BY the way..., I'm not anti-Disney in any way!
I just got back from Disney with my family a month ago and had a great time!
I saw no Evil while I was there - Other than Mr. Toad's Wild Ride
...Oh and all those great Disney villains: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Disney_villains

Lots of things going on simultaneously, quite a wild ride:)

I started at BioWare just after MDK2 shipped for the Dreamcast so I started on MDK2 PC. Been there ever since and I have touched most of the PC titles that we have put out. I am currently working on Dragon Age.

In reply to this comment by EDD:
Wait. Whaaa??? Are you telling me you've been employed by Bioware for the past 9 years? You're not kidding me, are you? If I didn't misunderstand you then know there's one more person in the world that's envious of you

In reply to this comment by CrushBug:
Man, what a wild ride. Its coming up on 9 years for me there.

Wait. Whaaa??? Are you telling me you've been employed by Bioware for the past 9 years? You're not kidding me, are you? If I didn't misunderstand you then know there's one more person in the world that's envious of you

In reply to this comment by CrushBug:
Man, what a wild ride. Its coming up on 9 years for me there.

Man, what a wild ride. Its coming up on 9 years for me there.

TAKE A WILD RIDE

Wow, that was a wild ride. Love the dolphin part at 5min.

I was raised a Catholic until 3, but I was never molested. I think. Then my mother sent us on a wild ride of church hopping, which annoyed me to no end. By the time I hit teenage years, I had no use for God, regardless of his existence. I was busy learning how to masturbate ten times a day without chaffing. Miracles do happen, I tell ya.

I became a born-again, psychotic Sarah Palin-Christian when I was 17, only to actually pick up the Bible and read it three years later, sending me on a spiral of philosophy, satanism, atheism, agnosticism and backwards Rolling Stones albums.

Now I'm 28, and I realize that nothing is sacred and nothing is real. We are nothing but oddly-shaped wavelengths, cascading around a vortex of inescapable misery, nuanced with slight, fleeting feelings of pure joy. One day we will all die, whether or not a god exists. Therefore the question of his existence is moot, although intriguing anyway.

I think there is no god of any kind, but I can't prove it, obviously. But I think that if there is a god, it is like Cthulhu; angry and violent, regarding us as nothing important.

I'm apathetic about turtles.

(this was on here before; link must have died... wild ride)

hey. I realize you just left this quick comment not expecting a reply, but... I'm procrastinating, so...

... only the motorcycle and its driver from the point that they're hit by the door on are extremely likely to be cg models. its all of 2 seconds of animation. I stopped short in my comment of theorizing that the stuntmen DID just fall over in the ditch in the film take, and it wasn't dramatic enough for the director. So, as it was a big budget movie, they tried to spice it up, and now it looks very unreal to me.

... actually, it looks like the backseat gunman/guy in the ditch in the end is real throughout, and him getting from the ditch was the only real action before they cg'd a wild ride for the driver (instead of just falling over). I can't see how this could possibly be done with some launching stunt bike, but what do I know.

cheers!

In reply to your comment:
“Man, nowadays everyone assumes that everything is cg. The dirtbike certainly doesn't look like cg to me, it just looks rigged so that it would fly around like that. People should realize that cg is expensive stuff, especially if you're going to make it detailed enough to look real. (And the motorcycle in this scene certainly looks detailed enough.) Why waste good budget money on cg when you can rig the cycle to do its thing for much less. I mean, effects experts have been doing it for years and we've all scene stuff a LOT more radical than this that wasn't cg. (Exploding helicopters, crashing trains, demolished buildings.) Granted those things are a bit more expensive, but if they can be done in a convincing manner without cg, then a simple motorcycle flip would be no issue.

The ping-pong ball is a bit more likely, as that trick doesn't look really easy to do, and the cg wouldn't be all that expensive, but again, why even spend money at all? It's just as likely that the actors were able to do it with another effects method, or perhaps even naturally.

Of course, I could be wrong about this, as I don't know the details behind the making of the movie . . .”

What is REALLY sad is that there will come a generation that believes the ride was made AFTER the movie.

I don't like that they changed it so much. But then, that's what Disney does...it takes out the classics to make room for commercialization of its products. Heartbreaking, really. Soon (if not now) no one will remember "Mr. Toad's Wild Ride."