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‘Gears of War’ Creators Want Avatar-Like Graphics for Future Games

December 17, 2011Erik Kain

DreamWorks CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg announced recently that the next generation of animation software and hardware would allow artists to render images in real-time. The claim was pretty huge. Professional animators can spend weeks animating just a few minutes of animation with today’s technology. This has serious implications not just for the future of animation, but […]

‘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 […]