Quick preview of my latest 'masterpiece'

Chock · 09-29-07, 07:35 PM

I was just uploading some test footage form my animated 'Nam war movie, to check the youtube compression on it, it's here if you fancy a nosey at it (warning there is some violence and swearing on it):

Chock

SUBMAN1 · 09-29-07, 07:42 PM

Upgrade to using Veoh already!

Then I can download the source in its full res glory, and if I choose not to, it still has a higher res than YouTube.

So what? Did the Napalm drop?

Chock · 09-29-07, 07:57 PM

Yeah, the napalm does drop on the next bit, plus a hell of a lot more too, I'll check out Veoh, when the thing is finished, but for now, it's back to the bad voice acting for me... Holy crap, I had my headphones on typing this, one of our dogs just started howling up at the other end of the house, I could barely hear it and wondered what the hell it was, scared the crap out of me:rotfl: Bloody mutts!

Chock

SUBMAN1 · 09-29-07, 08:11 PM

Cool. Yeah - move on over to Veoh. Another advatage - if you want to upload 2 hours of video, you can there. YouTube is limited to 10 min last I checked. Besides, loading your video at 640x480 and 29.97 FPS works fine. It won't play back at that rate in the window, but I can download it and have it 'at that rate' on my hard drive. I'd love to see the source on this. Veoh would let me do that.

-S

Letum · 09-29-07, 08:28 PM

Impressive.
What is it made in?

SUBMAN1 · 09-29-07, 08:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Letum

Impressive.
What is it made in?

Good question. I'm assuming Vietcong or whatever the name of that game that I haven't played in ages. Mixed with Wings over Vietnam.

-S

Letum · 09-29-07, 08:51 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SUBMAN1

Quote:

Originally Posted by Letum

Impressive.
What is it made in?

Good question. I'm assuming Vietcong or whatever the name of that game that I haven't played in ages. Mixed with Wings over Vietnam.

-S

I'm not sure that it is made in a game.

SUBMAN1 · 09-29-07, 08:52 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Letum

I'm not sure that it is made in a game.

I'm pretty sure it is - just like his flight sim one.

-S

kiwi_2005 · 09-29-07, 09:09 PM

Looks like it was made from "Vietcon 2" FPS game to me.

Nice vid, Chock

Chock · 09-29-07, 10:08 PM

It's made with a combination of Wings Over Vietnam with some Yankee Air Pirate add on stuff, the soldiers are done with 'The Movies' (although I did consider using Vietcong, so that was a good guess). Some bits are just animated with various programs such as Moho and Photoshop - like the bullet holes and canopy coming off the F-105 and the ejection seat stuff. Other bits for it (not seen in that clip) are made with FSX - that's when the Hueys come in, can't have a Nam film without Hueys

The sounds are mostly all me, for example, the sound of the bullets hitting the F-105 is actually me hitting an empty beer can with the hammer from a Bohdrum! and the ejection handle noise is a recording of a latch in my house messed about with in Goldwave.

Chock

602Sqn_Puff · 09-30-07, 01:37 AM

Wow!...very impressive mate

SUBMAN1 · 09-30-07, 04:49 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chock

It's made with a combination of Wings Over Vietnam with some Yankee Air Pirate add on stuff, the soldiers are done with 'The Movies' (although I did consider using Vietcong, so that was a good guess). Some bits are just animated with various programs such as Moho and Photoshop - like the bullet holes and canopy coming off the F-105 and the ejection seat stuff. Other bits for it (not seen in that clip) are made with FSX - that's when the Hueys come in, can't have a Nam film without Hueys

The sounds are mostly all me, for example, the sound of the bullets hitting the F-105 is actually me hitting an empty beer can with the hammer from a Bohdrum! and the ejection handle noise is a recording of a latch in my house messed about with in Goldwave.

Chock

The movies looks like a decent little program to own for this kind of clip. Still not sure if I'd get into it or not though. I hear everyone rave about it, but still, how much fun is it to toy around with anyway?

-S

Chock · 09-30-07, 07:38 AM

'The Movies' is kind of two things in one really. You can play with it as originally intended, which is as an 'empire building' game, where you start in the 1920s with a studio, making silent movies and work your way right up to the present day, or forego all that if you like and just use the movie making facilities to do stuff like I made there (note that to do some of that explosion stuff I think you may need the expansion disk for it too, because the expansion disk adds much more flexibility with the camera positions you can use).

