[jdjtcagle]

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Huh?
Why did it never get started, it looks interesting

[Hippo]

The sheer size of the project... Animating isn't easy at all, especially at such a large scale...

[Singh]

well......ya could just FRED the entire thing....by the time the mission is completed, the SCP will look > FS2 cutscene quality i think.....

[jdjtcagle]

no don't fred - until there are cockpits
It just seemed like to me that they agreed on doing it and strayed away from the whole thing
But, It would've been cool

[Woolie Wool]

Originally posted by jdjtcagle
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Huh?
Why did it never get started, it looks interesting

Because we don't have tens of millions of dollars floating around to make a movie.

[Jetmech Jr.]

this looked like it would have been good, publicity-wise as well

[Unknown Target]

Ok, you guys make a movie and render it.
It's hard enough trying to write it. I tried and I got about 3 pages into it

[JarC]

neither did the makers of 'The Blair Witch' ...I kinda like the idea...but it will take heaps of time, that's fer sure...and who knows...Wing Commander became a movie too...(which ofcourse only the die hard fans liked)...and for a prelim trial we don't need to render a thing (ever see 'the Seal of Nehara' ? )

[Xelion]

Originally posted by Woolie Wool
Because we don't have tens of millions of dollars floating around to make a movie.

Woolies got a point!

And this movie idea isn't going to happen anytime soon, even once the SCP has placed cockpits in FRED2... its something thats larger than any mod to date.

[Woolie Wool]

Originally posted by JarC
neither did the makers of 'The Blair Witch' ...I kinda like the idea...but it will take heaps of time, that's fer sure...and who knows...Wing Commander became a movie too...(which ofcourse only the die hard fans liked)...and for a prelim trial we don't need to render a thing (ever see 'the Seal of Nehara' ? )

The Blair Witch Project's budget was almost certainly at least in the six figures. Movies are unbelievably expensive, especially sci-fi movies with loads of special effects like an FS movie would have. Besides, the FS storyline is much more suited to a TV series than a movie.

[Lightspeed]

Nonsense. You could write an award winning movie to The Great War.

[Flaser]

...but maybe using CG and/or hand drawn animation could lower the costs more than what they cost themselves.

You wouldn't have to pay all the big stars - very good voiceactors don't cost as much -, there wouldn't be a problem with the integration of the space graphics into the show.

For reference check out Macross Zero.

[[$$$] Money]

Something on the scale of Star Wreck over at http://www.starwreck.com/ will be nice.

Star Wreck is a Finnish fan-made series (with English subs) spoofing Star Trek.

[Woolie Wool]

Originally posted by Lightspeed
Nonsense. You could write an award winning movie to The Great War.

It wouldn't be as good as a TV series because you would have to cut out quite a bit of the game to turn it into a <3-hour movie.

[Unknown Target]

You have no idea how hard it is to write an FS movie. I've tried, I got to about the fourth page where I realized that I wasn't writing an FS movie at all!

[Jetmech Jr.]

Ill take the bait: what were you writing?

[Hippo]

A -not- FreeSpace movie?

[Flipside]

It's also a question of logistics, some people are going to be using Max, others are going to be using Lightwave, it would take some clever administration. Not to mention swapping models and things, different rendering styles etc. You'd have to agree something like 'All indoor scenes are done on Max, all space scenes are done by Lightwave users etc', which would be hell, trust me

[Lightspeed]

Still, it'd be hella cool.

[jdjtcagle]

I'm getting a 3ds Max on the way, when I do, then I would love to do it