![]() Andrew Koski, Partner, Licensing & Royalties Consulting Services.Lenora Hume, Executive In Charge of Production, Shut Up! Cartoons.Anthony Hoit, Systems Development Lead, Graphic Film Company.Raul Garcia, Producer, R&R Communications.Peter Gal, Head of Television Development, DreamWorks Animation.Frank Falcone, President & Creative Director, Guru Studio.Chris Edwards, CEO, The Third Floor Inc.Sheena Duggal, Visual Effects Supervisor, The Hunger Games.Fred de Wysocki, Partner & Co-Founder, Fantastic Films.Vincent Chalvon-Demersay, President, Marathon Media.Tapaas Chakravarti, CEO, DQ Entertainment.Ryan Carroll, CEO, Summertime Entertainment.Jenna Boyd, Senior Vice President, Animation Development, Nickelodeon.Jamie Kezlarian Bolio, GKIDS, Ernest and Celestine.Jacques Bilodeau, President & Producer, Oasis Animation.Ted Biaselli, Vice President, Programming, Hub Network.Jason Bierut, Technical Director, Disney Television Animation.Carolyn Bates, Executive Producer, Buttercup Pictures & Senior Production Executive, Shut Up! Cartoons.They will share their behind-the-scenes process of making the movie.Īmong the many high-level animation and VFX industry professionals confirmed to appear on this year’s Summit panels are: Sony Pictures Animation’s Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 creative team (Director Cody Cameron, Producer Pam Marsden, Co-Producer Chris Juen, Production Designer Justin Thompson, Art Director Dave Bleich) will be on board to talk about the ins and outs of development, production, and the challenges of making an animated feature for today’s global audience.Īlso featured is the VFX and tech team from Walt Disney Animation Studios’ eagerly awaited holiday feature Frozen. Visual Effects Supervisor John Knoll and Animation Supervisor Hal Hickel will present Industrial Light & Magic’s exciting work on Guillermo del Toro’s blockbuster Pacific Rim. Here are some of the other panels scheduled for the Summit: Sony Pictures Imageworks’ award-winning VFX supervisor Jay Redd ( Men in Black 3, Monster House) and renowned animator, historian and professor Tom Sito will deliver the 2013 VFX and animation keynotes. Register with the promo code ASIFA, and attend for $295 instead of $395: Īnimation Magazine has announced its full lineup of guests and events for the three-day event. Join Animation Magazine’s World Animation & VFX Summit, November 3 – 6, California Yacht Club, Marina del Rey, CA. ![]() November 3 – 6, California Yacht Club, Marina del Rey, CA. Parking is free after 4 PM and all day on weekends. VISITOR INFORMATION: Annenberg Auditorium is on the basement level of the Cummings Art Building, 435 Lasuen Mall, Stanford. Wedge graduated from the SUNY Purchase film department, and received his MA in Computer Graphics and Art Education from the Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and at Ohio State University. He is currently the Executive Producer of Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, slated for release in July 2009. Seuss animated feature film, Horton Hears A Who (2008). He was the Executive Producer of Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006) and the first Dr. ![]() He went on to direct his company's first two computer-generated animated features: Ice Age (2002) and Robots (2005). Wedge wrote and directed Blue Sky Studios' first film, Bunny (1998), which won an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film, and subsequently garnered more than 25 international awards for animation excellence. Wedge is a co-founder of Blue Sky Studios, and is the driving force behind the company's high standard of visual story-telling and character animation. An Oscar-winning film director and producer, Mr. Chris Wedge will discuss and show samples of his work. The Film and Media Studies Program in the Department of Art & Art History presents An Animated Discussion with Chris Wedge.
