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Digital
Media FX News Archives
Thursday
- September 20, 2001
- Sundance Channel Tackles
Music Video Animation
- Microsoft Backs
Off From Original Xbox Estimates
- Spider-Man Lawsuit Filed
- News Link of the Day
- Lara Croft Firm Turns the Corner
Sundance
Channel Tackles Music Video Animation
(by digitalmediafx.com) Cable's The Sundance Channel is tackling
the subject of animation in music videos for a special that premieres
October 19 at 11pm. "Sonic Cinema: Animators" delves
into the ever-expanding universe of animated music video with
each presentation representing a different style of animation,
from Japanese anime and computer animation to pen-and-ink and
puppetry. Highlights include the entertaining "Clint Eastwood"
and "19-2000" by Jamie Hewlitt for his animated band
Gorillaz.
Toei Animation
Studios (creators of the anime character Sailor Moon as well as
the film and television series "Captain Harlock") weigh
in with the space-age sagas "One More Time" and "Aeordynamic"
for electronica wizards Daft Punk, while Tomas Apodaca creates
a memorable journey for the soulful green hero of Quasimoto's
alternative hip-hop anthem "Come On Feet."
Here is the
lineup:
"SONIC
CINEMA: ANIMATORS"
Premieres October 19th at 11:00 p.m. EST/PST
| Artist |
Title
of Song |
Director |
| Gorillaz |
"Clint
Eastwood" |
Jamie
Hewlett |
| Gorillaz |
"19-2000" |
Jamie
Hewlett |
| King
Biscuit Time |
"I
Walk the Earth" |
Tim
Hope |
| Short
Film |
"The
Wolfman" |
Tim
Hope |
| Daft
Punk |
"One
More Time" |
Toei
Animation |
| Daft
Punk |
"Aerodynamic |
Toei
Animation |
| Short
Film |
"Hotspot" |
Mark
Brierly |
| Short
Film |
"Can't
Drag Race with Jesus" |
Bill
Plypton |
| Clinic |
"Second
Line" |
Unit
9 |
| Quasimoto |
"Come
on Feet" |
Tomas
Apodaca |
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Microsoft
Backs Off From Original Xbox Estimates
(by digitalmediafx.com) Microsoft says that the Xbox is on
schedule for a November 8 release, but is now refusing to provide
the number of units that will be available on launch day citing
that they have to wait until the height of production to determine
such numbers. Prior, Microsoft had announced that 600,000 - 800,000
units would ship, helping it avoid the problems Sony faced when
Playstation 2 shipped with lower than expected units available.
Now Microsoft faces the same problem as it seeks to stay ahead
of Nintendo's GameCube launch on November 18, 2001. GameCube has
already launched in Japan.
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Spider-Man
Lawsuit Filed
(by digitalmediafx.com) Columbia Pictures and Ingersoll-Rand
are being sued by the widow of a man killed
on the set of Spiderman on March 6, 2001. The suit is considered
a "wrongful death" lawsuit after a forklift, transformed
into a crane, fell onto the man, Tim Holcombe, who was welding
on a 1930 New York building set for the movie. The amount of the
lawsuit has not been disclosed. Ingersoll-Rand is the equipment
manufacturer.
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News Link
of the Day - Lara Croft Firm Turns the Corner
According to the BBC:
"Eidos,
the British computer games firm that dreamt up Lara Croft, has
reported better-than-expected results, but warned that sales might
be hit by the after-effects of the US attacks..."
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