"Historically speaking, animating female characters are really, really difficult, because they have to go through these range of emotions, but you have to keep them pretty and they’re very sensitive to — you can get them off a model very quickly. So, having a film with two hero female characters was really tough, and having them both in the scene and look very different if … [Read more...] about Chasing the Unicorn: Lady Lore
Man, Machine, and Mars
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Sara Clayton is a junior at the University of Southern California studying public relations with double minors in web technologies and mobile app development. It seems that mankind has been portrayed as always having been at odds with artificial intelligence, or AI. Take the sci-fi film I, Robot: Del Spooner (Will Smith) … [Read more...] about Man, Machine, and Mars
Chasing the Unicorn: Catching Flames
I don't suppose anyone's heard of this little movie that's coming out in a couple of days... It's called "Catching Fires" or something?... I dunno, it really doesn't seem like a big deal. Don't think anyone of note is in it either... JOKES GUYS, JOKES. To be perfectly honest, I wasn't feeling the whole post-"Hunger Games" movie realness for a while, but a couple of weeks … [Read more...] about Chasing the Unicorn: Catching Flames
Scrolling Scribe: Harry Potter and the Fandom Menace
Each week on Scrolling Scribe, editors will select their favorite archived articles and repost them for your reading pleasure. This week’s pick comes from managing editor Lilian Min: “As someone who loves fan culture, fan fiction included, it's always interesting to see how the 'owners' of such stories take to the attention. Some really 'get' it... and many others … [Read more...] about Scrolling Scribe: Harry Potter and the Fandom Menace
Chasing the Unicorn: See You Space Cowboy
It strikes me that most of my posts so far have been about animated/illustrated sci-fi/fantasy entities. I'll get to more live action/"real world" (ha) iterations later. But for now... back to animation we go. The other night, I was talking to some friends about anime because there's no bad time to start discussing your favorite Japanese animated series, especially not … [Read more...] about Chasing the Unicorn: See You Space Cowboy