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David Silverman Helming Disney's Pet
David Silverman (The Simpsons Movie) has signed on to develop and direct The Pet, a live-action sci-fi family comedy for Disney. The Hollywood Reporter says Scott Rudin and Craig Perry are producing.
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How to Become a Video Game Designer
One of the most exciting jobs out in the market today is video game designing. Many have the impression that it would take too much time and skills to accomplish this. Well reality check people...it does not! If you are into video games and love spending your leisure time (even your work time!), playing games then you have already passed the qualifying stages to becoming a video game designer.
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AA: When you made the decision to be an animator what was the first step you took to make your dream a reality?
LN: If you think of reaching your dream as a journey, it's a good idea to be fully equipped and prepared before venturing out. The first step for me was simply research. I wanted to learn as much as I could about the animation world. This included borrowing animation history books from the library, renting animation classics from a video store, subscribing to animation magazines, checking out animation studios online and talking to some animators at the National Film Board headquarters in my city.
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Grand Theft Auto IVMatt Makepeace
I am fully confident when I say that never in the history of video gaming has a fictional world been so completely realized. I've often found myself just walking down the street and marveling at the hustle and bustle going on all around me. Taxi cabs speed down the streets honking wildly at cars that aren't going fast enough for their tastes. Three kids sit on the porch to a ratty apartment building, laughing and talking about skateboards. A man gets a call on his cell phone and starts talking about business deals. A woman gets out of her car and starts unloading groceries. A seedy looking man standing outside an Italian restaurant casually smokes a cigarette and eyes you as you strut past. I cannot stress enough how real the world feels. It is made even more impressive by some of the best next-gen physics and graphics on the market. It came as very little surprise to me when I discovered that GTA IV cost over 100 million dollars to produce and had a team of over 1000 people working on it pretty much nonstop since the Xbox 360 and PS3 were launched...
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Batman #676 by Hugo Bravo
Grant Morrison (Arkham Asylum, JLA) kicks off what is easily the most anticipated Batman story since Knightfall, and from the looks of it, it's setting up to make Batman's back being broken look like a fairy tale. Batman R.I.P is the culmination of Morrison's run which started in July of 2006 on arguably DC's most famous character. Since then, we have learned that Batman now has two sons: an adopted step-son in Tim Drake, and a nine-year old assassin brat named Damian, who was raised by the League of Shadows. Their leader and Damian's grandfather, The Demon's Head Ras Al Ghul has been resurrected only to be locked away in a comatose state in Arkham. Almost two years ago in the pages of 52, Bruce Wayne spent 50 days alone in a cave meditating in Nanda Parbat. It was revealed that early in the Dark Knight's career, he subjected himself to an experiment that nearly drove him to insanity...
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