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Burbank, CA - January 24, 2008 - The Walt Disney Studios is taking the latest advances in digital 3-D technology “to infinity and beyond” with ambitious plans to debut new Disney Digital 3-D^TM versions of Disney- Pixar’s “Toy Story” on October 2nd, 2009, and “Toy Story 2″ on February 12th, 2010, it was announced by Dick Cook, chairman of The Walt Disney Studios. Both of these beloved animated features are being newly converted to 3-D in advance of the June 18th, 2010 release of Disney-Pixar’s “Toy Story 3,” which is being produced as a 3-D motion picture and will represent the state-of-the-art for the genre. Veteran Pixar filmmaker Lee Unkrich (co-director “Toy Story 2″) is directing.

Academy Award®-winning filmmaker John Lasseter (director of the first two “Toy Story” films and chief creative officer for Disney and Pixar Animation Studios) will personally oversee the creative side of the 3-D conversions for “Toy Story” and “Toy Story 2″ with his acclaimed team of technical wizards handling all the necessary steps in the conversion process.

In converting “Toy Story” and “Toy Story 2″ to state-of-the-art 3-D films, the technical team is retrieving all of the original digital elements and rebuilding them in 3-D.
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Well its been almost 5 years. FIVE years since I took down what was called Danimation.com the “Anything Coaster!” web portal and reclaimed it as my own professional website. I have done very little with it, and thats about to change. I’ve started a full redesign of the site, and I will be posting tutorials and hints and tips on the new design as well as here on my blog. This will be part of a new more active move to start making some real cash off of my effects knowledge and help to share it with the world. I’ll be more active on some websites and be posting advice and feedback to anyone who asks me for advice. Im working on a series of training Dvd’s that will start to come out summer/fall of 2008. More details on those as the release date gets closer.

Stay tuned there’s lots to come.

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Mitsubishi has developed this prototype 3D television that requires no glasses and displays a fully 3D view to the screen. The video is very good at explaining the basic process. If they can get this down to a consumer level this will be very cool.

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January 1st, 2008 1:00 pm Ralph Wilson Stadium.

What a game! Thats right, I had two tickets to the biggest hockey game of all time, the 2008 Winter Classic featuring a divisional rivalry of the Buffalo Sabres vs the Pittsburgh Penguins. Sure in the end the Pens won in a shootout. But WOW, what a great game.

I took my 8 year old son Danny to the game with two tickets my wife Sherri got us the day they went on sale. The weather was perfect. The snow came down in a gentle dusting that felt magical and inspiring. The wide eyed wonder of my son as 4 black hawk helicopters flew over our heads at the culmination of the anthem. The energy at the Ralph was unmistakable. The crowd swelled with cheers and boos as the game went from a one point deficit to a tie, to overtime, and the shootout. During the shootout, everyone in the stadium was standing screaming and on edge. We sat in Section 122 in the end zone above the tunnel that both teams came out of.

The Pens even wore their old school original baby blue uniforms and the Sabres wore their original uniforms from 1970 when the team was first formed. If hockey had a superbowl this was it. Sure it was cold, sure they didn’t win, but this game was perfect in every way you would want, The snow, the crowd, the shootout ending, what a great game.

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