One of the most technically accomplished effect sequences in the movie has been tagged ‘Gotham Sunrise’ by its makers, and shows the sprawling home of Batman in its entirety – and it presented a huge task to create for the team at Double Negative.

“The art department miniatures unit, led by James Hambidge, created a model showing the layout of Gotham City,” explains Double Negative visual-effects supervisor Paul Franklin.

“The concept was of a city built on series of islands and sprawling out across the neighbouring landmass like a gargantuan version of New York. Chris Nolan was keen for the final shot to look realistic, while simultaneously conveying the idea of a city out of control, bigger than the biggest city that exists anywhere,” Franklin
explains.

The initial plan of attack – to shoot it entirely in miniature – quickly ran into budget difficulties due to its sheer size, making a digital recreation the only alternative. Yet Nolan needed convincing.

“Our first task was to prove that a digital version could capture the same level of complexity that was present in the maquette, so we put together a construction kit that allowed us to lay out a city of 80,000 structures, light it, render it and shoot it to film.” It proved a hit with Nolan.

“The buildings in the final shot are sourced from Chicago originals, with slight modifications to make sure that we didn’t end up with multiple copies of the highly recognizable Sears Tower in Gotham,” says Franklin. The model library was assembled through a combination of Lidar, photogrammetry and online research.

We ended up with a database of over 2,000 structures, all of which were individually textured with photos taken by location scouts in Chicago, each showing their correct facades.”

In order to capture a more observed reality than the overly stylized Gotham City’s of previous outings, Double Negative mounted a series of stills shoots from the tops of tall buildings in Chicago, culminating in a shoot of the dawn rising over lake Michigan as seen from the roof of the Sears Tower, 1,400 feet above street level. The photos gathered from the shoot served as the primary reference for the lighting scheme in the final shot.

“Eventually, we ended up almost as victims of our own success as Chris felt that the shot looked so convincing that he was worried that audiences wouldn’t pick up on the city’s extreme scale,” says Franklin. “We spent the last few weeks on the shot adding buildings until it stretched all the way to the horizon. In total, there were over 500,000 detailed digital buildings in the final shot.”

Are you a fan of anime? The cute little characters features high pitched voice and some with funny looking faces and bodies. I find myself sticking in front of my computer or television (depends on where I watch anime) for hours if I started a new anime series. If you have similar characteristics as me, you would like the new anime series named Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo.

You would alternatively gain more insight of this anime by visiting their Official Website. I have had watched a few series of it and I could not deny that I am excited for more chapters.

Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo is a funny anime series that features alot of jokes. The jokes is close to nonsense, but it seems sustainable. However, as I have not gone watching until the last chapter, I would presume that the ending would be quite nice and meaningful. The beginning of the anime series Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo reveals the story of Bobobo-bo being able to communicate with Hair. From young, he could talk to his own hair and receive some nonsense feedback from them. To him, the hair is alive and he proclaims himself as the protector of all hair from young. Things get much weirder as he grows up. Bobobo-bo and Beauty started what he called a Hair Squad where they consists of weird characters from booger soldiers to his own armpit hair! There is also an instance where Bobobo-bo is being eaten up by a giant hamburger. Things become more surreal beyond that.

If you would like to lighten up and laugh at a bit of nonsense, this anime is just the one for you. I personally liked these types of anime once in a while to lighten up after a hard day of work. You should too!

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Name: Bill Atkinson
Title: Software Engineer
About: Atkinson, the software genius behind the majority of the Mac’s graphics programming, was much admired by Steve Jobs. It was Atkinson who eventually convinced Jobs to take a look at the Xerox Alto, which he had previously ignored because of his dislike of Jef Raskin.

Name: Burrel Smith
Title: Repairman
About: While working in Apple’s maintenance department, Smith knocked up the first prototype Macintosh, based on plans designed by Jef Raskin. By this time, Steve Wozniak was growing disillusioned with Apple so Smith became one of the main figures in developing the Mac hardware design.

Name: Steve (‘Woz’) Wozniak
Title: Resident Genius
About: One of the original founders of Apple alongside Steve Jobs, Wozniak was the technical genius who turned Jobs’s grand ideas into reality. Apple made him rich, but he became disillusioned with corporate politics and left Apple in 1985, spending his money on staging rock festivals and generally being a nice guy.

Name: Jef Raskin
Title: Manager, Advanced Systems
About: Known as the true father of the Macintosh, it was Raskin who visited Xerox and saw the Alto, a prototype computer with the first graphical user interface. That gave Raskin the idea for the Mac – Steve Jobs only got involved with the Mac after he was kicked off another project.

Steve Jobs is often described as some sort of technological visionary. And, to give him his due, his vision of the Mac as ‘the computer for the rest of us’ is something that he’s pursued with single-minded intensity over the years.

But his greatest asset is probably the famous ‘Steve Jobs reality distortion field’ – the ability to charm anyone who listens to him into going along with whatever idea or product he’s trying to sell.

