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...fidelity is important. One reason games aren't taken seriously as art is that they don't look like art. They look like cartoons, and not fancy Pixar cartoons either. They look like lame Saturday-morning cartoons. That's going to change. Characters in the Xbox 360 game based on The Godfather have a gravitas and dramatic weight to them that we haven't seen before. Those blocky, too smooth cartoon faces are starting to fill in with wrinkles and lines and freckles. Suddenly, they emote...
...from science-fiction past. To borrow a line from A Mighty Wind, they're so retro, they're now-tro. Will Smith proved that last year with I, Robot. Now the CGI cartoonmakers, having run through their bug, monster, fish and human evolutionary phases, are into talking gadgets. Pixar has Cars next summer. And the Blue Sky team, which enjoyed a hit with Ice Age, is offering the busy, fizzy Robots...
Rather than Pixar's popping pastels or the warm browns favored by DreamWorks in Antz and Shrek, Robots goes for a color scheme that is cool, muted, instantly aged. Director Chris Wedge wants the eye to concentrate on the gags he and his writers (including veteran comedy craftsmen Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel) have stuffed into the film, like the glancing mention of a woman whose "dream is to end world rust." This will keep adults amused while the kids focus on Robot City's highway system, which is like a theme park designed by Rube Goldberg...
...viscoelastic fluids (goopy stuff, like mud) and (his favorite) explosions. His work lends a layer of reality to computer games and film animation in which wind, rain and other elements are driven by computer codes called physics engines. His algorithms are used in some PlayStation 2 software and at Pixar...
...Pixar, the ingenious powerhouses of animation that brought the world personified toys, monsters and phosphorescent fish, has taken on a PG-rated action adventure for its latest premise: the story of an average superhero family.In his glory days, Bob Parr (Craig T. Nelson) was known to the world as Mr. Incredible, a superhero capable of foiling a bank robbery, stopping a runaway locomotive and coaxing a kitten down from a tree all on the way to his wedding. Segue to fifteen years later and Mr. Incredible and his wife Helen, formerly known as Elastigirl (Holly Hunter), and their three children...