Tintin 

Tintin
In what has been a desired project of Steven Spielberg’s for the past 25 years, he now has the rights and means to make feature films based on the Hergé comic series. Furthermore he has teamed up Peter Jackson (and WETA) to produce 3 features using the latest digital 3D performance capture technologies. But don’t expect a live action film. They plan to keep the cartoon look of Hergé’s work intact while making things photo-realistic and 3D. Spielberg will direct one of the three films, Jackson another and the last tba. As a big fan of Tintin as a child, this should yield some interesting results, especially from the talent involved. No doubt they will be using technologies similar to those used by Robert Zemeckis on the upcoming Beowulf and James Cameron with Avatar.

 
 
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Tuesday, May 15 2007
 
Film General
 

Graduation Day 

[ I'm in there somewhere. Where's James? ]

It’s all officially over. University life is no more. Sure I finished my last exam in November of last year but after attending the graduation ceremony this morning, it’s a reminding realisation that it’s the end of 4 years hard work. Strange that the ceremony was so early in the day and also a shame because the post-ceremony drinks were restricted to water, tea and juice when what most of us really wanted was a beer or several. One thing I thought they should have done was give the Bachelor recipients (that’s us on the left) one colour band per degree. I, along with a few others there, had two degrees under our belts so shouldn’t we receive two bands? I know that sounds extremely wanky but on the flip side, we did essentially study for a separate degree so shouldn’t it show? If the phD students get orange robes, the least we could have got was an extra band.

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Wednesday, June 8 2005
 
University