{"id":1281,"date":"2006-01-31T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-31T11:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jeffreyatw.wordpress.com\/2006\/01\/31\/oban-star-racers\/"},"modified":"2006-01-31T11:59:00","modified_gmt":"2006-01-31T11:59:00","slug":"oban-star-racers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/2006\/01\/oban-star-racers\/","title":{"rendered":"\u014cban Star-Racers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.savtheworld.com\/eng\/oban_trailer.php3 (requires <a href=\"http:\/\/www.free-codecs.com\/download\/Real_Alternative.htm\">Real Alternative<\/a>)<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve been following \u014cban Star-Racers (or Molly, Star-Racer) for 5 years now, and it&#8217;s finally getting here&#8230; the only major change is that the characters aren&#8217;t <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jeffreyatw.com\/movies\/molly_480x360.mpeg\">cel-shaded<\/a> anymore! Pretty fascinating that they&#8217;d do away with that plan. That&#8217;s probably why it took 8 years to make it, since they probably needed to start over somewhere along the lines.<br \/>\nThe show still looks like it&#8217;ll be awesome &#8211; the characters are well-designed, the style is much more fleshed-out &#8211; but I was looking forward to a completely 3D CG show. I guess having all the backdrops and mobiles rendered is still nice.<br \/>\nThe music&#8217;s fitting, too. Still got an anime feel, but a lot nicer than <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jeffreyatw.com\/movies\/molly_480x360.mpeg\">licensed J-Pop<\/a>.<br \/>\n<b>edit<\/b> I guess you couldn&#8217;t say I&#8217;ve been actually &#8220;following&#8221; it since it seems they made this jump from 3D French animation to 2D Japanese animation back in 2002. Oh well!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.savtheworld.com\/eng\/oban_trailer.php3 (requires Real Alternative) I&#8217;ve been following \u014cban Star-Racers (or Molly, Star-Racer) for 5 years now, and it&#8217;s finally getting here&#8230; the only major change is that the characters aren&#8217;t cel-shaded anymore! Pretty fascinating that they&#8217;d do away with that plan. That&#8217;s probably why it took 8 years to make it, since they probably needed&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/2006\/01\/oban-star-racers\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u014cban Star-Racers<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}