BEOWULF IS ONLINE

The trailer for Beowulf came online this morning, which is maybe only interesting because the film is completely CGI.  That's a computer generated Angelina Jolie you're looking at in the banner pic, created using a process called Performance Capture (which is not the same as Motion Capture, the process used for Golumn and the Silver Surfer, among other things).  AICN described the care taken to avoid the characters having a soul-less look, especially in their eyes:

So for Beowulf they used this process called OEG (electro oculography) which maps the actor's eye movements, down to eye-lid flutters. They place three sensors on the skin around the actor's eyes that pick up electrical pulses given off by the eye muscles and surrounding nerves.

Whatever, Dr. Science, all I know is this is the first step toward a virtual reality Angelina Jolie.  I was just gonna dig up her grave after she died, but now I don’t have to wait!  Thanks Advancements in Computer Animation!

(decent freeze of Crispin Glover as Grendel here if you're interested)