neat thread on the Core design forum where we submitted our favorite “designer” flicks. I was thinking about that recently while in the midst of some mindnumbing work, and as it happened I managed to stumble across some interesting bits of moving images this week. And while they’re not all related to product design or virtual worlds, there is a quality to them that I find interesting and relevant – if not in practicality, then in sensibility.
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\nFirst up is a one-man effort to put out a film called “We Are the Strange”. I happened across this via some surfing through the CGTalk forums (where the filmmaker apparently ruffled a few feathers some time back). It’s a eclectic mix of videogames (the Sinistar<\/a> soundclip is a nice touch), puppeteering, CG and whatever else the filmmaker seems to have had lying around; but that’s what I like. Word is that it was just admitted into the Sundance Film festival, so we’ll see where it goes from there.<\/p>\n

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Next up is Crispin Glover’s “What is it?” (Link – NSFW trailer on the site)<\/a> I’m not sure where this fits, to be honest. It’s getting some good reviews from people who probably like such films as “Eraserhead<\/a>” and “Begotten<\/a>“, so I figure maybe I’ll find this oddly entertaining. I don’t know. There are elements in it (like using negative images) that seems dated to me; as if this film belongs in the 70’s. Even so, I like Glover’s film acting work so I might really like this.<\/p>\n

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Back to more blog-relevant fare, I’m unsure how I missed the machinima-made XB0x 360 commercial showing the visually-stunning “Gears of War<\/a>” videogame that was recently released, but I did. If, like me, you missed it, the above is the low-quality YouTube version of the commercial. To really see the power of the Unreal 3 engine, check out the Quicktime on director Joseph Kosinski’s website (Link)<\/a>. Amazing what can be done with a videogame now. To think that “Toy Story” cost something like $30M to make and each frame took hours to render, and today something not too different can be rendered on a highend PC using a videogame.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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