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Is Pixar’s ‘Brave’ Just Another Disney Princess Movie?

March 2, 2012Erik Kain

I’ve been singing Brave’s praises now for quite a while. With the release of each new teaser, the movie looks increasingly brilliant. A strong female lead – and this is Pixar’s first – and gorgeous animation only make the Scottish fantasy setting even more amazing. But not everyone agrees. Otaku Kun thinks we’ve been here […]

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animation, Arts & Entertainment, Brave, Brother Bear, byline=Erik Kain, Culture, Disney, Flynn Rider, Lifestyle, Media, Merida, Monsters, Pixar, Pixar's Brave, Princess Merida, Toy Story, Walt Disney Company

The Top Video Games Of 2011 Recreated With Legos

March 1, 2012Erik Kain

This is fantastic. Everything from Uncharted 3 to Skyrim done entirely out of Legos. How cool is that? From The Brothers Brick: Organizers for the 15th Interactive Achievement Awards approached Alex Kobbs back in October to create a montage of the top video games of the year, animated in LEGO. Alex used clips from some of […]

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The Steve Jobs Action Figure Walks Into the Uncanny Valley but Will Anyone Buy Him?

January 3, 2012Erik Kain

The closer human replicas get to the human face the greater the sense of revulsion we feel toward the replica. Or so the theory of the Uncanny Valley, first proposed by Japanese roboticist Masihiro Mori, goes. Masihiro Mori’s original theory proposed that the closer robots got to human beings, the greater our sense of revulsion […]

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The New ‘Tintin’ Trailer Looks Great

November 26, 2011Erik Kain

Unlike Alyssa, I think that Tintin works much better animated – the above trailer has convinced me. Not to mention, the animation looks quite stunning. I won’t see the film in 3D if I can help it – 3D has still failed to live up to its promise, I think, and I don’t particularly like […]

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New Full-Length Trailer for Pixar’s ‘Brave’ Arrives

November 16, 2011Erik Kain

The first full-length trailer for the upcoming Pixar animated film Brave has me even more excited for the Scottish-themed fantasy about young princess Merida. Judging by the trailer alone, it looks like we not only have our first Pixar movie that casts a female in the lead role (there have been many great Pixar characters […]

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animation, Arts & Entertainment, Brave, Brave Trailer, byline=E.D. Kain, Disney, Lifestyle, Marriage, Pixar, Tangled

Techonomy: Can Intel and DreamWorks Cross the Uncanny Valley?

November 14, 2011Erik Kain

DreamWorks CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg had some exciting news for the desktop computer at Techonomy Monday. According to the head of the animation company, new collaboration with chip-maker Intel is leading to rendering that is 50 to 70 times faster than anything being used today. This has far-reaching implications that go well beyond the world of […]

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‘The Lorax’ and the Sanitizing of Dr. Seuss

November 2, 2011Erik Kain

I honestly can’t think of a single Dr. Seuss movie since the classic animated Grinch era that’s been any good at all. I’m a pretty big Dr. Seuss fan, too. But I could only stomach a few minutes of the truly awful Cat in the Hat adaptations. And now we get The Lorax, one of […]

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