Dave School Video Finished

[Landros Radick]

Got this off MekTek:

We originally saw part of this video some time ago and many wondered if it would ever be finished. Well, they did finish it and the results can be found on YouTube right Here. Enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvPiu-bBMws

[AoP]

Very nice to watch.
Nevertheless, I couldn't help but think "imagine what a studio with a real budget could do if a group of students can achieve something like this".

[Flyingdebris]

great animation, ehh on the acting.  but its understandable

[KorJax]

"HQ" version:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvPiu-bBMws&fmt=18

[Whiplash]

The animations, for the most part, were ok-ish. But jesus christ they were so rigid. :/

[KorJax]

Oh man, what if we could do that for an intro but replace the the actual combat scenes with in-game footage

[Masakari]

All that for a flag.

[Merle Jimmus]

And I thought the big clown would be carrying balloons

[Landros Radick]

And I thought the big clown would be carrying balloons

Haha

[Landros Radick]

Fairly cool, nice props, some good compositing and 2D motion graphics, but you could tell they weren't fully finished with the special effects (ghost shots). Why does all the new Mechwarrior stuff suffer from terrible acting?

[KorJax]

Fairly cool, nice props, some good compositing and 2D motion graphics, but you could tell they weren't fully finished with the special effects (ghost shots). Why does all the new Mechwarrior stuff suffer from terrible acting?

I thought the black guy wasn't that bad, personally.  Reminded me of morpheus from Matrix

[nano]

They should have had him wear sunglasses.

[(TLL)KitLightning]

Got this off MekTek:

We originally saw part of this video some time ago and many wondered if it would ever be finished. Well, they did finish it and the results can be found on YouTube right Here. Enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvPiu-bBMws

That's how a real īMech Game should look like, ingame... yes! Not just for a cool intro.

... "imagine what a studio with a real budget could do if a group of students can achieve something like this".

:drool: [image overload] [shutdown sequence engaged] :faints:

And I thought the big clown would be carrying balloons

one rumor says he did? but the īMech looked silly in comparison to the cool balloons... so they cut it? hmm donīt believe me ... o.k.
no! no! I know it was because he constantly punctured the balloons, and the budget could not stand more rebuys ...
yep that must be it ... [if you believe these lines, I have an All New, Never Used 2x86 PC, with 2MB RAM I wanna sell you and it can run any game you wishes witout overheating!]

All that for a flag.

Itīs a very important flag ... and the commander wanted it in his collection

... Why does all the new Mechwarrior stuff suffer from terrible acting?

Because the budget has been spend on the balloons (now obsolete in the final version) ... andīMechs tend to be expensive... I quess

[xKamikazex]

I thought the black guy wasn't that bad, personally.  Reminded me of morpheus from Matrix

Why? Because he's of the same skin colour? Other than that I don't see any real similarities... Personally, I thought the Star Captain played a better role and seemed more into it than the rest.

What I found most annoying is that the video jumped around too fast and didn't show enough of one particular scene. It's possible since it was never released that when they cleaned it up to put a finished version together they were rushed and didn't have enough time to put more pieces together (or perhaps it was even worse acting than what they already had in that video). The only scene where I could understand in the fight sequence was when the Battlemaster tore into the other guy. That was pretty awesome.

What I enjoyed most about it was that it showed a little bit of the battling from all types of vehicles and not just Mechs . Although, I think the Mechs got the short end of the stick when it comes to armor... I mean who can one shot a Madcat with SRMs and force him to eject? 

Also, let's not get into how the designs of Dark Age suck the big one

[Karyudo]

I was able to follow it. Least until the drop ships opened up revealing millions of mechs that...couldn't actually fit inside them in the first place. Maybe those things were so rare none of the animators ever actually saw one... Oh well, for little to no real budget though that wasn't really bad. Some SatAm animation, and you get that from people being paid for it!