Slashdot Mirror
Homemade Star Wars Flick/Fanimatrix Movie
Geminus writes "There's a really cool fanmade Star Wars video called 'Duality' in the wild. The homemade video used only three props and apparently the quality was good enough that the makers were hired on by Lucas Films. The film was 90% made with Electric Image Universe, Adobe After Effects, FinalcutPro, and Commotion Pro. Of course the rest was the blood sweat and tears of the crew. I have to admit it is a very good example of what software can do today without million dollar render farms and special effects equipment." And as a followup to the Fanimatrix story the other day, the movie is now available: LarsBT writes "It's out. Get the full movie. Here's the torrents: normal mpeg version torrent (170 MB); Normal Divx version torrent (73 MB); and finally the High quality DivX torrent (135 MB)."
Broken link HQ divx? Opera 7.2
I just watched the fanimatrix movie..and I gotta admit, it was pretty impressive for a fan film. While the dialogue and actual acting wasn't all that great, the fight scenes were pretty creative and well done. The first fight scene at the goth/rave party thing started out great...the cell phone gag was clever and looked pretty sweet (the rest of that scene went downhill though). I liked the film..especially the anti-climatic ending. I recommend it...best fan film I've ever seen. Anyone know how much they spent on making it?
The anti-salmon
...is also 2 years old.
This is extremely old news. The website to the Duality fan film is http://www.crewoftwo.com/
While I can respect the amount of work that goes into any of these remakes, what's the point? Technology has been at the point during the past couple of years that anyone with the know-how, time, and determination can crank out quality stuff. I just find it unoriginal and redundant.
So, props to you folks-- maybe Lucas's next movie will be slightly less of a train-wreck because of you.
quick! get the clip before the server gets /.ed to a smoldering ember.....because even the force cannot protect itself from the onslaught of fans and /. readers..
xao
xao
http://TheHillforum.hopto.org
[...]
And as a followup to the Fanimatrix story the other day
God damn it. I was half way through a bitter post complaining about inaccuracies in story titles and dupe posts after reading that story title, before I happened to glace at the middle of the blurb.
What, now you expect us to read the whole friggin' blurb? Why can't you use less confusing story titles? First we had to 'read the stories' before we posted, now we've gotta read the blurb too?
That settles it. I'm going over to Curl6fin, this place sucks.
Please help metamoderate.
...that unoriginality and the borrowing of characters and concepts is what it takes to get noticed in the film world these days.
were any of their names Ghislain?
It is a few years later than hyped, but I think this may be one of the first big examples (other than the machinima with teh QuakeX engines) of that "small/low budget production house music/movie/multimedia art extravaganza" that PCs, software, the 'net and broadband were supposed to enable.
Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos
Horray for BT once again! More people on the torrents and the faster we get the files! Slashdot effect averted..... unless you guys keep hammering away at the server hosting the torrent files...
----------
Check out my blackbox styles
The Star Wars Kid lost some weight...
Great film!
I wonder where his apprentice got that paintball mask!
Going at 280K/s now... If we could only submit Slashdot stories about porn !
I click on teh link to download the movie and I get this .torrent file that mozilla warns me is trying to hack my computer.... what do I need to play .torrent files?
Well, that certainly explains why LucasFilm liked it so much.
*Here be Duality spoilers*
When the masked Sith gets cut in half at the end, he bleeds. Anyone else getting visions of a similar move in Episode 4 where Obi-Wan cuts off Ponda Baba's arm and he bleeds? Does this mean the masked Sith is perhaps Ponda Baba's father? That would explain his reaction to Kenobi in the cantina...
Everything was PERFECT... except for the fighting choreography, too slow.
2 kB down
11 kB up.
Yeah, BT is a great distribution system.
Posting BitTorrent links alone is one of the most retarded ways to try to distribute your work.
BitTorrent says "Bad data from tracker".
so this is the way to get a job in today's economy? Copy exactly what the potential employeer is doing and do it on a shoe string budget? So if I want to work at Microsoft I have to make my own OS?
I have no answers, just questions.
my karma will be here long after I'm gone
You have to open the ports Bittorrent uses to get full speed. If you're behind firewall/router, there's no way you're going to get a direct connection. Open the ports.
Any got a copy of Fanimatrix online for those of us behind firewalls not under our control?
I posted a BitTorrent for the Duality 640 DivX here.
http://download.divx.com/showcase/duality.divx
Mirrors of both of these:
Duality (HQ, DiVX and Mov*): HTTP | FTP
Fanimatrix (Trailer and Full, HQ DiVX): HTTP | FTP
* Note: This mirror is in progress now, a whopping 9k/s, so be patient!
