Team animation

Design by committee is rarely a good idea — unless you’re making an animated Disney movie. Tacoma-based animator Benson Shum is one of hundreds of talented people who have spent the past year creating what will probably be Disney’s next big hit: “Big Hero 6.” The...

CGI vs. ‘reality’

Tom Cruise is at it again, churning the stomachs of the insurance underwriters for Mission Impossible 5 by performing an outrageously batty stunt: hanging out the side of a giant plane 5000 feet above the English countryside. This follows his other bits of derring-do...

‘Toon contest

Sony Pictures Animation and Fred Seibert’s Frederator Networks have launched a contest to find new toon talent, with the winner to be granted a deal for a series that will run on Frederator’s Cartoon Hangover channel on YouTube. Under the companies’ new Go! Cartoons...

GamerGate science

By now you’re probably heard of #Gamergate, the internet lynch mob masquerading as a movement for ethics in video game journalism. Though #Gamergaters, as they’re known, have repeatedly targeted their critics with rape and death threats, drawing rebukes...

Sprout sprouts

Last week we had heard about HP coming out with a new form factor PC and the product has been unveiled. Called the HP Sprout, it is basically an all-in-one PC which has an overhead projector (over the monitor) and uses a setup of cameras and sensors to take inputs via...