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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)."
...is also 2 years old.
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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
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...
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
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.
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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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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.
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
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.
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.
Quod scripsi, scripsi.
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.
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.
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.
Probably doesn't qualify as a fan work, but Troops is worth checking out.