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12/27/09
12/27/09
The guy was barred by the "holy imam" from becoming the next supreme leader.
Also, has had cardiac arrest and wasn't killed.
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By the way - Thanks Giz. I can see the starred commenter system is working as advertised. As displayed by the brain-trust worthy comment.
12/27/09
Not that we also didn't have Thomas Paine and others producing material telling the population about the abuse the Brits were perpetrating on the American colonies, but at the end of the day it was the populace arming themselves and fighting the British army that got the job done.
12/27/09
The IRA managed to be a real thorn in the UK's side and they didn't have any advanced technology.
12/27/09
Next time try being more respectful instead of telling people to "shut the fuck up".
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Whether it was the Shah and his cronies, or the Islamic government which replaced him, in both cases the leadership were a bunch of uneducated thugs, many of whom can barely read. Iran has not had a government populated by educated people in many decades, and probably won't pull themselves out of their mess until they not only toss out these guys, but replace them with people who are both intelligent and educated.
12/22/09
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how about:
u2.be
12/22/09
Damn. How'd I miss that?
12/23/09
merry christmas to all!
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12/20/09
And yeah, just confirming what people said, the guy didn't just pull all this with $300 alone... he has a post production studio in Uruguay.
$300 bucks for the LIVE SHOOTING alone and an year in production.
Here, the details:
[forums.cgsociety.org]
12/20/09
12/19/09
They spent more than that on the food they consumed while working on something like this for hundreds of hours.
There is a *ton* of work that had to go into something like this.
Creation,modeling,rigging,texturing the models; Animating; Lighting; FX Animation; and Compositing *just* for the CG animation.
Then take into account the Environmental FX, fire, etc.
This was a really, really big undertaking.
(Generally a sequence this big goes to an entire FX house for months at a time, albeit the FX aren't Film quality but fairly close)
12/19/09
12/20/09
As someone who never ate nearly as much as when I started working at a computer 10hrs/day I woefully admit you increase food intake when you have nothing better to do. :-\
12/19/09
Seeing the same damn planes flying overhead over and over, and then the same old battles you see in any poorly thought out flight battle. Planes that are way too small flying between buildings and making ridiculous turns.
Aliens that need to slowly walk four massive robots into a city just to nuke it? What?
I'm not saying they didn't do something cool or impressive, but I am regularly amazed at how uncreative/poor writing and direction is in stories like these.
12/20/09
12/21/09
First off, I have made CG animations before, so I know the time and effort that goes into one. Second, whether or not I can make effects as good as that (and I did compliment the effects), it doesn't change the fact that the story and presentation is cliche and uncreative, and making it less cliche and more creative would have hardly taken that much more effort.
So how about you actually discuss my criticism, instead of posting a cliche and uncreative comment ("Where is your...etc").
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You know as well as I that type of comment is generally used as a way to criticize someone's criticism by saying that if they haven't done equivalent work they shouldn't judge it.
12/19/09
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WTF, mate?
12/19/09
i kid!
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Upon following said links from a competitors site, this guy own quite the 3d studio and the real cost clocked in around 25K.
Still though. Alvarez kicked ass.
I like the short, especially at the end where the robots wall up for the big one.
The soundtrack ramping up in tandem with the action is great, borrowed or not.
Fry those kiddies! The wicked witch from OZ just had multiple O's.
12/19/09