Within the game, if you choose to play it that way, there are elements such as grooming stars, looking after them, poaching from other studios and all that kind of malarkey, or you can skip all that if you like and just go with the basics. There's quite a sophisticated character building utility that comes with it too, this allows you to produce 'actors' with pretty much any appearance you like, that's quite good fun to play with on its own, I actually did manage to produce decent look alikes for some real life people with it for one thing I made a while ago, which quite surprised me actually.

Either way, the entire thing absolutely reeks of quality and it's the kind of software you don't really see too much these days, in that it is massively well produced and very engrossing.

You aren't limited to war movies with it of course, you could make soap opera type stuff if you liked, westerns, cop thrillers, car chases, sci-fi etc, anything you like really. I've even used it to create still pictures as a reference guide for artwork I was producing for a client once or twice, to make it easier to sketch something, so there's another thing it wasn't really intended for that you could do with it.

Because you can do your own blue screen and green screen special effects, there isn't really a limit on the kind of scenes you can do, literally anything you can get a picture of could be a set for your movie. You can do all the titles, post production dubbing and stuff like that too - if you really want to try the entire Hollywood thing.

Another interesting aspect is illustrated in that clip at the top of the thread. Because the Wings Over Vietnam flight simulator doesn't have a replay capability, all the scenes using that sim, have to be flown and recorded at the same time (with FRAPS), which means many of them have to be flown on the external view while using wierd camera angles. So I've ended up being quite a good stunt pilot in the process!

Considering you can get the main game and the 'stunts and effects' expansion disk for 20 quid, I personally think it's a real bargain; if you like messing about with sounds and pictures, I think you'd like it, or if you've ever thought: 'this movie is crap, I could do better than that', here's a chance to see if you realy could do better!

All of which makes you appreciate the good real life movie directors and enables you to spot spot the really crappy ones:rotfl:

Chock

SUBMAN1 · 09-30-07, 11:07 AM

Funny!

Maybe I'll check that thing out. It probably can't cost much these days anyway.

-S

XabbaRus · 09-30-07, 01:34 PM

Two things I love about that clip.

1. The medic calling air support with a flip type mobile phone,
2. The vietcong woman standing there with 2 Ak47s blazing away one handed scar face style. Thinking about it she looked more china town pissed of woman than vietcong woman...

Still I think it is ruddy good and hope to see the full length one soon.

09-29-07, 07:35 PM	#1
Chock Sea Lord Join Date: May 2005 Location: Under a thermal layer in chilly Olde England Posts: 1,842 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Quick preview of my latest 'masterpiece' I was just uploading some test footage form my animated 'Nam war movie, to check the youtube compression on it, it's here if you fancy a nosey at it (warning there is some violence and swearing on it): Chock __________________

09-29-07, 07:42 PM	#2
SUBMAN1 Rear Admiral Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 11,866 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Upgrade to using Veoh already! Then I can download the source in its full res glory, and if I choose not to, it still has a higher res than YouTube. So what? Did the Napalm drop? __________________

09-29-07, 07:57 PM	#3
Chock Sea Lord Join Date: May 2005 Location: Under a thermal layer in chilly Olde England Posts: 1,842 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Yeah, the napalm does drop on the next bit, plus a hell of a lot more too, I'll check out Veoh, when the thing is finished, but for now, it's back to the bad voice acting for me... Holy crap, I had my headphones on typing this, one of our dogs just started howling up at the other end of the house, I could barely hear it and wondered what the hell it was, scared the crap out of me:rotfl: Bloody mutts! Chock __________________

09-29-07, 08:11 PM	#4
SUBMAN1 Rear Admiral Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 11,866 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Cool. Yeah - move on over to Veoh. Another advatage - if you want to upload 2 hours of video, you can there. YouTube is limited to 10 min last I checked. Besides, loading your video at 640x480 and 29.97 FPS works fine. It won't play back at that rate in the window, but I can download it and have it 'at that rate' on my hard drive. I'd love to see the source on this. Veoh would let me do that. -S __________________

09-29-07, 08:28 PM	#5
Letum Navy Seal Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: York - UK Posts: 6,079 Downloads: 43 Uploads: 0	Impressive. What is it made in? __________________

09-29-07, 09:09 PM	#9
kiwi_2005 Eternal Patrol Join Date: May 2004 Location: Aeoteroa Posts: 7,382 Downloads: 223 Uploads: 1	Looks like it was made from "Vietcon 2" FPS game to me. Nice vid, Chock __________________ RIP kiwi_2005 Those who can't laugh at themselves leave the job to others.

