Acidburns wrote:Did I see someones head explode halfway through?
Well I certainly hope so
Speaking of the battle, I was rather impressed with it, I wasn't expecting it at all. I was begining to lose interest, but that opening shot with the charging Ninjas with sabers was great! The battle itself was disjointed, and after the begining there was no sense of the greater battle.
Yeah, we really wanted to have lots of shots of the whole battle, but well, that isn't very easy to do when you're limited to three actors per shot
The ninja charge shot alone took us a few days to finish (though mostly because we had a lot to figure out)... We planned to make a program to simulate huge battles for us because of that but it never really worked out. Though you can see some of it on the computer screen before it BSODs, and we used it for several of the scenes with many blaster bolts.
The special effects for the sabers, guns and magic were pretty well done. The walker would really have benifited from having a better quality model and being animated a bit slower, though it was quite ambitious to attempt to add such a thing.
The fast animation was actually a result of bad planning during the filming, and when we tried slowing the footage down it just looked like slow motion...
What was your role in the film?
Well, I did pretty much everything except the occasional lightsabre and sound effects. Though the other guy (we were two on this project) helped mostly with ideas for things; I think that whole thing where Darth drags Jubei out of his cave... castle, was mostly his idea, and he thought of using a part of a radiator for the basic shape of the big gun. The running around in the forest was also his idea (that part is way longer in the original version).
How long did it take to write, filming and post production take.
Writing took about a week, filming and post took a year. Because of complications (mostly with actors), we filmed it during the course of a year, which you can see (when Jubei enters Darth's castle, it's summer; when he's dragged out, it's autumn. When Darth fights Lima, it's basically winter, and it's actually snowing when Darth fights Jubei (though we rationalised that by having them teleport to Darth's secret freezer room)). So cutting and effects were done as we were shooting...
), I present a shorter version, with all of the unnecessary crap cut out, and some narrative texts cut in. I realised the original version didn't make very much sense, so that's why I made this. Hopefully it makes more sense.
