Haloid

DrSuredeathDrSuredeath Join Date: 2002-11-11 Member: 8217Members
edited April 2007 in Off-Topic
<div class="IPBDescription">The greatest cg fan movie... ever.</div><a href="http://www.gametrailers.com/umwatcher.php?id=57998" target="_blank">This is awesome shiat.</a>

Sure Samus suit looks kinda weird, and yes, the choreography was a blatant ripped off of movies. But damn, it's so nice.
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  • TychoCelchuuuTychoCelchuuu Anememone Join Date: 2002-03-23 Member: 345Members
    The guy forgot to put shadows in. I mean come on. Shadows.
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  • RetalesRetales Panigg cultist Join Date: 2003-08-07 Member: 19180Members
    Yeah, it was cool <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tounge.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":p" border="0" alt="tounge.gif" />
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  • TyrainTyrain Join Date: 2003-01-03 Member: 11746Members
    :O
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  • RoverRover blargh Join Date: 2003-09-23 Member: 21139Members
    Sechs.


    <!--QuoteBegin-SPOILARLOLZ+--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(SPOILARLOLZ)</div><div class='quotemain'><!--QuoteEBegin--><!--coloro:black--><span style="color:black"><!--/coloro-->but dear god, MASTER CHIEF IS MALE.<!--colorc--></span><!--/colorc--><!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
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  • ScytheScythe Join Date: 2002-01-25 Member: 46NS1 Playtester, Forum Moderators, Constellation, Reinforced - Silver
    edited April 2007
    Up until about the last twenty seconds I thought it was pretty awesome.

    Then it went bad.

    <b>So bad.</b>

    --Scythe--

    P.S. <!--QuoteBegin-Counter-spoiler+--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Counter-spoiler)</div><div class='quotemain'><!--QuoteEBegin--><!--coloro:black--><span style="color:black"><!--/coloro-->There were female Spartans, nublet.<!--colorc--></span><!--/colorc--><!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
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  • lolfighterlolfighter Snark, Dire Join Date: 2003-04-20 Member: 15693Members
    I'd like to throw the first episode of <a href="http://impstherelentless.com/tek9.asp?pg=chapter1" target="_blank">I.M.P.S. - The Relentless</a> out there. And although it has been forever, they say episode 2's nearly done!
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  • Sub_zer0Sub_zer0 Join Date: 2004-05-09 Member: 28569Members
    Dance video at the end too <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tounge.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":p" border="0" alt="tounge.gif" /> ending was err intresting..
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  • remiremi remedy [blu.knight] Join Date: 2003-11-18 Member: 23112Members, Super Administrators, Forum Admins, NS2 Developer, NS2 Playtester
    I didn't like it when all the halo monsters came back. Before that was pretty good though. Ultra cliche jump at each other slow-mo while guns are shooting though. :/

    The ending sucked... but the dance video was funny.
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  • ZigZig ...I am Captain Planet&#33; Join Date: 2002-10-23 Member: 1576Members
    Snazzy choreography. The first uses of the shotgun and sniper rifle/shields were very stylish. Innovative director.

    However, no shadows and omega-fail dance-off bring this down to a 4/5. Imagine how it would have looked with a couple shadows. Why leave that out?
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  • KainTSAKainTSA Join Date: 2005-05-30 Member: 52831Members, Constellation
    Very nicely done. Good attention to details, but yet no shadows? Still a 4/5 in my book!
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  • douchebagatrondouchebagatron Custom member title Join Date: 2003-12-20 Member: 24581Members, Constellation, Reinforced - Shadow
    horrible premise, even worse graphics, the dance party and "sexy" moments made me embarrassed to be a human, i was disappointed at the blatant matrix ripoffs, but i gotta give mad props for the animating.
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  • enf0rcerenf0rcer intrigued... Join Date: 2003-03-16 Member: 14584Members
    adding shadows would've meant like 300000 more hours of render time. I can't blame him - it's clearly an animation video not showing off rendering skills.

    That said it's very well done - I just don't like the premise <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tounge.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":p" border="0" alt="tounge.gif" /> hilarious watching the elites dancing though
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  • UltimaGeckoUltimaGecko hates endnotes Join Date: 2003-05-14 Member: 16320Members
    <!--quoteo(post=1621710:date=Apr 18 2007, 12:42 PM:name=enf0rcer)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(enf0rcer @ Apr 18 2007, 12:42 PM) [snapback]1621710[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->
    adding shadows would've meant like 300000 more hours of render time. I can't blame him - it's clearly an animation video not showing off rendering skills.