This is year old news.
The video is about 16 minutes long. It is actually decent. Don't expect it to have special effects out of this one. The only one I considered is the agent dodging bullets. There aren't any camera rotations.
;)
There are some cool run and fight scenes. Of course, there is the nmap reference like in Reloaded movie. Running Windows with a lot of holes in this fan flick.
Ant(Dude) @ Quality Foraged Links (AQFL.net) & The Ant Farm (antfarm.ma.cx / antfarm.home.dhs.org).
In Mozilla/Phoenix/etc (and, in fact, Netscape back to about 2.0) type this in the location box:
view-source:http://meshier.com/fs/a/
I use Mozilla, so I'm not sure if AOL left this in Netscape or not. Also handy when you go to a website that has a neat thing but redirects you before you get a chance to pick 'view source' from the menu.
Dear Slashdot: next time you want to mess with the site, add a rich-text editor for comments.
http://fanimatrix.net/download.html
50kB/s down
/.ed.
380kB/s up
Thanks to bittorrent, we can ALL get
My flatmate showed the duality movie to me about 2 years ago and burned it onto a tiny 5cm CD which I stuck in one of the folds of my wallet.
I completely forgot about it and only rediscovered it 6 months ago. I then gave it to my sister who found it very amusing and said that the disc was "cute".
It's now residing in my wallet again. Just for the sake of it.
Windows ME that is...
The Mothership
I remember seeing it for the first time about 3 years ago.
btdownloadcurses.py [torrent_url]
README.txt only explains how to start running a tracker and start hosting files, not how to download. I was amazed.
im getting 1161 kb/s
:)
not 1161 kps which would be ~11MB/s
so im actually getting 116.1 kps which isnt bad but still nto 11 meg
Sorry but most everyone knew about that one almost 2 years ago. there is a much better fan film in the making (and with some clips available to be watched) at www.rewindvideo.com called heart of the rebellion.
duality had some good parts, some of the CG was hokey not because of bad cg, but bad editing and acting.
Dont get me wrong, it's cool, but hardly anything fantastic... while heart of the rebellion is unbelieveable in acting, props being made and the camera work by true masters of the art.
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
This is neat but it is old enough to have a beard...And i thought cnn was slow.....What about the election? Did Gore win?
Heres the link for the bit torrent impaired The-Fanimatrix-(DivX-5.1-HQ).avi
It's the Matrix meets Sam Raimi... which I like.
:^)
One thing that got me. In that first "trinity" fight scene, was that white-haired security guard played by... TV's Frank? Wow - so, second-banana heaven is The Matrix fan movies!
Definetly a perfect role for bar-dwelling goths.
Ryan Fenton
...there's a lot of new people coming in, which naturally can't send much to begin with. I doubt that many are finished yet, 4 hrs to go at this speed myself.
Kjella
Live today, because you never know what tomorrow brings
it's fun to create and it's fun to watch?
And anyway what you're saying clearly isn't true. I challenge you to provide anything even remotely resembling Duality.
Just finished watchin the Fanimatrix. Excellent work. And my BT window is still open, uploading at my DSL's 25K/s max.
Dear Slashdot: next time you want to mess with the site, add a rich-text editor for comments.
Here's your proof that Bush stole the election.
Sorry, guys, but this piece of work utterly destroys Duality. It's not strictly saber-fighting in the SW canon, but quite frankly I think it's miles better than Duality. (And for those of us who care, it uses a hell of a lot less CGI.)
Frankly, I think these guys should have been taken on by LucasFilm, as fight choreographers.
"I am an Adept of Tantric VAX."
Can someone please explain what a torrent file is?
It's happening AGAIN!
:-p
I use BT on my iBook, and everytime I start using it, I get ridiculous downloads, right now I am getting 3.2KB/s, from the 100KB/s possible on my connection, (uploading somewhere between 8-12(my max)) Everybody seems to be going super fast, but I always get shafted, why!!!! (dramatically held)
I've also had BT's in the past with 5 seeders, and 12 leechers, where I was hardly even downloading anything. What gives? Mac bias?
Error 407 - No creative sig found
No, you shouldn't. This is a joke, as opening those ports would open your Windows machines to attack.
I hate to say it, but it sucks next to Duality. Sorry. The acting is marginally better than the fan made Star Trek series, but in order to duplicate the look and feel of the Matrix, you got to get a stedicam and better everything.
This Anonymous == JeffK http://www.somethingawful.com/jeffk/
The Ro Factor - Jeep/Linux Weblog
Sorry, I couldn't resist.
