District 9 Director Neill Blomkamp - Vancouver Film School

Created by Neill Blomkamp, who graduated from the VFS 3D Animation & Visual Effects program in 1998. Blomkamp is director and co-writer of the 2009 feature film District 9. Read more about the VFS connections to this acclaimed film at http://www.vfs.com/blog/2009/08/07/you-are-now-entering-district-9/

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[flameblitz]

Rendered on

Pentium PRO 200Mhz

64MB RAM

Oh, cr@p!!!!

[GreekAlways]

guys, for all those people with stupid comments... this is from 1998!

[plusultrastudio]

photoshop 3.0 >  ALL

[sokem1]

wow and rendered on a pentium Pro 200mhz. that brings back Memories, actually more like nightmares. You might think that the models crap Not only would this have been an enormous task for one student undertake but this reel demonstrates more than just modeling and effects it shows Niel's Talent as a Director not a Visual Effects Artist, although based on armageddon the concept is very well executed...except for the dude that shoots the car in the begining....that bit sucked Balls Niel!.....

[simonorman]

you can see his style shining through.

[Shuriko]

this must have taken days to render

[Billywalsh86]

@GreekAlways Not only is from 1998, is from a student!! :D

[HojoTheGreat]

For those looking at this out of context, go back and watch cutscenes from your favorite video games from 1998. We're talking Starcraft, Resident Evil 2, Tekken 3. Now think of the graphics of the games themselves, like Half-Life, Turok 2, LoZ: Ocarina of Time, Metal Gear Solid. The detail Blomkamp put into his models in this is pretty astounding compared to the releases of that year.

[ControlofMoney]

He had to wait for the technology to catch up with his talent.

[ilanchico]

Considering the year this was made and the software used at the time, it is insanly good. Anyone who puts this down doesn't know the history of 3d animation whatsoever.

[MikeLawrie]

@ChrisAllanMiller i was replying to jeremylew416

[ChrisAllanMiller]

@MikeLawrie Born in the 90's means noob hey? Im pretty sure some of my classmates could run the show today.