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Thursday, April 1, 2004
Can't Sleep, Clown'll Eat Me
I'm up late again -- way too late. Today is my last day of school for the term though. Then I have a two week break.
This will be great, because it means that I can focus a lot more of my time on Otaku-related stuff (read: myO v2 and new OB things).
Of course, there will still be schoolwork set during this period. But it won't be too much to handle.
My biggest concern is actually that I'm going to be too tired later tonight. You see, tonight's a big night. Everyone is coming over here to watch Matrix Revolutions at 10pm. I had booked the DVD two weeks ago, to ensure that it would be there for me. So that'll be nice.
On the weekend, I'm going to go through the extra features and stuff. I won't offer any spoilers (of course), but I might provide a little review on here, for those who are interested.
When I get home from school, I may even sleep for a couple of hours, just to be fresh for the movie. It's going to be a lot of fun, because a lot of people will be here. It's times like this that I'm really glad my dad decided to blow nearly $10K on a home sound system. I'm sure it'll make Revolutions more fun. o_O;;
Anyway, aside from that, it's been business as usual. In my last update, which I posted only a few hours ago, I was talking about the buttonmania going around at the moment. I've been posting a lot of entries here lately, so if you miss one, feel free to delve into my archives. ~_^
It wasn't too important though. On the subject of buttons, I think I'm going to have to arrange some way of dealing with them that is more effective. I'm going to end up with too many on my page.
You see, I didn't expect everyone on my friend list to make buttons (not that they are, but a good portion of them are). So, I obviously don't want to fill my page with that many buttons. Either I'll try to get a button feature built into myOtaku v2, or I'll make a clickable pop-up window with them, or I'll put a handful of different buttons up each week...or something.
On that note, TVE asked about submitting buttons...well, I have to be able to see your button to put it up here. If your host displays it for a period of time (even if it's limited) and I see it, I can then upload it on my own storage for you. You can always use the button submission thread on OB, but obviously, I can't link from there because guests are unable to view attachments (therefore, they won't display themselves away from OB).
On a completely different subject, I just saw the Appleseed trailer that AzureWolf posted on his site. It looks gorgeous. I've never seen Appleseed, and I may check this one out if only for the aesthetic factor. I sure hope there's more to it than that, but I guess I have no way of really knowing at this point.
I noticed that Sennen mentioned his general distaste for CG animation on there, too.
To some extent I agree, at least as far as anime is concerned. I'm definitely not an anime expert, but I'm aware of most of the CG-animated animes that have been put out there over the years. And on a purely aesthetic level, I think many of them have fallen short. Too often, the animation is really clunky/stiff and things look very "plasticky".
Obviously, animating a series at "Toy Story standards" would probably be far too expensive -- or so I assume.
This new Appleseed anime looks to be cel-shaded, based on the trailer. I think this shows what cel-shading can achieve, and how complex it can be. People get this idea that it has to be an insanely simple style by default. Or that it has to be happy and bright. But that's not at all true. There's potential to make something three dimensional, that also has a very "comic" (or "anime", in this case) style.
I know I'm probably preaching to the converted, for the most part. But I find it interesting. I think that The Animatrix was really one of the first "animes" that demonstrated a really nice blend of CG/non-CG elements, at least in terms of the mainstream scene.
Of course, it's great when beautiful art meets advanced technology. The combination of pretty aesthetics with very fluid 3D animation could make this Appleseed anime pretty legendary, if only because it sets a new bar in animation.
I'd actually like to hear everyone's thoughts on Appleseed, in terms of the anime and manga. Maybe you could fill in me in terms of what you thought about it, and what your impression of this trailer was. That'd be interesting.
I also noticed that Paul Oakenfold and Basement Jaxx are mentioned in there; that's got to be pretty out there for any kind of Japanese animated production. lol o_O;
There was something else I was going to talk about in this post, but I don't want to make it too long. Maybe next time.
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