Animatrix What the...

Message Edited by ScarletAbyss on 04-06-200609:11 PM

"The Final Flight Of The Osiris": Takes place a few days before the start of Reloaded. It's plot is directly continued in Enter the Matrix, and that one begins maybe about one day or less earlier than Reloaded.

"Kid's Story": Somewhere between the first and second movie. It's Neo who frees The Kid-

"The Second Renaissance": Early 20th century of the Real. It tells about how the humans have created their Machines, about the war between the Machines and the humans, and about the Machines' victory and the humanity's enslavement.

"A Detective's Story": Purely fictional, it should take place somewhere before "The Matrix" or maybe before "Reloaded".

All others are pretty much independent from the storyline. You can interpret them into certain parts of the story yourself. You can also check out this: http://69.57.184.74/~mxoarchi/timeline.html

I really enjoyed the Detective one...and the one with the Racing guy (whoo he outran haxing Agentz).

The others I didn't really care for..

Except the Kid one. That one was probably the best, because it looked the most real.

Regarding the style, I found "Program" and "Matriculated" a bit ludicrous. They had nice aspects (especially the action), but the face animations were a bit silly.

But the rest is a full success.

It's funny that you pick those two as ludicrous when there's nothing nonsensical about their animations. Matriculated's models can be considered perfect compared to the old "Aeon Flux" versions.

Different strokes...

No, it's not funny, it's just opinion. I do like "World Record" inspite of its "exaggerated" style, and the Kid's story inspite of of its turbulent, "fluent" textures.

I still do like certain aspects about these other two, and my general impression was more negative. That was at least my opinion when I watched them the last time.

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zeroone5069 wrote:

No, it's not funny, it's just opinion.

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"Final Flight of the Osiris" looked amazing to me. Not a surprise considering the graphics style is made by the same people who did the Final Fantasy movie.

Very superb work: hope video games can reach that level of rendition soon.

Message Edited by PyRo_X1 on 04-11-200609:37 PM

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ealm wrote:

some of the animatrix fills in the gaps witch the films leave out (eg.kids story) but the rest... i can only say *CENSORED*? expesaly the bit were they try and change the macine to the humans side. i would like to know what the people whomade it were smoking becuse i want some

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I watched the animatrix again and I have to say I felt like I was watching something like a dream and in others a nightmare.

But this is what I understand:

Final Flight of the Osiris - Precurser to the matrix reloaded and enter the matrix.

The Second Renaissance Parts 1 & 2 - History lesson, tells us who exactly started the war (In one hand im glad that they told that story, but on the other I wish they hadn't, gave a feeling of mystery)

Kids story- As you said, the backstory of The Kid and how he got out.

Program - I think that this was the idea of Zions answer to testing for Cypherites. She was put in a situation where someone she obvously was close to wanted to go back to the matrix and take her with him. (Something Cypher may have at one point been tempted to do with Trinity)

World Record- Showed that for all the machines mastery of programming code could still not take into account the humans mind/body ability to push itself to an almost limitless end, case in point he ran the 50 meter dash in something like 7 seconds.

Beyond - Basicly was a story of a bug in the system which allowed the "haunted" house to exsist and was eventually repaired.

A Detective Story - I suspect that this was to show that their were cases that even though a potential was on their way out of the system, the agents could still get them from time to time and keep them from leaving the matrix.

Matrixulated - all the times ive watched this one and I still cant figure it out. But my best guess is that its ment to show that the machines could choose another path if they wanted and actually start to love humanity (As evident in the end when the machine plugged the girl back into the construct).

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Stack wrote:

My interpretation of Matriculated is that the crew was showing the Machines all of the things that define humanity and distinguish us from the Machines: humor, sexuality, fear, beauty, etc. Once the place gets trashed, he also finally understands death and powers himself down.

Even so, it still looks like Jackson Pollock and Salvador Dali got drunk one night and wandered into an animation studio, and so I tend to avoid watching it.

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