Comment removed based on user account deletion
I remember the last time some goober posted on slashdot how AWESOME! UBER! some fan clip was. Ten seconds into it, I wanted to hurl. This was better the last 'super cool' fan clip, but the overriding thing, like the other one, that one comes away with is it's a geeks wet dream as they play pretend and capture it on film. Like watching the fans in the triumph insult comic dog clip. Shiver.
Someone said Lucas hired these guys? Man is the next star wars is gonna suck.
Pink Five
I think it's a little more recent.
Check out Episode I: When Senators Attack. Man, it's the funniest thing I've seen in ages! From TFN:
WARNING: If you like Jar-jar or normalcy, then you may wish to avoid the trailer.
It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.
- Jerome Klapka Jerome
Where are the Star Wars PORN films?
SUmmoner Geeks, a bold look at the darker side of geekdom.
P.S.- you know that was you.
In the future, I would want to not be isolated from my friends in the Space Station.
As someone who helped work on DUALITY, I can tell you neither Mark Thomas nor Dave Macomber went to work for LucasFilm after the movie.
Mark is still an artist and Dave runs a dojo in the Santa Barbara, CA area. He is a retired National Karate Champion.
re: star wars kid...
How long do you think before some kid films himself acting out his Matrix fantasy, and his classmates releast that video onto the internet?
Find out how Cingular Fits You Best(tm) at cingular.com today.
If you think it's bad now, wait until they start reverse rendering actors and scenes from old movies. (By reverse rendering, I mean taking a series of images, and creating a 3d digital representation of an actor. That 3d representation could then be animated to generate new scenes.) Imagine all new Hogan's Heroes fan episodes, or Gilligan's Island episodes. Same actors, just digitized, and animated. Imagine some of the Star Trek novels done up as movies. It may not be that far off.
"I'm not impatient. I just hate waiting." - My Dad
How many great artists in history have spent many afternoons and evenings copying great paintings, sculptures and so forth? I don't know what goes on in our "modern" world, but for the longest time copying the works of the masters was the way to train and develop as an artist. Isn't this something like what's going on here?
Maybe these guys aren't interested in story writing and are only trying to hone their skills in cinematography. What's wrong with reworking the material of others to accomplish that end?
What they do isn't a career; it's the beginnings of one. I think your criticism is a little misplaced.
quiquid id est, timeo puellas et oscula dantes.
SAD CLOWN KUNG-FU!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAA!
SAD CLOWN KUNG-FU!!!!!!!!
Man, do NZ goth clubs REALLY look like that? Yikes.
Seriously though, aside from a bunch of dorky Crow-wannabes who seem to have mastered muy thai in between moping sessions, this is definitely worth the download. Much better Matrix-like fight choreography than I expected. Still a fan-film, but it shows what key elements fans can adopt (like light sabers in Star Wars) to capture the essence of a mythos' style.
...unless you know how to download security patches.
Personally, I think Bounty Trail is one of the best star wars fan films.
As far as comedy goes Pink Five is the funniest fanfilm. It ranks right up there with Troops.
I dont know why duality was posted, its almost three years old.
www.pulgaritrap.com, it's currently in post-production, should be out soon!
"Duality", perhaps one of the finest fan films ever IMHO, has already been parodied by the utterly hilarious "Twoness". A definite must-see for fans of fan films.
Here's a short, totally unrelated "fanimation" if you just can't get enough fan action.
it seems not very many people are using the bit torrent link... I'm only getting 8 kb/s ack.
Top three moments in the movie:
..where Dante sits there and fervently prays before engaging the agent. ..where Medusa busily fiddles around with nmap. For a long time. Tickety tick. ..where the operator says, "Come on man, don't do this to me, pick up the phone," while Dante is off on an Agent-killing ego trip.
:-) Love the not over-used wire work. Not so much flying through the air as in the real Matrix movies. Seems very tasteful the way they've arranged it here.
1.
2.
3.
What a great job!
WTF is a torrent? God dammit, wtf is wrong with posting a damn MPEG?
I guess it's a message from above that I shouldn't bother wasting my time anyway.
Macs rule..
:30 second title sequence I did paid for the laptop and the software.
I've been learning after effects and damn, I am walking effects house with OSX and my powerbook. Heck, one
ok i have my ports forwarding to my ip and stuff but i still only get 5kbps on BT whats up with that im uploading at 23kbps but downloading worth crap
"to be like god we make our own dolls to play with, but what does that make us, but dolls for god to play with?" Ikari,
I'm through with the fickle Bit Trickle. It rarely works well for the average broadband home user. I got jazzed when it started at around 10 KB/s and was climbing, but then it dropped to 0 KB/s and now it's at 1 KB/s down and 8 KB/s up. I allowed more incoming connections, but that didn't help.
