After a Kickstarter campaign brought the show back to life on the big screen, creator Rob Thomas is taking his cult hit online with a spinoff project titled "Play It Again, Dick".
I mean no disrespect — if anything, I mean respect — when I say that it is only the established star power of on-screen creators Fred Armisen and Bill Hader and off-camera co-creator Seth Meyers that could make a show like "Documentary Now!" a reality.
Built in a former helicopter factory, the space includes numerous sound stages, sets, and green screens that creators can take advantage of to take their productions to the next level.
On the eve of this screening, The Creators Project speaks with Tommy Wiseau about the legacy of The Room.
Third Screen: Larry Gelbart, creator of M.A.S.H., said when I spoke with him recently for this column that he's sad to see that the subtleties of language are being replaced by special effects, which are a common language for the global marketplace.
"This is just the latest of a long list of examples of how things that are often meant for small, private audiences have innumerable opportunities to become public events, because once they have left the creators' screen, they can be shared, forwarded and posted".
The network was trained mostly on pixel data — that is, what you actually see on the screen — but its creators had to cheat a little by giving it some basic insight from the game engine on whether there was an enemy or item on screen.
If you're unable to get to NYC to try out his videogames on the big screen at the Creators' launch event today, you can download and play all of Essen's one and two-player 8-bit art video games at Messhoff.com.
Today, its creators screened this video of the cheetah performing a robotics first: transitioning from a trot to a gallop midrun.