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![]() To balance the earlier grisly killing of the family, but nope, the sadism of that earlier killing is in the story as decoration. With that sort of element in the story, you'd think by the end there'd be an eye-for-an-eye retribution on Chris Messina as knife-wielding henchman Victor Zsasz provides us with the visual of a family being murdered by having their faces removed via his blade (one of the family is apparently a child or teenager). Well, who knows.Ī certain amount of unwelcome sadism infiltrated this movie. If the script had been a symmetrical division between the two characters of Harley and Black Mask maybe it would have helped improve things. ![]() It's as if Birds of Prey was supposed to be a team movie (hence the title) but it veered sideways into a solo spotlight. He's not given enough room to achieve this, though. She dominates the presentation of Birds of Prey like no one else, though Ewan McGregor tries to balance the film with a psychotic Black Mask as the nefarious villain. Robbie aggressively attacks the screen, as if she's trying to pull along the whole movie by herself, a berserk salesman determined to close the deal with the audience. Where Suicide Squad presented her as a person trying to deal with a struggle for self-responsibility (and thus independence) in Birds of Prey she is a garbage-littering juvenile who has flashes of epiphany about herself, but then it gets buried under the tread-mill plot and a tone of nihilism. In Birds of Prey, there's too much humanity missing, and in the main character particularly. It isn't the ticket-buyer's job to decode the story progression. Instead, here in Birds of Prey is a circular time-swapping storytelling that might have been an initially clever attempt to express the ADHD personality of Harley Quinn by her explaining things to the audience (she narrates parts of the tale), but instead the end result is fragmentation of the storytelling with a narrator butting in trying to straighten out what the movie-watcher shouldn't have to be wrestling with if the director was telling the story coherently. ![]() The hyperkinetic style of Birds of Prey and its script doesn't compensate for all of this like Ayer's script did for the earlier film. ![]() In Birds of Prey the situation is reversed and the contrast is gone. Harley (or that is, Margot Robbie) stood out in Suicide Squad, one reason being her contrast to the mostly male team she was partnered with. Supposedly Ayer's cut was darker and less "funny"). The irony is that Margot Robbie's Harley Quinn was the heart of Suicide Squad (along with Will Smith as Deadshot), and despite the fouled-up story construction in that film, the characters (courtesy of a good cast) triumphed over the impediment of everything else (which may be from DC/Warner's meddling with that movie after director David Ayer made his cut. Other than a prologue about her romantic break-up with the Joker, there is little progression by the end of the tale. Even Margot Robbie's Harley is at best only a continuation of the Harley from Suicide Squad. Birds of Prey borrows from recent action films but adds little that is new to the genre. The 2016 film was plagued by a lot of the same problems this 2020 offering has: jumpy editing, a sound track crammed with too many pop-tunes, and the flat unreality that superhero movies absentmindedly fall into when the fists and the kicks start flying. Birds of Prey: And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn (original title)Īs a continuation of Suicide Squad, Birds of Prey fails to give the audience what the earlier film did. With multiple tools at your disposal, here are three that can be used in a program customized to deliver optimum results in your tree nut orchards. ![]() With early-season weather already causing orchard stress, it’s important to reduce the risk of additional damage by managing pests now – in a way that extends control in the weeks to come. You decide what, you decide how and you decide when. What does optimal timing and ideal formulation look like for you? Syngenta offers proven insecticides for flexible, fully customizable control of pests in almonds, walnuts and pistachios. You know your orchards better than anyone. “When insecticide applications are timed to control multiple pests, they do their best work,” says Garrett Gilcrease, Syngenta Agronomy Service Representative. 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US EPA has approved Syngenta’s Besiege® ( Lambda-cyhalothrin + Chlorantraniliprole) insecticide for use on soybeans, sunflowers and canola. Japan agchem sales up 14% in H1 FY 2014. ![]() Post eye tiable (PET), or ante eye tiable (AET) knots.Įven if we restrict ourselves to study the function, and not the geometry, the structure or the mechanism, as we should, the knots described in this thread belong to many different categories - so I believe we can not compare them. Knot mechanisms that utilize a block-and-tackle like mechanical advantage.ġ0. Localized or spread along the line knots ( like the Sheepshank, or the Capt. Tight hitches, away from the surface of the object (mid-air).Ĩ. Tight hitches, on the surface of the object.Ĥ. I believe that the geometry of the many different knots discussed and the many more hinted in this thread has not been clarified - and, instead of this, the only categories we have, are the categories of the various functional characteristics the knots are meant to incoropate : A quick and dirty enumeration of those functions would one be like this :ģ. ![]() And to start doing it, we have to start from the first thing the knots are : 3D objects - i.e., we have to start from their geometry. We have to describe the knots themselves, as mechanisms based on some structures. It will lead us nowhere if we describe knots, by their application to particular problems ! It is a common mistake most knot tyers do, because of years of brain-washing by the popular books about knots - which, most of the time, are books about recipes on how to tie certain knots, not books about the knots themselves - and they are addressed to people like they were parrots, soldier-like boy scouts, housekeepers, etc. The issue discussed in this thread is NOT resolved, and one reason for this is that oftentimes people mix many purposes, and arrive at no end. I will tell