/*end rant*/
Feh! Yeah, sure, it's fair and free, but it sure ain't fast. BIT TORRENT IS WAY OVER-HYPED. And I hate when after resuming a download, it has to rescan the whole temporary file first--a BIG PITA when you're downloading a 699MB ISO!!!!!!! Uploading the movie to Usenet would work MUCH better.
*looks at progress bar* C'mon...When's my "torrent" gonna start???
then yeah, I suppose it would destroy the other fan clip in a homo nerd sort of way.
Return of the BryBry
Well done and very amusing.
i was expecting since its made by fans, other people just like us, that it would be a movie closer to "us". like people in normal clothes watching wheel of fortune in the living room getting the phone call and they are like "wth?!" and the pizza guy comes and turns into a bad guy. then they fight and the phone rings again and he gives them a pep talk over the phone to believe they can win, etc... that woulda been cooler :P
Probably doesn't qualify as a fan work, but Troops is worth checking out.
First, the story is first-rate. Everybody has a good reason for going where they go and doing what they do.
Dante is well realized. He belongs to the matrix universe, but he's not just a rip-off of anyone else in the official movies. I like the bit with the cell phone in the bar, and the dialogue in the car at the beginning where Dante puts on a brave show but he knows how much shit he's getting into. And the "free your mind" scene at the end didn't strike me as cheesy, but as something natural for Dante to do.
The operator has a stock role, but plays it well, bringing operatorly concern and even a sense of humor (when Dante is getting hassled by the Goths).
I didn't care for Medusa. I didn't see anything but derivative Trinity, and it hurt that she had no speaking lines. Also, her fight scenes with the security guards looked like little set pieces, with bad continuity -- she's walking away from the car, then she's standing in front of flashlights, then she's kicking ass (pretty good work there), and then she's standing there again. Compare with Dante where we can trace every step of his path in the night.
Still thinking about the Agent. Physically, he looks too young and blond for the role. But you make the movie with the people you have, so that's not so bad. He did a reasonable poker-faced agent job. I would have liked to have seen a little bit of stunt work or wire work during the big foot chase.
fight scenes = most.....loud....and annoying.....swishy sounds......EVER
gaaaaah
I belong to the ______ generation.
For all you people who don't have a clue, think LOTR's :)
GPLv2: I want my rights, I want my phone call! DRM: What use is a phone call, if you are unable to speak?
Yes-- "Duality" has just hit the 'net, and starry-eyed fanboys across the world stare in awe at the quasi-creativity of a particular fan[atic] with too much time on their hands. The NASDAQ is trading above 3000, Y2K is going to kill us all, and capri pants are *ALL* the rage.
Good times.
Wow.. it hurts to watch the Fanimatrix.
"Things are more moderner than before- bigger, and yet smaller- it's computers-- San Dimas High School football RULES!"
One word -- if I had used a hyphen -- Kid Wars ...
...which you wouldn't if you thought opening those ports would mean faster download speed.
Burn the land and boil the sea, you can't take the sky from me
I know I sound like a monkey, but what do I stream this with??
The quote is actually, "blood, sweat, toil, and tears". You've confused politics with music again, fanboy.
saw this when G4s were new and exciting. way to keep up on the news /.
As said, Duality is 2 years old, but are you guys(/girls) sure this isn't a duplicate/repeat article? I can't remember where I first found out about Duality, but I have an inkling that this is a dupe article. I can't find anything by searching... ah, nevermind. Maybe it was in MacAddict (considering it was made on Macs, I think) or something.
I couldn't remember the name. I've seen this once before. The acting is not so great (i.e. the fighting is somewhat amateurish - but they are after all amateurs). Why are all of the lightsabre wounds the same. It's either an arm, a stab through the midsection, or a slice along the beltline. What's up with that? (OK, ok I do remember that jango-Fett was beheaded)
Forget those others, see this FanFlick of Batman: http://www.theforce.net/theater/shortfilms/batman_ deadend/index.shtml
Fights with Joker (scary as hell), predator(s) and an Alien. This is not Joel Schumaker's batman!!! This is OUR batman!!!
~~I went to battle M.C. Escher, but drew a blank...~~
Does anyone have a WORKING link to Duality?
The crewoftwo.com website is completely bonked and is displaying an ad for the hosting provider.
"Anyway, long story short... is a phrase whose origins are complicated and rambling...." - Abraham Simpson
Geeks with camera's rule. I hope these guy's get jobs with DC Comics or whoever makes Predator Vs Aliens someday...