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Episode 129: Tuesday, April 21, 2009

The Paunch Stevenson Show episode 129

In this episode:

  • different video file formats and YouTube,
  • an Eliza Dushku contest on MySpace (video),
  • people customizing their MySpace profiles to look stupid,
  • The Celebrity Apprentice starring Tom Green and Scott Hamilton,
  • the current state of TV,
  • our review of Nobel Son (2007) starring Alan Rickman and Danny DeVito,
  • Disney retracing its own animation (video 1, video 2),
  • and Rob finding $200 in his bedroom.

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Disney Reuses Its Own Animation

“Disney only ever made one movie and they’ve been tracing it ever since.”

If you think Filmation’s technique of reusing stock footage in the 1980s was a bit excessive, this video demonstrates that Disney has been doing the same thing for decades. The difference is Filmation was producing daily cartoon shows for TV and Disney is producing big-budget theatrical films.

TodaysBigThing.com – Disney Reuses Its Own Animation

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Episode 128: Sunday, April 5, 2009

The Paunch Stevenson Show episode 128

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Mr. Bay, here’s another video that gets Transformers/CGI right!

As I’ve mentioned in episodes past, I am an avid motorsports fan, including the IndyCar series. The series will be shown for the first time on Comcast’s fledgling Versus network. Below is a promo from Versus for the coverage. It’s a short one done all in computer animation, where the cars transform into animals. Though this is not affiliated with Hasbro or Transformers at all. Yet another example though of the classic and proper way to animate a “Transformer.” Unlike the nonsense from Michael Bay.

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Episode 127: Monday, March 30, 2009

The Paunch Stevenson Show episode 127

Happy birthday to Jack in NJ!

In this episode:

  • the March NAVA meeting at the Digital Press video game store in Clifton, NJ,
  • The Celebrity Apprentice starring Tom Green and Andrew “Dice” Clay,
  • the horrible Heroes season three,
  • finally watching the 3D episode of Chuck,
  • Willie Aames’s garage sale,
  • Corey Haim selling his teeth on eBay,
  • Jack in NJ’s 40th birthday,
  • Greg’s trip to Dave & Buster’s,
  • the value of paunchstevenson.com on websiteoutlook.com,
  • Google Earth vs. Microsoft Live Search Maps,
  • Microsoft’s WorldWide Telescope,
  • Vegas Vampires (2003) starring Fred Williamson, Richard Roundtree, and Daniel Baldwin,
  • Greg’s favorite vampire movies: Underworld (2003), From Dusk Till Dawn (1996), John Carpenter’s Vampires (1998), Blade (1998), My Best Friend Is a Vampire (1988), etc.,
  • Late Night with Jimmy Fallon,
  • the upcoming movie The Three Stooges (2010) starring Sean Penn, Benecio Del Toro, and Jim Carrey,
  • gun stores and shooting ranges,
  • an old recording of George Lucas and Steven Spielberg using racial slurs,
  • pointless extracurricular activities in high school,
  • and celebrity deaths (Natasha Richardson and Paul Harvey).

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