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...turned to a pro like Stephen Webber, turntable professor at Boston's Berklee College of Music, he could probably share more ways to use the iDJ. I guess that's the point: to my (passing) dismay, it turned out not to be some gimmicky toy, but a tool for people who want to put their iPods to use in the serious world of deejaying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Numark iDJ iPod Mixing Console | 9/28/2005 | See Source »

...acorn, mistakes this minor incident for an astral calamity and frightens the neighbors by exclaiming, "The sky is falling!" In the world of traditional animation, when computer-generated (CG) 3-D cartoons came in, the sky did fall. The first piece was Pixar, with such movies as Toy Story and Monsters, Inc. Another chunk was DreamWorks (the Shreks). And, yes, an outfit called Blue Sky fell too, with Ice Age and Robots. Hand-drawn, or 2-D, animation was instantly kaput. Chicken Little was right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Mickey Find His Mojo? | 9/18/2005 | See Source »

...through the '94 smash The Lion King. Who could imagine that the empire would crumble? And why, when Disney had a distribution pact with Pixar, should the parent studio pursue CG animation? The box office answered both questions briskly: of the 10 top-grossing animated films since 1995, when Toy Story became the first computerized cartoon feature, all but one (Disney's Tarzan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Mickey Find His Mojo? | 9/18/2005 | See Source »

...wear '70s clothes, reference '80s music. At 27, are you already a nostalgist? What we did in our childhoods makes us who we are now. I loved my childhood. They had the coolest toys back then. Star Wars, Transformers, laser-tag gun sets. Toy companies have really gone downhill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q&A Jon Heder | 9/11/2005 | See Source »

...half or a third of the cost," Lucas told TIME. "The film industry still has to go through the Internet phase." Lucas and his colleagues pioneered the first nonlinear digital-editing systems, started Pixar in 1983 and developed the first computer-animation systems, which led to breakout hits like Toy Story and Finding Nemo. Hewlett-Packard plans to deliver 1,000 workstations and high-end storage equipment for producing video games and visual effects. Advanced Micro Devices' Opteron 64-bit processors drive Letterman's computer network, the entertainment industry's largest. As a result, one digital artist can churn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Biz Briefs: Movies Made Easy | 9/11/2005 | See Source »

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