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- beermaker, on 03/18/2009, -3/+105Next time, follow the free man!
- mm3guy, on 03/18/2009, -3/+79The motion tracking is pretty good!
- DoubleyouTeeEff, on 03/18/2009, -3/+61Reminded me of Children of Men.
Really cool; will follow the production of this. - Quirked, on 03/18/2009, -2/+53This giant image is hidden in the CSS of the official site - whatsinthebox.nl/anti.jpg
I'm not sure what it means, but they're certainly working the viral angle with this. - IMustBeEmo, on 03/19/2009, -0/+50http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1UPMEmCqZo
Escape from City 17 looks pretty awesome too - gfxluvr, on 03/19/2009, -2/+51I love the quaint BSOD at 5:22
- Stemnin, on 03/18/2009, -11/+56Odd, something from MrBabyMan I'm not ashamed to digg..
- Vapor17, on 03/19/2009, -1/+43If JJ Abrams (LOST music) is doing a Half-Life movie, that'd be brain meltingly awesome
- surfacewound, on 03/19/2009, -0/+40A metal what?
- IMustBeEmo, on 03/19/2009, -1/+38This reminded me of Cloverfield. For those of us that aren't pussies who suffer from motion sickness, ***** awesome.
- inactive, on 03/18/2009, -0/+32http://www.whatsinthebox.nl
Check out the source code.
I love viral crap. - Firespray1138, on 03/19/2009, -2/+33Rise and shine Mr Freeman, rise and shine...
- DigitalRifleman, on 03/19/2009, -4/+26Anyone else notice "Character Audiotrack Missing"?
Funny...reminds me of some silent protagonist from the story that this was based off of.
All I remember is that he was a man, free from the combine overrule...hrm. What was his name again? - fegul, on 03/19/2009, -0/+21I agree, the motion tracking was clutch. Hopefully the artists will chime in on what they used and what their workflow was like.
- Awspire, on 03/19/2009, -2/+23I guess this is what videos games will look like in ten years.
- iMiXiMi, on 03/19/2009, -12/+32And I Jizzed in My Pants
- TehNuge, on 03/19/2009, -2/+19It was perfect until the bad guys showed up.
- twiztidsinz, on 03/19/2009, -2/+19a metal medal... duh!
- lotar732, on 03/19/2009, -2/+18I wish Hollywood would take notes.
The strength of a film is in its ability to engage the audience. This was riveting. I'd watch a full length 2 hour film of this over the next Michael Bay piece of garbage any day. - nixpix66, on 03/18/2009, -2/+18Wasn't really sure what was going on, but i liked it!!!
- yannickmartin, on 03/19/2009, -0/+15 <!-- Every medium, as its ancestors -->
<!-- Every pro, has his anti's, now you think about that --> - Jsmuli2, on 03/18/2009, -11/+25This is a great video... I still hate you MBM!
- circuitbent, on 03/19/2009, -1/+15Nice touch on the birds at the end. I loved shooting them in HL2.
- victorycig, on 03/19/2009, -1/+13More evidence a Half Life movie would be totally rad.
- youliveinfear, on 03/19/2009, -2/+14it's my dick in a box.
- jeffmon, on 03/19/2009, -2/+14Because he didn't find it.
- PR1811, on 03/19/2009, -0/+11Probably isn't all one shot, just well edited, there's parts where the camera looks at the ground, walks through a dark coridor, or the grenade goes off, they can then simply edit those together.
Not to take anything away from the production though it's very well done. - Kronos43, on 03/18/2009, -0/+11How would they be able to use Half Life 2 sounds for a J.J. Abrams film?
- zbeast, on 03/19/2009, -2/+13That was great loved it.. I can get behind "Shaky camera" in this case because it's the pov of the person running.
When they do "Shaky Camera" in block buster films they over do it and it's used to try to pump up
an otherwise boring sequence. Graphics and effects for this film was good. I really do like the motion tracking. - t0x2c, on 03/19/2009, -0/+9Yea when you triple integral something you get a hypersurface (like 4 dimensions)
- HiddenCanuck, on 03/19/2009, -1/+10They can both exist and both be really cool. Just different visions. OK i'll give you that one has better costumes!
- the8thbit, on 03/19/2009, -0/+9What the hell are they taking THREE integrals for? Who needs THREE integrals? I have enough trouble with ONE integral.
