![]() ![]() And so they used it and it turned out very well for us. Wedge: I fought so hard against it! But obviously it was their decision to make and it wasn’t mine. The Fox marketing team decided to use the sequence as the film’s first teaser trailer, which Wedge hated. The darkly comedic sequence implied “that’s life in the Ice Age,” which primed the audience for what was to come. Let’s put some saber teeth on that guy, and the story is obviously that he’s trying to store his nuts for the winter and the glacier won’t let him do it.įrake took the afternoon to storyboard the opening sequence, which had Scrat ultimately getting squashed by a huge mammoth foot. Peter went through a stack of drawings that he’d been working with characters we hadn’t used yet, and he pulled out this sketch of a squirrel that he had made at the Museum of Natural History. Well, who should it be chasing? It should obviously be the smallest character we can come up with. What about the ice age would be a character that we could use? We thought a glacier could be chasing somebody. I wanted to start the film comedically, and I thought maybe to get some ice on the screen at the beginning we should make the environment itself into a character. It was fall and Manny’s going north, against the grain, and we weren’t gonna see any snow until act two. In the script, there was a migration happening. It came from my wanting to start Ice Age differently. It was a meeting that took on a life of its own and took over the afternoon, as I remember. Ice Age, which had five theatrical installments, originated Scrat-the character who eventually became their studio mascot and corporate logo.Ĭhris Wedge, Blue Sky Studios co-founder and director: The very first day of Scrat was me, Peter de Sève and Bill Frake. The company reoriented towards making CG features: From 2000 to 2019, Blue Sky Studios released 13 theatrical CG animated films (taking in more than $5B at the box office and earning a pair of Oscar noms for Best Animated Feature) and a myriad of shorts and television specials, all produced inside the unassuming walls of a bland corporate park building in Greenwich, Connecticut. However, the trajectory of the company changed when Bunny, by co-founder Chris Wedge, won the 1998 Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film. They retained the creative team and had them build complex VFX shots for a host of Fox movies. Since the close of Blue Sky Studios happened so quickly, Paste reached out to the creative team behind Ice Age: Scrat Tales-including Chris Wedge, Anthony Nisi and Michael Knapp-to get the full story of how this Scrat-focused entry, which was supposed to signify a new chapter for the company, became its coda.Ĭo-founded in 1987 by a collective of tech orphans after the shut down of MAGI, an early computer visual effects company that worked on Tron, Blue Sky Studios was conceived to be a turnkey operation that would produce creative visuals for their clients in-house, using their proprietary software CGI Studio.Īfter making a name for itself creating computer animation for clients like M&Ms and MTV, Blue Sky saw 20th Century Fox’s VFX company, VIFX, acquire a majority interest in 1997. The six-short series is a bittersweet swan song for Blue Sky Studios, as it features Scrat, the tunnel-visioned, saber-toothed squirrel who opened their very first film, Ice Age, and now brings the creative entity to its close. Ironically, the last endeavor produced with its creatives under its own roof, Ice Age: Scrat Tales, premieres April 13, almost exactly a year later, on Disney+. But its entire history came to an unexpected, grinding halt on April 10, 2021, when the studio’s new owner, The Walt Disney Company, closed Blue Sky forever. But for 34 years, Blue Sky Studios was also part of that vanguard of technology and creativity, operating as both a pioneer and an outlier in the computer animation world. ![]() When you think of the founding studios of modern CG animation, Pixar and DreamWorks Animation immediately come to mind. ![]()
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![]() No portion of this site may be reproduced without the express written permission of the Las Vegas Raiders. And it was really fun to watch.©2023 by the Las Vegas Raiders. ![]() ![]() So now we're left to reminisce decades past, when those shiny gold helmets furiously knocked about sunny California with the scary silver ones. ![]() And if the 17-3 scoreline wasn't crushing enough, it's now apparent that the weekend's fan violence has prompted police to seek a permanent ban on this famed matchup. If not for Daniel Kilgore's fine block in the middle of the park that stalled three Raider defenders and sprung Kendall Hunter for a 53-yard touchdown sprint, this day might have felt like a great waste. It's probably better that he had extra time to think over this performance. On one occasion it hindered his ability to find the open man in the back of the end zone, and on another, his final play of the day, Campbell took a stray knee to the helmet and was forced to leave. Meanwhile, Oakland's Jason Campbell continued his penchant for clutching the ball too long. 49ers are 4-1 straight up and ATS in last five games against Raiders. The OVER is 6-3 in the 49ers’ last nine games. Then a floater to Raiders defensive end Matt Shaughnessy defused any excitement possibly brewing in the stands. 