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Homemade Star Wars Flick/Fanimatrix Movie

Posted by michael on from the stuff-to-download dept.

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)."

16 of 322 comments (clear)

  1. Duality... by mnemonic_ · · Score: 3, Informative

    ...is also 2 years old.

    1. Re:Duality... by Stephen+Samuel · · Score: 4, Informative
      In the meantime, it turns out that the best link to download duality is the the divx copy which is hosted by downoad.divx.com (they seem to like it).

      In the meantime I've set up a (temporary!) bittorrent for the duality divx video.. Get it while it's up.

      People who already have the divx copy can (please) use it to seed the bittorrent feed (and keep my ISP from toasting me alive).

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  2. Re:Just watched... by Swift(void) · · Score: 3, Informative
    From the site:

    Although the film was a "zero budget" production, the final cost of the movie (combining personal expenses of cast and crew such as investment into costumes, transport costs, food etc) has reached upto approximately $1000 NZ (or $400-$600 US).
  3. Mirrors by baximus · · Score: 5, Informative

    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!

  4. Run Program (spoilers).... by antdude · · Score: 4, Informative

    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. ;)

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    1. Re:Run Program (spoilers).... by EvilLumpy · · Score: 5, Informative

      Yeah we couldn't get 50 cameras for free so sorry, no rotating bullet time :) As for all the choreo and stuff, that was pretty much all done by Steven A Davis, who played 'Dante', the main character. We did all the running scenes 'guerilla' style, as in, we didn't have permission to shoot anywhere so we were just quick and quiet

    2. Re:Run Program (spoilers).... by EvilLumpy · · Score: 4, Informative

      Yeah pretty much. We were running on my work machines (where I'm posting from now) which are on windows so we used the port, which also included that fantastic phone trace you see in the film. I must say it seemed rather budgo at the time filming an actual screen showing matrix code instead of adding it later. Kind of like photocopying your monitor display...

  5. Re:Broken? by drkich · · Score: 3, Informative

    What you don't realize is that the download speed is relative to the upload speed. So if you have very little downloaded, you can not upload very much. However, if you wait a couple of minutes, the rate goes up drastically because you have enough content to share to enough people.

    You really should read about it. The devil's in the details.

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  6. Re:Victory for BT by 1000StonedMonkeys · · Score: 4, Informative

    140 down and 40 up here, though I'm posting 20 minutes later. Remember to forward ports 6881 through 6889 on your router or other people behind firewalls won't be able to send you blocks.

  7. really old and not that good.. by Lumpy · · Score: 3, Informative

    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.

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  8. For those that use emule edonkey by Crashmarik · · Score: 3, Informative

    Heres the link for the bit torrent impaired The-Fanimatrix-(DivX-5.1-HQ).avi

  9. Re:For even more speed by exhilaration · · Score: 4, Informative
    You really should open ports tcp 135, 139 and 445.

    No, you shouldn't. This is a joke, as opening those ports would open your Windows machines to attack.

  10. Re:Just watched... by bluethundr · · Score: 3, Informative

    Not Matrix or SW related. But there is ST themed really high quality and ambitious fan fiction that you may enjoy. That is, if fan fictioning is your kick.

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  11. How about Bounty Trail or Pink Five?? by gad_zuki! · · Score: 3, Informative

    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.

  12. Re:Torrent? by westyvw · · Score: 3, Informative

    they did post a mpeg, and an avi. Bittorrent is just the way of getting it.

    It stops from hammering servers, cause you upload while you download. You can get the file faster and so does everyone else without the /. effect happening to servers.

    I love BT. It kicks ass. I use it under Linux, and it works well.

    Over 120 gigs of legal videos and music downloaded. Nice huh?

    BTW while I am an a rant: RIAA listen UP! I ONLY listen to legally shared, non commercial music. Sorry but you missed the boat. The bands I listen to get my money when I see them, and no other way.

  13. Troops by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    Probably doesn't qualify as a fan work, but Troops is worth checking out.