Star Wars: Clone Wars

Nice movie, nice characters.
I took a friend's kid to the movies, his mom and dad couldn't find someone to take care of him while they went to a meeting, so I offered myself.

The movie is nice, at the beginning you are offered a small explanation so everything is clear to you from the start. Episode I (and II to a extend) where so busy trying to come up with nice visuals that at times they failed to be clear at what was happening. I found myself trying to find the plot in those two movies. Anyway, back to Clone Wars.

The movie wasn't directed in the regular way, that is, artists working from a storyboard to make a scene, but almost the opposite way. They dropped the storyboard and worked on it thinking globally about scenes, about what characters where doing, and it seems to have worked.


Apparently they took the characters from the Clone Wars animated tv series and turned them to 3d. The result is great, and they introduce a new character, Ahsoka Tano



The character is lovely, apparently they changed her race (good choice) and I think we'll soon start seeing fanfiction using her :P

On creativity

Worth a read:

"...Creative people are humble and proud at the same time. It is remarkable to meet a famous person who you expect to be arrogant or supercilious, only to encounter self-deprecation and shyness instead. Yet there are good reasons why this should be so. These individuals are well aware that they stand, in Newton's words, "on the shoulders of giants." Their respect for the area in which they work makes them aware of the long line of previous contributions to it, putting their own in perspective. They're also aware of the role that luck played in their own achievements. And they're usually so focused on future projects and current challenges that past accomplishments, no matter how outstanding, are no longer very interesting to them. At the same time, they know that in comparison with others, they have accomplished a great deal. And this knowledge provides a sense of security, even pride."

This reading was so great that I already added the book from where this came from to my Amazon wishlist ;)

Logo book: Numbers

Nice find over at Scribd, a book that contains only logos that start with a number. Many of the logos won't wow you and it doesn't even have information about the business or who did the logos, but nevertheless, it's a great way to find how others came to a solution.


Link: http://www.scribd.com/doc/81744/LogoAGogo-Volume-1-Numbers

Daft Punk and Google Chrome

Six degrees of separation between Google and Daft Punk.

Interesting to know that Google Chrome UI was developed based based on The Designers Republic's work on Wipeout, a racing videogame.

Daft Punk is one of many artists that has provided music to the videogame series.