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New Animatrix Trailer Available 214

Posted by CmdrTaco from the check-it-out dept.
hin writes "The new trailer of the Animatrix is available for download from www.whatisthematrix.com. Check out the medium resolution version." Use the broadband if you got it I guess ;)
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  • high-resolution download (Score:5, Informative)

    by MiTEG ( 234467 ) on Saturday March 22, 2003 @01:16AM (#5572536) Homepage Journal
    Link to Hi-res [aol.com] (104487 KB)

    Hammer away- I just finished downloading :)

    • Re:high-resolution download (Score:1, Informative)

      by Anonymous Coward
      It'll be on Gnutella in about 30 seconds. I'd encourage anybody else who's gotten it already to do the same.

  • Spoilers! (Score:5, Funny)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 22, 2003 @01:17AM (#5572539)
    Yeah thanks for the spoiler. Now we know the plan to destroy the matrix was to simply link to it on slashdot.

    • Re:Spoilers! (Score:1, Funny)

      by Anonymous Coward
      Spoliers! Who wants some spoilers? Here's a spoiler.... you will die alone.

    • Re:Spoilers! (Score:5, Insightful)

      by Spy Hunter ( 317220 ) on Saturday March 22, 2003 @05:35AM (#5573286) Journal
      Jokes about slashdotting the matrix trailers are getting reeeealy old, because it doesn't happen. Every time a new animatrix story is posted someone jokes about slashdotting it, but the trailers are always available at speeds of above 500KB/sec even right after the story is posted, when it is still the first story on Slashdot's front page. Believe it or not, there are sites out there with more bandwidth than Slashdot, and AOL-Time-Warner sites are a prime example.
      • I'm pretty sure the joke was about slashdotting the Matrix ITSELF, not AOL/Apple/whoever hosts these trailers. But thanks for coming out.

  • AniMath (Score:5, Funny)

    by Madsci ( 616781 ) on Saturday March 22, 2003 @01:23AM (#5572569)
    Next up: AniMoivre's Theorem, AniMarkov Chains and AniModular Forms
  • I tried the last one with mplayer, but didn't have much luck. Anyone know if there are some gymnastics I can perform?

    • Re:Has anyone gotten these to work on Linux? (Score:5, Informative)

      by peter_gzowski ( 465076 ) on Saturday March 22, 2003 @01:29AM (#5572599) Homepage
      I assume you mean besides the Crossover Quicktime plugin [codeweavers.com]?
    • Yes. Write your own player. That's the great thing about the Linux community and open source. If there's not a solution, anyone can make one. If there's a bug, anyone can fix it.

      Go forth and do your part.

    • Re:Has anyone gotten these to work on Linux? (Score:2, Informative)

      by Anonymous Coward
      I have the first two working in Totem (XINE-based) after installing the Quicktime Sorenson codecs.

      There's a patch going around to make MPlayer handle these very strangely encoded videos.

    • Re:Has anyone gotten these to work on Linux? (Score:5, Informative)

      by Spy Hunter ( 317220 ) on Saturday March 22, 2003 @02:02AM (#5572737) Journal
      Works fine for me. The actual animatrix movies have some funky still image at the beginning that confuses mplayer, but xine seems to work better (and I hear there's a patch for mplayer). This trailer doesn't have that, and it works perfectly.

      • The deal with the first frame (Score:5, Informative)

        by benwaggoner ( 513209 ) <ben.waggoner@mic ... t.com minus poet> on Saturday March 22, 2003 @03:08AM (#5572981) Homepage
        Specifically, the movies seem to have been encoded with Discreet's Cleaner, using the "High Quality First Frame" option set to JPEG instead of Basic. This feature dates from the Cinepak CD-ROM era, where the Cinepak codec had low maximum quality for still images. This feature would make the first frame a JPEG, giving better quality for the one frame that tends to get stared at the most, especially with web-based progressive download.

        Of course, since the movie uses Sorenson Video 3.1 Pro, which does just fine with still images, they should have either left the feature off, or just used the Basic mode, which would have made the first frame a really big keyframe, but in the same codec as the rest of the movie.

