Archive for August, 2007

Star Wars ASCIIMATION

Friday, August 24th, 2007

I think I’ve sent this around to people via email, but never blogged it.  Here is a version of the first Star Wars movie, done entirely in character art.  This project deserves some props if for nothing else than the sheer amount of effort.  Or insanity.

(what reminded me of this was this digg article about the original Star Wars trilogy done in animated gif)

Scaling down an image? Get rid of the irrelevant stuff

Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007

Found this interesting video on College Humor by way of Digg. Not your usual College Humor fodder; this describes a method for re-targetting images by removing the least relevant part. Very interesting.

UPDATE: The creator of this technology has joined Adobe.  Good for him (and for the people who will get to use his technology).  I really wish it wasn’t Adobe, though, their software is crappy.

College Humor Movie Parodies

Sunday, August 19th, 2007

Here are a couple great College Humor movie parodies that I’ve run into over the last few weeks: