Shenanigans & Tomfoolery

There was a ton of cool stuff in today’s Über Update, Valve’s “biggest, most ambitious update in the history of Team Fortress 2.” We got new weapons and items for all but one of the classes (why no Engie love, Valve?), a new map and, perhaps most importantly, the announcement that Team Fortress 2 would henceforth [...]

Mesmerizing.

Get the latest Flash Player to see this player. [Javascript required to view Flash movie, please turn it on and refresh this page] It’s been long overdue but I finally got around to updating my Animation page. I added a few pencil tests, descriptions for every video, threw in a couple of divs to make [...]

DC’s line of direct-to-DVD animated features have been of varying quality so far. I think the biggest issue these movies have is the 70 minute time limit which leaves little room for character exploration and makes a lot of these seem like quick “get in, get out” ordeals. I think Wonder Woman succeeded because it [...]

As I prepare to write my “Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths” review, I thought it’d be fitting to go back and look at one of the earlier works in DC’s direct-to-DVD line of movies. This isn’t an actual review of Justice League: The New Frontier as it’s a little difficult to dissociate myself from [...]

The Maxx is an MTV cartoon from the 90′s which is based on Sam Keith’s comic of the same name. This was back when MTV was actually about music instead of nonsense reality shows and The Maxx was part of their animation line-up alongside Aeon Flux and Beavis and Butthead among others. The series had [...]

The Princess and the Frog is Disney’s first traditionally animated feature film since 2004 and, for that reason alone, I’ve been keeping a close eye on it through its development ups and downs. Directed by Ron Clements and John Musker, this movie has big shoes to fill as it attempts to resuscitate a dying breed [...]

“9″ was probably, along with Pixar’s “Up,” my most anticipated movie this year. Its trailer came out of nowhere and, bad music choices in it aside, I simply loved it. It was clear in its setting and design sensibilities that it wasn’t your average animated movie and that it was striving to be something different. [...]

I ordered a new computer from Dell. My current one keeps giving me problems and I just don’t have the patience for it anymore. I ordered a new computer with a good processor and I’m just going to gut my current one and put the RAM, video card, hard drive and whatever else I can [...]

If you’ve seen the Team Fortress 2 “Meet the Spy” video that I posted a while back or if you’ve been lucky enough to stumble upon any of the other “Meet the Team” videos that developer Valve has released in the last couple years (and if you haven’t, there’s a nice little YouTube playlist at [...]