Canardia Posted December 17, 2009 Share Posted December 17, 2009 This guy made a 4 min video for a $300 budget on youtube and got a $30 million contract from hollywood 3 days later by e-mail to make a full movie of it: Quote ■ Ryzen 9 ■ RX 6800M ■ 16GB ■ XF8 ■ Windows 11 ■ ■ Ultra ■ LE 2.5 ■ 3DWS 5.6 ■ Reaper ■ C/C++ ■ C# ■ Fortran 2008 ■ Story ■ ■ Homepage: https://canardia.com ■ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flexman Posted December 17, 2009 Share Posted December 17, 2009 Yes I was watching that news story on the BBC today. It's a highly technical and competent film. I can never get enough of giant robots stomping on things. Unless it's another bloody Ironman movie...or Transformers....or GoBots...his 4 min movie was better than all of them combined IMO. Quote 6600 2.4G / GTX 460 280.26 / 4GB Windows 7 Author: GROME Terrain Modeling for Unity, UDK, Ogre3D from PackT Tricubic Studios Ltd. ~ Combat Helo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L B Posted December 17, 2009 Share Posted December 17, 2009 He deserves his funds. It's stunning. Especially the introduction. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canardia Posted December 17, 2009 Author Share Posted December 17, 2009 I think there's something special about the video. It's not like a normal hollywood movie, for example transformers or war of the worlds, because it wakes some feelings of deepest your nightmares of your childhood. One thing is that those spacecrafts shoot with miniguns at people in a city block, another is that those big robots join to form a nuclear bomb pressure chamber while one guy is watching it from a window just 10 meters away, the third thing is that people don't panic or get hostile before the aliens go hostile, but rather film and watch them. Hollywood doesn't do that, it's too real, too close, too touching. Rather they take distance and make mass killings of people look like a nice firework. Hollywood movies give people a chance, and predictably the people always win in the end. This guy doesn't, he shows clearly that people have no chance (you can't predict the end though). I just hope this guy can keep his style when the real movie is published, and it's not gimped by hollywood rules. Lucasfilm left hollywood for the very same reason, and made their own studios. 1 Quote ■ Ryzen 9 ■ RX 6800M ■ 16GB ■ XF8 ■ Windows 11 ■ ■ Ultra ■ LE 2.5 ■ 3DWS 5.6 ■ Reaper ■ C/C++ ■ C# ■ Fortran 2008 ■ Story ■ ■ Homepage: https://canardia.com ■ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naughty Alien Posted December 18, 2009 Share Posted December 18, 2009 ..nice work..however, im not 'buying' those 300$ budget enough for all those folks on scene..other than that .. nice work .. nice example that eventually with relatively small and affordable money and some imagination, its possible to do same things in 3D games world, and got picked by some big publisher and make your fortune.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Posted December 18, 2009 Share Posted December 18, 2009 If the ultimate goal the of giant robots was to group up and nuke the city why bother shooting missiles at first? Strange. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gordonramp Posted December 18, 2009 Share Posted December 18, 2009 Unfortunately Aliens are nearly always depicted as the bad guys.. Quote AMD Athlon x2 7750 2.7ghz, 6gb ddr2 ram, Galaxy9800GT 1gig ddr2 video card, Windows 7,64. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L B Posted December 18, 2009 Share Posted December 18, 2009 If the ultimate goal the of giant robots was to group up and nuke the city why bother shooting missiles at first? Strange. It's called emotional scenarios. You're not supposed to be bright enough to ask this. Go code, if you're so intelligent. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L B Posted December 18, 2009 Share Posted December 18, 2009 Unfortunately Aliens are nearly always depicted as the bad guys.. Meh, nothing in this short movie says the U.S. army hadn't sent a nuke on their planet before. Highly unlikely, but probable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jordan Posted December 18, 2009 Share Posted December 18, 2009 ..nice work..however, im not 'buying' those 300$ budget enough for all those folks on scene You don't need money for that, you just need friends. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marleys Ghost Posted December 18, 2009 Share Posted December 18, 2009 This guy made a 4 min video for a $300 budget on youtube and got a $30 million contract from hollywood 3 days later by e-mail to make a full movie of it: Now I like that, it is better than a lot of the stuff I have seen on the TV. Quote AMD Bulldozer FX-4 Quad Core 4100 Black Edition 2 x 4GB DDR3 1333Mhz Memory Gigabyte GeForce GTX 550 Ti OC 1024MB GDDR5 Windows 7 Home 64 bit BlitzMax 1.50 • Lua 5.1 • MaxGUI 1.41 • UU3D Pro • MessiahStudio Pro • Silo Pro 3D Coat • ShaderMap Pro • Hexagon 2 • Photoshop, Gimp & Paint.NET LE 2.5/3.4 • Skyline • UE4 • CE3 SDK • Unity 5 • Esenthel Engine 2.0 Marleys Ghost's YouTube Channel • Marleys Ghost's Blog "I used to be alive like you .... then I took an arrow to the head" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
f13rce Posted December 19, 2009 Share Posted December 19, 2009 I think there's something special about the video. It's not like a normal hollywood movie, for example transformers or war of the worlds, because it wakes some feelings of deepest your nightmares of your childhood. One thing is that those spacecrafts shoot with miniguns at people in a city block, another is that those big robots join to form a nuclear bomb pressure chamber while one guy is watching it from a window just 10 meters away, the third thing is that people don't panic or get hostile before the aliens go hostile, but rather film and watch them. Hollywood doesn't do that, it's too real, too close, too touching. Rather they take distance and make mass killings of people look like a nice firework. Hollywood movies give people a chance, and predictably the people always win in the end. This guy doesn't, he shows clearly that people have no chance (you can't predict the end though). I just hope this guy can keep his style when the real movie is published, and it's not gimped by hollywood rules. Lucasfilm left hollywood for the very same reason, and made their own studios. I totally agree with you.. This is some amazing work, almost can't believe this has been done with only $300.. This deserves the price. Quote Using Leadwerks Professional Edition (Beta), mainly using C++. Windows 10 / Linux Mint, Visual Studio 2017. GPU: NVidia GeForce GTX970, CPU: Intel i7 7700K @ 4.20 GHz Previously known as Evayr. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flexman Posted December 19, 2009 Share Posted December 19, 2009 On a slightly different note, someone made a 70 minute review of The Phantom Menace which was collated at Slashfilm (see link). It contains strong language but has well structured arguments. Quote 6600 2.4G / GTX 460 280.26 / 4GB Windows 7 Author: GROME Terrain Modeling for Unity, UDK, Ogre3D from PackT Tricubic Studios Ltd. ~ Combat Helo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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