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GundarkHunter

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10-Mar-2003
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9-Apr-2017
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#174655
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Cartoon Network
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/174655/action/topic#174655
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We don't get Cartoon Network in the Great White North, but we get several of the shows on Teletoon (the Canadian version). My personal favourite right now is Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends; more fun from the sick & twisted mind of Craig McCracken, the creator of The Powerpuff Girls. I do occasionally watch some of the Adult Swim stuff (Aqua Teen Hunger Force, The Brak Show, Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law), but Foster's is my fave of the moment.
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#174177
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Lucas and CGI in the Prequels
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/174177/action/topic#174177
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Stop-motion was starting to get interesting as a special-effects form in the early 80s, with Phil Tippett's experiments with the Go-Motion technique in E.T. and Return of the Jedi. This was when they began blending motion puppetry with stop-motion to create a more fluid effect. I think this form would still be workable now, and has influenced the work in Tim Burton's stop-motion films, as well as Aardman's output.

CG can be very effective, but artists need to understand its limitations and work within them, rather than pushing the technology to places where it clearly should not go. Pixar excels at this sort of thing with its CG animation, and it looks like Robert Zemeckis' ImageMovers collaboration with Sony Pictures Imageworks is starting to get the point with its upcoming film Monster House. Robert Rodriguez is very good at understanding the limitations of CG, and I'm sure Lucasfilm will get to that point sooner rather than later.
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#174176
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Time to grow up.
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/174176/action/topic#174176
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Well said, MSD. Speaking as a lawyer, piracy exists only when people are subverting the legitimate means of production for their own gain, monetary or otherwise. If we had a bunch of people on here selling fan edits like this was eBay, we'd have a problem. If people were specifically saying, "Don't buy the legitimate DVD releases; I'll sell you my fan edits," we'd have a problem.

Personally, I like this community and most of the people I've gotten to know through it. A few rotten apples will come through now and again, but that's no reason to put an end to the community.
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#173849
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FOR THE MARRIED OTers
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/173849/action/topic#173849
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My wife and I also struggle to find time to do things together. Between my new job, the bar admission course, her new job (she's a teacher assistant dealing with special needs children), our kids and church responsibilities, there really isn't a whole lot of time left, and when we do have time, sometimes it's a fight before we find anything we'd like to do together. I'm a movie nut and love to go to the theatre to check out movies, whereas she would rather go out to dinner. I have no problem with doing both, but the trick is to find a movie we both like (if you look at our DVD collection, the split is about 60% mine, 30% kids and 10% my wife's). We make it work, though.