Disney CEO Bob Iger has unveiled Pixar will soon start working at the 3rd installment of the Cars franchise.
March 27th, 2014
Disney CEO Bob Iger has unveiled Pixar will soon start working at the 3rd installment of the Cars franchise. There is no word on plot details/ a release date, but the film will likely reunite Lightning McQueen and Mater with a handful of other familiar characters. Nothing is official, but Owen Wilson will presumably return to voice the character of Lightning McQueen.
Special Effects Inventor and Engineer Petro Vlahos Dies at 96
Special effects inventor and engineer Petro Vlahos, whose industry contributions made possible such iconic film moments as Julie Andrews dancing with penguins in the 1964 classic Mary Poppins, died Sunday. He was 96.
Phenakistoscope (1831) A phenakistoscope disc by Eadweard Muybridge (1893).The phenakistoscope was an early animation device. It was invented in 1831 simultaneously by the Belgian Joseph Plateau and the Austrian Simon von Stampfer. It consists of a disk with a series of images, drawn on radii evenly spaced around the center of the disk. Slots are cut out of the disk on the same radii as the drawings, but at a different distance from the center. The device would be placed in front of a mirror and spun. As the phenakistoscope is spun, a viewer would look through the slots at the reflection of the drawings which would only become visible when a slot passes by the viewer's eye. This created the illusion of animation.
