The New York Geekcast

In celebration of Halloween, the geeks discuss a variety of goosebump-inducing monsters from the world of cinema. (And how everything in the horror genre can be linked back to the Star Wars Holiday Special.)

So get your witches’ shawl on, a broomstick you can crawl on, and come pay a call on the New York Geekcast.

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Show Notes:

• Break song is “A Nightmare On My Street” by DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince
• Bruce Vilanch
• Munchies
• World of Goo
• She-Predator

Do you love handrawn animation but despise Computer animated films? Do you love CG art, but think anything done by hand just doesn’t look modern? Or are you somewhere inbetween? In this episode we pit computer graphics against hand made art.

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Show Notes:

• Break song is Money for Nothing/Beverly Hillbillies by Weird Al Yankovic
• Richard Williams audio clip is from the video below which is a “Who Framed Roger Rabbit” making of featurette.
• Richard Williams: I drew Roger Rabbit Part 1
• The Uncanny Valley
• Hoodwinked article
• Robert Zemeckis
• Van Eyck
• Vermeer
• Katamari Damacy
• Call of Duty 4
• Ratatoing

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We’re also recording episode number six this wednesday….CG vs non-CG.

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