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Simpsons House Winner Found. Ever wonder who won the life-size replica of the Simpsons' family home that we told you about in October? Fox, which built the house as a promotion for the interactive game "Virtual Springfield" and the season premiere of The Simpsons' ninth season, has identified the contest winner. However, Barbara Howard, 63-year-old grandmother of thirteen, doesn't want to move from her farm in Richmond, Kentucky to Henderson, Nevada where the house is located. So, she's opted for the $75,000 that the sponsors have offered instead. Kaufman & Broad, the builder, owns the house until the end of March 1998, at which point ownership will be transferred to Fox and the colorful outside will be painted off-white to match the other homes in the planned suburban development. Fox has not yet decided what they will do with the house. Whatever it's fate may be, our virtual tour of the home, including photos and Quicktime movies, can be viewed in the October 1997 issue of Animation World Magazine.
Rhythm & Hues created 3-D computer
animation for the
ridefilm,Race for Atlantis.© 1997 Forum Ride Associates.
Rhythm & Hues Creates 3-D CGI Ridefilm. Race for Atlantis, a new motion simulator ride
featuring 3-D computer animation by Los Angeles-based Rhythm & Hues,
opened in January 1998 at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. The largest permanent
IMAX attraction of it's kind, comprised almost entirely of animation, Race
for Atlantis is housed in an 82-foot dome with the capacity for 108
passengers at a time. Riders wear individual, wireless "E3D"
electronic headsets with alternating liquid crystal shutters that, when
synchronized via infrared signal with the IMAX 3D projector, produce the
illusion of an immersive 3-D environment. Thirty people, including 20 computer
artists, worked on the project full-time for 18 months to create the 5,000
frames of film in the 20-minute ride "experience." Rhythm &
Hues has created animation for several other motion simulator rides, including
Star Trek: The Experience at the Las Vegas Hilton and "Seafari"
for Universal in Japan. The Los Angeles-based studio is currently in production
on effects for the film Babe II and an interactive "4-D"
attraction for Disney's new wildlife theme park in Florida.
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