The problem with 3D movies these days.

The problem with current 3D movies is that they rely too much on the 3D effects, what they need to do is revisit their movies and see if it would have the same effect without 3D.

A mixture of both Japanese and English anime.

A open gigantic world like Ghibli and many other 作品 but a fast and easy to follow story, but still with deep meaning like How to Train a Dragon.

Keep people interested, less description, describe through visuals. less talk more action, but not enough talk, and proper pacing.

Instead of explaining the world around them, slowly. Try and throw the viewers right into the middle of the world and then explain from there. 

Just add links the intrets met here.

http://gizmodo.com/5823808/these-australian-waterfalls-are-running-upwards?tag=watch-this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uhpoLJHTTc&feature=youtu.be

Jetplane Chatter
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uh4yMAx2UA

3D Atom Rendering
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00gAbgBu8R4

そんなもんいらんわあああああああ！

え～～～、明日熱海に向かうので新幹線の中で読むための本を今日買ってきました。




銀玉の39巻とAKB49~恋愛禁止条例~の3巻です！！

ＡＫＢ４９、マジ面白いです。別にＡＫＢの知識が無くってもぜんぜん楽しめます。こういう業界を目指してる側としては非常に勉強になります。あ、ちなみに俺はＡＫＢ４８にはぜんぜん興味ありませんｗ、漫画が好きなだけで。

ということで本屋でレジで清算しているときに店員さんが

こちらは「特装版」でよろしいでしょうか？

え？何がついてくるんですか？

多少高くなりますがＡＫＢ４８のブックマークがついてきます

あ、じゃあ普通のほうにしてください。

ＡＫＢ４８のブックマーク！？ そんなもんいらんわあああああああ！！！！
タダでさい誰が誰だかわからないのにプラス300円払って

知らないアイドルのブックマークなんかほしくないわ！

いや、ほんとへんな話ですがマジで！ＡＫＢ４９は面白いです。

絵はちゃんとしてるし（なんかアニメっぽくない、結構リアルなタッチ）、ストーリーもちゃんとしてるし、テンポもいい。さっき言ったようにぜんぜんＡＫＢが知らなくってもアイドルのことを少し知ってれば誰でもわかる作品です。
こういうタイアップものは普通元ねた知らないと意外とわからないものですが、ＡＫＢ４９はぜんぜん違う！むしろＡＫＢじゃなくっても絶対売れる！

ほんと！まじ面白いから！たぶん男女問わず楽しめると思う。

ついでに俺はいつか女子にこういわれたい。

レビュー：ポータル２ (Portal 2)

２００７年に販売された「ポータル」は今まで無かったゲームでしたね。
ＦＰＳで拳銃を持っているのに玉は打てない。その代わりに青とオレンジのリングを撃って 時空移動をしながらさまざまなパズルをとくゲーム。でもやっぱり「ポータル」はゲームというより実験って感じがしましたね。

いろいろ面白いパズルもあり、ゲームの展開も面白かったですが。。。やっぱり短いし地味でした。

誰かに「ポータル」知ってる？って言われても「あああ、面白かったね。それ」って返すぐらいですね。

正直「ポータル２」ではあんまり期待していなく、単に新しいギミックとパズルが増えただけと思いながら遊んでいると。。。こ！これはああ！

ゲーム業界だけではなく、映画、テレビ、アニメ、さまざまなジャンルにわたって「ポータル２」は人類に一度の名作といっていいぐらいでしょう！！！！！！

「ポータル２」は前作みたくいろんなパズルなどで頭を使わせますが。。。今回はそこがメインじゃない！なんと今回のポータルはストーリーが新しいキャラクターたちが登場！！！

紹介しよう！「ポータル２」の新キャラ！！ウィートリー！！！(Wheatley)

有名英国コメディアン、スティーヴン ムーチャントが演出するロボット目玉、ウィートリーは今までにはなかった、とてもチャーミングで笑えるキャラクター。
彼が 「ポータル２」での一番キャラですね。
最高に書かれた対話とスティーヴンの話術でプレイヤーはこのキャラクターと恋に落ちます。


