YD Computer Art

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Understanding Anime..... The Beginnings

The field of televised Japanese animation, popularly known as “anime” (pronounced ah-nee-may, a word derived from the French term for animation), has always led a curious double life. While anime is often considered to be the quintessential expression of Japanese culture, its greatest documents are scandalously un-Japanese. Unlike the Japanese manga or comic strip, which is rooted in Japan’s centuries-old traditions of woodcut carvings and graphic prints, anime is the purest product of the multinational era.

Spawned in the 1960s by Japan’s postwar media boom, anime quickly became one of the most innovative sites of the multinational video culture. Early anime series such as Osamu Tezuka’s Tetsuwan Atomu [Astro Boy] (1963) derived much of their visual inspiration from the classic Disney and Warner Brothers cartoons, while scriptwriters drew deeply from the well of Western European and US science fiction narratives. By the early 1970s, anime had begun to develop its own unique array of forms, ranging from the teenage martial arts comedy to the human-piloted robot adventure or “mecha” tale. By the mid-1980s, anime had transformed a complex blend of Japan’s indigenous manga culture, US science-fiction and animation, European scriptwriting and theater, and the editing techniques of the Hong Kong martial arts films into a whole new art-form. Today, the anime culture has become one of the heavyweights of the global media industry.1

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Tuesday, October 30, 2007

Jigsaw Puzzle Platinum

Jigsaw Puzzle Platinum
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This realistic jigsaw puzzle game contains 35 amazing photographs that you turn into fun jigsaw puzzles. The images run the gamut from famous works of art and historic landmarks to beach scenes, sporting events and much more. With a comfortable puzzling environment and superb graphics Jigsaw Puzzle Platinum Edition is a perfect break from the stress of the day. Create your own puzzles from your favorite pictures and add your own music. A 3D gallery lets you exhibit your completed puzzles. Finally, all the joy and good times that come from sitting down with a jigsaw puzzle, right on your desktop.

System Requirements: Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP / 100 MHz / 8MB RAM


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