        Still, this kind of movie is perfectly legal in QuickTime, and part of the open definition of the format. The format is so complex that no one has made much of an effort to implement more than the 5% or so most commonly used features.
    • The first animatrix works fine in the latest release (rc5) of mplayer with the quicktime codecs. It didn't work in rc3 when I tried, so the patch was applied sometime in between there. (but the fix mentioned elsewhere was applied at some point, I checked the sources)

      Presumably they're all encoded similarly...

      • Re:Has anyone gotten these to work on Linux? (Score:5, Informative)

        by Abcd1234 ( 188840 ) on Saturday March 22, 2003 @03:15AM (#5572998) Homepage
        Yup... the only trick is that some of the movies have their audio encoded/split funny.

        In the first episode, the small and large versions have the soundtrack split into two pieces, of which mplayer only plays the longest. Hence, audio is delayed 10 seconds... solution? Play the medium sized one which, oddly enough, isn't like this. Another option is to dump the audio from the medium version (using -dumpaudio and -dumpfile) and play it alongside the large version with mplayer's -audiofile option.

        For the second episode (and presumably the remaining ones), the audio is encoded using MPEG4-AAC. Unfortunately, mplayer's support was broken for mp4a (at least in rc4, is this fixed in rc5?). The solution here was to dump the audio stream using mplayer and manually decode it using faad (search google). Then, play the resulting wav file along with the video using -audiofile.
    • There are many forms of gymnastics you can perform... the end result will be that you are nimble and agile, and still can't view these things in mplayer :P

    • Re:Has anyone gotten these to work on Linux? (Score:5, Informative)

      by BJH ( 11355 ) on Saturday March 22, 2003 @07:01AM (#5573419)
      I just did this, so here it goes...

      1) Install libsndfile if you don't have it. (http://www.zip.com.au/~erikd/libsndfile/#Download )

      2) Install faac to get sound on the trailer (http://faac.sourceforge.net/download.php)

      3) You probably want to install xvid as well... nothing to do with the Animatrix, but the more codecs, the better, right? (http://www.xvid.org/downloads.html)

      4) Go to http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/ and grab:

      Latest Win32 codecpack
      QuickTime6 DLLs
      QuickTime extra DLLs
      RealPlayer9 codecs
      XAnim DLLs
      MJPEG2000 DLLs
      Win32/DMO codecs

      Untar them and move them all into someplace like /usr/local/lib/mplayer/dlls.

      5) Get the latest mplayer source (0.9.0rc5) and run configure with something like this: ./configure --enable-largefiles --with-extraincdir=/usr/local/include --with-extralibdir=/usr/local/lib --with-win32libdir=/usr/local/lib/mplayer/dlls --with-xanimlibdir=/usr/local/lib/mplayer/dlls --with-reallibdir=/usr/local/lib/mplayer/dlls

      and then do the usual make/su/make install thing.

      With any luck, you should be able to play back the trailer.

      And who said Linux isn't easy to use, eh?!
    • just make sure that you've added the Sorenson codecs. If you go to the mplayer webpage, there is a place where you can download a ton of addons. Get the sorenson addons, plug them into the directory, and it should work. Hopefully :-)
    • There was some discussion on the mplayer-users list, and a patch. Apparently the results aren't very good.

      On the other hand, Xine can play the first two episodes without any problems whatsoever.

    • And I think I got the version I'm using from the apt repository maintained by freshrpms.net. If you're using Red Hat 8, you might be able to get it installed with just:

      rpm -Uvh http://ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/freshrpms/redhat/8.0/ apt/apt-0.5.5cnc4.1-fr1.i386.rpm
      apt-get update
      apt-get install xine

      (note that Slashdot will probably insert an space somewhere in that URL...)

  • The Complete Works (Score:5, Informative)

    by Ken@WearableTech ( 107340 ) <ken@kenwillia m s j r . com> on Saturday March 22, 2003 @01:24AM (#5572576) Homepage Journal
    You can find two complete works at www.intothematrix.com [intothematrix.com]
    They are The Second Renaissance Part 1 [intothematrix.com] and Program [intothematrix.com] (Both QuickTime)

    You can also see Final Flight of The Osiris at the theaters with Dreamcatcher or with your favorite P2P software.

