studiowhiz ramblings

I love a good movie, I love a good animated movie & there are a couple of good (looking) ones coming out soon.

First up from the BlueSky studios team comes a Dr Seuss movie. Horton Hears a Who comes out March 14 2008. I don’t know what but there is something about Dr Seuss that lends itself to the BlueSky animation style. The quirkiness of Seuss plays so nicely in the trailers.

The next one harks back to a tv show that was on a number of years ago. Alvin & the Chipmunks. The squeaky voices, the songs, the styles - it’s all there. No it’s not a cartoon as it was many years ago, now it’s a live action with 3D composites and yeah it looks great.

Check them out below:
» Horton Hears a Who
» Alvin & the Chipmunks

Tags: moives, animation, 3D, bluesky, Dr Seuss

I’ve been a Firefox fan for .. well for as long as it’s been out. Firefox is a web browser for those of you wondering about that.

The main reasons for using Firefox have been

• more secure than Internet Explorer
• better CSS & web2.0 support than Internet Explorer
• not developed by Microsoft
• use extensions to expand Firefox
• and many more

However those of you using an Apple computer will tell you that Firefox is not as lovely on OSX as, well as Safari (Apple’s web browser). Firefox is plagued with memory leaks, meaning from time to time it just eats up your memory, crashes and well is a pain in the butt for someone, like me, who spends easily 8+ hours a day working in a browser.
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