そしてなんと前作の悪役！グラドス　(GLaDOS)　がなんとあなたの仲間に！？

 そうです！！！今まであなたを殺そうとしてきたグラドスがなんとあなたと手を組んでAperture Scienceをまた元に戻そうとするのです。
前作を遊んできた方には絶対ありえない展開！でもすさまじいストーリーがこれを可能にするのです！！


まだゲームを遊んでいない方のためにネタバレはしませんのであまりストーリーやらキャラクターやら細かく語れないのですが、このゲームはとにかくすごい！！

 
ストーリー自体は意外と普通なターミネーター風のものですが（パソコンが全人類を破壊しようとするやつ）でもやっぱりキャラクターこの作品を引っ張っていますね。
いろんなキャラクターが出てきてそれぞれ自分の悲しい過去、未来の希望などを背負ってそれをベースにキャラが育っていくのが普通ですが、「ポータル２」のキャラクターは過去も未来も無く今だけです。

ほかにストーリーで有名な作品、ファイナルファンタジー、ゼルダ、メタルギアソリッドなどありますが、キャラクターが多く、世界も広く、とてもすべて覚え切れません。ですが「ポータル２」の登場人物は５人しかいません。ウィートリー、グラドス、タレット、クラップ・タレットとプレイヤーです。
そしてプレイヤー以外のキャラクターは全員機会です。だから別に子供のころに親が殺されたとか、さらわれた皇女様を助ける運命などありません。ただ作られた使命をはたしてればいいのです。

「ポータル２」のキャラクターたちはとてつもなくシンプルで覚えやすい、そして愛らしい。今まで作られたゲームの中だけでなく、映画、アニメ、テレビでもこういうキャラクターは非常に少ないでしょう。

 
これほどシンプルなキャラクターでストーリーを進ませるには非常にむずかしい物だと私は思っています。さらにこんなＳＦロボット作品を作るなどもってのほか！！

「ポータル２」はほんとにすばらしい作品です。遊んで絶対後悔は無いでしょう。
まだ遊んでない人はぜひお勧めです、いえ、遊んでください！！！

Toy Story, and the growth of characters, thanks to the villains.

An alternative title for this would be: Why Toy Story 3 isn't as good as 1 or 2.

Many people watch Toy Story 3 and say that the ending was amazing and made me cry. My response to that is, just watch Toy Stories 1 and 2 and then watch the ending of 3, and you'll still get the same heart warming feeling if you watched the full length feature of 3 (I mean, the only person that would watch Toy Story 3 without 1 and 2 would be a mad man... or something living under a rock for 10 years.... or a baby that wasn't born in our generation and watched them after watching 3).

You see, the problem with Toy Story 3 is that it's clear cut. The story goes on with a good start where the toys would rather move onto another child so they could be played where as Woody doesn't want to let go of Andy. A very strong theme.... but this whole theme goes out the window when Lotso is revealed as the evil strawberry-scented Teddy Bear.

Toy Story 2 also had an evil antagonist, the Prospector!! but his true identity wasn't revealed until the end and the battle against him was resolved rather quickly so you can't really point fingers and say, "This all happened because of you Prospector!!!".  The Prospector wasn't the true cause of Toy Story 2's complication, it was Woody and his combat against fame and fortune for his true love of his owner Andy.

Enough about Toy Story 2 and back to 3. You see, Lotso is pretty much the reason the toys are in this mess. It's his fault they can't leave the day care center and it's his fault the kids treat their toys so badly... or so I think. I can't remember that far back but I remember Ken taking over the place in the end and everyone being happy and stuff... so I believe Lotso was mind controlling toddlers over the world to drool on their toys... or something like that. 

The problem with this is that, it really breaks the formula of Toy Story altogether. Toy Stoy's main theme was the feelings and emotions of inanimate objects. The whole meaning of Toy Story was to get people feeling and crying over these plastic items. To grow the imagination, and to imbed the thought of :


"What if?" 


What if this keyboard was alive? Would I treat it the same way I do now? Would I hesitate when I try to throw it out to replace it for a new one? 


It doesn't just have to be about things coming to life, it can be anything:
What if Aliens are watching us?
What if Atlantis still exists?
What if I can fly by shouting "To infinity and beyond"?


Toy Story 3, destroys this idea by saying "THE  BEAR IS EVIL!!! BLAME THE BEAR!!!!"