    That said it's very well done - I just don't like the premise <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tounge.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":p" border="0" alt="tounge.gif" /> hilarious watching the elites dancing though
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    Which is funny, because the ending <i>does</i> have shadows...
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  • cshank4cshank4 Join Date: 2003-02-11 Member: 13425Members
    So... MC is Yuna from FFX?



    ... Why didn't I see it sooner!?
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  • TychoCelchuuuTychoCelchuuu Anememone Join Date: 2002-03-23 Member: 345Members
    <!--quoteo(post=1621710:date=Apr 18 2007, 10:42 AM:name=enf0rcer)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(enf0rcer @ Apr 18 2007, 10:42 AM) [snapback]1621710[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->
    adding shadows would've meant like 300000 more hours of render time. I can't blame him - it's clearly an animation video not showing off rendering skills.

    That said it's very well done - I just don't like the premise <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tounge.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":p" border="0" alt="tounge.gif" /> hilarious watching the elites dancing though
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    He ripped all those models from games, which means the shadows would be really easy to render. Heck, the actual games do it in real time.
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  • OmegamanOmegaman Join Date: 2004-01-11 Member: 25239Members
    edited April 2007
    Aside from the obvious lack of polish (which I can easily forgive and forget), this was a great video. The parts of the action that WEREN'T obviously from another action movie were really well-done, if a bit over the top, and he made excellent excellent pacing and use of the camera to where the audience could get get a feel for what's happening at a very fast pace, but not changing the camera angle so often that the audience can't keep up.

    Also, I can understand his decision to use the Burly Brawl music, as it IS an incredibly vital part of an action scene, but I just don't agree with it. As far as I'm concerned with Matrix Reloaded, the music from the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lnkj-SZ0EA" target="_blank">Chateau scene</a> was stupendously awesomer. Too bad it's only about 3 minutes long. =/

    Edit: Also, Samus' suit made me cringe, having recently played Metroid Prime.
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  • enf0rcerenf0rcer intrigued... Join Date: 2003-03-16 Member: 14584Members
    <!--quoteo(post=1621741:date=Apr 18 2007, 04:50 PM:name=TychoCelchuuu)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(TychoCelchuuu @ Apr 18 2007, 04:50 PM) [snapback]1621741[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->
    He ripped all those models from games, which means the shadows would be really easy to render. Heck, the actual games do it in real time.
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    It doesn't matter where the models came from .. it still takes a long time to render scene shadowing. I'm not going to bother explaining why it doesn't work like that but as an example Pixar films can look really simple but a single frame can take 5 minutes to render or something insane like that.
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  • Kouji_SanKouji_San Sr. Hινε Uρкεερεг - EUPT Deputy The Netherlands Join Date: 2003-05-13 Member: 16271Members, NS2 Playtester, Squad Five Blue
    edited April 2007
    And the fact that this was an early release does count towards the noneshadows <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tounge.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":p" border="0" alt="tounge.gif" />

    <!--QuoteBegin-spoiler+--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(spoiler)</div><div class='quotemain'><!--QuoteEBegin--><!--coloro:#000000--><span style="color:#000000"><!--/coloro-->Also why not use a NONE LIGHT-SABER sound for the... light-sa... ah nm...<!--colorc--></span><!--/colorc--><!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

    Can we actually get a spoiler BBcode? <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":D" border="0" alt="biggrin-fix.gif" />
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  • XythXyth Avatar Join Date: 2003-11-04 Member: 22312Members
    edited April 2007
    <!--quoteo(post=1621773:date=Apr 18 2007, 08:47 PM:name=enf0rcer)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(enf0rcer @ Apr 18 2007, 08:47 PM) [snapback]1621773[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->
    It doesn't matter where the models came from .. it still takes a long time to render scene shadowing. I'm not going to bother explaining why it doesn't work like that but as an example Pixar films can look really simple but a single frame can take 5 minutes to render or something insane like that.
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    Yes, but that's because those movies use huge amount of polys per frame. This guy ripped models from a game that were already low poly enough to be rendered in real time. Skipping out on shadows was just ridiculous. He could have even used super simple ones, area shadows in 3dsmax will add no noticable amount of time unless you scene is in the hundreds of thousands of polys, which I can assure you wasn't the case.
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  • enf0rcerenf0rcer intrigued... Join Date: 2003-03-16 Member: 14584Members
    mm, I was thinking more along the lines of raytracer lighting with diffusion and all the nice complexities.
    Then poly count doesn't matter as much as scene complexity, and he had quite a few characters on screen.