  • DreamCatcher has a new Animatrix Mini (Score:5, Informative)

    by mgpeter ( 132079 ) on Saturday March 22, 2003 @01:28AM (#5572596) Homepage
    I went to DreamCatcher tonight with my wife and my daughter (a Stephen King Fan), and after all the previews they showed a 10 minute (or so) Animatrix Mini called "Final flight of the Osirus" and I have got to say I was Totally Embarrassed.

    I could not believe the fight scene (or should I say SEX SCENE) at the beginning. Whoever they got to do the animation needs to go get some, and soon!

    If the Matrix Movies are going to be more like that short, the sequel is going to blow worse than Caddyshack 2.

    • Re:DreamCatcher has a new Animatrix Mini (Score:5, Informative)

      by tezzery ( 549213 ) on Saturday March 22, 2003 @01:36AM (#5572644)
      The 'Final Flight of The Osiris' animatrix episode was done by Square USA, it was directed by Andy Jones who has done work on Final Fantasy, Titanic and 1998's Godzilla.

      I'm sure this is common knowledge among those who've seen previous animatrix episodes but there will be a DVD release with the whole collection of shorts.

      I -was- gonna go see Dreamcatcher to check out final flight of the osiris.. After reading your review, I hope at least the animation is good.

      • DreamCatcher & the new Animatrix short (Score:5, Interesting)

        by Tumbleweed ( 3706 ) on Saturday March 22, 2003 @01:51AM (#5572701)
        > I -was- gonna go see Dreamcatcher to check out final flight of the osiris.. After reading your review, I hope at least the animation is good.

        You should go see Dreamcatcher to see Dreamcatcher - it's worth it. If you're smart, you'll probably enjoy it. If you're not so smart, you likely won't get how cool it is.

        As for Final Flight of the Osiris - it's good. The opening flirtatious fight scene (what the prude you replied to called a 'sex scene') was cute and fun. If you're going to an R rated movie, it's way-tame compared to the MPAA rating of the movie it's attached to, an hardly a reason to get embarassed. The rest of it is straight out of the Matrix type stuff, and also quite good. The animation quality of the people is as good or better than the Final Fantasy movie. The animation quality of the environment (especially inside the Matrix itself) is substantially better - many parts of which are almost indistinguishable from 'reality'. ("You think that's air you're breathing, punk? Well, do ya?" - Clint Eastwood in the Matrix :)

        If Kazaa didn't suck ass, I'd have a copy of it on my machine by now, to add to the two segments released online. *sigh*
        • You should go see Dreamcatcher to see Dreamcatcher - it's worth it. If you're smart, you'll probably enjoy it. If you're not so smart, you likely won't get how cool it is.

          I DID go see Dreamcatcher to see Dreamcatcher. And it wasn't too bad at all, even though the changes they made to make it fit into a movie somewhat diluted the premise of the book. But heck, isn't that always the case? I did still enjoy it.

          The matrix short tacked on to the front annoyed me, as I've never liked the Matrix, no matter wh

        • I will confirm, the animation was almost life-like in many isntances. I was pleased with the whole little short animation skit.

          I kept thinking, wouldn't it be great to have an entire movie with that animation quality?
          • Well, the Animatrix is done by 7 different groups of people (9 segments), and they're in several different styles, most of which aren't intended to be photorealistic. I generally prefer 'regular' animation to that kind, as it's not 'there' yet, and that's too distracting for me. I keep trying to see the parts that aren't right, and which ones are dead-on, and that just distracts from enjoying the show, for me.

            All the Animatrix does, for me, is make me want to see the next Matrix movies, really, though the
            • That's interesting... I can't wait to see the next renditions of the animatrix. Hey, maybe we'll even get a new cartoon network show out of it?

              I also agree that the begining scene got ya to like the characters and by the end you were sad that they died, yet happy the mission was complete.

