{"id":623,"date":"2011-07-12T07:24:05","date_gmt":"2011-07-12T13:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/?p=623"},"modified":"2011-10-27T08:24:08","modified_gmt":"2011-10-27T14:24:08","slug":"episode-29-the-iron-giant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/?p=623","title":{"rendered":"Episode 29 &#8211; The Iron Giant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"attachment_624\" style=\"width: 230px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-624\" src=\"https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/iron_giant-220x300.jpg\" alt=\"The Iron Giant\" title=\"The Iron Giant\" width=\"220\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-624\" srcset=\"https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/iron_giant-220x300.jpg 220w, https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/iron_giant.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-624\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A boy and his giant robot<\/p><\/div><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_6544\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-623-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/eps\/ep29.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/eps\/ep29.mp3\">https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/eps\/ep29.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/eps\/ep29.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/?powerpress_pinw=623-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/eps\/ep29.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"ep29.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><\/p>\n<p>The day has finally arrived. We talk about the greatest animated film that nobody ever saw and the greatest Jennifer Aniston\/Vin Diesel movie ever made.  It&#8217;s<strong> The Iron Giant<\/strong>!  Joining our host Ben and myself is Pablo, and we were all gracious to be in the presence of none other than <a href=\"http:\/\/www.benheck.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ben Heckendorn<\/a>, creator of the Atari Portable, Bill Paxton Pinball, and Possomus Woman!<\/p>\n<p>We all agree that The Iron Giant will take even the most hardened heart and turn it into a sopping puddle of goo.  This the touching story of a boy, his single mother, and the giant robot from outer space who learned what it means to be alive.<\/p>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_627\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-627\" src=\"https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/benheck-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"Ben Heck!\" title=\"Ben Heck!\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-627\" srcset=\"https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/benheck-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/benheck.jpg 288w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-627\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ben Heckendorn, himself!<\/p><\/div><strong>In this episode, we discuss:<\/strong><br \/>\nCold war paranoia<br \/>\nHaving a cool name gets you movie parts<br \/>\nHow to do CG animation the right way<br \/>\nBrad Bird &#8211; Animation hero<br \/>\nWe thank Quest For Camelot for sucking<\/p>\n<p>Also, you don&#8217;t invite Ben Heck on your show and not ask him cool stuff!  In this episode, we have, for the first time ever, a special &#8220;lights out&#8221; segment is instituted, with some segments taken from out-takes of the show.  The conversation went on for so long, we didn&#8217;t even put it all on this episode!  So stay tuned later this week for a special supplementary episode in which we chat with Ben.  And yes, we talk about POSSUMUS WOMAN!<\/p>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_628\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-628\" src=\"https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/ig1.jpg\" alt=\"Iron Giant Screen Shot\" title=\"Iron Giant Screen Shot\" width=\"500\" height=\"210\" class=\"size-full wp-image-628\" srcset=\"https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/ig1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/ig1-300x126.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-628\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cool lighting and coloring play a role throughout the movie<\/p><\/div><br \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_629\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-629\" src=\"https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/ig2.jpg\" alt=\"Iron Giant Screen Shot\" title=\"Iron Giant Screen Shot\" width=\"500\" height=\"210\" class=\"size-full wp-image-629\" srcset=\"https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/ig2.jpg 500w, https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/ig2-300x126.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-629\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">How&#039;s that for scale?<\/p><\/div><br \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_630\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-630\" src=\"https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/ig3.jpg\" alt=\"Iron Giant Screen Shot\" title=\"Iron Giant Screen Shot\" width=\"500\" height=\"210\" class=\"size-full wp-image-630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/ig3.jpg 500w, https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/ig3-300x126.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-630\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This scene will rip your heart to pieces<\/p><\/div><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OTnu-cGP17w\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The day has finally arrived. We talk about the greatest animated film that nobody ever saw and the greatest Jennifer Aniston\/Vin Diesel movie ever made. It&#8217;s The Iron Giant! Joining our host Ben and myself is Pablo, and we were &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/?p=623\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[5,77,19,44],"class_list":["post-623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-podcast","tag-90s-animation","tag-brad-bird","tag-good-animation","tag-warner-animation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=623"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":998,"href":"https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623\/revisions\/998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animationaficionados.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}