Found this video today, and I hope that you enjoy it as much as I did. Here’s the description from the video: My mom hadn’t seen (or heard of) the Wachowski’s classic sci-fi film The Matrix. We...
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Found this video today, and I hope that you enjoy it as much as I did. Here’s the description from the video: My mom hadn’t seen (or heard of) the Wachowski’s classic sci-fi film The Matrix. We...
The 30-second spot, for General Electric‘s Brilliant Machines campaign, will air during Saturday Night Live on April 13 and features Matrix star Hugo Weaving as Agent Smith. In the commercial,...
Personally, looking back after eight years, and going through all of the old stories on the website as I’ve been re-posting things to the blog that I’d lost when the server crashed, it got me...
The film world is at a crossroads.* At the moment we have the ability to produce images, digitally, to match (or beat) the picture quality of 35mm film.* What we don’t currently have is the ability...
It was only a matter of time.* The Matrix has finally been added to the National Film Registry, where it will be preserved by the Library of Congress. Under the terms of the National Film...
During a press junket for Cloud Atlas, the Wachowskis commented on The Matrix Trilogy.* This is insight into the films that, nine years later, makes the differences between the films make a lot of...
Behind the scenes pictures from the set of The Matrix Reloaded. These pictures are from contruction and rehearsal of the set for Neo’s meeting with the Oracle and the Burly Brawl. The motion-capture...
Archival article from the official Enter the Matrix website: February 2003. Two years later, and we’re almost ready to Enter The Matrix. It’s a Saturday in January at Shiny’s new digs in Aliso Viejo,...
Archival interview with Stuart Roch from the official Matrix website. BACKGROUND Matrix: How did you get into gaming? Stuart: Like most people, when I came out of college I was searching for the...
Archival interview with Gabe Rountree from the official Matrix website. BACKGROUND Matrix: What first allowed you to jump into the video game industry professionally? Gabe: I got lucky. I was...
Archival interview with Shinichiro Watanabe from the official Matrix website. MATRIX: Since we last talked [November 2001] a lot of work has been done; can you tell us where we are right now?...
Archival interview with Shinichiro Watanabe from the official Matrix website. HISTORY MATRIX: How long have you been working in anime? WATANABE-SAN: I actually started as an Animation Producer, and...
Archival interview with Akiko Saito from the official Matrix website. MATRIX: How did you get involved in computer graphics? AKIKO-SAN: In university I studied animation production. The first studio...
Archival interview with Koji Morimoto from the official Matrix website. MATRIX: Could you tell us about your background? MORIMOTO-SAN: I worked as an animator for ten years, since I was 20, but have...
Archival interview with Hiroshi Murakami from the official Matrix website. MATRIX: How did you get into animation? MURAKAMI-SAN: About 10 years ago I saw a public television special on computer...
Archival interview with Yusuki Hirota from the official Matrix website. MATRIX: How did you get into computers and anime? HIROTA-SAN: I originally went to university for mechanical engineering. After...
Archival interview with Yutaka Minowa from the official Matrix website. MATRIX: How did you get started in anime work? MINOWA-SAN: When I finished high school I went to a design school for two years,...
Archival interview with Mahiro Maeda from the official Matrix website. MATRIX: We did our first interview back in November 2000; what has it been like, now that we’ve reached the end of production on...
Archival interview with Shinji Hashimoto from the official Matrix website. MATRIX: What are some of the recent projects you’ve worked on? HASHIMOTO-SAN: On THE ANIMATRIX I worked with Watanabe-san on...
Archival interview with Mahiro Maeda from the official Matrix website. MATRIX: Could you talk a little bit about the films you have done. MAEDA-SAN: My most recent film is actually a series of films...
Archival interview with Mike Arias from the official Matrix website. MATRIX: Shinichiro Watanabe and yourself shot some digital video of Clayton Watson for KID’S STORY, which Watanabe-san is...
Archival interview with Takeshi Koike from the official Matrix website. MATRIX: How did you get involved in anime work? KOIKE-SAN: When I graduated from high school I sent a lot of my artwork to...
Archival interview with Mike Arias from the official Matrix website. MATRIX: What is your background in regards to anime and in general? MIKE: I started out about 13 years ago doing special effects...
Archival interview with Yoshiaki Kawajiri from the official Matrix website. MATRIX: How do you feel about the reception your work is getting, particularly Ninja Scroll, which was recommended to the...
Archival interview with Thomas Scott from the official Matrix website. THE ORIGINAL FILM MATRIX: Were you a Stand-In for Keanu Reeves on the original film? THOMAS: Yes, I did this on the first film,...