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RobertoOrtiz

09-09-2003, 07:19 PM

Quote from the review:
"Robota (Chronicle; 174 pages; $35) by artist Doug Chiang and award-winning novelist Orson Scott Card mixes text and full-color illustrations to tell the story of a planet ruled by machines.
An amnesiac named Caps awakes within a metallic craft and quickly finds himself pursued through a forest by malevolent robots. Aided by a talking monkey named Rend and Juomes, an intelligent, white-furred gorillalike creature, Caps seeks to discover his own history while aiding other humans in their struggle against their mechanical overlords."

>>link<< (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/09/07/RV215016.DTL)

-R

From Leo:
Here's the link to the book on Amazon:
Robota (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=cgnetworks-20&path=tg/detail/-/0811840417/qid%3D1063236856/sr%3D8-1)

altmeister

09-10-2003, 08:20 AM

the trailer from sparx (http://www.sparx.com) is also awesome (think most of you know it ...)

markbones

09-10-2003, 10:55 AM

This is finally out? I have been waiting for this for so long. Not a glowing review about the story, though. I will probably get this just on the basis of it being Doug Chiang's work.

Kenter

09-10-2003, 07:59 PM

Thanks for the heads up,cool,cool stuff.:beer:

fattdex

09-11-2003, 01:01 AM

:thumbsup: awesome, i'll go and see if i can get it tomorrow!
that would have made a great fathers day gift for my dad :-(

wgreenlee1

09-11-2003, 12:18 PM

Enders Game....
I read almost all Cards stuff....its been a while though...

mattregnier

09-11-2003, 04:21 PM

So did Chiang just do the artwork for the book? or is this a story/art book, or purely art? I guess I'm a little confused, when I originally read about Robota, I was under the impression it was going to be a short film, and now it's in print form...

slaughters

09-11-2003, 04:25 PM

Yes, I even remember seeing a test animation, like a trailer, that someone posted on CGTalk.

malducin

09-11-2003, 06:19 PM

Originally it was just going to be an art book, compromised of personal work by Chiang that had a bit of thematic unity. As the project became known it grew until Orson Scott Card became involved in writing a story. Probably why the review says that the story falters a bit since in the beginning it was not meant to be that way.

After the book started someone created a small teaser with one Chiang's robot designs. Much later Sperx got involved and created a second trailer. It was around this time that Chiang and Sparx commented about making a short film. Several months ago Sparx was looking for investors to raise $50 million to make a film.

The traier can be seen here:

Robota trailers (http://www.apple.com/trailers/independent/dc_studio/robota/)

altmeister

09-11-2003, 07:26 PM

i remember the trailer on the sparx site is in better quality ... but i'am not sure (saw it in april on fmx in stuttgart).

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