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A Photorealistic CGI TV Series Coming Real Soon Now

Posted by Hemos on from the ja-the-tv-is-gut dept.

ziggy_zero writes "SoulPix has revealed their project named "SoulFire", a photorealistic computer-generated TV series created entirely with 3ds max. Here's a trailer (it's in German). Looks pretty cool, better than those CGI cartoons I've seen - although definitely not even Final Fantasy quality. Note - apparently the DivX version was encoded using a weird codec that doesn't work on all players, so you might be better off getting the Quicktime version."

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  1. reboot by LinuxCumShot · · Score: 3, Funny

    i hope its better than reboot

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    -- OMFG = Oh My Floatse Goatse
  2. No anime... no support ;) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny
    I'm sorry, but this TV series is not anime. As a member of the geek community, I believe we should stand up and say "NO!" to the non-Japanese people who wish to animate stuff.

    --M. Oshii

  3. Can't wait to see... by smittyoneeach · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...the actor's guild on strike against beings that do not exist.
    That will be a triumph of surreal/dada-ism.

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    Get thee glass eyes, and, like a scurvy politician, seem to see things thou dost not.--King Lear
  4. Uh-oh... by yozzle · · Score: 5, Funny

    Soon we'll have to deal with a computer generated version of Friends.

    1. Re:Uh-oh... by Pseudonym · · Score: 2, Funny

      You never know. It might be more life-like.

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      sub f{($f)=@_;print"$f(q{$f});";}f(q{sub f{($f)=@_;print"$f(q{$f});";}f});
  5. I wonder how long... by Capt'n+Hector · · Score: 3, Funny
    Several thousand slashdotters downloading a 60 meg video file, I wonder how long their server will exist as matter in the solid state.

    Also, they'd better start working on their lip-syncing, it's quite horrible.

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    Africus aut Europaeus?
  6. While I do very much enjoy CGI TV shows... by norweigiantroll · · Score: 2, Funny

    I much prefer the mod_perl and ASP ones.

  7. CGI TV? by FsG · · Score: 2, Funny

    I knew Perl/CGI could do anything.

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    I made a PHP/MySQL library that prevents SQL injection & makes coding easier!
  8. Re:photorealism by cmeans · · Score: 3, Funny
    You've not seen my brother's back...it may not be technically "fur", but there's enough hair there to slow down a render farm :)

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    Give a hand, not a hand-out.
  9. Re:photorealism by Thorgal · · Score: 3, Funny

    We need "moderation: disgusting", and we need it now.

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    "Man in the Moon and other weird things" - wfmh.org.pl/thorgal/Moon/
  10. This just in... by The+Bringer · · Score: 3, Funny

    ... Duke Nukem Forever has been redesigned as a 'photorealistic CGI' TV Series and will be hitting local channels in the near future*









    *time subject to change