Trailer Bulletin: ‘Iron Man 2′, ‘Legend of the Guardians’ and ‘Tron Legacy’
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This is a quick post, so I wont be talking much.
1. Iron Man 2 (Final trailer)
Story: Iron Man 2 takes place only six months after Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) revealed his identity as Iron Man at the end of the first movie. Mickey Rourke stars as a powerful new Russian villain named Whiplash.
You can download the HD version on Apple.
2. Legend of the Guardians
3. Tron Legacy (Teaser Trailer)
Tags: Iron Man 2, Iron Man 2 trailer, Legend of the Guardians, Legend of the Guardians trailer, Tron Legacy, Tron Legacy trailer
Sound design of Transformers 2
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Erik Aadahl, the sound designer for the Transformer movies posted this video about the sound effects for Transformers 2. He says: “With one single homage exception, all of the sounds we used for both Transformer films were done from scratch, recorded and designed from the ground up without the help of library or stock sound effects.“
Source: Boing Boing
Tags: sound design, Transformers 2 sound design
Audi R8 Spyder – Breathtaking!
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Tags: Audi R8, Audi R8 Spyder, Audi R8 V10 5.2L Spyder quattro
Another Shorty – Sonic: Night of the Werehog
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This is a short film from the game maker Sega.
PR Note: SEGA of America is excited to present Sonic in his very first short film Sonic:Night of the Werehog! This stunning film takes Sonic on an adventure to an eerie lonely house on a dark and stormy night. Follow along with Sonic as he faces some mischievous ghouls and see how brave they are when the moon shines and Sonic becomes the Werehog. Will Sonic survive the night or will the ghosts scare him out into the rain?
Tags: animated indie, animated short film, Sega Sonic, Sonic: Night of the Werehog
Shorty time – CG Film Makes Reality Obsolete
Filed under Entertainment, Visual Graphics & Images, Youtube/Vimeo/Videos
This film rips the pants off your mind in one motion and then blows it. It’s a FULL-CG animated piece that tries to illustrate architecture art across a photographic point of view where main subjects are already-built spaces. Sometimes in an abstract way. Sometimes surreal.
Here’s another video on how this was made.
Tags: animated film, animated indie, CG film, short film
Nice picture! Gotcha..
Filed under Visual Graphics & Images
Alright, the title of the post is misleading I know. Enjoy anyway!
[Warning: May cause headache for some people]
Tags: confusing image
The Bugatti Veyron That Never Was!
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I’m so happy this design never made it!
This unseen-till-now design proposal for the Bugatti Veyron was penned by Walter de’Silva way back in 1999. The full-scale model, complete with interior, was thankfully rejected by Ferdinand Piech in favor of the better looking but still-aesthetically-challenged production version.
de’Silva, who was head of design at Seat in ‘99 was approached by VW’s head of design at the time, Hartmut Warkuss, to submit a proposal for the hyper car’s looks. Giugiaro, which penned the Chiron, also submitted a proposal.
Source: Jalopnik
Tags: Bugatti Veyron, Bugatti Veyron secret design, Veyron design 1999
Which companies really sell greener electronics?
This new chart shows which of those companies have eliminated the most harmful chemicals from their product ranges. Roll over the stars in the chart below to see product details, and click the company name to visit their webpage about reducing harmful chemicals.
Explanatory notes are found here.
Tags: Apple Greenpeace, green companis, green electronics, Greenpeace
Pixar’s Cars; What did you notice?
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There are a lot of things that you can tell from a Pixar movie, especially the upcoming movies from the same.
There was so much detail in Cars, in just one screening it is very hard to catch it all. This author from Pixar Planet seems to be a hardcore fan, he compiled a very credible list of what could be deciphered from the movie Cars. Here’s the list:
- # The Pizza Planet truck in the second Piston Cup race at the end of the movie near the camera when the guys talk
- # The For The Birds birds on a powerline in the Life is a Highway Scene
- # Flo has a sticker on her rear end ‘Motorama 1957’. Motorama being Pixar’s own car show. ANd ’57 being John Lasseter’s birth year
- # Photos on the wall in Sally’s Cozy Cone of features on Route 66.
- # The Eiffel Tower picture in Lightning McQueen’s cozy cone a possible reference to Ratatouille?
- # Stanley (The founder of Radiator Springs) is the car from Boundin’.
- # An Apple Racing Car
- # As Mack passes the sleeping trucks just after the ‘Life is a Highway’ scene, you can see the Incredibles symbol on the side of a truck.
- # On a car are the numbers: 23-19, a reference to the code of the Child Detection Agency in Monsters, Inc.
- # The King’s sponser is Dinoco. Dinoco is the name of the gas station in Toy Story.
- # Lightning McQueen has Lightyear Buzzard tires, which are both a parody of Goodyear tires, and a reference to Buzz Lightyear.
- # Lightning McQueen’s number is 95, the year Toy Story was released
- # Chick Hicks number is 86, the year the short Luxo Jr was released
- # The King’s (Strip Weathers) number is 43, is Richard Petty’s (the voice of The King) number from when he was a NASCAR racer.
- # ‘McQueen’ is a tribute to Glenn McQueen, a Pixar animator who died in 2002; and also Steve McQueen, a racing legend turned actor
- # Before the 2nd Piston Cup race, when they are showing that parts of the city closed, one of the signs says ‘City Of Emeryville’, Emeryville being where Pixar is located
- # In the ad for ‘Rust-Eze’ at the beginning of the movie, the rusty car has on his number plate, ‘EVILLE’, being Emeryville, the location of Pixar in San Fran
- # Fillmores license plate number is George Carlin’s, the voice of Fillmore’s, birthday
- # The train that Lightning McQueen jumps in front of, it’s number is A113, a reference to the room at CalArts
- # Maters number plate is A113, again from CalArts
- # At the beginning of the movie You can see the Jackalope from Boundin, he’s hiding on the back of a motor home.
- # Also I saw if you look into the sky you can see the Airplanes exhause trails look like tire tracks.
- # The flowers are made of cars fins and tailgates, and the ceiling fan in the courthouse are actually engine fans
- # When Lightning McQueen dreams of him being sponsered by Dinoco, the big spark plug tripods resemble the tripods from Spielbergs adaption of ‘War of the Worlds’
- # In the teaser trailer for Cars, there is a symbol on one of the tires that says JLP, standing for John Lasseter Production?
- # There is a motor home at the second Piston Cup race that is surround by a pool and flamingos in reference to the Pixar short, Knick Knack.
Cool list eh?
Tags: Cars, Pixar, Pixar's Cars
Nice lappy: ASUS NX90Jq!
Bang & Olufsen designed, Asus-badged; what more do you need? Money of course!
It looks like ASUS has been spending some quality time with Bang & Olufsen’s Chief designer to create a heck of a laptop. There’s no denying this is one sleek looking lappie with a polished aluminum exterior, but it’s got some pretty cool tricks too — including dual touchpads that supposedly gives you a DJ turntable-like experience.
The 18.4-inch HD display is flanked by B&O ICEpower speakers and is clearly meant to live in your living room.
It’s not all looks here, though. It’s got a Core i7 processor, NVIDIA GeForce GT 334M graphics, support for up to 1280GB of storage (with dual drives), a slot-in Blu-ray drive and USB 3.0.
No release date or pricing details were announced though.
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