Your comments about Ray Harryhausen's films are spot on. They were alyaws great fun to watch and their effects never distracted from the unspooling of a good story. Peter Jackson's King Kong had the advantage of millions of dollars of visual effects and yet it was a long, boring film. Even Ray Harryhausen remarked in interviews to me and others that it shouldn't take an hour to get to Skull Island. Something else that bothered Ray about Jackson's film was that it spent far too much time on the Ann Darrow character. She is neither the focal point of the film nor the reason anyone bought a ticket to see King Kong, but Jackson apparently didn't understand that.For excellent background on Ray's early career, I recommend Arnold Kunert's two-disc DVD, Ray Harryhausen: The Early Years Collection and Mike Hankin's amazing books, Ray Harryhausen: Master of the Majicks.

Great giveaway and a great blog.

Awesome....

"Chinese culture and values"? Not Tibetan culture or values? Katzenberg has sold out to the Chicoms.

This is nauseating. "Help export Chinese culture and values to the world"? Katzenberg is being played by the Chinese government -- and aims to profit from this.

Tibet is NOT Chinese! It is a nation invaded by Chinese military, forcibly annexed, with its own language and culture being destroyed by communist controlled assimilation plans. 1.2 million Tibetans have been killed and nearly a tenth are in prison right now -- and in the past couple of years over 100 Tibetans have set themselves on fire -- all protesting the fiction that Tibet is somehow "Chinese"! Are you not aware?

Not to Top That (Dear Lord why do I keep falling for this video!?!), but I heard Dunkin' Donuts (sadly, not all donut shops are Shipley's! Can you beielve!?!?) is also giving away free donuts.P.s, thanks for the reminder! I'm going out to put clothes in the dryer at the laundromat & pick up my free donut!

Why do the 3D character models lack the appeal of the 2D drawings? This has *long* been a problem at Dreamworks.

Hi, in the past Combustion was available as demo on the Autodesk wesbite, now it is no more available, so I think you can't find it. You can be sure that we'll start to use other compositing software in coming videos, something like Composite and/or Fusion.

If they know whats good for them. They won't send it to China. The wages are increasing at an indriceble rate. It is just a matter of time before the wages are the same or more than US wages. People will only be fooled so long.

Dear God.....please make it stop. This is the worst show on Television. Ever.

The cg dragon was great, wonderful !...very good vfx.

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Very cool. I had never heard of this, thanks very much

Steve Jay

If Dreamworks open VDB is like any of their other antiquated, clunky in-house software, I'm sure it will be absolute crap. I wouldn't bother.

I've heard of the Tokyo PiPinator, it gives out amazing effects!

Someone upstairs says the Gene Deitch T&J's have better looking graphics than the original. I very much disagree! I think the original has much prettier graphics! The G.D. ones, to me anyway, don't have very good looking graphics at all.

Excellent interview. Thanks for that!

That could be done without so much CGI. Just good draftmaship. People love it because it looked like drawings. One hundred One Dalmatians still has more appeal. By the way, Milt Kahl called and asked his Rofer Radcliff's designs back.

Who are the animators for this show?

Worked with Sandro at MTV back in the early flash days, super talented. All the best and congrats Sandro!