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What the title said: A look behind the scenes of Tangled, Andreas Deja starts blogging, and Valve explains how the Meet the Medic short came to be.

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The Hobbit starts filming and they’re doing online production diaries like they did for Kong. Not sure I’ll watch the later episodes so as to leave some surprises for the actual film, but it’s cool to see the cast return… and Jackson at the helm. Looking forward to seeing what they come up with.

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A few links I can’t believe I haven’t posted yet: A charming game about possessing furniture and scaring people, Irrational Games lifts the curtain on development, a kick-ass documentary about indie games in the making, and your brain on metaphors…

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It occurred to me recently why I don’t generally like sci-fi that much, and conversely why I love a good historical setting. I want a world I can believe in, that subtle sense that these places are real, and you could go there if only you could charter a plane, or a time machine… Sci-fi [...]

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And the Oscar for best use of gaming nostalgia goes to… P I X E L S

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The story discussion continues. Again, SPOILERS… The heart of a good story are its characters. They don’t have to be likeable, but they have to be interesting and above all believable. Sometimes a character will say or do something that just seems wrong… People change, certainly, but you know that character would not make that [...]

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FOCUS Deleted scenes are deleted for a reason. Maybe this is controversial, but I felt Peter Jackson got a little carried away with the extended editions of The Lord of the Rings. Now, I *love* Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy, but with the exception of The Two Towers I find the cinema version vastly [...]

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I’ve been meaning to write a post about this for a while. Stories are fragile things. One false note can easily pull apart that carefully constructed illusion and your audience, once you’ve lost them, are lost forever. Sometimes you can’t help but wonder what possessed someone to make such baffling story-choices. I’m going to use [...]

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So right now I’m experimenting some with putting sound into my short film and there’s a few sites I’ve been finding instructive… Walter Murch – Transom Talk Randy Thom – Designing A Movie For Sound Gamasutra – Audio Features Obviously I’m not going to come to an understanding of sound design overnight, but at least [...]

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