Toy Story 1 was about Woody's jealousy against the new toy, and Buzz's acceptance of the truth. Leading to the climatic ending of Woody and Buzz flying together into the moving van. The evil kid, Sid was also a key character that actually helped Woody and Buzz resolve their differences. So without Sid, Woody and Buzz probably would of never gotten along even at their new home. 

Toy Story 2 turned the table, and placed Woody into Buzz Lightyear's boots, being exposed as the icon Cowboy Woody, and not the toy. Leading to what Woody would say to Buzz at the end of the film, "I know Andy's going to grow up, but I would never miss it for the world". Woody probably would of never said this if wasn't for Al and the Prospector. The Prospector stopped Woody going back to Andy allowing the conflict between him and Buzz. This made Woody to realise his true purpose as a toy. If Woody had just gone home without even considering going to Japan, then Woody probably would of spent the rest of Andy's life fearing that one day he would get thrown out. 

In Toy Story 3 however, you can just cut out the whole Day Care Center part (removing the bear, the main and probably only antagonist in the film), and throw Woody into Bonnie's room and still end up with Andy giving his toys away to her. 

No matter how cool watching toys rein-act mission impossible, it still has no affect on the story nor the characters. 

The great thing about the first 2 films is that, the evil characters were never part of the problem, but more the solution. The toys already had an conflict between each other way before the evil characters were even introduced. Because of this, Toy Story 1 and 2 is not clear cut, you can't say that Sid and Al are the reason for all this conflict, because it isn't. You can't point fingers and say "He's the one!! If we defeat him everyone would be happy again!!" that's what made Toy Story so great. 

The Toy Story series are an amazing piece of art, and Pixar are probably one of the greatest film makers in the world, and with that, I tip my hat to you Pixar, bravo. (but watch out, Snowy Entertainment is going to catch up!!)

Review: Sucker Punch

If you sum up the plot for Sucker Punch, it's pretty much about a girl in a mental institute... and that's what Sucker Punch is, a very sick and confused little child.

The movie tries to copy Inception in a way. The movie takes part in 3 levels. The real world (probably), the imagination world, and the imagination world of the imagination world. Basically the girls believe that they're in a brothel rather than a psychiatrist hospital. The doctors try and treat the patients through song and dance, but the girls think it's part of their role as a stripper. Baby Doll, the main character in the movie can enter her own new dimension when dancing, so when the other girls think she's dancing in her torsolette she's actually fighting off dragons in her other own imaginary world. Eventually all the girls try and work together to escape the whorehouse/psycho ward and be free.

The idea itself is great but the plot is very weak. The dialogue is pointless and it never explains why any of this is happening apart from the fact that everyone in the film is crazy. The actors are all horrible and they don't really do a good job of setting up the characters and most of them just seem to go with the flow. They never tap into each of the characters feelings and just miss so many opportunities to make a bad story good.

Sucker Punch, like all of Zack Snyder's films, is not your average Hollywood film. It has all the elements to be an Hollywood film, lots of action, weak characters, horrible acting, boobies, but some how it's something a little different.

The film itself knows that you're all here to watch women in negligés shooting Nazis in the head (which were entertaining mind you).... but it sometimes remembers that it's a movie and tries to put in complications and twists in the worst possible times.

You never really know if the people behind the film are really intelligent or just really stupid. There are multiple scenes in the movie with very strange action sequences.
For example, in one scene one of the main characters spins her shotgun and reloads only to use it to club the other guy to death. Anyone who would watch this scene would think that she would fire the gun (like in terminator) but she didn't.
This may have been done initially to, like the title says "Sucker Punch" the audience.
This was a very interesting idea since they never explained the meaning of the title "Sucker Punch" but someone I feel like I'm looking into it a bit too deeply. If they went into all this trouble to "Sucker Punch" the audience, why couldn't they improved the plot as well?
Also it didn't really work in most scenes, and just made everyone around me go WTF?

Sucker Punch is an great experiment. It tries to do stuff other movies never do like explaining half the film though visuals and not dialogue, but the sad thing is that it also wants to be a movie at the same time.

