Comments on: Why can’t they make MOVIES like that?

By: Mentor

Mentor — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 19:10:43 +0000

That’s ment to read *movie animation above… whoops sorry!

By: Mentor

Mentor — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 19:08:38 +0000

Wasn’t it Final Fantasy that was supposed to be the breakthrough in move animation?

By: Thomas Gibson

Thomas Gibson — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 01:55:49 +0000

I think the only word that can be used to describe that video is: awesome. I watched, then agina and then again. Personally I agree with BBB – if you can do that for 6 minutes of ilm and how many others of cut scenes then by gods do a decent animated version of the death of superman or the original infinite crisis. Plus Superman is just so bad ass in that. Laser eyes to the face? Sweeeeeet!

By: Mentor

Mentor — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 19:20:18 +0000

I used to read/watch Marvel and DC a lot but lost touch over the years. Seeing that clip has just rekindled my want to watch the animations of both DC and Marvel again.
Think i’m going to hit the ‘NZB’ world later!

By: bigbearbutt

bigbearbutt — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 16:50:18 +0000

Brimoonfang, thanks for answering those questions. I knew Black Adam, but wasn’t sure who the giant woman was. There is also that lady from the Doom Patrol, I think, plus others. Attack of the 50 foot woman is a favorite, isn’t it?

I actually like Black Adam in some ways, as he seems to have some depth to him rather than being a cookie cutter.

I will admit I’m getting tired of the “Shazam call is used like a thermonuclear weapon dropped from orbit” technique. It was interesting in Kingdom Come, but I thought it was supposed to only be the shapechange signal. Now, what, if you have some other intent when you yell “shazam” you might get blown up instead of turn into an adult superhero?

By: Brimoonfang

Brimoonfang — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 16:31:30 +0000

Eberron, the villain who defeats Green Lantern and Flash is Black Adam, the arch-enemy of Captain Marvel (they have identical powers, unfortunately).
His costume is black rather than red, but it’s hard to see when everything is so dusty.

The giant woman is most likely Giganta (aka Doris Zuel).

By: Sarabian

Sarabian — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 13:50:36 +0000

Ok, that was a super sweet trailer. I am totally agreeing that should be a feature length movie and I’d pay readily to see it and then most likely to buy the DVD. Hell, it even makes me interested in the game until I see the game looking like crap.

By: jurnag12

jurnag12 — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 08:55:35 +0000

Awesome trailer, but who’s the giant chick who gets shot into the skyscraper?

By: dorgol

dorgol — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 15:38:29 +0000

I wasn’t all that impressed with the DC Online video. The animation wasn’t any greater than most of those we get for games these days, and the story was pretty comic-book-standard.

The SC2 trailer, though, was all kinds of awesome.

THAT SAID – I agree that animation for “straight to DVD” and television is really, really lacking these days. The style of animation we see on Cartoon Network (I see it when my nephew has it on) is just spartanly simple and lacking any real artistry. It doesn’t help that the stories there are just as vapid.

Yeah.

No idea where I was going to go with that.

By: Paona

Paona — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 11:40:51 +0000

Take solace in the fact that it’s being run by Sony Online Entertainment (SoE) which is pretty much a Bizarro-Midas: Everything it touches turns to crap and/or dies horribly.

…Not unlike Uwe Boll, now that I think about it.

See: EQ, Planetside, The Matrix Online, SWG, and the various small Station.com-based games, (Infantry, Tanarus, Cosmic Rift)

I’m aware that Free Realms is being run by SoE right now, as will be The Agency when it comes out… I’m just counting the days until flameout. =(