After watching "Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within" on DVD, I can assuredly say that I was very impressed. This feature length animated story used the latest technology in modeling, design/creation of characters and sets, lighting, special effects and motion tracking, all for the purpose of creating a very new kind of narrative story. Based on the story line of the highly popular game "Final Fantasy" this movie involved the battle between a dying human …showed first 75 words of 765 total…

…showed last 75 words of 765 total…looks gloomy, adding to the foreboding sense of doom of the wasteland of the "old world". The list of elements goes on and on. It took a lot of people working in a creative flow together, trying different concepts, building the film layer upon layer, board upon board, model upon model to end in the final product. A good use of computer and graphic arts to do what good movies do; tell a good story.