KOS released a new defrag/trickjump movie with CTF-speedcaptures scenes. As the name states, it's a promo video for the
site and he wrote "it would have been a shame not to try to present it in some more dynamic way, making it some sort of hybrid between a full feature tricking video and a trailer/ad."
The movie features both strafe runs (mode 1) and weapon runs (mode 2) in CPM and VQ3. All the runs are taken from speedcapture.com and some were done last minute for the movie to make some maps shine even more.
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The idea for this project came up somewhen last year and started as a stylized/experimental B/W movie, but after a longer break due to lack of time I continued working on it from April on and decided not to use BW any more.
Obviously there were hundreds of maps to choose from and the main goal for our jury was to pick the most played and known 'classic' ones, which fraggers should be familiar with.
Needless to say the runs on these maps have been brought to perfection over the years.
CONCEPT:
The main goal was to keep the movie playful and constantly dynamic with a lot of stuff happening either content or editing wise, without breaking the content apart.
TECHNICAL INFO:
This one ended up being an extremely time consuming project, simply because I chose to build up a small CG pipeline around it and suddenly you got tons of shots and plates to render out and comp together.
The entire working process took maybe a bit more than 200 hours, with about the same on render times.
Overall the principle was to enchance/improve instead of replace.
I could jibber a wall of text over you but the main changes worth to be mentioned are:
- remodeled/retextured 3d weapons, with raytraced reflections/refractions moving based on mo-cap data
- retextured objects/models for close ups (1k-12k texture data per object)
- fixed clipping bugs on explosions and repainted them
- motion blur based on self built velocity passes
- multi plate composite for the entire movie
THE VIDEO:
1. 1280x720, 40 FPS, x264
The following versions will be added some hours after the release:
2. 1920x1080, 40 FPS, x264 (Don't even think of playing that one back without GPU accel.)
3. 1280x720, 40 FPS, xvid
P.S.: This shall be my last defrag/trickjump related movie. There will be some other Q3 vid, but that's an other story.
Love and thanks to the people who watched and commented my videos, motivating me to do it better next time. Thanks go also to the own-age and ESR admins, who spread the works and showed them to a wider auditory.
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WE MEAT AGAIN
Also I remember Xunderbird, was (is) a nice guy who just happens to be unfortunate enough to be Skullhead's brother c: