Finding Nemo
p. I finally got around to seeing “Finding Nemo(Pixar website)”:http://www.pixar.com/featurefilms/nemo/ today, and was really stunned by it. The quality of the animation—as always with Pixar films—was breathtaking. Every second, you could see weeks of painstaking animation work and rendering just flashing by in the background. I got the feeling that—as with the “rotating cube effect(You can see the effect here, even if you don’t have Panther)”:http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/fastuserswitching/ for fast user switching—they just did it because they could. It was very funny (with plenty of jokes for both adults and children), and the plot raced along at a tremendous pace. What I didn’t really expect was that it would be so educational. I’m convinced that you could probably learn a fair amount of marine biology and dentistry from watching this film. I mean, how many other animations have you seen that include the phrase [“sub-oesophageal ganglion(Huxley’s diagram of the crayfish, 1879)”:http://www2.biology.ualberta.ca/palmer/thh/f/cf12.htm]?
