The Matrix Code/ Digital Rain for 8 hours... Ambience

"Buckle your seatbelt, Dorothy, 'cause Kansas is going bye-bye." And we're back in the movie world for this week's visual ambience. The 1999 sci fi/ neo noir classic the Matrix. BTW — has there been another actor so tormented by ****ty lines in movies like Joe Pantoliano? He had like seven in this movie alone. Whatever — Ghost in the Shell, New Dominion Tank Police, Armitage III — I was obsessed with the grimy futuristic Neo-noir of anime in the 90s. So when the Matrix movie hit I was like a helpless fly to those blue fluorescent bug zappers that folks would put out on their porches before the turn of the century (before anyone worried about the spread of bacteria from frying insect parts or house fires). I walked out of the Matrix knowing exactly what I wanted to do for a living. Make title sequences for blockbuster movies that everyone loved. The digital green Matrix text melted a lot of graphic designer brains... So if you know a Gen X designer — that person has at least attempted the Matrix text effect. Above is my seventh iteration of the “Matrix text” (made entirely in after effects with no weird filters or presets, ty). And on design related stuff, Ghost in the Shell (1995) obviously was the muse for the Matrix. But revisit the Ghost in the Shell opening (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uf7Pn8GB_jI) — the green numbers to credits reveal still looks as groundbreaking as ever.