1st Episode Of Animatrix Released

Devistater writes "The official Matrix page has word of the first officially released widescreen Anime episode of the Animatrix for download (in quicktime format). This is the first of 4 free episodes that will be released on the web. A total of 9 episodes will be availible for purchase on DVD within the next few months. The feature-quality anime shorts range in length from 6 minutes to 16 minutes. There's a trailer availible if you want to get a taste for what they will be like."

Download link...

[Corrupt System]

Here it is: The Second Renaissance Part 1 [aol.com]

wget + $this.url();

[danalien]

eeyy.

for lame masterl, simply do: wget http://progressive.stream.aol.com/wb/gl/wbonline/p rogressive/thematrix/us/med/animatrixlgfinal_dl.mo v

!note it's mov not mo v :P

Two more links...

[Corrupt System]

And the other resolutions:

320x136 [aol.com]
480x204 [aol.com]
640x272 [aol.com]

URL, Impression and Kudos

[limekiller4]

Here is a to the 640-width trailer [warnerbros.com] for everyone who would like to perhaps save it locally and not use the imbedded junk. I hate that.

As for the trailer ...wow. Aren't I articulate? This is, essentially, fanfic. And it is pretty damned good.

God bless timothy for posting this at 6:49AM. =)

downloading

[Anonymous Coward]

If you find a key for the latest quicktime, after you download you can just click save as. Its about 144 megs long. They dont prevent you from saving it.
Alternativly, clear out your cache, go watch it, look in your temp files cache and find the 144 meg file, copy and rename it. Bam there it is :) Some quicktime files are made so you can't replay them from cache, but I dont belive this one is done that way.

Re:Way to download those ?

[pmerrison]

I used wget on http://progressive.stream.aol.com/wb/gl/wbonline/p rogressive/thematrix/us/med/animatrixlgfinal_dl.mo v to get the high definition version (about 140MB)

Re:URL, Impression and Kudos

[Flounder]

Actually, some of the stories in The Animatrix are created by the Wachowski Brothers. The rest are independantly created, but given approval by the brothers.

I believe that this one is created by the brothers, as it pretty much gives the origin of The Matrix.

Re:What exactly is going on?

[darkmayo]

The movie was heavily influenced by anime and asian action films.. makes sense to do anime stories of the matrix.

Re:Damn

[Pathwalker]

Hmmm - the codec is Photo-Jpeg.

Basically a bunch of normal jpegs in sequence, not even Motion-Jpeg. It's about as simple as you can get for a video codec.

I am amazed that mplayer would have trouble with that...

Re:It's not anime

[citizenc]

MAHIRO MAEDA - DIRECTOR

THE SECOND RENAISSANCE: PARTS 1 & 2

Maeda is best known for the series Blue Submarine 6 (1998), which he designed and directed.

He has also done turns as animator, character designer, and in other roles, on well-known anime projects such as Laputa: Castle in the Sky (1986), The Wings of Honeamise (1987), and Neon Genesis Evangellion (1995).

Sounds like anime to me. Please do some research before you hit the "reply" button next time.

Here are the direct download URL's

[Khyron]

Someone please mod these up! Here are the actual URL's for the Quicktime files of episode one. Since the site is pegged at the moment, few people can even navigate the pages. However these links should feed you the movies directly, at least until The Slashdot Effect inspires WB or Apple to move them, hehe.

I would reccomend using a tool like wget or lftp to grab them, as my connection reset several times while downloading (due to the traffic I imagine).

Small (30MB+):
http://progressive.stream.aol.com/wb/gl/wbonline/p rogressive/thematrix/us/med/animatrixsmfinal_dl.mo v [aol.com]

Medium (90MB+):
http://progressive.stream.aol.com/wb/gl/wbonline/p rogressive/thematrix/us/med/animatrixmedfinal_dl.m ov [aol.com]

Large (140MB+):
http://progressive.stream.aol.com/wb/gl/wbonline/p rogressive/thematrix/us/med/animatrixlgfinal_dl.mo v [aol.com]

Re:Way to download those ?

[chamenos]

Animatrix Trailer (high res) [aol.com]

Animatrix Part 1 [aol.com]

just right click and choose "save as" if you're using IE =)

Re:Damn

[timmfin]

I have the mplayer mozilla plugin version .34 and it works fine. My mplayer is .90_rc3

In case you'd like to watch it later

[Mr. McD]

wget http://progressive.stream.aol.com/wb/gl/wbonline/p rogressive/thematrix/us/med/animatrixlgfinal_dl.mo v

or

curl -o http://progressive.stream.aol.com/wb/gl/wbonline/p rogressive/thematrix/us/med/animatrixlgfinal_dl.mo v

Re:What exactly is going on?

[Robotech_Master]

The Matrix Revisited has a 10-minute feature that explains how it came about. The Wachowskis got some of the best and brightest animators in Japan (and a couple from outside of Japan) to do some anime shorts for them. The animators, all of whom were enthralled with The Matrix, were only too happy to oblige. (And why shouldn't they be? The Wachowskis stole the memes from their anime; they were only just taking them back again. :)

The announcement of the Animatrix last year did answer one burning question...it was mentioned in news stories that, aside from Final Fantasy, Square USA would produce only one other bit of animation--a short film--but it was never mentioned what it was. Then, when it was announced, a lot of people were going, "Ohhhh!"

Get it at Kazaa!

[natron 2.0]

For all of you still trying to watch the streamed QT version online, you can now download the High Def version (145Mb) on Kazaa.

Re:Damn

[tcriess]

see http://mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/mplayer-users/2003-F ebruary/029187.html for a patch that allows playing the movie with MPlayer.

Quicktime Fix for Animatrix with Mplayer

[Robotech_Master]

Found this patch [mplayerhq.hu] on the MPlayer-Users mailing list.

Now, if someone could just tell me how to apply it... :)

Re:Quicktime Fix for Animatrix with Mplayer

[TeknoHog]

Hey, thanks for the link, I got it working:

1. Save the patch into a file, say, mpqt.patch
2. Get the latest MPlayer sources.
3. cd MPlayer/libmpdemux/; patch < /where/is/mpqt.patch
4. cd ..; ./configure; make; (make install)
5. Profit!

BitTorrent mirror for the file

[mxs]

animatrixlgfinal_dl_mov.torrent [scarywater.net]

Since the main site seems to have been hit hard by this slashdotting, try getting it from this BitTorrent site [scarywater.net]; Please leave your download window open as long as possible after finishing the download to help out others getting the file.

BitTorrent is a peer to peer file swarmer. You can get the client from http://bitconjurer.org/BitTorrent/download.html [bitconjurer.org]; it is Free, open, and does not contain ad/spyware; versions exist for *ix, win32, OS X, etc.

Re:Quicktime Fix for Animatrix with Mplayer

[Freezing Polaris]

Launch

mplayer -delay -10 animatrix.mov

You'll miss the first few seconds of the movie, but the sound will be more or less synced (play with keypad +/- to adjust).

Don't try and skip forward though, or you'll loose a/v sync again.