Seriously you people are the reasons why we have such an emphasis on visuals nowadays; it doesn't please you until it looks pretty. If the story is good, then who gives a shit?
Wait... this was from 2007? By 2007 we had games that looked better than this, and they didn't have the benefit being able to go back, clean up the image, add texture, and even apply ray tracing based lighting - over the rasta based frames. I could have done that with my alienware laptop from that year - before the piece of crap fried.
This would have been so easy to clean up What happened?
Actually, this film is pretty good. The machinima and commercial arguments aside, the point of this film is to convey a story (which would have been commercially impossible without the real time engine). SO much work went into it.
I personally liked the story. The animation isn't on par with other movies out there, but I think it does it's job enough to convey what is going on. You'd need to be a hard sci-fi fan or gadget lover to 'really' get into this though.
This looks like utter crap, the only plus is the decent quality voice acting. They should have spent more than 10mins designing the look of the robots, their personalities have no connection with their crappy appearance. The sets are worse than the intro to something like half life 1, the music sounds like they got someone's dads to play some clarinet and the titles look like they've been done by a five year old.
it wouldn't make sense to make it a live action movie because of their purpose for making it. They wouldn't have won the awards they did if they made it a live action movie.
I was intrigued by Claudia's interview and had the dvd sent over from Australia. Excellent! Fascinating, original, touching at times. Worth every penny!
Am I missing something here? I thought this was bland and boring. To me it felt like I might as well have been watching a bunch of cubes rolling around a nondescript room randomly talking and not doing much else. The voices are good enough, but they don't really connect with the animation, through no fault of the voice actors, but because the animation has nothing to attach the voices to the characters on the screen.
In some scenes there is no direct indication to which character the voice belongs, in fact in most scenes this would be true if it were not for a flashing light. Don't get me wrong, I love experimental ideas, but I don't get what the fuss is about in this case, it feels pointless, mundane, and boring.
Perhaps the definition is changing, but in the past it has always meant movies made in video game engines. It was ORIGINALLY coined as a term to describe "movies made using the Quake engine" and later expanded to include other game engines. I was there when it happened. :D
The definition evolved years ago. When it was conceived, there were no other viable options for real-time rendering other than video games.
I was there too.
By the way, this was made in 3d Game Studio - a platform on which video games are made. So it qualifies even under the obsolete definition; it's just using a game no one has played but the filmmakers.
The country of origin is Australia, but it also has a Polish mark in it, Lech Mackiewicz works in both Poland and Australia. Chris Jones is the only American here and he was recorded in Salt Lake City in USA.
What is the country of origin of this animation? I know Claudia Black's an Aussie and i thought i heard another Australian voice in there, but the other main character was obviously US.
Seriously you people are the reasons why we have such an emphasis on visuals nowadays; it doesn't please you until it looks pretty. If the story is good, then who gives a shit?
SlaveExplosion 11 months ago
Wait... this was from 2007? By 2007 we had games that looked better than this, and they didn't have the benefit being able to go back, clean up the image, add texture, and even apply ray tracing based lighting - over the rasta based frames. I could have done that with my alienware laptop from that year - before the piece of crap fried.
This would have been so easy to clean up What happened?
beefygoblin 1 year ago
pretty good movie. watch more in a great quality at: freemoviehub .n e t
eunusahmed 2 years ago
Actually, this film is pretty good. The machinima and commercial arguments aside, the point of this film is to convey a story (which would have been commercially impossible without the real time engine). SO much work went into it.
I personally liked the story. The animation isn't on par with other movies out there, but I think it does it's job enough to convey what is going on. You'd need to be a hard sci-fi fan or gadget lover to 'really' get into this though.
It's an awesome effort.
MachiniMax 2 years ago
this really sucks.
theinsane102 3 years ago
This looks like utter crap, the only plus is the decent quality voice acting. They should have spent more than 10mins designing the look of the robots, their personalities have no connection with their crappy appearance. The sets are worse than the intro to something like half life 1, the music sounds like they got someone's dads to play some clarinet and the titles look like they've been done by a five year old.
dutchtrucker 3 years ago 2
dutchtrucker I agree but they still did win a couple awards for this.
XPSChaos 3 years ago
why it sucks, why not just do a live action
theinsane102 3 years ago
it wouldn't make sense to make it a live action movie because of their purpose for making it. They wouldn't have won the awards they did if they made it a live action movie.
XPSChaos 3 years ago
I was intrigued by Claudia's interview and had the dvd sent over from Australia. Excellent! Fascinating, original, touching at times. Worth every penny!
blue9hermit 3 years ago
Am I missing something here? I thought this was bland and boring. To me it felt like I might as well have been watching a bunch of cubes rolling around a nondescript room randomly talking and not doing much else. The voices are good enough, but they don't really connect with the animation, through no fault of the voice actors, but because the animation has nothing to attach the voices to the characters on the screen.
himselfe 4 years ago 3
In some scenes there is no direct indication to which character the voice belongs, in fact in most scenes this would be true if it were not for a flashing light. Don't get me wrong, I love experimental ideas, but I don't get what the fuss is about in this case, it feels pointless, mundane, and boring.
himselfe 4 years ago 2
Trailer for machinima feature film "Stolen Life"
This is NOT machinima but animation. This should never have been admited to the Machinima awards in England let alone win anything there.
This is a commercial driven product with a view to making money from it. Let machinima stay free to the masses.
TFOGas 4 years ago
Nice, but how is this machinima? It looks like this is conventional computer animation, not animation filmed within a video game engine.
singedrac 4 years ago
Why does everyone think A movie in a game is Machinima?
Machinima is a movie made in a 3D Real-Time enviorment.
Videogames just happen to have the same enviorment.
LionheartMachinima 4 years ago
Perhaps the definition is changing, but in the past it has always meant movies made in video game engines. It was ORIGINALLY coined as a term to describe "movies made using the Quake engine" and later expanded to include other game engines. I was there when it happened. :D
singedrac 4 years ago
The definition evolved years ago. When it was conceived, there were no other viable options for real-time rendering other than video games.
I was there too.
By the way, this was made in 3d Game Studio - a platform on which video games are made. So it qualifies even under the obsolete definition; it's just using a game no one has played but the filmmakers.
zsOverman 4 years ago
they should invest in some Anti-Aliasing.
bigpoppa1234 4 years ago
I agree with Formerhost. A gem of a project! Enjoyed it immensely!
JenDupre 4 years ago
The country of origin is Australia, but it also has a Polish mark in it, Lech Mackiewicz works in both Poland and Australia. Chris Jones is the only American here and he was recorded in Salt Lake City in USA.
Formerhost 4 years ago
My DVD with Stolen Life arrived a week ago. Love it absolutely and recommend to everybody! Great job! :)
Formerhost 4 years ago
What is the country of origin of this animation? I know Claudia Black's an Aussie and i thought i heard another Australian voice in there, but the other main character was obviously US.
Love the concept.
demonpates 4 years ago