Walt Disney Animation Studios is announcing its first movie inspired by a Marvel comic, an adaptation of a lesser known crime fighter series called Big Hero 6.
January 20th, 2014
Walt Disney Animation Studios is announcing its first movie
inspired by a Marvel comic, an adaptation of a lesser known crime
fighter series called Big Hero 6.Directed by Don Hall (Winnie the Pooh)
and due in 2014, the CG-animated movie will center on a robotics prodigy
named Hiro Hamada and his robot companion BayMax, who join a team of
superheroes in a high-tech city called San Fransokyo. Even die-hard
comic book fans may have trouble recalling the Marvel series, which was
created by Steven T. Seagle and Duncan Rouleau in 1998 and is something
of a whimsical love letter to Japanese culture.
Characters
in the original comic include a samurai, an agent who invented a
nanotechnology-based Power Purse and a monster born from a childs
drawings.
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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.