09-29-07, 10:08 PM	#10
Chock Sea Lord Join Date: May 2005 Location: Under a thermal layer in chilly Olde England Posts: 1,842 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	It's made with a combination of Wings Over Vietnam with some Yankee Air Pirate add on stuff, the soldiers are done with 'The Movies' (although I did consider using Vietcong, so that was a good guess). Some bits are just animated with various programs such as Moho and Photoshop - like the bullet holes and canopy coming off the F-105 and the ejection seat stuff. Other bits for it (not seen in that clip) are made with FSX - that's when the Hueys come in, can't have a Nam film without Hueys The sounds are mostly all me, for example, the sound of the bullets hitting the F-105 is actually me hitting an empty beer can with the hammer from a Bohdrum! and the ejection handle noise is a recording of a latch in my house messed about with in Goldwave. Chock __________________

09-30-07, 01:37 AM	#11
602Sqn_Puff Ensign Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Saltcoats, Ayrshire, Scotland Posts: 233 Downloads: 322 Uploads: 0	Wow!...very impressive mate

09-30-07, 07:38 AM	#13
Chock Sea Lord Join Date: May 2005 Location: Under a thermal layer in chilly Olde England Posts: 1,842 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	'The Movies' is kind of two things in one really. You can play with it as originally intended, which is as an 'empire building' game, where you start in the 1920s with a studio, making silent movies and work your way right up to the present day, or forego all that if you like and just use the movie making facilities to do stuff like I made there (note that to do some of that explosion stuff I think you may need the expansion disk for it too, because the expansion disk adds much more flexibility with the camera positions you can use). Within the game, if you choose to play it that way, there are elements such as grooming stars, looking after them, poaching from other studios and all that kind of malarkey, or you can skip all that if you like and just go with the basics. There's quite a sophisticated character building utility that comes with it too, this allows you to produce 'actors' with pretty much any appearance you like, that's quite good fun to play with on its own, I actually did manage to produce decent look alikes for some real life people with it for one thing I made a while ago, which quite surprised me actually. Either way, the entire thing absolutely reeks of quality and it's the kind of software you don't really see too much these days, in that it is massively well produced and very engrossing. You aren't limited to war movies with it of course, you could make soap opera type stuff if you liked, westerns, cop thrillers, car chases, sci-fi etc, anything you like really. I've even used it to create still pictures as a reference guide for artwork I was producing for a client once or twice, to make it easier to sketch something, so there's another thing it wasn't really intended for that you could do with it. Because you can do your own blue screen and green screen special effects, there isn't really a limit on the kind of scenes you can do, literally anything you can get a picture of could be a set for your movie. You can do all the titles, post production dubbing and stuff like that too - if you really want to try the entire Hollywood thing. Another interesting aspect is illustrated in that clip at the top of the thread. Because the Wings Over Vietnam flight simulator doesn't have a replay capability, all the scenes using that sim, have to be flown and recorded at the same time (with FRAPS), which means many of them have to be flown on the external view while using wierd camera angles. So I've ended up being quite a good stunt pilot in the process! Considering you can get the main game and the 'stunts and effects' expansion disk for 20 quid, I personally think it's a real bargain; if you like messing about with sounds and pictures, I think you'd like it, or if you've ever thought: 'this movie is crap, I could do better than that', here's a chance to see if you realy could do better! All of which makes you appreciate the good real life movie directors and enables you to spot spot the really crappy ones:rotfl: Chock __________________

09-30-07, 11:07 AM	#14
SUBMAN1 Rear Admiral Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 11,866 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Funny! Maybe I'll check that thing out. It probably can't cost much these days anyway. -S __________________

09-30-07, 01:34 PM	#15
XabbaRus Navy Seal Join Date: Sep 2001 Posts: 5,330 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	Two things I love about that clip. 1. The medic calling air support with a flip type mobile phone, 2. The vietcong woman standing there with 2 Ak47s blazing away one handed scar face style. Thinking about it she looked more china town pissed of woman than vietcong woman... Still I think it is ruddy good and hope to see the full length one soon. __________________