{"id":912,"date":"2003-02-05T03:18:50","date_gmt":"2003-02-05T19:18:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/02\/05\/more-on-animatrix\/"},"modified":"2019-12-04T14:11:31","modified_gmt":"2019-12-04T22:11:31","slug":"more-on-animatrix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/02\/05\/more-on-animatrix\/","title":{"rendered":"More on Animatrix"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:12917,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/ASIN\\\/B00000K19E\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260312035953\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/ASIN\\\/B00000K19E\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/ASIN\\\/B00000K19E\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-25 18:28:33&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-01 04:32:24&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-07 12:32:22&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-07 12:32:22&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:15355,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/whatisthematrix.warnerbros.com\\\/index_anime.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20100211040608\\\/http:\\\/\\\/whatisthematrix.warnerbros.com:80\\\/index_anime.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-13 17:26:16&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-07 15:57:22&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-07 15:57:22&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:15356,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/whatisthematrix.warnerbros.com\\\/rl_cmp\\\/animatrix_site_episode1.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20100128035743\\\/http:\\\/\\\/whatisthematrix.warnerbros.com:80\\\/rl_cmp\\\/animatrix_site_episode1.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/redirectore.warnerbros.com\\\/BFROM=whatisthematrix.warnerbros.com\\\/rl_cmp\\\/animatrix_site_episode1.html&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-07 15:57:22&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-07 15:57:22&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:15357,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/slashdot.org\\\/article.pl?sid=03\\\/02\\\/05\\\/0452234&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/slashdot.org\\\/article.pl?sid=03\\\/02\\\/05\\\/0452234&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Back in October, I <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/10\/animatrix.html\" title=\"Animatrix\">mentioned<\/a> an upcoming DVD release called &#8216;Animatrix&#8217; &#8212; a series of short animated films set in the universe of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B00000K19E\/djwudicom-20\" title=\"The Matrix\">The Matrix<\/a>. It turns out that of the nine shorts that will be on the disc, four are going to be <a href=\"http:\/\/whatisthematrix.warnerbros.com\/index_anime.html\" title=\"THE ANIMATRIX\">released to the web<\/a>, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/whatisthematrix.warnerbros.com\/rl_cmp\/animatrix_site_episode1.html\" title=\"The Second Renaissance, Part 1\">first has just been posted<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Very interesting stuff, as it turns out. Well animated, and at least in this epsisode, fleshing out the back-story of the universe, taking a look at the creation of the machines and beginnings of their rise to power. In fact, I think that one of the sequences in the short &#8212; a robot on trial for the murder of it&#8217;s owner &#8212; reminded me of one of Asimov&#8217;s robot stories, though I can&#8217;t bring to mind exactly which one. Or I could be remembering something else, which is entirely possible. In any case, I&#8217;ll definitely be picking up the DVD when it finally hits the streets.<\/p>\n<p>(Via <a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\/article.pl?sid=03\/02\/05\/0452234\" title=\"\/.: 1st Episode of Animatrix released\">\/.<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in October, I mentioned an upcoming DVD release called &#8216;Animatrix&#8217; &mdash; a series of short animated films set in the universe of The Matrix. It turns out that of the nine shorts that will be on the disc, four are going to be released to the web, and the first has just been posted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2037],"tags":[23,2230,1730],"class_list":["post-912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tv-and-films","tag-film","tag-the-animatrix","tag-the-matrix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}