My kingdom for an Avid suite!

[tealin]

So Osmosis Jones was on TV tonight ...

You know, I still stand by it: there is a good movie in there. If someone who knew what they were doing spent some quality time editing it, and maybe threw in a few extra interior scenes to make up for plot points lost when all the totally crap exterior scenes were flushed down the toilet as they should have been a long time ago, you could really get something worth watching out of it.

[sigh]

Besides, what better example of showing off what 2D is really good for? Squishy, stretchy, wicked cool designy stuff, that's what.

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In case anyone's interested, somehow the comments trailed off into "How to get Discworld books" ... dunno how that happened, but some people might find it useful.

Comments

[nae-trews.livejournal.com]

Ah, we had to sit through that in biology a few years ago as a treat. However, there really was some nifty animation going on in Osmosis Jones that made my heart sing ... or so I remember. I was surrounded by friends who were hellbent on hating the whole thing, so I tried to glean something enjoyable from it. But I'm the girl who goes through The Hunchback of Notre Dame frame-by-frame for the OMGDIDYOUSEETHATONESHOT<3JAYSUSJAMESBAXTERILOOOVEDEDYOUUU! spirit of it all ... so yeah. >_>

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

[gasp]

Someone else out there appreciates the magnificence of James Baxter? HUZZAH!

[nae-trews.livejournal.com]

James Baxter, Glen Keane, Mike Surrey, Andreas Deja (the list goes on ... ) and all their contemporaries and all that jazz. My friends admire movie stars, I get ape poopy over Disney feature animators. And anyone who has ever worked on a Brad Bird project. And Studio Ghibli members. C'est la vie!

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Wow! I thought I was the only one! I work in an animation studio and most of my colleagues don't know these people – sometimes I think I'm the most obsessed person here!

[nae-trews.livejournal.com]

Lucky, talented duck - I wish I were talented enough for a job like that, but I'm peddling my wares to the art history major instead - yay for studio art minoring!

But you aren't alone - if it makes you feel any better, my best friend, who lives about three hours away in New York City, and I have get-togethers in which we watch nothing but animated films - and it is a ritual of geeky proportions that the majority of the living population has never witnessed including that one time we accidentally ended up renting The Hunchback of Notre Dame 2 (AUGH) and proceeded to make it watchable with help from a bottle of rum. And we fangirl animators. Oh yes. She's a good friend to have, because the majority of my friends in this stinkpot known as Delaware just could care less about animation.

I am the queen of going off tangents. >_>

[rowen26.livejournal.com]

Definitly agree with all your points.

And as a BG guy myself, the inventivness of all the body's backgrounds just blew me away.

[crypticidentity.livejournal.com]

Hi! I've been watching your LJ and your website for a long time--I'm the "Ian" from the dreams page with the OotP dream--and I had to post because I needed to tell you something: I picked up my first Terry Pratchett book today--"The Wee Free Men." The cover art, I didn't really like, but I remembered how much you loved Terry Pratchett, so I bought it. Unfortunately, it was the ONLY Pratchett book, so I wasn't able to get any others. I'm still excited though, since I just realized it says "A STORY OF DISCWORLD" on the back. I needed to ask you, do I have to read any of the other Discworld novels before this one to understand the story? Thanks!

Sorry this is a completely off-topic post; I was just excited that I'd finally gotten a book by Terry Pratchett.

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

No, Wee Free Men is the first in a sort of offshoot YA series revolving around Tiffany Aching, so there's no prerequisites. You can even read the second Tiffany book (A Hat Full of Sky) without reading the first... they aren't as interconnected as Harry Potter. Just about any Discworld book can be read independently of the others, though having a grounding in some of the fundamentals can give a bit of context.* But you've got to start somewhere, so just pick up the fundamentals as you go along.

The Tiffany Aching books are encouraging ... they seem to have made much more of an inroad into the American market (no doubt taking advantage of the sudden interest in YA fantasy, thanks to HP) than the "adult" Discworld books have. Here's hoping they open the door to more demand for the rest so that libraries might actually stock them. And if HarperCollins continues in its rockin' ways and actually does a U.S. reprint/release of the Johnny Maxwell trilogy ("From the Author of A Hat Full of Sky!" despite the fact that it was written ten years ago), that'll be so much more wealth to the reading public.

[tonks244.livejournal.com]

I'm working on getting my library to stock more Discworld books! Gahhh!! They hardly have anything!

[(Anonymous)]

Agreed! Our library has request forms which they never appear to read. I hope, at least, that they recycle them instead of just throwing them away. Thank goodness for B&N and Amazon!

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Ebay's good too, if you don't mind used books... and paying for shipping from the UK, sometimes. I'm all set to recieve a half dozen recent orders of used Pratchett hardcovers* including – I'm really looking forward to this one – The Streets of Ankh-Morpork. Nothing like affirming your geekdom by owning a tour guide of an entirely fictional city. (Really, though, I just got it for the map.)

Half.com is even better, in some cases, especially because you don't have the hassle of bidding, but they insist on using Purolator** in Canada so that takes it a bit out of my price range.

[(Anonymous)]

Ooh! For all those of us who are less fortunate on Ebay but equally obsessed, give us quotes from your guided tour!