"Spirits Within" did not do well over here, even though the graphics were spectacular. The story just didn't have appeal over here. However Advent Children is based on the characters from the Final Fantasy 7 game, who have remained very popular despite the game going to version ten and then to Online play only. When the original game came out, there were even a few poser versions of Cloud, Yufie, and Red13. My fave from the game was Vincent.

I was not aware that a 3d movie had been done and released in Japan until I was up in Vancourver here last month. My friend and I stopped into a comic book store and we were just leaving when I looked over and saw this incredible 3d image on the cover of an Anime magazine. I bought the magazine and there was a 3 page article on the movie with some breath-taking screen shots. Up there, according to their big record/video store HMV, the english translation DVD will be in sometime this month. According to Amazon.com, it will be availabe in the US in January of 2006. I decided to hunt Ebay for the english subtitled version and bought two copies from a vender who deals in anime direct from Japan. And the 3d work in the film is just incredibly awesome!!!!! There is also a series of 12" dolls being sold for the game. Series one had Vincent, so I bought him while I was up in Canada.

Last night I was tinkering with Poser, and interestingly enough, if you have the Bishon figure and his custom morphs for M3, you can get pretty close to Cloud Strife's face, now if someone would make the hair from that picture I posted before, I could have a good Poser Cloud....

Here's Vincent by the way. In the original game, he was a bonus character (you know, go to a certain room in a building and reply to his questions in just the right way and then he would join your party). However he became an instant hit over in Japan and with Final Fantasy players over here. The article I read, says that in 2006, there will a game featuring him as the main character.

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