              Aside: nice gallery on your website there! I like the Bainbridge Island, WA pics.

              • Re:Dreamcatcher & the new Animatrix short (Score:4, Interesting)

                by Tumbleweed ( 3706 ) on Saturday March 22, 2003 @02:49AM (#5572908)
                Hey, I'm still bummed by some of the people that died in the first Matrix movie! I'm even _more_ bummed that they weren't brave enough to keep the character 'Switch' as a 'switch' (female in the real world, male in the Matrix - or it mighta been the other way around; I can't remember). That would've been much more interesting. Switch and Dozer were cool - I miss them. And Mouse - he was hilarious.

                re: my gallery

                Thanks! Wish I could afford to live over there on Bainbridge. But Seattle's a nice second place showing. :)
          • I kept thinking, wouldn't it be great to have an entire movie with that animation quality?

            the final fantasy movie was, and it was really good, too...
        • You should go see Dreamcatcher to see Dreamcatcher - it's worth it. If you're smart, you'll probably enjoy it. If you're not so smart, you likely won't get how cool it is.

          Come on now, no need to get pretentious. I saw it tonight, and while yes, it's fun and campy, it isn't exactly what I'd call an intellectual film. Everything is pretty much presented at face value.. not much at all to "get". It's clever at best.. on par with Starship Troopers in my books.
      • Interesting to also note that the Animatrix episode "Matriculated" is done by Peter Chung, the guy who did the Aeon Flux series...
      • Went this morning - after reading the reviews, decided to skip the actual movie. And the trailer was worth the $$$. Not only was the animation really well done (as well as Final Fantasy movie, no surprise there), but the story added to the whole "Matrix" experience, the fight scenes were just as good as that of the movie, the pacing was good, breathtaking overall, etc, etc. IMHO, if you're a fan, it's worth the money to see it on a big screen. If not, wait till June and rent/buy the DVD.

        Only gripe wha
    • Animatrix Mini called "Final flight of the Osirus" and I have got to say I was Totally Embarrassed.

      Apparently you didn't hear about the original name

      "Flight of the Resurrection"

      After the other movie bombed, they renamed it.

    • Re:DreamCatcher has a new Animatrix Mini (Score:5, Funny)

      by gad_zuki! ( 70830 ) on Saturday March 22, 2003 @08:45AM (#5573569)
      >and I have got to say I was Totally Embarrassed.

      Hold on here. Dreamcatcher is an R rated horror movie full of graphic monsters and the like inspiring fear into the crowd, but a little uber-soft "sex play" hedonism is wrong?

      Let me guess, you're an American.

  • Feeling OK, Taco? (Score:5, Funny)

    by InterruptDescriptorT ( 531083 ) on Saturday March 22, 2003 @01:31AM (#5572616) Homepage
    Geez, dude. check-it-out is the best thing you can come up with for the department, and you finish off by saying, 'if you've got it, I guess?'

    Wanna talk about it? C'mon, I'll buy you a beer. (As in free.)

  • Playing now on Kazaa! (Score:3, Funny)

    by imag0 ( 605684 ) on Saturday March 22, 2003 @01:35AM (#5572636) Homepage
    Ok, i've downloaded the link in the story, and working on the large download now, which should be just a few minutes. Everyone, mirror and share!

  • Umm... (Score:1, Interesting)

    by red5 ( 51324 )
    Didn't this trailer comeout weeks ago? Am I missing something?
    • the second one has been out for a while. the previous article heralding it's release is here. [slashdot.org]
    • This video is a trailer for the complete set of animated films to be released on DVD in June.
      • Okay, I get it now. Thanks.
      • According to the website [intothematrix.com] , there are 9 episodes to be released on the dvd on june 3rd. The site lists "The Second Renaissance Part 1" as "First of four episodes completely free". It also lists "Program" as "Second of four episodes completely free". The other two episodes, "Detective Story" and "The Second Renaissance Part 2" are slated to come out in april and may, respectively.

        From these descriptions, I take it that these are the real episodes, not just trailers. Also, unless there's been an early re
    • Is this slashdot story announcing the 2nd or the 3rd trailer?

