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You definitely don't want to miss the Electronic Theater this year. Why? Because we've got THREE 3D Studio pieces in it. 1) The opening animation… a retrospective look back at the past 20 years of Electronic Theaters. This is about 3 minutes long, and it's going to be output directly to 70mm film and will be projected at the Shriner auditorium on a HUGE screen (about 80' wide). 2) Johnny Mnemonic internet highlights. This is (almost) all of the 3DS work from JM (with no other work, because it's just the work done by Sony Pictures Imageworks for the film. This is a 3 minute piece and it will be projected off of 35mm film. 3) IUCD: This is a 4 minute art piece done by Leslie Baker (an animator at Rhythm & Hues) with original music. As you probably know, 4 minutes is a looong piece to be accepted by the ET, so this is a real coup. It's going to be projected on video. So, we've got about 10 minutes of 3DS work in the ET, which is unbelievably exciting (since it's a first for any PC-based 3D app to have so much work in the show). I'll probably have to go both Wednesday _and_ Thursday, just to drink it all in. (And as a first this year, the ET is being opened up to the general public at the Shriner auditorium for a 4th show on Friday night… Still at $20/ticket though.) – G