Happy 2007 everyone!
I have a couple of things that are a bit late (for me) that I'm going to have posted in the next couple weeks I hope. I'm not doing a 2006 in review here. It looks like I started 2007 with the site offline. Something got goofed up with my account. Should be straightened out now. Sometimes inexpensive hosting is good.
In the mean time, Overman and Zarathustra Studios has a present for the New Year:
Father Frags Best has been re-released in video format, so we can watch it without having to dig out those Quake 2 CDs. Yay! This was one of the first real hits of machinima back in 1999. It looks a bit crude watching from my 2007 eyes but I remember the tools that were available back then to do that stuff and it was heck of an achievement in Quake-based animation at the time.
I mentioned this movie in a previous posting that I'm actually in this movie for a couple of short scenes. I could only really hook up with them during production for one night but it was still fun. Watch the whole thing, but around in the section that starts at 12:33 or so, I think I was the boyfriend til he gets to the stairs. Then again at 16:44 I think I was the little brother in that scene. There was an outtake from that scene that was added at the end of the credits too. For the movie itself, the dialog was dubbed in from the guys that were picked to do the voice acting. The audio from the outtake, however, was all of us that were there on the “set” that night. It's an interesting look into a little bit of what it took to do stuff like that then..between what it looked like at filming versus what it looked like in the final release.
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