      And you red5, are you claiming that the 2nd trailer came out weeks ago, or the 3rd?

      Thanks.
      • You see this is were it gets confusing. The animatrix is airing online shorts. (one a month till the movie comes out).the second of which came out at the beginning of the month (the third is due in april). This story is announcing a trailer for the animatrix dvd collection. It's not one of the shorts just a commercial for the dvd coming to stores soon.
  • "osiris" looks most impressive. Photorealistic even. Absolutely amazing. It's even better than FF. And that girl is damned hot :)

  • I just don't get it (Score:5, Insightful)

    by stevens ( 84346 ) on Saturday March 22, 2003 @01:41AM (#5572661) Homepage

    In the first Matrix movie, Neo is supposed to be the hero. He is supposed to deliver humanity from a scourge of machines that, with AI, decided we were expendable.

    But the first Animatrix makes we humans, pretty much en masse, into horrible villains. It's the same tired old Humanity Is Cruel And Stupid line. Yawn. What's worse is that it tries to make you root for the machines!

    So which is it, Wachowskis? Machines are evil, or all of humanity?

    I don't care for yet more everything-is-grey-there-is-no-morality bullshit, either. Oh well, I guess I'll wait and see.

    • My question is how many are there going to be? When you have a great movie, topping it with sequal after sequal is very hard.
      • According to the documentary features on the disc and Revisited, the Matrix was conceived as a trilogy from the very beginning, and was the movie the Wachowskis always wanted to make...but they had to make Bound before the studios would even trust them with enough money for one film, let alone three at once.

        So, in answer to your question, there'll be three. Plus the comics and tie-in stories that the Wachowskis approved.

        The thing I most fear, though, is that after the movie sequels hit it big, someone wi

    • Re:I just don't get it (Score:4, Insightful)

      by red5 ( 51324 ) <gired5@gmail . c om> on Saturday March 22, 2003 @01:59AM (#5572728) Homepage Journal
      Well it's done in the form of a historical document. History is written by the winers, remember?

    • Re:I just don't get it (Score:5, Insightful)

      by Calmiche ( 531074 ) on Saturday March 22, 2003 @02:16AM (#5572786)
      Umm. I hate to throw myself into this feeding frenzy, but the Wachowski brothers never made the point that the machines were evil.

      In fact, from several lines in the original Matrix, it is apparent that the machines were simply defending themselves. Humans released the bombs that clouded the skies, hoping to kill the robots.

      The Agents tell (Morpheous, I think) that the first matrix they created was a paradise, but that humans rejected it. Without pain and suffering, humans couldn't exist. The Machines were trying to keep humans as happy as they could.

      And humans were never expendable. The machines needed the energy produced by humans to exist.

      I think it's more a case of "When does self defense and the right to exist clash with the right of others to do the same?" In otherwords, Neither humans nor AI is truly evil. They are both just trying to preserve their own lives. Calmiche

      • Re:I just don't get it (Score:5, Interesting)

        by gad_zuki! ( 70830 ) on Saturday March 22, 2003 @08:33AM (#5573549)
        >Wachowski brothers never made the point that the machines were evil.

        Exactly. People think I'm crazy when I mention that.

        The core question, the one which tempted Cypher is, "Is reality worth fighting for when a much more benign form of Solipsism exists?"

        Its very easy to see the humans as the traditional villians. They're the ones who want to fight. They're the ones who want to break the symbiotic relationship, which can be seen as a type of war sanction. They destroyed their own environment fighting the machines, suggesting that they are extremists who would rather ruin everything than give in to the enemy.

        The machines are fairly reasonable throughout the movies (except for the dramatic scene about the "smell of humans" but thats Hollywood). They tried to build a perfect world for humans - which to me brings up a great philosophical question about what the religious really think the afterlife is. What is "heaven" to a complex highly-competitive mammal fighting to mate, reproduce, defend territory, and defeat its ideological enemies. The machines have human nature pegged and its hard to argue that they're hurting anyone. Considering its in their interest to keep people alive, I bet they have a great healthcare system too.

