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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...your local multiplex, and the insurgents are goateed, stock-optioned tech-heads armed with graphics software and high-powered workstations. Once upon a time, animated movies were the sole domain of winsome beauties and fearsome beasts, all lovingly drawn by hand. That era ended three years ago this month with the release of Toy Story, the first purely computer-generated feature and the only animated film to near the $200 million box-office mark since 1994's The Lion King...
...exciting time in animation," says Chris Meledandri, president of Fox Animation Studios, which started work this month on Planet Ice, a science-fiction adventure that melds traditional and CGI art. "The shackles are coming off. We're creating whole worlds that come out of the imagination. There's so much freedom for storytelling...
Defiance is a Corpus Christi tradition. The month before, the Bishop removed the church's maverick priest, Father Jim Callan, who had pushed his parish beyond Catholic extremes. In 1974, during his very first homily as a priest, he called for the ordination of women. He also welcomed all to partake of Communion (with no baptism and no belief required). In 1993 he began blessing gay unions. He characterizes many of the Vatican's policies as "sinful and discriminatory...
...lower it, speed up or slow down the beat while staying in key. Anything you do can be heard immediately. Not like the old days, when computer musicians had to wait for their compositions to be compiled and processed. Similarly, Play Inc.'s Amorphium ($149.95), which will ship next month, allows people to create sophisticated 3-D images. The company is best known for the special animation effects used in Jurassic Park and Terminator 2. Now you can animate, create special effects and do real-time morphing just like the pros...
...facing surgery in the next couple of days or weeks? What you do beforehand, how you plan for it, even what you eat can help determine how quickly you recover. At a meeting of the American Society of Anesthesiologists last month, researchers reported that eating potatoes before an operation could theoretically lengthen the time anesthetic drugs remain in your body. While it's too soon to conclude that you should avoid spuds altogether, there are plenty of other dos and don'ts to keep in mind...