it right from the beginning, and I will tell it once more at the end of my post :ĭo NOT use a fixed loop ! Replace the fixed loop with some other structure - simplify the mechanism ! these work pretty good as quick-set knots. But given the nature of sleeping bags, tarps, blanket rolls, etc. It seems to hold like a vice but can explode/capsize if the bundle applied a sharp asymmetric expansion force to the structure. Protect the nipping turn from rolling toward the fixed loop as you snug the knot. Form the gleipnir's nip somewhere back along the bundle, and send the tag end through the nipping turn. Pass the tag end around the bundle and feed all the slack through the fixed loop. If I understand what you are saying Dan, this knot might just be a visual rehash. The second idea is a variation of the gleipnir itself. However, it is harder to release (need to capsize it on purpose). The bulk of the ring hitch gives a tighter U-shaped angle to the nipping turn and is still quick to form. Keep the nipping turn from capsizing as the knot is snugged tight. Now send the tag end through the ring hitch and pull the slack out. Form a ring hitch in the fixed loop by bringing the bight on top. Use it in the same capacity for compression or bundling. The first is a variation of the above structure. Let me know what you think.Īfter reading the gleipnir thread, I have a few more ideas to add. However, I was not able to find it in Ashley. Its so simple, 'i'd be surprised if it hasn't been done before. To release, push in the shear direction indicated below (pic 4) and the knot will immediately release. The soccer ball in pic 3 shows the knot in its set form. As the loop around the bundle constricts, the knot will lock it tight. Pull the tag end back toward itself and the knot will grab as it tightens. Pull the slack through while the knot is loose. Pass the tag end around your bundle and up through the center of both loops. At the loop, form the shape of a ring hitch (pic 1), and proceed by laying the right loop on top of the left (pic 2). The images shown below use an angler's loop. ![]() This knot: requires no practice, gives 2-1 pull, releases easily and quickly Useful as a constrictor knot for the 2-1 pull advantage. Trucker's hitch: better applied to freestanding loads. This knot: only requires one circumference of cord, easy to set, easy to release. Here are some similar knots, and the pro-con comparison.Ĭonstrictor knot: requires 2x the circumference length of cordage. ![]() I think this knot is a handy and practical knot when compared to others, for the intended applications. To date the knot works with paracord, slightly larger sailing cord, nylon catfish line, and thin lace-style guy lines, all of which are handy for camping to set tarps, tent guy lines, etc. It is a knot that must be used with a fixed loop, as far as I can tell. Hello guys, I hope you find my submission to be intriguing. I have been using this app for the past year and a half to listen to public domain audiobooks and lectures and it has never failed me. You can also add custom book cover and edit book’s metadata including name, author, and narrator. It also lets you bind multiple MP3 files into a single M4B file and converts those MP3 files into chapters. Audiobook Binder is an app that lets you convert MP3 files into M4B files. 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Exceptional circumstances provisions for households where large families (households with five (5) or more people normally in residence) children in nappies or those who produce waste as a result of a medical condition reside permanently.Transitioning to the new systemĪ number of initiatives were introduced to support the community transition to the new system. Following one year of fortnightly kerbside collection, the Alexandrina Council area achieved a 20% reduction in waste to landfill, and green waste and recyclables increased by 63% and 31% respectively. The City of Victor Harbor keenly watched the impact fortnightly waste collection has been having in neighbouring councils of Alexandrina and Yankalilla. We have a responsibility to work towards a better future for the next generations, and introducing measures to reduce waste to landfill will help us do this. 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However, coach Moreno’s boys are playing for their pride out there. With three wins and two losses in the last five Liga MX games, it’s fair to say Cruz Azul lost all hope of reaching the final stage of Apertura. Predicted lineup – Jimenez (GK), Mozo, Briseno, Sepulveda, Mayorga, Guzman, Gonzalez, Beltran, Alvarado, Marin & Brizuela Cruz Azul The match against Tigres UANL was a fiasco and a half, but we are certain that coach Paunovic has learned his lesson, and our Guadalajara vs Cruz Azul predictions will succeed. It will be interesting to see if Chivas can get up from the 0-4 knock they received last week. Guadalajara vs Cruz Azul Lineups & Team News Guadalajara Under 2.5 goals at -142 is also a good betting option this week, as the two sides have a 58.68% likelihood of scoring two or fewer in this week’s match. A draw is priced at +255, and seeing as there’s approximately a 27.5% chance the two sides will share the spoils, we believe Guadalajara should tread lightly. The home side keeps a steady 24.5% lead in terms of win probability against Cruz Azul. With the help of these Guadalajara vs Cruz Azul head-to-head statistics, your bet should be a slam dunk.Īs you can see for yourselves from the odds we provided in this Guadalajara vs Cruz Azul prediction, the Goats are the expected winners at Estadio Akron this week. Cruz Azul lost two of the previous three Liga MX meetings.Įssential Guadalajara vs Cruz Azul Odds and Stats. ![]() Guadalajara won two of their last three league games.Coach Joaquin Moreno has a negative 0-0-1 record against Chivas Guadalajara. ![]() We had three goals or less in five of Guadalajara’s last five league meetings.Guadalajara have a poor attacking record, consisting of only 19 goals scored this season.Seven of the last 10 Guadalajara vs Cruz Azul head-to-heads resulted in under 2.5 goals.3 Guadalajara vs Cruz Azul Lineups & Team News.2 Essential Guadalajara vs Cruz Azul Odds and Stats.1 Essential Guadalajara vs Cruz Azul Predictions, Picks, and More. ![]()
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