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Showing posts with label Ice Age 4. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ice Age 4. Show all posts

Monday, August 6, 2012

2 Methods to Watch The Lorax on Google Nexus 7

Though released in March 2012, The Lorax is still the 2012 animation movie with best opening weekend performance. With box office performance of over 70.2 million dollars in three days, The Lorax successfully lags Pixar animation movie Brave and Blue Sky animation movie Ice Age 4: Continental Drift far behind. Moreover, The Lorax had provided new vigor to the old story.

The Lorax is about a simple story of how a young man begins his adventure to look for the real trees around a heavily polluted town. Since the DVD version of The Lorax is available in recent days, one can now watch The Lorax in three popular ways, through YouTube, in the cinema and via DVD player.

With powerful functions and low price tag, Google Nexus 7 is of high competitiveness in the tablet market. Therefore, one may desire to watch The Lorax on Google Nexus 7. To enjoy The Lorax with Google Nexus 7, two methods are provided here. One is to play YouTube video on the Nexus 7 and the other is to play DVD of The Lorax on Google Nexus 7.

Method I: Download and convert The Lorax on YouTube for Google Nexus 7

1. Install Ultimate YouTube Downloader, a plug in for Chrome that enables you to download YouTube videos in various formats with the Download button.

2. Find corresponding YouTube video and then click Download button on the page. Select "MP4" option in the drop-down menu to download The Lorax as MP4 video for Google Nexus 7.

Download as MP4 video

3. After that, one can enjoy the downloaded The Lorax on the Nexus 7 freely and easily.

Though this is a free method to view The Lorax on Google Nexus 7, you can't customize the video size of the downloaded MP4 files. Therefore, it is possible that the downloaded file is not accessible for Google Nexus 7.

Method II: Convert DVD of The Lorax on Google Nexus 7

1. Download and launch DVD Converter. Open it and click "Load DVD" option in the drop-down menu to import the DVD version of The Lorax.

Import DVD

2. Convert the DVD file to AVI video for Google Nexus 7. To enjoy The Lorax with the latest Nexus tablet, set the output video as AVI file in the drop-down menu of "Profile".

DVD to AVI

3. Customize video parameters for Google Nexus 7. Click "Settings" button lying next to "Profile" bar to enter Settings panel. Then customize video parameters including video codec, audio codec, video size, etc. for Google Nexus 7.

Customize video parameters

4. After all those steps, click convert button to start the conversion. When the conversion completes, The Lorax is accessible to Google Nexus 7.

Though this method needs quite complicated operations and extra money, it can help users to watch The Lorax with best video quality on Google Nexus 7.

Those are the two methods to help you to view The Lorax on Google Nexus 7. The first is a free one with some risks while the second is a charged one with guaranteed video quality. For better ideas on this topic, you are welcomed to share with us in the message board below.

Monday, July 16, 2012

Top 3 Impressive Animation Movies Created by Blue Sky Studio

When it comes to animation movie, Pixar Animation Studio matters. Pixar animation movies can always impress us with their excellent plots and wonderful box office performance. A few weeks ago, Pixar again surprised the world with its latest animation movie: Brave. However, Pixar shall be alerted because a potential competitor is now trying to wave its dominance.

According to the latest ranking list,Ice Age 4: Continental Drift, which was produced by Blue Sky Studio, had gained great success in the past few days. Less famous as it is, Blue Sky Studio is now affecting the animation movie field in a subtle way. From the image of the stranger penguin in Fight Club to the success of three buddies in Ice Age, Blue Sky is moving forward with steady progress.

Comparing to Pixar Studio, Blue Sky Studio owns less works and no Academy Awards. However, the success of Blue Sky animation movies could even match with Pixar animation movies. Therefore, this post will present you top three impressive animation movies created by Blue Sky Studio. The DVD versions of those movies are available in the market, so you may convert DVDs to MP4 files for Samsung Galaxy S3.

1. Ice Age trilogy

Ice Age trilogy DVD

If the success of Disney was originated from a mouse, then the achievements of Blue Sky Studio started from a squirrel in Ice Age. Besides the three best friends in the animation movies, the image of the squirrel is also quite impressive. If it were not for Ice Age trilogy, Blue Sky couldn't had gained such reputation.

How successful can Ice Age trilogy be? The three animation movies gained over 2.1 billion dollars in box office. Ice Age 2: The Meltdown was the most profitable animation movie in 2009 with over 800 million dollars income, beating the second profitable Pixar movie: Up. Due to its great influence, Ice Age 4 even beat The Amazing Spider-Man, a superhero movie.

2. Rio

Rio DVD

If you are a fan of Angry Birds, you will probably be fancied about Rio. Due to the great success of Rio, Angry Birds Rio was released as a way to publicize the movie. Rio is not only an animation movie with over 400 million dollars box office, but also the first animation movie with recipients in the third week higher than previous two weeks.

Rio mainly focuses on the story of a bird that faces extinction. His master decides to send the bird to Rio to avoid the extinction of its specie. However, some bad guys steal it in order to sell it for money. After the bird is locked in a house full of rare birds, he begins his escape plan and finally learns how to fly.  

3. Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who

Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who DVD

Before the release of this animation movie, the movie market in America was marching downhill for four successive weeks. However, Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who brought new vitality to the movie market at that time. As a movie based on the famous fiction by Dr. Seuss like The Lorax, Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who gained great success in the movie market.

As a movie starred by Jim Carrey, this animation movie mainly tells a story of how an elephant named Horton heard a voice of a particle that pledges for help, he decides to help them. Though everyone laughs at his craziness, he has proved himself in the end. Generally speaking, though you won't see the exaggerated facial expressions of Jim Carrey, his chatting ability will also drive you crazy.

Therefore, those are the top three animation movies created by Blue Sky Studio. Due to the great success of Ice Age trilogy, Ice Age 4 had attracted unprecedented attentions. As for the left two animation movies, Rio and Dr. Seuss's Horton Hears a Who, they have helped Blue Sky Studio to gain good reputations.