Way back in the day when I was in grade school we didn’t have laptops, cell phones, or handheld consoles. In fact the abacus had yet to be invented and nobody had even heard of the wheel. So when we got insanely bored by the incessant ramblings of our sleep-inducing teachers, we were forced to make crude but entertaining flip books. These animated sequences were made by drawing basic actions on consecutive pages and then flipping through them quickly, a simple action that made the drawings leap to life right before our eyes. This Halo 3 video that features a stick figure fight created in Forge reminds me a lot of those flip books my friends and I used to make. It’s very simple, very short (a mere 12 seconds long), and quite honestly nothing even remotely spectacular, but it is extremely innovative. There is just so much potential with this idea. Hopefully someone will come along and expand upon it to create a true masterpiece. If that person is you, please note that teabagging and sex do not qualify as masterpieces. Not this time anyways.
Posted by Jillybean on August 12, 2008 at 2:58 am
Have something for you:
http://carnage.bungie.org/haloforum/halo.forum.pl?read=891199
It really engenders hope about video game movies.
Posted by Jim 028 on August 12, 2008 at 3:24 am
That is absolutely brilliant. It must have been fiddly getting those weapons in just the right spot for each frame.
Posted by mendicantbias00 on August 12, 2008 at 3:25 am
Short and sweet, not too bad. Though the choice of song is a bit lacking. I’d like to see a Forge-Flipbook that was done “Hot-Fuzz” style.
Posted by kenraves on August 12, 2008 at 8:30 am
Angel was there at the begining of the world, and she we will be there at the end…betraying her comrades and looking at spartan pr0n.
Posted by TheChrisD on August 12, 2008 at 8:31 am
It was a good and very creative use or Forge. :)
Music sucked though.
Posted by Sarge Tomzilla on August 12, 2008 at 11:24 am
Ah, brings back the memories of watching all those Flash Stick-Figure battles to the death.
Posted by Dr. Scientist on August 12, 2008 at 12:20 pm
That was awesome! You got me thinking though. how you were saying when growing up you didn’t have all these technologies, but now there are awesome technologies everythwere. So I was wondering, if combining gaming of this level with the mobile technology, like the Motorokr’s awesome video capability, fast internet access, and Java capability, the quality of mobile games would be a tremendous breakthrough, and we can start playing these kind of games on the go from anywhere. What do you guys think?
Posted by kenraves on August 12, 2008 at 1:22 pm
Save your phone advertising for myspace, thats what i think.
Posted by XMixMasterX on August 12, 2008 at 1:24 pm
Man I was excited to finally get to a computer to see this stick fight… and it’s was 10 seconds :-(
Posted by Ragingterror on August 12, 2008 at 5:00 pm
A clever idea this is, but the execution is lacking. This would be a pretty time consuming project to make smooth, though, so I can’t really knock ‘em for giving it a try.
Posted by agdtinman on August 13, 2008 at 12:44 am
Holy shit.
Posted by Greegga on August 13, 2008 at 8:24 am
Where’s the blood?