49ers are 6-0 ATS in their last six games. One throw to Braylon Edwards-who made a spectacular single-handed grab-gave hope. His feet look hurried, which my be why his passes are popping out like a pinched grape. Smith just doesn't apply enough zip on the ball, though he is releasing it more quickly these days. Unfortunately for fans of both teams, Sunday's battlefront was more stunning in the stands than on the field, and in this instance, that's a tragedy.Īlex Smith looked better in the pocket and in delivery, but that's not saying much when you're coming from a state of disarray. You couldn't script a better story if you were Steve Sabol of NFL Films. Here you have the golden glitz of the Niners, the team that took the West Coast offense to new heights, against the NFL's footballing pirates, a brand that embodies more than toughness-perhaps brutality. After all, the "Battle of the Bay", while usually confined to the preseason, is a competition and tradition clubs in remote corners of the map must salivate over. So it was certainly deflating to see the 49ers collide with their closest rivals the Oakland Raiders last weekend, in a contest that was a mere shadow of former glories. Sure, in reality, it might have been a little chilly by the bay, and there were probably more imperfections than I can recall, but on television it always looked sunny, and the red and gold uniforms appeared gladiatorial. Niners football always seemed to be cool and calm, free-flowing and determined. Football was never more romanticized than those glorious years, during which Joe Montana surveyed the field behind center, dropped back to pass and fired the ball into the hands of John Taylor or Jerry Rice skipping across Candlestick. The type of blue horizon backdrops and sweet lemonade-infused days I'm referring to are San Francisco 49ers games of the '80s. Its football soared and its players blazed. video Dave Wilcox's Career Highlights in Red and Gold Relive some. The Californian game, by contrast, was brighter, more dazzling. Watch the full highlights from the 49ers 34-3 victory over the Oakland Raiders in the final 'Battle of the Bay'. Beathard, in a Week 9 NFL football game on Thursday, Nov. They were bruising affairs that mired Midwestern and Mid-Atlantic teams in muddy trench warfare. The AFC West Oakland Raiders (1-6), led by quarterback Derek Carr, meet the NFC West San Francisco 49ers (1-7), led by quarterback C.J. The latter was harsh and messy, evoking icy crunches and cracks. Its dusty 50-yard line and sun-baked bleachers were the antithesis of traditionalist football-winter winds, heavy snow, frozen tundras. ![]() The idea of California football always appealed to me. SAN FRANCISCO, CA - AUGUST 20: Kendall Hunter #32 of the San Francisco 49ers is tackled by DeMarcus Van Dyke #38 of the Oakland Raiders at Candlestick Park on Augin San Francisco, California. ![]() ![]() ![]() If ranged weapons dealt the type of damage melee deals then it would be way too OP. Swords with projectiles kinda cheat this mechanic by letting the character use a non-returning projectile that does (or can do) base damage, unlike ranged weapon projectiles which have their damage broken down into fractions of what would be damage dealt by a melee weapon. Ranged damage is damage defined as a projectile that leaves the character but rather than returning to the character it is gone after used, requiring the implementation of ammunition. Light disks are essentially throwing the weapon itself - while it is being thrown it is out of your hand and therefore you can't use it to deal damage via your character's body, if you know what I mean. If you look at flails and yoyos, they are still hitting the mob or boss with an extension of the weapon itself. I think the question can further be refined to that of weapons dealing *melee* *damage*but from a distance. Making melee damage weapon truly melee weapons will make the entire damage class useless in the game without heavy balancing and imbalancing the game. They deal "melee damage" but are not classified as "pure melee weapons". Originally posted by Jostabeere:Who said that the weapons are melee? Noone really said it anywhere. Melee is much more cathartic for carving through hordes at least. Back to arrows and bullets for boss time!" let's take a swing at them with my giant melee weapon for giggles" *twins is in perfect kiting distance backpedal mode* "Well ♥♥♥♥ me for not using a ranged projectile or massive stretch melee weapon. Gonna kill them in a fraction of the time with wooden arrows while still wearing armor with no ranged bonuses. ♥♥♥♥ it, ♥♥♥♥ trying to tag the queen bee with the sunfury even in an arena. Even with stretchy weapons like recently buffed flails. It doesn't bother me in the sense that trying to use a natural sword swing or spear thrust's range of melee is a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ living hell with the average boss design in this game. "Behold, the