英雄＊戦姫 春パイ祭り

大槍葦人さんの最新作「英雄＊戦姫」の４月１日限定プロモーションバナー春パイ祭り！！！
大槍葦人さんの作る作品は大変気に入っているので、とにかくどこかに保存しないと不安でどうしようもありません！！さらにJAVAのスクリプトなのでウェブじゃないと保存できない。。。ということでここに貼り付けましたｗ

すみません、根っからのオタクなので。。。興味ない人は目をつぶっておいてください

レビュー：ランゴ

ランゴというカメレオンがダートタウンの水不足事件を解決するために

大暴れするウェスタンパロディ！！！

がランゴです、一目でわかるこの作品のすごいとこらはアニメーションのコリですね。こまかーいところまでレンダーしており、今までのCGアニメーションの中で一番綺麗でリアルな作品です。

でもどんなにすごいCGでもやっぱりアバウトなストーリーは隠せません。

ランゴのあらすじ’

今までペットとして飼われていたランゴは急なアクシデントにより砂漠にほうり出された。砂漠に住んでいる生き物は何千年もかけて環境に順応することができたがランゴにはその知識がない、カメレオンなのにまわりに溶け込めないのだ。でもランゴにはペットならでは才能がある、演技だ！

ランゴは近くの町を見つけると自分の演技力を使って町の住人に溶け込むことをした。

みんなが尊敬するなぞの保安官として町に住みついたのだ。

そして町のみんなは尊敬する保安官に水不足事件を解決してほしいのだ！

はたしてランゴはみんなの理想的な保安官を演じきれるのか？？？

映画のストーリーがなぜあたふたなのか。。。それはランゴ自体のキャラクターがちゃんとできていないからなのです。いつボロが出るか分からないペテン師を演じていいるはずのジョニーデップが後半ではそれを忘れているようです。映画のクライマックスでまたペテン師のほうを強調してしまうので作品の流れが台無しでした。

さらに残念な点はアイディアをあまりにも多く詰め込もうとしているところです。別に悪いアイディアではないのですがひとつのアイディアが発展する前にもうひとつへと飛び移ってしまい、まるで全部の発想を二時間映画のために圧縮したように思えます。

でもストーリーが悪いからって別に映画を楽しめないというわけでもありません。ストーリーのテンポ、ひとつひとつのキャラクター、声優さんの演技（クリント・イーストウッド役の人を除く）、すべたがよくできていて見ている人は絶対つまらなくはならないでしょう。

最終的に私自身はRANGOを見て楽しめましたね。結構大声で笑ったシーンもあれば、「すっげー」と思ったシーンもたくさんありました。ジョニーデップ、CGアニメーション、ウェスタン好きにはお勧めですね。

If you're looking for a well written plot though... you better look somewhere else. May I suggest The King's Speech? 

Trion Worlds give Japanese players 30 free days of play time.

So I was checking my e-mail today, and I saw one from Trion Worlds (creators of Rift) and I was pretty sure it was an e-mail telling me I ran out of game time because I un-subscribed.... but to my surprised this was what was written!

Trion Worlds, with the rest of the world, has been following the unprecedented events in Japan. We hope that you and your family are safe and well. We understand that, at this time, you may have more immediate priorities than playing RIFT, so we have credited your Trion Worlds account with an additional thirty (30) days of RIFT game time.

This additional game time will automatically be credited to your account — you do not need to do anything. If you have an active subscription plan, your first billing date will be postponed/delayed by an additional thirty days. No change will be made to the subscription plan you have chosen.

We are grateful for the support that you have shown for RIFT by purchasing our game and hope you enjoy this additional game time.

Sincerely,
Trion Worlds, Inc.

I live in Tokyo, so haven't been hit bad, but the radiation in the water supply and the limited supply of bottled water in the supermarkets are a bit of a concern, but now I can play Rift to forget about my troubles!!!

I might need to remind you that Rift isn't even out in Japan. Most of us Japanese players bought it off steam or imported it from an overseas retailer.
Most of the time overseas developers (America and Europe) forget about us none local players and consider we don't really exist because we're such a niche community. The free game time was nice, but what I really loved about this e-mail was that Trion Worlds actually care about us niche gamers. 

