major players including Link, Merovingian, Morpheus, Neo and Trinity. Similarly, Ships is a series of production drawings of the various craft used in the trilogy. They include many ships I didn’t even know had names. Matrix fans who can identity the following should really get out more: Ganesha, Mjolnir, Novalis, Shiva and Vishnu. Machines are production sketches of industrial-looking equipment like the Digger, the Docbot, the Garbage Truck, and the Sentinels. Most interesting are the Set sketches, which also include some photos. Many of the sketches rise to the level of art. Some are a bit small, and I wish there was a way to zoom in on them.
The Media of the Matrix is broken up into three sections, one for each film. There are trailers and TV spots for all the films, with music videos available for the first two. Many of the trailers are full-screen, which is a bummer, but at least they’re spotlessly clean.
So much of the Matrix films were done on computer. But we only see the final product, not the hundreds of computer simulations and preliminary CGI sequences that came before. Rave Reel remedies that oversight, with a 9-minute montage of early stage computer work. It’s pretty nifty, but it’s set to that horrible music from the rave scene.
Exclusive DVD-ROM Features: What happens when you pop the disc into your PC?
The DVDs containing the Matrix trilogy remind you to insert its 5-inch plasticity into your computer, at which point you’ll be magically transported to a website with additional photos, archives, comics and other Matrix completist crap.
Since you can’t see any DVD-ROM material without an InterActual player, you must download that first. The InterActual skin has been tailored for The Matrix and it looks cool.
The DVD material is broken up into four sections: