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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)."

14 of 322 comments (clear)

  1. star wars kid... by holzp · · Score: 5, Funny

    were any of their names Ghislain?

  2. A few years late... by i.r.id10t · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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.

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  3. 90% computer-generated? by Gay+Nigger · · Score: 4, Funny

    Well, that certainly explains why LucasFilm liked it so much.

  4. terrific... by iamhassi · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

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  5. 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!

  6. 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...

  7. 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.

  8. Art of the Saber by Caraig · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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.

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    1. Re:Art of the Saber by the+gnat · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Hah. "Troops" still remains the standard by which all Star Wars ripoffs must be judged. It's hard to tell how good the effects actually are, given the low quality of most of downloadable version, but it feels right. And the fact that it's entirely tongue-in-cheek makes up for the utter geekiness of it being a Star Wars fan film.

  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. DUALITY by Azeem2000 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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.

  11. 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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