Word: croft
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...smells like there would have been a great S'more," said Aron R. Croft '03, who arrived after the firefighters left and had not heard that an actual S'more had caused the alarm...
This "moving decor," as Cunningham calls it, was painstakingly created by digital artists Shelley Eshkar and Paul Kaiser. Employing the techniques used to create such video-game characters and animations as Tomb Raider's Lara Croft and the dancing baby Ally McBeal, Eshkar and Kaiser fine-tuned the process to capture precise dance steps. To start, they used motion-capture technology to record the movements of a live dancer with digital video cameras. They then used 3-D animation software called Character Studio and 3D Studio Max to map the movements onto their own digital drawings and render the final...
...market merchandising now a habit for movie studios like Disney. That may change. More and more, PC-game companies are peddling their properties outside the virtual realm. The result: toys like this creature from StarCraft, the year's top-selling CD-ROM game. And move over, Barbie: a Lara Croft doll debuts this month. Online Help for Movers...
...BLOODY, BEAUTIFUL The shimmering landscapes of Riven. The blood-drenched corridors of Quake II. The eye-popping charms of Tomb Raider II's Lara Croft. Computer-gaming aficionados have never had so many titles to choose from--or so many megabytes to wade through (Riven alone fills five CD-ROMS). But impressive and sophisticated as the software has become, the industry still has a way to go. Pretty pictures don't necessarily mean great game play, nor does offering ever more destructive weaponry advance the cause of civilization. Sequels of last year's hits are nice, but our fondest hope...
...third wedding, Phillip discovers "flubber" (flying rubber) and leaves his fiance at the altar once again. The film has the formula villain in Wilson Croft (Christopher McDonald) who not only wants to steal Brainard's goo, but also to capture the heart of his fiance. The predictable storyline is set up--Phillip must get back his girl, keep his hands on the gooey slime, and take on the villainous Croft...