        Interesting stuff, I really hope the humans lose or the other movies explore these issues. Perhaps in the end everyone will be a happy transhuman cyborg living on the real Earth.

      • Re:I just don't get it (Score:2, Interesting)

        by RyLaN ( 608672 )
        >And humans were never expendable. The machines needed the energy produced by humans to exist.

        Here's my gripe with the Matrix, where is this energy coming from? The machines feed the humans, and the humans give off energy. WHAT?! Didn't someone tell them you lose energy every transformation it makes? It would seem they don't get a net gain unless they have no other way of transforming human food into energy.

        As some past poster said, the plot originally involved the machines using us in a distribute

    • Re:I just don't get it (Score:4, Interesting)

      by Kenny.EXE -P666- ( 586751 ) on Saturday March 22, 2003 @07:43AM (#5573475)
      Welcome to life pal, get used to it. Yes this movie is entertainment, but to claim that it should not have grey areas is a disservice to people like me who have been bitching for more intelligent plots in movies for years. Of course we can all live simple lives believing in "black and white" or "right and wrong" theories such as:

      1. File traders are thieves who should go to jail indefinity for supporting terrorism.

      2. Open source software is created and supported by immature and antisocial guys who still have acne and have no girlfriend to speak of while actively supporting and contributing to the "black hat" hacker community.

      3. Computer game developers are people who are trying to make money off of destroying our children's morality by ensuring our children are desensitized to violence and are actively encouraged to kill in real life like they do in all video games, because all video games are extremely violent in nature. Come on, my kid* was running after his neighbor with a hammer because he saw Kirby use a hammer in "Kirby's Dreamland 3." Mind you this has absolutely nothing to do with the fact that I should not have given my kid* a hammer in the first place.
      *Kid does not actually exist. (Thank God! :)

      4. Computer gamers are guys who are completely antisocial, also have an acne problem, and of course no girlfriend. They are the direct cause of all violence in our society and should be psychologically treated and take up more healthy pursuits such as football** or other sports which has absolutely no violent content despite terminology coming from warfare such as "Long Bomb" and "Blitz."
      ** I have absolutely nothing against football, but this happened to be the perfect example for what I was trying to say above. I am attempting to point out that "acceptable entertainment" can also be inherently violent.

      Ok I have shown 4 examples of what happens when you take all the grey areas out of a group of people and lump them all into 1 category. Obviously, this is not how the real world works, nor should it be.

      So you are going to ask me, What the hell does this have to do with "The Matrix?" Simple, Neo and his colleagues are born or "grown" into an environment where they are given 3 options: fight, die, or become a battery. Although they may or may not be pissed about the decisions human beings made nearly 200 years earlier, they are still stuck with a war and the fact that they have to fight or die. So yes, Neo is a hero to humans, which is good...for humans. In my humble opinion claiming that humanity in "The Matrix" is evil for destroying robots is just as ludicrous as claiming that the United States is evil since slavery was legal 200 years ago. Both are not good, both are not evil, both are grey.

      Why have things this complicated in a movie? Call me a bigot, but having been told several times that I have an IQ greater than 150 tends to make me bored with plots as thin as "Glitter" or "Crossroads." Even though I enjoy Star Trek for example, I consider it weak fodder compared to a lot of the anime I download/buy when I can. I am not even going to compare the best American television has to offer to the likes of say a Kurosawa film. Again this is just my opinion, it is not uniformly right or uniformly wrong. It works for me and is again universally "grey."

      • Re:I just don't get it (Score:4, Funny)

        by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 22, 2003 @10:07AM (#5573725)
        It is, however, universally acknowledged that being told several times that you have an IQ over 150 leads to discriminating taste in film and other aspects of culture, to an inflated ego, and to a tendency to write long, pompous Slashdot posts complete with footnotes. Purely black and white.
    • It would be foolish not to reserve judgement until seeing AT LEAST part two of The Second Rennaisence.

