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I was asking you all about bad 80s movies for this article that has now gone live on Fantasy Magazine.
It’s kind of an odd mix of childhood nostalgia, remembrance of my father, and 80s movie jokes. I hope you enjoy it.
Filed Under: Costuming, My Writing, Photography, Speculative Fiction
Another Monday, and another Roundbottom post has gone live over at clockpunk.com. This week, the good Doctor formulates a plan to recapture the dangerous wraith.
We’re hard at work around here on more Roundbottom content. The first podcast might very well be ready in the next week or two. My sound engineer Nate sent me a couple of files over the weekend that were great. The podcast is going to have fantastic engineering. Episodes will be short, running only 2-3 minutes most likely. But those 2-3 minutes will be packed with aural delights, I tell you.
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My story from the Fantasy sampler has gone live on Podcastle. Go check it out!
Filed Under: Film, Recommended Media, SF Films, Speculative Fiction, Top Post
Do you remember that Disney CG film Dinosaurs? It’s original concept involved a feature length movie with animals that only emoted, and never spoke. Having always been a big fan of computer animation, I was excited at the early rumors of the film. Unfortunately, Disney execs got involved and the result was the talky-travesty that we eventually saw. Okay, so maybe “travesty” is a strong word. It wasn’t a bad film– It just failed to live up to it’s potential as a work that stretched the boundaries of its format.
WALL-E succeeds in many, many ways, but the most fascinating aspect for me was the extent to which Pixar relied on nonverbal communication to convey the story. I have a strong feeling that in preparation for this film, the animators watched reels and reels of silent comedy films; Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin especially. Watch the movements of WALL-E, and I think you will see some of the exaggerated mannerisms of those silent film stars. Wall-E is all angles, but angles that can change their composition to one another, so he meets the basic principles of computer character animaton established by John Lasseter so many years ago with Luxo. He can squash and stretch.
(This review contains spoilers.)
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My story from Polyphony 4, and one of my earliest successful attempts at the short story (although your definition of success may vary from mine in this case), is now live as a podcast on PodCastle. You can give it a listen over on the PodCastle site, but if you’re into fantasy, you should subscribe [...]
My story from the excellent anthology Seeds of Change (edited by the Anthology God, formerly known here as the Slush God, John Joseph Adams) has gone live over at Escape Pod. This is a story that was published to mixed reviews. But I am astounded by the job that Philippa Ballantine did here. Her reading [...]
Hi Folks. After a ton of work on the part of myself, Sarah, and my sound engineer and good friend Nate Periat, we’ve finished and posted our first Dr. Roundbottom Field Sounds podcast. It’s only 5 minutes long, so don’t hesitate to just go to the site and hit play. Please let me know what [...]
Do you remember that Disney CG film Dinosaurs? It’s original concept involved a feature length movie with animals that only emoted, and never spoke. Having always been a big fan of computer animation, I was excited at the early rumors of the film. Unfortunately, Disney execs got involved and the result was the talky-travesty that [...]
I forget where I got this, but I think that it’s the level of quality I’d like to see in more book trailers online:
Having Tim Curry as a narrator is probably outside of the range of what we can afford as SF/F writers, but still. Let’s go over what makes this awesome:
Tight pacing. 2 minutes [...]
Another vantage point of the wall along the Poudre River. Examining a gritty kind of vanishing point.