- UpSkiG165, on 03/19/2009, -0/+9The text is from http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v353/n6346/fu ... which is:
THE large-scale use of photovoltaic devices for electricity generation is prohibitively expensive at present: generation from existing commercial devices costs about ten times more than conventional methods1. Here we describe a photovoltaic cell, created from low-to medium-purity materials through low-cost processes, which exhibits a commercially realistic energy-conversion efficiency. The device is based on a 10-microm-thick, optically transparent film of titanium dioxide particles a few nanometres in size, coated with a monolayer of a charge-transfer dye to sensitize the film for light harvesting. Because of the high surface area of the semiconductor film and the ideal spectral characteristics of the dye, the device harvests a high proportion of the incident solar energy flux (46%) and shows exceptionally high efficiencies for the conversion of incident photons to electrical current (more than 80%). The overall light-to-electric energy conversion yield is 7.1-7.9% in simulated solar light and 12% in diffuse daylight. The large current densities (greater than 12 mA cm-2) and exceptional stability (sustaining at least five million turnovers without decomposition), as well as the low cost, make practical applications feasible.
Something about solar power? Could be about this? http://jcwinnie.biz/wordpress/?p=2130 (picture too) - EricAnderton, on 03/19/2009, -0/+8I dugg you up in the hopes that you get a bite. I wouldn't mind finding out myself.
Although I'm pretty sure it involves some serious computing power, long hours and *LOTS* of coffee. - iMiXiMi, on 03/19/2009, -0/+8Haha, i noticed it too, made me laugh
- dvsbastard, on 03/19/2009, -13/+21Nowhere near as good as this one:
http://digg.com/movies/Half_Life_2_as_a_movie_Esca ... - jcsoc, on 03/19/2009, -2/+10Oh God... OH GOD! WHAT'S IN THE BOX!?!?!
- ColinCampbell, on 03/19/2009, -0/+7If you take that image into Photoshop and increase the levels, you get "ATTAINABLENESS" across the bottom of the cube, whatever that means.
- twiztidsinz, on 03/19/2009, -5/+12Better question: Why can't people stop bitching about Mr Babyman?
- IMustBeEmo, on 03/19/2009, -0/+7On the home page right below the box there is a bunch of really fast text, someone with Fraps should record and slow it down. Part of it says READ FAST
- Velnich, on 03/19/2009, -1/+8I wouldn't say "nowhere near". I like the one you linked to in many ways, but there were a couple of things (mostly special effects) this newer one did that I enjoyed more.
- MrBabyMan, on 03/18/2009, -1/+8Good ear. tugteen in the YouTube comments sez: "the score(background music) is from Lost"
- gllopc, on 03/19/2009, -0/+7Yes - because you can't kill the metal.
- vinbob, on 03/19/2009, -0/+7It's a random sequence of the following...
6335
JFSD
2347
FAST
2678
UUUU
SAGA
6335
READ
5223
BOXR
2123
1111
ASDF
7856
4213
134G
1234
123A
FASG - theodenking, on 03/19/2009, -0/+7And the music is straight out of Lost. Something tells me whoever made this is a J. J. Abrams fan.
- BigE89, on 03/19/2009, -0/+7otiontsst whats in the box stim crea te o ctor ph bau msm s th ims eeu s ims c c mit t dio r er e oos d r
Thats what I get when I check all the red letters. Anyone figure it out? Seems like gibberish to me... - EricAnderton, on 03/19/2009, -0/+7"Man of few words, aren't you?"
- SilverBack101, on 03/19/2009, -0/+6The Oscar Mayer Weiner guy?
- Velnich, on 03/19/2009, -1/+7It's called constructive criticism. It's a good thing. Maybe you shouldn't overreact when someone expresses an opinion.
- SwabTheDeck, on 03/19/2009, -1/+7I disagree. The first thing he grabs is that tablet computer thing that he puts on, and it appears to have the Acer logo printed on it. Then there's a Samsung phone, a Sony Ericsson, an LG and another Samsung. They're all bland-looking models and actually look like they're intentionally blurry. No exciting functionality is shown, either. Considering the possibilities for a device to do something crazy in a video like this, it's a poor way to try and sell a product. If anything, I'd guess it's an Acer ad, but even that doesn't seem horribly likely.
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