絵だけでしか表現しない漫画、みくよん

漫画の中の台詞はあまりにも説明口調が多すぎる！！特にバトル物！！！これはどうにかならないだろうか？？ 
せっかく絵がそこにあるのに何で説明する意味があるの！？せっかく漫画何だからもって絵で表現しようよ！！ 
と思ったのが以下の漫画を読んだあとです。 

みくよん
です


みくよんは初音ミクが旅に出る話を四こまで描いているのですがほとんど文字がありません。台詞は「おつかれさま～」程度で話のほとんどが絵だけで表現されています。

自分はボーカロイドが好きなのでちょっと偏っているかもしれませんが個人的にはとても好きな作品です。ミクだからこそ本屋で手に取ったのですが中身がミクじゃなくってもたぶん楽しめたと思います。

なのでボーかロイドファンでもボーかロイドファンじゃなくても機会があったら読んでみてください！そして感想を聞かせて！！

Story telling in media. Using visuals not dialogue

Ok, I'm going to start blogging in Japanese as well.... but I want to talk about this issue in English first.

The audience are not scientists, they just don't stand there analysing a story, they want to be in-side the story, they want to be part of the world that is unfolding in-front of them.

I believe really good story telling in media is when it gives the audience as little verbal information as possible. You hear time and time again people "explaining" stuff for the audience, and this is present ALOT in Japanese action manga. Each time a character does a special move there's a guy in the background shouting "ZOMG! He used the rotation of that tornado in order to increase his spinning dragon kick!".
This method is just lazy, manga is a visual media and having to explain a drawing defeats the whole purpose of it being a visual media. It makes the artiest lazy and the audience lazy as well and it degrades the media as a whole.

An example of manga NOT using words is "Miku Yon".

A fabulous story about Miku traveling around America and trying to find out, why she sings. The pacing is perfect and the art style is very unique and original. Miku Yon does what most manga should be doing, telling the story through the art not the words.

This issue doesn't just exist in Manga but pretty much any visual media, whether it be a movie or a game they always tend to force dialogue down your throat and illuminate the need for an audience's imagination and like i said earlier, it degrades the medium.

The internet is an amazing thing but I hate it so much

The internet is probably the best invention after the computer.... well for me anyway. For some people that might be the television or a brick wall, but everyone has their own opinion, which comes to my main point today.

Everyone has a voice, everyone has a right, but a lot of people are abusing that right thanks to the internet.
The internet lets you shout out your opinion to someone with ease and thanks to that no one is really giving a secound thought about their ideas.
This turns the internet into a massive load of crap. Not just "A" crap but shit that can suffocate the entire population of the earth by entering through your eyes then craping crap that craps onto your brain with crap filled crap. (ok maybe that was a little too much....)

Seriously though! People just don't think and they can't shut up! Yes, everyone has a voice and a right but that doesn't mean you can abuse that right. Like the 941,451 comments on Rebecca Black's Friday video, I understand it if you're commenting on why it's bad or where she should improve but comments like "Please shoot yourself" or "You're worse than Justin Beiber" is NOT an opinion, it's just mean and shows how horrible you are as a human being. If you want someone to improve you give them criticism, and if you want to improve you listen to that criticism. Same goes to you fanboys out there! Just because a reviewer didn't give your game or movie the score you wanted doesn't mean you can bash them down with sticks!
A proper critic outlines what he/she liked/hated about said media and tells you why, but I'm going off topic here... I'll create a new topic for this laterz!

Back on topic, it should be an international law to add an "STOP: Read what you just wrote 3 more times before you post" button before anyone can post.

Seriously we need to start laying down ground rules here. Right now the internet is just a playground for kids to go wild and no parents to stop them. More and more the internet is flooding into our daily lives... and I can't help thinking that it actually might ruin us at one point.

Welcome to Snowy Entertainment

I always wanted to start a blog but I didn't want it to be those boring ones that people just go on and on about their own personal lives.... or maybe those are just Japanese bloggers.... anyhoo.

I always wanted to start a blog but when you think about the writing, editing, re-editing, linking sources and backing up your argument..... I get lazy.

I always wanted to start a blog, so I guess the best way to do it... is ti actually start it. This blog may improve over time... and who knows! I actually might get people reading it one day.
Anyway I've decided not to get ahead of myself and just write what I want on my blog. I can set up a proper website for myself once I know what I'm doing.

So here it is! Welcome to Snowy Entertainment!!!!!!!!!!