TRUE excalibur-where the ♥♥♥♥ did the auto-swing go?" "It's a trade off LOL you should be thankful for your sword laser!" "No, sounds more like it's just ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ with melee for no reason" "It's okay because we made an accessory grant autoswing!" ".or, you could just make everything melee autoswing?" ".No, no. I focused on swords/spears that are either crafted or purchased, so that you won't be wasting ore or money.Bothers me that there are so many passive aggressive dings to the player even when you WANT that sort of thing. (Xbox 360 should be the same as PS4 right now, although it won't be in a few months). You can read more here: The Path Ahead: Major News Updates for Console & Mobile A Progress Update on the Road to 1.3! Pre-Alpha Gameplay Inside!Īs far as what weapons do autoswing in console so that you don't waste any more hard-earned bars, I went into my Xbox 360 world to try out some stuff that I had laying around in chests and here are some results. The good news is that the Xbox One and PS4 will be getting the big 1.3 update very soon which is re-coding it from the ground up so that console should be more like PC. I would guess that it should be autoswing in the console version as well, but who knows for sure. (the HtA "hold to attack" column shows whether it's autoswing or not). And then checking on a new-to-me page from the wiki, the list of weapons show it as not autoswing. As a big fan of autoswing myself, I value the autoswing more than a couple points of damage, if all other things are equal.Ĭurious about it, I tested it in PC and it is, indeed, autoswing. I can certainly understand your frustration. Click to expand.Ahhh, what a total bummer. ![]() ![]() ![]() If you love memorizing medical terms, the Zanki Step 1 Anki deck is the perfect place to start! Zanki Step 1 Anki deck One student was initially overwhelmed by the number of cards, but was able to manage it with consistent practice and frequent repetitions. Students have reported an improvement in their performance after using this deck. Uniquely, this deck integrates high-yield images and diagrams to help with understanding and retention. It’s difficulty level is intermediate to advanced. 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![]() ![]() ![]() Keely Hodgkinson, 2021 European Indoor champion, won in 1:58.89, her first outdoor sub 2-minute run and Max Burgin finished in 1:44.14 to win in style. Keely Hodgkinson wins the Euro indoor 800m in Torun, March 2021, photo by Getty Images / European Athleticsīritish middle-distance running just goes from strength to strength with two teenage winners in the 800 in the Golden Spike in Ostrava. In the men's shot put, the USA's double Olympic silver medallist Joe Kovacs ended the day on top with a throw of 22.25 metres, while there were also strong wins for Puerto Rico's Jasmine Camacho-Quinn in the women's 100m hurdles, Dominican Republic's Alexander Ogando in the men's 400m and Slovenia's Tina Sutej in the women's pole vault.Max Burgin, Ostrava 2021, Max takes WL at 800m, day prior to his 19th birthday! photo via WA TV by Stuart Weir "I felt strong and confident good to feel that as the World Championships are approaching." "I am very glad for the result," he said after the race. In doing so, he beat another legend of the sport, Jamaica's Yohan Blake, to the line, as both Blake and Briton Zharnel Hughes set the same time of 10.05 seconds.Įlsewhere, Ethiopia's Tokyo 2020 silver medallist Lamecha Girma set a world lead time of 7:58.68 en route to victory in the 3,000m steeplechase. In the men's 100m race, Great Britain's Reece Prescod set a time of 9.93 seconds to take first place. The 22-year-old Bol, who won bronze in the 400m hurdles at Tokyo 2020, looks to be in excellent form in the year of the World Athletics Championships. Her mark was almost a second and a half faster than the Czech Republic's Zuzana Hejnova's previous world record of 38.16 in the non-Olympic distance race. One of the highlights of the meet in Ostrava was the performance of the Netherlands' Femke Bol, who smashed the 300m hurdles world record in a time of 36.86 seconds. READ MORE: Felix announces retirement from athleticsįemke Bol breaks world 300m hurdles record ![]() "The world championship is not my ultimate goal, I am possibly looking towards some relays and like that." "I will compete at the US Trials," she said. ![]() However, with nothing left to prove, she is first concentrating on the US Olympic trials that take place in June. This year's World Athletics Championships are the first-ever to take place in the USA and running there, on a stage she has made her own, would mark a fitting end to Felix's career. I think everything happens for a reason and it has made me the person I am." "There's always things that I wish I could have done better or differently but when I look back I have no regrets. "I've had so many ups and downs along the way but I can't imagine my life without it," she said the day before the Golden Spike meet. She has 11 Olympic medals to her name - the most of any female track athlete in history - with seven of them gold, and is the all-time most decorated athlete in World Championships history with 18 medals.