There was an EBAY auction of the sub built for the SH4 commercial/episodic film "Subsessed" You might try and track down the person that won the auction...

Chuck

Thanks for the tip, but that sub was made out of Styrofoam. Getting it under water would be a bitch!:lol:

We are most likely going with CGI. Can probably be more realistic looking than even shooting underwater with a model.

Thanks Again!

If you were producing a movie only for DVD release, you could probably have simply used SH4 to produce all your external scenes...submerged or surfaced (where you don't need closeups of humans). No need for expensive CGI. I say this based upon having watched History Channel's "Dogfight" series in which the CGI is not much better, if at all, than the 2001 vintage IL2/Forgotten Battles Flight Simulation.

Well, maybe PC graphics aren't quite there yet, but in another year or two they might be giving mainstream Hollywood CGI studios a run for the money.

What we have access to will be great. No straight to DVD stuff. :D Expensive, but great!

Thanks

Empire of the Sun - http://imdb.com/title/tt0092965/

The Bridge on the River Kwai - http://imdb.com/title/tt0050212/

Letters from Iwo Jima - http://imdb.com/title/tt0498380/

Patton - http://imdb.com/title/tt0066206/

I think any whines or complaints on the film are a moot. You all know your going to watch it anyway. Its a Sub movie, period. Thats all it takes for this crowd! Sure they'll be whining afterward, and even if it turns out to be a big flop, you'll secretly going to buy the DVD anyway - just like im wagering most of us did with u-571. I think we all own it, but few will fess up to it! :lol:

See it? You betcha.

Buy it? Erm...that really does depend.

I don't own it, for, while I hated the movie, it was instrumental in avoiding a variety of 'chick flicks' an ex wanted to watch. They all starred Matthew McConaughey, and I convinced her I bore him a grudge due to U-571. Buying the DVD would've torpedoed that story, and I'd have been forced to watch 'How to Lose a Guy in Ten Days'.

Ha! I didn't buy U-571 or even rented it. It showed up on cable and I yawned myself into a coma. I'm a budding 3D Modeler/Animator and History Cannel's Dogfights series is good enough- not great mind you.

cool guys i say more power too ya!!
I'd much rather see a movie come together via a community rather than have soem big company come in and make a move with no accuracy at all (*cough*Below)

anyways, keep it up i look foward to this one!

Below wasn't so bad as some say. You gotta hand it to them a Horror/War film. First time I saw one.

The Saga Begins
 

Hello all,

It's been a while since we've posted. Tomorrow the first part of the crew heads to Mobile to begin final prep for filming on the Drum. The balance of the crew and cast arrive Friday and Saturday and we start. We may have a live web cast available during the production, not sure about that yet. In any case, we'll keep u updated. Please remember to convey your gratitude to Tom and Leslie for all their work on this.

Kind Regards,
CL
Seaviper film & Drum Doc

It would be neat to see the webcast, you should try to do that.

Very nice :yep: Welcome to SUBSIM by the way :up:


RDP

Just stumbled into this post. Puzzled that I missed it until now.

Anyway, I found the trailer opening music interesting. I could SWEAR it is the SAME song from the Woody Allen movie called "Radio Days". At one point in his chilldhood he is on the beach in New Jersey using binoc's and sees a German U-boat dive and decides not to tell his friends. During that scene I could swear the same song was used; I could be wrong on which scene it was used but I know that song was used in that movie, too.

Had to bump this up for "The Enemy Below". Won an oscar for special effects. One of the first post WWII that was not a politically correct, and gave the enemy military (Germans) some respect.