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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)."
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/
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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.
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
I wonder where his apprentice got that paintball mask!
Yes, It all depends on if the tracker server can take the request load. But the chances of that are far better than the chances of any single server hosting the file normally.
EA David Gardner -"... but the consumers have proven that actually what they want is fun."
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...
BitTorrent. You could have always googled for ".torrent" or "torrent." It's the second link.
I'm getting just 14 kBytes/s download and 30 kBytes/s upload. Come on people, make sure to leave your bittorrent dialog open after you download it. Share the love!
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
I posted a BitTorrent for the Duality 640 DivX here.
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!
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).
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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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.
Think of it this way: When you start a download you get some credit to get you started. Once your credit has gone you have to acquire more credit by uploading data, each chunk you upload earning you around 3 more chunks worth of download credit. Once your download completes, any further uploads you permit before closing the dialog is pure charity since you get nothing for it other than the karma of contributing to the network.
UNIX? They're not even circumcised! Savages!
what is 'googled'?
heh.
The Kruger Dunning explains most post on
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.
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.
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
The webpage/files are being hosted by myself and a few friends and quite frankly BitTorrent is the _only_ way we could have survived this. The US http mirror melted down last night under the first slashdot posting (load of 60) But then it was only a little baby box anyway. The fall of this load onto the UK one pretty much killed that too. So we regrouped, replanned and spread things out a bit better. This time round the http is doing better... However the BT's have been going pretty much solidly since the initial slashdotting and after this second one we went from roughly 200 simultaneous DLs to currently about 1700 according to the main reflector. This kind of load would have melted _all_ our mirrors. So say what you like about BT but it sure does kick the ass of stuff that sucks for this kind of distribution. Oh and to the 505 or so people who are staying online with it full shared. Thanks to you all you've helped us make this a successfull slashdot survival. As to the other http mirror admins (you know who you are) thanks heaps for your support!
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."
No, you shouldn't. This is a joke, as opening those ports would open your Windows machines to attack.
I felt the same way while I was watching it. It makes me wonder why ILM would hire these guys. Then it occurred to me, the reason could have been to create animatics (aka videomatics). ILM prides itself on having very detailed footage of scenes that require a lot of CG work before any animators or actors begin work. Among other things, it helps when trying to get actors in a sea of blue to understand what is expected of them.
It's obvious the Duality group can do this. Animatics have the added benefit of being released on DVD when the time comes, so there's marketing value too.
A programmer is a machine for converting coffee into code.
Where are the Star Wars PORN films?
that is why you need the Experimental Release of Bit Torrent which allows you to cap your upload at a certain speed.
:)
works great.
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.
A lot of people trash everything as "unoriginal" because they can compare it to something else (ref Star Wars is a space western, etc.). Well, hell, you can compare just about anything. An old Lit prof of mine in college once claimed that Shakespeare did every possible plot in his plays, provided you boiled it all down to the basic elements. He proved it by having the class (there were about 25-30 of us) shout out things we thought countered his claim. None of us could refute him; this was '94 or '95.
Stories are reflections of life, hopes, and dreams. All people have had the same lives and hopes and dreams for thousands of years. Their constant reuse does not make a story unoriginal. A story filled with older plot elements arranged in a different or unique way can be, and is, original.
There is a reason for everything. Sometimes that reason just sucks.
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.
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.
"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.
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.
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What a great job!
btdownloadcurses --url "http://www.fanimatrix.net/The-Fanimatrix-(DivX-5. 1-HQ).avi.torrent"
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they did post a mpeg, and an avi. Bittorrent is just the way of getting it.
/. effect happening to servers.
It stops from hammering servers, cause you upload while you download. You can get the file faster and so does everyone else without the
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.
You're probably maxing out your connection uploading so you cant make download connections.. Try limiting your uploads with the
--max_upload_rate
command
Set it to about half your upload speed,so like:
--max_upload_rate 12
Or be a horrible evil leecher like me and do
--max_upload_rate 1
(hey i only get 7.5 gig up a month, cant waste it)
Probably doesn't qualify as a fan work, but Troops is worth checking out.
I agree. I'd much rather not be able to contact the server at all. :)
The last I've watched that I found original was Donnie Darko. But perhaps there's a similar movie out there, somewhere, if you look hard enough.
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The DivX itself is broken. I got it yesterday, and the audio starts desyncing severely near the beginning.