Archive for the “Special Effects” category

Rolling with Cars

by kartooner on November 21, 2006

After releas­ing Find­ing Nemo — one of my all-time favorites, right up there with Toy Story — Pixar announced that they were work­ing on a film about cars. When I first heard the news I think I might’ve been read­ing an issue of Wired (…)

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Revisiting Jurassic Park

by kartooner on February 3, 2006

Ask any­one who knows me about my fond­ness and utter boy­hood joy for movies and most likely you’ll begin to piece together per­sonal frag­ments that ulti­mately led to the per­son I am today. Like Michael, I’m like a kid in a candy store — (…)

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The Great Conjunction

by kartooner on March 10, 2005

Jim Henson’s The Dark Crys­tal was an epic under­tak­ing for Hen­son and com­pany in the early 80’s. It also remains one of my favorite movies of all time. Despite the high pro­duc­tion qual­ity of the film the dif­fi­culty in creating (…)

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Half-Life 2

by kartooner on November 17, 2004