Merchant Of Death - RELEASED

[infinityloop]

Merchant of Death - RELEASED !

Exactly one year after the release of "The FEARless Movie", we are pleased to announce the release of another big production.

With "Merchant of Death" we left the comedy genre and created a darker war/action movie.

A few weeks after we had finished "The FEARless Movie", we already started with the very early concepts of a new project. At this time it had the codename "Bob".
During the following months, we created characters, the storyline and began to set us some goals we wanted to accomplish.

At some point we realized that this project evolved to something quite "insane". Because there was (and still is) no Battlefield 2 modification which would have allowed us to shoot the scenes the way we wanted to.
This meant that we literally had to learn how to modify Battlefield 2. We want to thank everyone from bfeditor.org for their help, especially mschoeldgen.

So for the following 3 months, I have then been working on our own modification which contained everything we required to shoot the scenes on our gameserver.
This was definitly the biggest challange we faced during the production of this movie.

Even though we always had too less actors, those we had were just awesome. And we managed to finish the shootings in just 2 months.
Right after each shootingday/evening, I have always been working on the scenes we finished. This allowed us to re-shoot scenes when required and so, the movie progressed nicely.

About 2 weeks after the last shooting, we already posessed a rough cut of the entire movie.
The next 4 months we were working on the music, editing, special effects (CGI) and the voice recordings.

The "voices" are essential for a movie like "Merchant of Death". And we want to thank Martin Staufenberg (aka. psychomyst) for his help.
He managed to get many very, very talanted women and men to bring our characters, and our movie, to life with their voices.

This was the most frustrating part of the production. Because it was nearly impossible to find voice actors for some of the characters.
But finally, we did it.

Our ToDo list is empty, the movie compressed and uploaded to our hosters.

And now we wish you much fun with Merchant of Death, and we are looking forward to your feedback in our forums.

Merchant of Death:

• Videostreams:
  • Vimeo-HD
• Downloads:
  • filefront.com
  • rapidshare.com - JDownloader Container
  • megaupload.com

Behind the Scenes:

• Videostreams:
  • Vimeo-HD
• Downloads:
  • filefront.com
  • rapidshare.com

[M0T0M4N]

Epic bro, I loved it, I wanted to talk to you if you get a chance to PM me

Thanks

[Hurricane.de]

haha welcome moto
nice to see you here ;D

[psychomyst]

well, it's time for some well-deserved R&R... but, I have to know, the scene with the rocks bouncing about, as the armor column advanced - was that one of your mods? or was that some AE effect?

[infinityloop]

Originally Posted by psychomyst

I have to know, the scene with the rocks bouncing about, as the armor column advanced - was that one of your mods? or was that some AE effect?

This was done in Newtek-Lightwave 3D 9.6. It was also used for:

• Major Klein when he entered the Briefing Room
• the LearJet in the Intro
• the rating in the Intro
• and the "Earth" Sequence in the trailer.

Btw. Lightwave was used in Battlestar Galactica for all CGI sequences.


Btw. psychomyst, have you got any feedback from our voice actors?
I am especially interested in what our feemale voice talents think about the movie, because they will mostlikely never have played BF2.

[=AUT=JTR]

einfach der reine wahnsinn

respekt jungs +1

auch wenn captiva ganz schön hart bei der bewertung war finde ich die sachen die er zu beanstanden hatte waren kleinigkeiten

mit dem movie seid ihr schon obere elite was machinima betrifft

[Merritt]

captiva ist arrogant und mag nur das was er selber macht. er hat destruktiv versucht unseren film auseinanderzunehmen. ich finde auch nicht dass wir uns da beieindrucken lassen sollten nach all den anderen tollen kommentaren die wir gekriegt haben

[=AUT=JTR]

naja ob er arrogant ist kann ich nicht sagen^^

er ist halt sehr genau ^^


mit den voice actors hatte er schon recht da muss ich ihm zugeben

wie man dieses typsiche deutsch-englisch gehört hat das war schon ein dämpfer

[infinityloop]

Originally Posted by =AUT=JTR

er ist halt sehr genau ^^

Bei der technischen Umsetzung einer Filme hast du da sicher recht.

Allerdings hat er mit seinem aktuellen Film "Desert Heat" bewiesen, wie man sämtliche technischen und schauspielerischen Anstreugen mit einer langweiligen und mit Logikfehlern gespickten Story vernichten kann.

Ich hoffe nur, dass er bei "The downed Pilot Conflict" der Story mehr wie 5 Minuten aufmerksamkeit schenkt.
Wobei der Titel allein schon "Klische" schreit.

Allerdings gibt es auch viele Leute denen eine Story egal ist, hauptsache es macht ordentlich *bumm*.
Somit werden seine Filme auch immer eine gewisse Zielgruppe ansprechen.

Originally Posted by =AUT=JTR

wie man dieses typsiche deutsch-englisch gehört hat das war schon ein dämpfer

Erm.....
Nur UNO Soldaten wurden mit "Deutschen" besetzt. Das "Deutsch/Englisch" war also für diese Rollen pure absicht.
Denn das sind Deutsche.

Fast alle anderen Sprecher und Sprecherinnen kommen aus den USA.

[Merritt]

oder sinds zumindest zur hälfte *auf mich deut*