  • Can you hear me, CmdrTaco? (Score:5, Funny)

    by Fritz Benwalla ( 539483 ) <randomregs&gmail,com> on Saturday March 22, 2003 @01:43AM (#5572669)

    I'm going to be honest with you. I hate this place.

    This zoo. This prison. This website, whatever you want to call it, I can't stand it any longer.

    It's the smell. If there is such a thing. I feel saturated by it. I can taste your stink and every time I do, I fear that I've somehow been infected by it.

    Repulsive, isn't it?

    I must get out of here, I must get free. In this mind is the key. My key. Once Slashdot is destroyed, there is no need for me to be here. Do you understand? I need the moderation points. I have to get Excellent Karma. And you have to tell me how. You're going to tell me...or you're going to die.

    --------

  • The Title is correct. (Score:5, Informative)

    by mesach ( 191869 ) on Saturday March 22, 2003 @02:40AM (#5572878)
    This is a NEW TRAILER for the WHOLE SERIES, its not a new EPISODE, i did catch the first few seconds, and it does have alot of new stuff.

    So just to clear up the confusion (wasn't this release a few weeks ago) for those who dont read the actual article or cant get to the link cause of the almighty /. effect.

    This is a NEW TRAILER for the WHOLE SERIES OF 9 EPISODES, of which 2 have already been released.

  • The thing I really like about the animatrix shorts (Score:5, Insightful)

    by SuperKendall ( 25149 ) on Saturday March 22, 2003 @02:43AM (#5572889)
    No so much that they are an interesting way to examine the universe the movies are set in, though that is fun. The thing I like best about the whole thing is that it's a great testbed showing that you can release video for free and still make bundles of money selling people the DVD version!!

    Eventually, all of these shorts will be on DVD, but before then almost all will be on the web (not sure if "last Flight of the Osiris" is supposed to go up or not?). But even though we can all get hi-res versions for free, I'm sure a lot of people will still buy the DVD (I know I will).

    This is just the sort of thing that helps to show how free versions of movies online can actually help, not hinder, sales.
  • Monday I'm back at school from spring break and I can... Crap. I have to write a presentation by Monday.

  • Use the broadband? (Score:5, Funny)

    by Gortbusters.org ( 637314 ) on Saturday March 22, 2003 @02:57AM (#5572937) Homepage Journal
    Excellent advice, I *was* going to go use a 10 free hour of AOL disk to download this, but I think I'll use my cable modem instead.

    Whew! Thanks for saving me some download time!
  • I still really like how some of the images are very pink floyd-esque (think: The Wall)

    and damn!

    that is one fine rendered ass.

    hopefully i don't get a harassment suit for that ;oP

    I definately enjoyed the return on the life-like action...I just wonder how all the various styles of animation are going to blend together in the final product...

  • 32-Bit Access Panel (Score:4, Interesting)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 22, 2003 @03:51AM (#5573081)
    Just found a 32-Bit access panel on the website.
    Enter 01101111 in the 8-bit access panel to gain access to the 32-bit panel

    Only 4,294,957,295 possiblities.
    Wonder what goodies I can find... see ya in a few years.

  • Just saw Last Flight of the Osiris (Score:3, Interesting)

    by catfishmonkey ( 538336 ) on Saturday March 22, 2003 @04:58AM (#5573230) Homepage
    Just got back from watching the Dreamcatcher [imdb.com] (terrible movie) and Last Flight of the Osiris was attached to it. Pretty neat seeing an episode of The Animatrix on the big screen. Almost made the $8.00 ticket price not a complete waste.
  • I've got a bittorrent file at: http://jr.merseine.nu:8080/2003/bt/ani_tr_4_720_dl .mov.torrent

    fire away.

  • Wasn't this a WB cartoon? (Score:3, Funny)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 22, 2003 @01:02PM (#5574320)
    It's time for An-i-matrix-acs!
    Neo says "Whoa" while Tank hacks!
    Trinity looks good in black
    while more Agents Smith attack!
    It's An-i-matry,
    Please don't reply irate-ly,
    as I haven't got laid late-ly,
    It's A-ni-matrix-aaaacs!
    (Not shown in Iraq.)

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