That’s how the barefoot Jobs sold his first order for 50 Apple I computers to an electronics store in California in 1975. And that’s how he whipped the crowd into a frenzy at the launch of the first Macintosh in 1984.

His return to Apple in 1997 was greeted like the Second Coming and he stunned the entire industry when he announced at the Macworld Expo that he’d done a deal with Microsoft that not only settled all their outstanding legal disputes, but also ensured that Microsoft would continue to develop the Mac version of Microsoft Office and invest a handy $150m in Apple at the same time. He may be an arrogant sonofabitch but only Steve Jobs could have pulled that off.

A few months later he unveiled the iMac with a similarly theatrical flourish – and the rest is history.

Name: Copland
Launched: DOA

Copland was Apple’s first attempt to produce a new Operating System to replace the original ‘Classic’ Mac OS. Work on Copland began in the early 1990s, but by 1996 the project had fallen apart. It cost Apple $400m to buy Steve Jobs’ NeXTSTEP software, which formed the basis of OS X.

Name: G4 Cube
Launched: 2000

They say that pride comes before the fall. At the launch of the G4 Cube, this author asked Apple’s marketing managers who the new machine was aimed at – consumers or professional users? “We don’t know,” they said. “But isn’t it cool?” That was the moment we realised that the Cube was doomed.

Name: Dr. Gilberto (‘Gil’) Amelio
Appointed: February 1996
About: With a reputation as a turnaround artist who could save struggling companies, Amelio’s appointment was a last ditch attempt to save the dying Apple. Ironically, Amelio’s strategy worked – but it also cost him his own job.
Best moment: Buying Steve Jobs’ NeXT company – whose NeXTSTEP software was the basis for OS X.
Worst moment: Boy, did he get screwed by Steve Jobs.

Name: Steven P Jobs
Appointed: July 1997
About: One of the original founders of Apple, Jobs was ousted by Sculley in 1985. He went on to found NeXT, which was bought by Amelio in 1997, paving the way for Jobs’s triumphant return.
Best moment: How about introducing the iMac and saving Apple for starters?
Worst moment: Overthrown by Sculley in 1985 boardroom battle.

Name: John Sculley
Appointed: April 1983
About: Sculley was President of Pepsi Cola when Steve Jobs approached him and said, “do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water, or do you want a chance to change the world?”
Best moment: Enormous sales and profits at Apple for his first five years.
Worst moment: The Mac Portable – so heavy it was quickly nicknamed the ‘Luggable’.

Name: Mike (‘Diesel’) Spindler
Appointed: June 1993
About: Nicknamed ‘Diesel’ because of his head-on approach to tackling problems, Germanborn Spindler took over Apple at a tough time and was forced to lay off more than 2,000 employees and slash R&D costs to keep Apple afloat.
Best moment: Introduced the first Power Macs in 1994.
Worst moment: The amazing exploding PowerBook 5300.

Say hi to the beautiful city of Las Vegas. Full of glaring and luxury looking lights, there is no doubt why Las Vegas has always been a beautiful city even for the anti gamblers. Are you a gambler yourself? Do you like the city because of the casinos available there? If you are, there should be more exciting to what I am going to inform you.

The Las Vegas hotel industry has since flourished tremendously throughout the years as proportionate to the number of increasing visitors every year. MMG Grand wants to include themselves and have a fair share of the profitable hotel business in Las Vegas. However, this Las Vegas hotel is far more unique than other smaller ones as they are one of the more premier hotels in this city. Besides providing accomodation, MMG Grand facilitates for great nightlife activities, perfect dining environment, full fledged amenities, great entertainment and attractive casinos within the hotel itself. Furthermore, they even provides a great place for meetings or seminars to be conducted!

The G4 Cube was an embarrassment for Apple, and the PowerBook 5300 was both embarrassing and damaging. But of all Apple’s failed products, the biggest, most expensive, most high profile and – ultimately – the most tragic, has to be the Newton.

Former Apple CEO John Sculley is often reviled by the Mac faithful as the man who kicked Steve Jobs out of Apple back in 1985. Jobs is held up as the technological visionary, while Sculley is dismissed as the corporate number-cruncher brought in from Pepsi Cola to give the hippies at Apple a bit of corporate respectability. Yet Sculley steered Apple through years of enormous success until his resignation in 1993, and the Newton proved that he was a man of vision.

Unfortunately the product didn’t quite live up to the vision. The Newton may not have been Sculley’s idea – any more than the Mac was Steve Jobs’s idea – but Sculley did see the enormous potential of the product and did his best to support it through years of troubled development at Apple.

It was Sculley who coined the term ‘PDA’ – personal digital assistant – to describe the Newton. He saw the Newton as the first of a new generation of handheld devices that people could carry around with them in order to store and organise personal data such as addresses, phone numbers and calendars. And, because it was intended to be a handheld device, the Newton would use advanced handwriting recognition technology to allow people to quickly enter information simply by writing on the screen with a small stylus.