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How to Recreate the Battle of Omaha Beach on a Small Budget

youtube.com — How 3 graphic designers created D-Day on a shoe string budget for the Timewatch program "Bloody Omaha"

Who dugg this? Made popular Jan 14, 2008

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  • Soriven, on 01/14/2008, -0/+59bloody brilliant!
  • inactive, on 01/14/2008, -4/+52The local residents who were watching the 3 guys run around all day must have been thinking "Wtf?"
  • humanerror, on 04/03/2008, -2/+39Seems to me the easiest way would be to invade France
  • jtibble, on 01/14/2008, -1/+31This is incredible!
  • ghm101, on 01/14/2008, -0/+25It made for an interesting documentary as well.
    I was in Normandy last year and was surprised at all the D-Day stuff left about, gun emplacements, memorials, museums and cemeteries.
    The soldiers who took part in D-Day had it hard.
  • jeuhrn, on 01/14/2008, -4/+25I think it'd be a more riveting experience if maybe that ***** technopoprock song didn't accompany the god damn D-DAY invasion.
    Other than that, this was totally excellent.
  • leha, on 01/14/2008, -3/+24Now the main question is why hollywood spends hundreds of millions of dollars and still produces mostly ***** movies at best?
  • jeuhrn, on 01/14/2008, -0/+19They selected the wrong class before spawning, so they had to wait for the next round.
  • greenlight2001, on 01/14/2008, -1/+19You JUST realized this? Really? Wow bro, you must have been living under a friggin rock your whole life.
  • Supernova36, on 01/14/2008, -0/+18Have you never watched Saving Private Ryan? Or seen the Normandy cemetarys?
  • OsiVert, on 01/14/2008, -0/+16They wouldn't have needed all 3 of them.
  • snowpatrol, on 01/14/2008, -2/+14Relax.
  • lotsotech, on 01/14/2008, -0/+11Lots of movies do compositing for scenes like that. I know Starship Troopers did back in '97. The tough part is making it look good on a 50' screen and not just a youtube flash video.
  • digggggggggg, on 01/14/2008, -0/+11These guys made a short clip that mostly is about the technical details of this sort of filming. Movies, on the other hand, are centered around a plot, and the effects are devices to convey the plot.

    The reason why so many movies are just awful nowadays are simply because the plots are awful. Sometimes I wonder if the writers are even trying.
  • dezmo, on 01/14/2008, -0/+11photoshopped
  • ZWarren69, on 01/14/2008, -1/+11Favorite! This is spectacular!
  • kamikaze87, on 01/14/2008, -1/+11EXCELLENT POWER SELLER! ITEM WAS IN EXCELLENT CONDITION! A+++++++
  • adraft, on 01/14/2008, -0/+9You mean you don't want to see Meet the Spartans?
  • ShooterMcGavin, on 01/14/2008, -4/+13I'm sorry... that song was driving me absolutely crazy.

    Cool vid, otherwise.
  • dezmo, on 01/14/2008, -2/+9or 12x3=36 people working for a year, and your point is?
  • edtruckell, on 01/14/2008, -0/+7Damn impressive. Would be nice to see a little more of the compositing work.
  • EricAnderton, on 01/14/2008, -1/+8Don't do it.
  • digggggggggg, on 01/14/2008, -0/+7It was even worse on the eastern front. The ill-prepared Soviets just threw everything they had at the German offensive, resulting in a really really high casualty rate.

    By the end of the war, their losses alone were around 25 million. Personally, I can't even imagine that.
  • erwlas, on 01/14/2008, -0/+6I watched this the other night and had no idea the amount work that had gone into it.
    The scenes of US Rangers climbing Pointe du Hoc were so realistic, I was asking myself how the film makers had got permission to climb the actual cliff. Excellent
  • bdbr, on 01/14/2008, -0/+6There were a few technical inaccuracies that I know of (mostly based on Stephen Ambrose's books and seeing History Channel documentaries) - probably the biggest was that the entire horizon was filled with ships as far as one could see. Still, it was well-produced given the budget, and shows at least a bit of the horror of charging in an open beach against fortified machine gun emplacements.

    Comparing it to "Saving Private Ryan" is a bit unfair - keep in mind, their D-Day scene was over 30 minutes long, so of course it cost a lot more. Having read and seen personal accounts of that day, even that felt understated.
  • Gryffydd, on 01/14/2008, -0/+6Was it just my imagination, or were the Germans in the bunker using M1 Garands alongside the MG-42?
  • Gryffydd, on 01/14/2008, -0/+5You missed the "small budget" part...and that's just for starters.
  • xo0r, on 01/14/2008, -2/+7mad ***** props. just showed this to one of my classmates in CISCO.. he is a movie editor, he gives this video A++++++++++ (as do I)
    As a graphic designer ... I am speechless, just wow. i love it. you guys are brilliant.
  • MrBabyMan, on 01/14/2008, -3/+8Two Tribes by Frankie Goes to Hollywood
  • CabesMojo, on 01/14/2008, -0/+5Haha, I bet they were. Thats actually really impressive, I was looking for their groups of 3 in the final shots.
  • h0lyHandGrenade, on 02/20/2008, -2/+7Impressive. Movie studios should take note and learn how to make a movie without spending hundreds of millions.
  • Zyrix, on 01/14/2008, -0/+4They also have slightly more than 3 people and a bigger budget...
  • iiBeLiEvE, on 01/14/2008, -0/+4Couldn't have said it better myself. After everything was done editing, those scenes looked straight from any Hollywood blockbuster film with a budget 100 times its size.
  • MrBabyMan, on 01/14/2008, -2/+6I see what you did there.
  • Ovalteen, on 01/14/2008, -0/+4Outstanding effort, and a really excellent final product. If it hasn't already, I hope the publicity brings some jobs their way. Does anyone have any info about the guys who did it?
  • arcangelgabriel, on 01/14/2008, -0/+4Excellent work.
  • Kronk42583, on 01/14/2008, -2/+6that video was great but the music was unbearable.
  • 2point71, on 01/14/2008, -0/+4That was sick, I eventually tuned out the music so it just became background noise to an epic battle for awesome screen play.
  • yuriko474, on 01/14/2008, -0/+4truly amazing.. a gem in the digg turd pile ;-)
  • kkeith02, on 01/14/2008, -0/+3Production blog for the series: http://open2.net/blogs/historyandthearts/index.php ...
  • lhughey, on 01/14/2008, -2/+5I've been seeing too much political news lately. I thought the title said "the battle of OBAMA"!
  • Tyrghast, on 01/14/2008, -1/+4Yes, yes a thousand times yes!

    isnt that guy at the beginning from Top Gear?
  • anagoge, on 01/14/2008, -0/+3Really good remix? It was just sped up by roughly 150%. Nothing remixed.
  • whoamarcos, on 01/14/2008, -0/+3really well done.

    i wonder how long all the compositing took.
  • CraigCarlyle, on 01/14/2008, -0/+3I too traveled to Normandy last year. It's absolutely a must for any history nut.

    Nothing feels as amazing as standing in a crater at Pointe du Hoc.
  • LiquidIse, on 01/14/2008, -2/+5Awesome.
    Also song?
  • HenvY, on 01/14/2008, -0/+2That's what Hitler said when he realised that the larger and better equipped French army were going to lay down and spread their cheeks.
  • JanYpe, on 01/14/2008, -0/+2Fail.
  • Octaman, on 01/14/2008, -0/+2Probably done in-house at the BBC.
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