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I have a weakness for Lulu's style. Her goth by way of the Goodwill accessory rack look is so wrong, but so right.
You're right about the climate, though. On the HD release, at least, her dress is textured as this thick, felt-like fabric and you can just feel her simmering under the equatorial sun.

I honestly think lattice work on Tidus' sleeve and leg is simply because the PS2's processing power allowed it. Unlike the ps1 era's drawing a face on a Duplo block character models, you could actually design flowing elements separate from the main body. And like all new developments in technology, the desire to use…

One of the original concepts for the voice of God in Prince of Egypt was to layer and morph between every voice actor in the film. So God would be the voice of every man, woman and child. Nick Fletcher, the editor, said it sounded pretty amazing, "But it crossed the line theologically and so we had to abandon that…

It's situations like this where I think movies could take a cue from video games. Link exists in dozens of similar but unique permutations in all the Legend of Zelda games. Same story beats, but different worlds and supporting characters.
I don't have any anxiety about reconciling the place of this movie in relation to…

What @Roswulf:disqus said.

Yeah, it's a damn shame that role casting's history as a completely unsullied meritocracy would have to be tainted now with the inclusion of race as a factor.

Aw, thanks prof. That means an awful lot to me. Just a disclaimer, the piece up top here isn't one of mine.
Also, my kid insisted we watch Futurama tonight, specifically the episode where everyone gets younger. She thinks you look good with a mustache.

Limbo's super-reductive art style works so well because it's easy to see while playing how strongly the black and white informs the game experience.
A lot of gamers suffer from pixel fatigue- being tired of the ubiquity of stripped down retro graphics. I'm not one of them, but I can understand it, since enough of the…

We also accidentally broke your favorite vase while you were at work because we were playing football in the living room. I hope you don't find out we glued it back together.

I imagine there's quite a few of us here who can attest that playing video games and consuming excessive amounts of mind-altering substances are not mutually exclusive activities.

I agree. I prefer the look of pixels over Flash animation almost every time, but this game in particular benefits from the rounded forms and flat, slick fleshiness of vector illustration.

Seriously. The Yes, Google workflow method is so standard, I'm curious who actually had the baseline knowledge to upload a tutorial in the first place.

I just started rewatching it again the other night, as a matter of fact. My biggest surprise is that it has both Hugh Dancy and Mads Mikkelsen as knights of the Round Table. A fact that I neither knew, nor would have concerned me before falling crazy in love with Hannibal.
It's the kind of blandly competent production…

The perpetual fog that blanketed England during the final third of that movie was actually all the exhaled pot smoke from my friends and I who watched that movie approximately 8,000 times in High School.

I was mulling over his retirement while making dinner and thinking, as long as they're making money from it, Hannity, O'Reilly, Limbaugh, all those guys will never quit. They have no aspirations and no goals other than an easy job reading script with the appropriate level of outrage and accruing capital.
I'm not saying…

The very first time I dropped acid, I had a shift at Hardee's the next morning.
I was mostly recovered in that way unique to the uncanny resilience of youth, and the residual speed was keeping me fairly alert for not having slept an iota.
But everything was filtered through a hyper-realistic tint which is just super-not…

I really like the use of the liquidy strands of fire in the last panel. Like spit or mad froth pouring out of his mouth.

I live in South Minneapolis, which is, as I'm sure you know, is a progressive concentration in an already progressive city.
And is always the case when a neighborhood veers so far in one direction, the handful of dissenters try extra hard to get their voices heard over the white noise of Remember Wellstone yard signs…

If this is anyone but Steve Allen, you're stealing my bit!