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Hilarious Theatre of War video. - 8/3/2006 4:16:07 PM   
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Status: offline 		It was done for an upcoming German gaming convention. Lost my coffee viewing this.....still cleaning keyboard.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCpJXey_ic8

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RE: Hilarious Theatre of War video. - 8/3/2006 5:24:31 PM   
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RE: Hilarious Theatre of War video. - 8/3/2006 6:12:40 PM   
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RE: Hilarious Theatre of War video. - 8/3/2006 6:27:15 PM   
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RE: Hilarious Theatre of War video. - 8/3/2006 6:36:29 PM   
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Status: offline 		Somebody spent a lot of time on that! Extremely funny, now I want to know if they plan to include "Soviet Drunken Masters" in their TO&E?

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RE: Hilarious Theatre of War video. - 8/3/2006 7:43:06 PM   
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RE: Hilarious Theatre of War video. - 8/3/2006 9:10:52 PM   
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Status: offline 		You know, that's the only thing so far, that I have seen, that makes me interested in this game.

But I sure would like to know how he did it.

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RE: Hilarious Theatre of War video. - 8/3/2006 9:14:10 PM   
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Status: offline 		Heavily scripted animations just for the movie - like I said, a LOT of time was spent creating this by someone.

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RE: Hilarious Theatre of War video. - 8/3/2006 9:28:14 PM   
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Status: offline 		excellent!!!I also found this!Simply awesome graphics!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNR5WmsDf8Y&mode=related&search=

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RE: Hilarious Theatre of War video. - 8/3/2006 9:31:39 PM   
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RE: Hilarious Theatre of War video. - 8/3/2006 10:32:25 PM   
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RE: Hilarious Theatre of War video. - 8/4/2006 12:09:00 AM   
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RE: Hilarious Theatre of War video. - 8/4/2006 12:09:59 AM   
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ORIGINAL: Erik Rutins

Heavily scripted animations just for the movie - like I said, a LOT of time was spent creating this by someone.


I imagine they used the full body suit that tracks movement to do the animations. It would be just nuts to script all those movements by hand manually. Or perhaps they have som really good animation tools. Hmm.

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RE: Hilarious Theatre of War video. - 8/4/2006 12:43:16 AM   
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quote:

ORIGINAL: Zakhal

quote:

ORIGINAL: Erik Rutins

Heavily scripted animations just for the movie - like I said, a LOT of time was spent creating this by someone.


I imagine they used the full body suit that tracks movement to do the animations. It would be just nuts to script all those movements by hand manually. Or perhaps they have som really good animation tools. Hmm.


You can buy animation templates for such things

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RE: Hilarious Theatre of War video. - 8/4/2006 4:24:37 AM   
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RE: Hilarious Theatre of War video. - 8/4/2006 6:55:50 AM   
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Status: offline 		If the finished product works as smoothly as the video ran that would be an accomplishment worth praise

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