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November 12, 2008 | Videos
Someone Twittered a link to an A’capella Star Wars tribute today and I thought it was very cool so have posted it below. The video is of one man singing some random lyrics about Star Wars to the tunes of various John Williams movie scores. You can read the lyrics and a little information about the song here.
Showing someone at work the video he then mentioned an a’capella version of Michael Jacksons Thriller made by one man, François Macré. The singing is a little off - possibly because he is French (so there’s an accent) but the sound effects and music are spot on.
Some people have too much time on their hands… but I’m glad they do!
Time for some more Potter excitement - the teaser trailer for Half Blood Prince has been released. All Potter fans should check it out as it looks great. Make sure you have your speakers on.
The films have been fantastic so far - each one improves on the one before. I just hope the cast all return for the finale as it wouldn’t be right to have them change now.
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Whilst writing this I got an email from Amazon letting me know that Tales of Beadle the Bard is going to go on sale later this year. I was under the impression that it would never be released so this is great news! There are going to be two versions, one special edition (£50) and one standard edition (£3.99) - with all proceeds going to charity.
I saw this when I was having my dinner this evening and thought it was absolutely fantastic. I was pretty sure it was Jamie Hewlet almost from the start, but I didn’t realise the music was by Damon Albarn (for those outside the loop this is the duo responsible for the Gorillaz).
I have no interest in the Olympics at all, but I really hope the Beeb have more of these up their sleeves.
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Big Buck Bunny tells the story of a giant rabbit with a heart bigger than himself. When one sunny day three rodents rudely harass him, something snaps… and the rabbit ain’t no bunny anymore! In the typical cartoon tradition he prepares the nasty rodents a comical revenge.
Big Buck Bunny is an animation, created in Blender - an open source 3d art program. I tried Blender many moons ago and it was painful to use. I suspect that’s because I was warped by my excessive user of 3d Studio Max. However the unintuitive interface doesn’t seem to have slowed down the amazing artists who created Big Buck Bunny.
The animation was commissioned by the Blender Foundation and has been licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license - which means you can do whatever you like with the video, as long as the credits are left intact.
The animation is fantastic, even …
Found a video of Wall-E on Electroplankton and am loving it. This has to be the best marketing campaign ever.
Oh - and case you’ve missed it. Wall-E is the latest, soon to be hit, movie from the ridiculously clever folks at Pixar.
My Starwars loving side has got plenty to be happy about at the moment - the Clone Wars 3d cartoons are on their way!
I absolutely adored the 2d versions (in particular the superior 2nd series) and this trailer looks like it will ignite my passion for Starwars once more… if it hasn’t already.
According to the BBC the animated Clone Wars will kick off with a movie length version later this year, and then continue with a tv series. This, for me at least, is totally unexpected and incredibly welcome.
Since I’m on the subject, you should probably check out these mini Starwars Lego models. They are almost as cool as the Clone Wars film and tv series (some may even arguer that they’re cooler!).
Binary Moon
Gun Wing
Bubble Bomb
ExGen
Bubble Blitz