TITAN A.E.

<div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://i641.photobucket.com/albums/uu140/mrjag/titanaecenter.jpg" border="0" /><!--center--></div> Titan A.E. is a 2000 animated post-apocalyptic science fiction adventure film directed by both Don Bluth and Gary Goldman. The title refers to the spacecraft that is central to the plot, with A.E. meaning "After Earth." <div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://i641.photobucket.com/albums/uu140/mrjag/titanaejapanese.jpg" border="0" /><!--center--></div> The film's animation technique combines traditional hand-drawn animation and extensive use of computer generated imagery. The film is rated PG by the MPAA for "action violence, mild sensuality, and brief language". It has since become a cult film. <div style="text-align: center;"><object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://youtube.com/v/t-BFlw0QQmw&rel=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/t-BFlw0QQmw&rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object><!--center--></div> To tie in with the film, there were a series of prequel novels released, as well as a prequel comic book mini-series. * Cale's Story: the adventures of Cale, ending with the beginning of the film. The book chronicles Cale growing up on Vusstra, Tek's home planet, for ten years and having to move to a different place every time the Drej attack. It also reveals how Cale became resentful of his father's disappearance and how he came to despise drifter colonies. * Akima's Story: the adventures of Akima, ending with the beginning of the film. The book chronicles Akima's life aboard drifter colonies when she tries to be close to her family and how she trained to be a starship pilot after the Drej killed her grandmother and destroyed her most recent drifter colony. It also reveals whence Akima learned her karate skills, her encounter and friendship with Stith, and the reason for which she is desperate to find the Titan. * Sam's Story: a Dark Horse Comics prequel comic telling the story of Sam Tucker and his crew, and their quest to hide the Titan. - <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titan_A.E" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titan_A.E</a>. <img src="http://i641.photobucket.com/albums/uu140/mrjag/akima.jpg" border="0" />