Īs she looks forward to the prospect of one last appearance at the World Championships this July in Oregon, she can also look back on an incredible career without a hint of regret. The last hurrah of an Olympic greatįelix is by any measurement a legend of her sport. Third place in Ostrava went to Italy's Vittoria Fontana who set a new personal best time of 22.97. The 36-year-old Felix, whose personal best of 21.69 was set in Eugene, Oregon in 2012, is in the beginning stages of a season that will mark her farewell from a sport she has dominated for over a decade. The USA's Allyson Felix has come second in the women's 200m race of the Ostrava Golden Spike 2022, finishing in 22.78 behind Niger's Aminatou Seyni who posted a national record of 22.21. ![]() ![]() ![]() That’s not as huge of a deal as you might think - especially since the Neuron also supports up to 128GB of RAM. It’s a similar story with the Alienware Aurora R11. The Origin Neuron, on the other hand, only gives micro-ATX options, which have fewer PCIe lanes and less overclocking potential. ![]() Fitting a full ATX motherboard into a midsized tower can get tricky, but Falcon Northwest pulls it off gloriously. It uses the Asus ROG Crosshair VII Dark Hero motherboard, which provides six SATA ports, two M.2 slots, onboard Wi-Fi 6, and two PCIe 4.0 expansion slots, each with 16 lanes. The Neuron is one of the other large system builders that currently support these new AMD processors and GPUs.īut unlike the Neuron, Falcon Northwest’s Talon is a bit more full-featured and future-proofed. That does make it a bit larger than the Origin Neuron, for example, which is just 16.3 inches by 6.8 inches. It’s just 17 inches by 9 inches, which will feel compact if you’re coming from a full-sized tower. In the back, the Talon offers a standard array of inputs and outputs provided by the motherboard and graphics card.įor a midsized tower like this, you’ll be impressed by everything Falcon Northwest is able to squeeze in without the setup ever feeling cramped inside. It’s a preferred location if you plan to keep your tower on the floor beneath your desk. The case uses a 4mm layer of aluminum, ensuring there isn’t a hint of flex.įor convenience, the Talon includes some accessible ports on the top panel, including a headphone jack, two USB-A 3.0, and one USB-C 3.1, as well as a glowing power button. ![]() Regardless of what you choose in terms of the finer details, what you get is a supremely well-built and nicely configured gaming PC. The customizations you can make to a boutique gaming PC is what helps brands like Falcon Northwest stand out from the other premade system builders out there.īeyond the custom artwork, you can opt for the logo to glow in different colors, switch out the aluminum side panels for tinted glass, add different case fans, and so on. The tasteful lighting primarily comes from the components inside, such as the glowing G.Skill TridentZ RAM sticks and ARGB lighted fans.īut as Falcon Northwest would say, the case itself is a mere “blank canvas.” You can get it decked out in a custom paint job like we did, with everything from a simple logo on the glass to full-color artwork or designs sprawled across the top and side panels. It’s not gluttonous in its use of lighting, either. Falcon Northwest takes a subtle approach to the aesthetic with a plain, matte black exterior featuring simple lines and edges. The goodness starts with the Talon case, which is the 20th anniversary edition. LED lighting finally arrives on Falcon Northwest’s Talon gaming desktop redesign Nvidia’s Resizable BAR explained: What is it and how can you get a gaming boost? When tickets are all gone online, there are usually tickets available over the phone.You can buy this LCD mod for one of the best PC cases now You could do a trial run if there are any tickets available now or on the Feb 19.Īlternatively, you can call the number and speak to an English speaker. At one point in the booking you enter the name of whoever is doing the booking. It may not be possible to get everyone in on the same booking. As you wish to purchase 8 tickets you can do this by having two individuals register on the site, with separate email addresses and separate credit cards. When the tickets become available you don't refresh anymore, because you will just clear the screen. The tickets should become available at 9.30 am but it could be later. ![]() In these situations, it is sometimes necessary to refresh the screen so it gets updated. You have to register on the site (which you can do now) and sign in on the day July tickets become available. They give at least a week's notice on the site of when you can purchase the tickets. The most likely time for this to happen would be early April. The next month they will release tickets for will be July 2020Īnd, possibly, August 2020. The booking time for May and June 2020 is at 9.30 am Milan time on Feb 19. That information about Feb 19 was put up on the Cenacolo site around Feb 3rd. ![]() ![]() With no loose parts or tools so nothing can get lost or misplaced.
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