![]() I tried making political cartoons for YouTube. I bought a Wacom tablet and one of the leading 2D animation programs. Now it seems half of all films are 3D animation – either cartoons or special effects. But in 1993 Jurassic Park came out and blew me out of the water. When I started I was nearly the only one I knew of who was modeling dinosaurs. Actually I did OK on the technical/artistic part but my timing was bad. BRAVE WORDS MATT THOMPSON MACI remember flying home from a trade show in Las Vegas with a Mac guy who predicted my utter and complete failure. BRAVE WORDS MATT THOMPSON PCMaybe the only unusual aspect of that decision was that I tried to do it on a PC rather than on a Mac. ![]() Īround 1991-2 I decided to get into 3D animation. Fortunately, part way through, one of the characters gets magically turned into a realistically rendered bear with a nice fur coat, which is easier on the eyes than all the humans. Also, the look of the characters appears to be modeled after those plastic Troll dolls, so they are fairly grotesque to look at. The Celtic setting is interesting (see next post) but the storyline doesn’t make much use of it, instead being a generic suburban tale about a self-absorbed adolescent who doesn’t appreciate her mom enough.īrave is not terribly funny and it’s not a musical, so it’s not as entertaining as the best cartoon movies. But she’s a peevish tomboy who likes shooting arrows more than girl stuff, identifying more with her barbarian dad than with her educated, managerial mom. Brave is a half-hearted attempt to break into the princess market with the story of a princess of a Scottish Highland clan. While Disney was predominantly a girl studio, Pixar has been a boy studio run by nerds. ![]() BRAVE WORDS MATT THOMPSON MOVIEIn 2010, Thompson completed a four-year term on Poynter's National Advisory Board.Ī graduate with honors in English from Harvard College, Thompson wrote his senior thesis on the television show "Buffy the Vampire Slayer." He blogs at, jogs along the Potomac and occasionally sings barbershop music with friends.Brave, the latest Pixar animated kids’ movie, is okay, but doesn’t stand up to the Northern California movie studio’s long winning streak that climaxed with Toy Story 3 a couple of years ago. Presenting a picture of the media past set 10 years in the future, the movie was written up in The New York Times, Financial Times, USA Today, the Guardian, and on MSNBC. While at Poynter, he and his colleague Robin Sloan produced the Flash movie EPIC 2014. ![]() Thompson was the Poynter Institute's 2003-04 Naughton Fellow for Online Reporting and Writing. At the Bee, he led an internal advisory committee exploring the paper's strategies for acquiring new audiences. Also at the Star Tribune, Thompson managed technology and interactivity-related projects for, from creating an internal taxonomy to transforming the online opinion section into a blog.Īs an online reporter/producer for the Fresno Beefrom 2004-05, Thompson's work on multimedia projects earned him a first- and third-place 2004 Best of the West award. ![]() His work leading the development, community and production of a socially networked arts-and-entertainment website vita.mn contributed to the site being honored with a Digital Edge Award, "an Edgie," from the Newspaper Association of America' New Media Federation. Reynolds Fellowship at the Reynolds Journalism Institute where he explored creating context-centric news websites with results that have been widely cited in discussions about online journalism's future.įor four years prior to the Reynolds Fellowship, Thompson served as the deputy web editor for the Minneapolis Star Tribune. He's also the co-founder of an organization called Spark Camp, which convenes diverse groups of leaders from a variety of industries.īefore coming to NPR in 2010, Thompson served as the interim Online Community Manager for the Knight Foundation. He serves as the vice-chairman of the board of the Center for Public Integrity, an investigative journalism nonprofit. Outside his work at NPR, Thompson teaches media and technology management as an adjunct professor at American University. As Director of Vertical Initiatives (and Mischief) at NPR, Matt Thompson works with teams across the company to guide the development of topic-focused verticals covering race, ethnicity and culture education and global health and development. ![]()
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