Weekly Comments

What I learned this week: That I need to get a move on on projects faster.
What I want to learn in the future: How to pull off this trailer correctly. It's almost done. I just want to get it right.
Something that frustrated me: Shadowers. BLEH. Actually these guys weren't too bad.
Something that made me happy: The play is going well! And musical began, so that's something.

Here's a...thing. From DayZ. Called Pretty Lady.

I'm tired. Happy Sunday.

Small Screen Visionaries

Three things I didn't know:
1. Abrams wrote Armageddon. Well that's...something.
2. The guy responsible for Chuck (which I haven't seen but have heard good things) also made Gossip Girl.
3. The guy who remade BSG also worked on Star Trek: TNG. That's awesome.

Two opinions:
1. Firefly was great and Serenity is an amazing movie. I just wish Whedon didn't love to kill people off.
2. Anyone unhappy with how Lost ended and is worried for Star Wars needs to remember - JJ barely worked on Lost following season one. If you didn't like the ending (I didn't have much of a problem with it but I get the complaints), blame Damon Lindelof.

One question:
1. WHEN MORE STAR WARS?

Emoticon

Three things I didn't know:
1. The emoticon is still relevant.
2. Facebook wants a Pixar employee to help reinvent the smiley.
3. Charles Darwin studied expressions.

Two opinions:
1. Those emoticons are actually kinda cool. They're definitely better than what we have now.
2. I like that they're consistent. They actually look like the same character making different faces.

One question:
1. When will Pete Docter's next film get a title? I feel like I first heard that "Untitled" name three years ago, and I'm way more excited about that than Monsters U.

Weekly Comments

What I learned this week: Never wait til the last second to render stuff. And never move it off your desktop while it's rendering.
What I want to learn in the future: How I'm going to pull off this trailer. I need good sounds, for sure.
Something that frustrated me: I wasn't able to put the effect I wanted on my video project. It's okay, but not as good as it would've been.
Something that made me happy: The drama club approved my play! The first act is written, and the second is on it's way. I've been working on this for months, and you have no idea how great it feels to accomplish this. As I get dates for when it occurs, I'll post them, in case anyone is interested in coming out and watching. I will, however, add a quick one sentence summary below my post of interest if anyone wants to read it.

Guys, committing to children watching Breaking Bad is a big step in any relationship. But it'll be okay. I promise.

It's here.

Still here? Cool, here's the one sentence summary I promised:

A time travel from 2054 crash lands in 1951 after his time machine breaks down, and he's subsequently trapped in an insane asylum.

It's a comedy, mostly.

Paperman

The hipster in me wants to shout FIRST!, as this was the video I used for my blogs last week.

Three things I did not know:
1. This art style was going to be used for Tangled, which makes them dumb for not using it.
2. It's a merge of both hand drawn animation and CG animation.
3. George, the main character, is inspired by how the filmmaker was in his 20s.

Two things:
1. I've seen this several times now and I think it's wonderful.
2. The style is unspeakable beautiful. The lighting alone should win Oscars.

One question:
1. Please, please make an awesome (read: not fairytale. I'm not interested) film out of this style. Please?

Quentin Tarantino

Three things I didn't know:
1. Quentin Tarantino was in Jean-Luc Godard's King Lear?! That's incredible! (This is a joke.)
2. Quentin Tarantino steals. From every movie. Ever.
3. Tarantino's movies are deeply personal, with such events as break ups playing into his films.

Two opinions:
1. I enjoy Tarantino's films.
2. I like how he makes personal films. Putting something personal from your life makes them more meaningful.

One question:
1. What will his next film be? (Reportedly it's called Killer Crow, and is the final film in the Basterds-Django trilogy. It has to due with a band of African American soldiers who get screwed over by the US military during WWII and lose it. This may or may not happen.)

Weekly Comments

What I learned this week: I...nothing, really. Not even in home school. This was a quiet week.
What I want to learn in the future: Meh. I don't know what's left to learn, ya know? I wish I had something else to put in this section.
Something that frustrated me: I've changed my idea for this class competition project approx. 500 times now.
Something that made me happy: So...tomorrow, my friend Ken and I (who you will see in the upcoming screening of my PSA) are meeting with our school's Drama Club to sell them the play we wrote together. I'm nervous but cautiously excited. If they like it, we get to direct.

So... Wreck-It Ralph had a short film shown before it called Paperman, which was released on YouTube this week. And damn, is it beautiful. Just check out that lighting.

Disney Infinity

Three things I didn't know:
1. Again, I totally knew this existed, so... I didn't know they were targeting Minecraft.
2. The "games" are different genres of games; The Incredibles is a brawler, Monsters U is a stealth game, and so on.
3. You can't mix the universes together in their specific games, but you can in the "Disney Infinity" main world.

Two opinions:
1. After reading some of our classes responses to this...guys, you're really going to get that mad at this game? It's almost nothing like Minecraft (I'm still confused why it's compared to Minecraft in the headline. I get that you can add things to the world, but it definitely sounds more like LittleBigPlanet than Minecraft in that sense, which I suppose is also mentioned in the article) and while it's a bit of a copy of Skylanders, it's still different enough that it can exist on it's own. And guess what guys. Competition? It tends to be a good thing. Don't get so upset.
2. The idea of using this to introduce kids to genres of games they've never played it kinda cool. Sure, kids have played platformers (Mario) or maybe racing games (...MarioKart?) but have they ever played a stealth game? Probably not.

One question:
1. What will win? Skylanders or Disney Infinity?

Escape From Tomorrow

Three things I did not know:
1. Well, I'd say I didn't know about this film...but I heard about it on a podcast before this week...so... I didn't know i was called Escape From Tomorrow.
2. I didn't know that the director was introduced at Sundance as a visionary.
3. I didn't know the plot of the film had to do with a man losing his mind (I figured it had to do with a guy's children getting lost in the park).

Two opinions:
1. I'm definitely intrigued. I want to see at least a trailer. The idea of a man thinking he's shooting himself with a fake rifle is darkly hilarious.
2. That ending is...seriously, seriously crazy. Wow.

One question:
1. I agree with Alex. When is this coming to on demand services?