    I didn't really think about non-omni lighting cause it's ugly, and people would probably still say it looks unpolished.

    Either way I don't really even care - it looks fine without shadows.
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  • CxwfCxwf Join Date: 2003-02-05 Member: 13168Members, Constellation
    Awesome stuff.

    <!--quoteo(post=1621746:date=Apr 18 2007, 04:57 PM:name=Omegaman)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Omegaman @ Apr 18 2007, 04:57 PM) [snapback]1621746[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->

    Edit: Also, Samus' suit made me cringe, having recently played Metroid Prime.
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    Me too, but he had a handy answer for that prepared in his FAQ!

    <!--QuoteBegin-FAQ+--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(FAQ)</div><div class='quotemain'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Internet: Why didn't you use the Samus Suit from Metroid instead of the stoopider looking one from SSBM?
    Me: Among the reverse engineering method existing for Nintendo games. It was more difficult (more or less impossible) to get a decent Metroid Prime Samus. I did on the other hand make several posts in a multitude of forums (something I hate doing) and got little or no response. I didn't want to be too bothersome to the great people behind the engineering methods. As a busy artist like everyone else, I respect their time. In the end you just end up working with what you've got.
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  • Browser_ICEBrowser_ICE Join Date: 2002-11-04 Member: 6944Members
    No shadows, no specular, no reflections. I guess he wanted to render it as quickly as possible ...
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  • Iced_EagleIced_Eagle Borg Engineer Join Date: 2003-03-02 Member: 14218Members
    Needs more crotch sparks.
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  • SmoodCrooznSmoodCroozn Join Date: 2003-11-04 Member: 22310Members
    edited April 2007
    Hmm... Apparently, in the future, the government straps you with bombs.
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  • A_Boojum_SnarkA_Boojum_Snark Join Date: 2003-09-07 Member: 20628Members
    <!--quoteo(post=1621825:date=Apr 19 2007, 12:46 AM:name=SmoodCroozn)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(SmoodCroozn @ Apr 19 2007, 12:46 AM) [snapback]1621825[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->
    Hmm... Apparently, in the future, the government straps you with bombs.
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    The Mjolnir armor system is powered by a mini fusion reactor on the back, which is what blew up.


    Fun movie to watch, though I agree the unfinished look was sorta hard to watch.
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  • ZaggyZaggy NullPointerException The Netherlands Join Date: 2003-12-10 Member: 24214Forum Moderators, NS2 Playtester, Reinforced - Onos, Subnautica Playtester
    Awesome video, and hawt!

    <!--quoteo(post=1621812:date=Apr 19 2007, 12:21 AM:name=Iced_Eagle)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Iced_Eagle @ Apr 19 2007, 12:21 AM) [snapback]1621812[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->
    Needs more crotch sparks.
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    That made me giggle.

    I was kinda hoping to see an end with the Master Chief chick saying 'I used to be a man' in an extremely deep voice, and the metroid chick going all WTHbbq.
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  • DrSuredeathDrSuredeath Join Date: 2002-11-11 Member: 8217Members
    You guys all missed the point.
    It's not about action, it's the suggestive girl on girl action.
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  • cshank4cshank4 Join Date: 2003-02-11 Member: 13425Members
    <!--quoteo(post=1621868:date=Apr 19 2007, 06:06 AM:name=DrSuredeath)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(DrSuredeath @ Apr 19 2007, 06:06 AM) [snapback]1621868[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->
    You guys all missed the point.
    It's not about action, it's the suggestive girl on girl action.
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    Think I've seen pictures to that extent...
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  • SvenpaSvenpa Wait, what? Join Date: 2004-01-03 Member: 25012Members, Constellation
    I got a sudden urge to learn how to animate.

    Awesome movie, but as said, a bit over the top.
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  • OmegamanOmegaman Join Date: 2004-01-11 Member: 25239Members
    <!--quoteo(post=1621851:date=Apr 19 2007, 03:27 AM:name=Zaggy)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Zaggy @ Apr 19 2007, 03:27 AM) [snapback]1621851[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->I was kinda hoping to see an end with the Master Chief chick saying 'I used to be a man' in an extremely deep voice, and the metroid chick going all WTHbbq.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

    <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":D" border="0" alt="biggrin-fix.gif" />
    My lol of the week.
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