{ Film } An American baby in Iraq. [Archive]

Smiley_ie

07-21-2006, 10:40 PM

Hi all.
Well its all done, Sorry about the file size 184mb is the best i could do. Ive only got filefront uploaded at the moment if anyone else host it can you post me the link.
Cheers
Anyway after all the work i put in all i can say is enjoy ;)

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Lowres / Streaming
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RapidShare
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Mayflower

07-21-2006, 11:10 PM

Downloading... 250kb/s, not bad for my internet connection ;) Gonna post my review right after, but Im sure it gonna own, the teaser itself was awesome

WOW, killer movie 10/10. WHen I saw the baby I was like WTH !!

Very good modelling, 3D max and all those softwares... Is it hard and complicated to do those 3D objects and animations ?

Nice job again !

Luremus

07-21-2006, 11:30 PM

WOW!
I've seen alot of BF2 movies, and this one blows them all away!
10/10. Only drawback is that its very short, i want to see more!

Heatseeker_no.1

07-22-2006, 12:03 AM

WOW!
I've seen alot of BF2 movies, and this one blows them all away!
10/10. Only drawback is that its very short, i want to see more!

^All quoted for the truth, AMAZING movie:yay:

Sir. Xios

07-22-2006, 12:13 AM

WOW. This film is stunning easily the most inovative BF2 movie so far.
Great work Smiley.

<}US{>BlackHawkPilot73

07-22-2006, 12:56 AM

Wow amazing 11/10 i have never seen anything like it!

KoryPyro

07-22-2006, 01:11 AM

Great reviews but I don't want to bloody download the thing

EDIT : Finally saw it amazing love the Requim for a Dream music in the begining that is amazing man

WildAce

07-22-2006, 01:13 AM

Great reviews but I don't want to bloody download the thing

it was pretty good but short

SHFT_nismo

07-22-2006, 01:33 AM

good editing/effects

but the story line, ehhh

Chodda

07-22-2006, 01:34 AM

I'm still confused as to what I just watched =o

Good editing though.

AudieMurphy99

07-22-2006, 01:55 AM

This movie OWNED! Awesome effects! 10/10!

=[WOW]=Sisko

07-22-2006, 02:05 AM

Smiley! Cen sceal :p :D

Man that was a feckin fantastic little movie there. Give yourself a big pat on the back. I'll deffo spread the word on this one meself.

Damn good job.

tampadep

07-22-2006, 02:18 AM

Damn good job brother.........great graphics, different storyline, but awesome.

Sir. XaliaS

07-22-2006, 02:22 AM

I'm so surprised at the fact that you can make the most awe inspiring, 3D animated! highly professional movie, yet can't grasp the simplicity of video encoding?!?

LOL this IS a true master piece. You can tell every second was crafted and cut to perfection. For me, after reading and following the progress of this movie for such a long time it feels like unwinding a highly tort spring that I know somebody has spend so much time winding.

I actually admire the sound work more than the pictures oddly. Just listening to it, exceptional stuff!
Excellent voices, who ever or where ever they came from… The soundtrack is also wonderfully united together. I had no idea so many tracks were being shuffled through as I was watching…

A hope this has a hugely successful launch onto the internet.
It really is a battlefield 2 party piece creation, Smiley. Very well done!

Keyelite

07-22-2006, 04:12 AM

Excellent work smiley, the effects and animations were perfect..
I loved how it was such a serious movie with such a funny premise..
Everything was top notch about that video

You gotta make a streaming version to put on google video so the lazy ones can watch it also

Dsp-.

07-22-2006, 05:07 AM

Smiley, did you a good job in this one, allthough it was a 7 minute film, every second is worth it, ive always imagined 3D animated things like this, and i liked how you did the "bullet time" with the sniper. Very Professional

BlitzWarTank

07-22-2006, 05:20 AM

That's a superior movie, smiley. Everything was great... the 3d objects, effects, editing and sound effects etc.

It would be great if the admin can help to post this movie on the frontpage. This movie is really fantastic.

Good job Smiley_ie!

RS-Rom

07-22-2006, 05:27 AM

Need A Stream!!!!!!!!!!

What Is So Difficult To Set Up A Stream! Please!

Dsp-.

07-22-2006, 06:38 AM

what is so difficult to download? better quality, unlike ****ty google

Snoop

07-22-2006, 06:40 AM

Awesome movie. Damn that was professional.

Good job!

DeVilish

07-22-2006, 10:27 AM

LMFAO! love the body slam on the tank, well made movie great effects, well done

StRuPiE

07-22-2006, 11:01 AM

Very nice movie Smiley, I loved every single frame of it!

The editing was very well done, one of the best I've seen so far. The sound/music was great, it flows perfectly. The effects were nicely done, it didn't feel if they were overused. The zipshots in particular were my favorites. Your camerawork is excellent, very smooth overall.

The modeling of the baby was good, but not the best to be honest. The baby's mouth was a bit disturbing, was it meant to be that way? But on the other hand, you did composite it nicely into battlefield2. The merge was good and apart from a few scenes you couldn't tell it was added. My favorite scenes were the baby crashing the tank and splatting the mec, that was just hilarious!

The story, well... a bit strange to say the least but it stands out for originality and though I was disappointed that the movie only lasted about 7 min's it's a great effort and makes it one of the better bf2 movies I've seen to date. I just wish you could have made it a bit longer.

But of course, I do understand that it takes a serious amount of time to make a movie like this, especially with the 3d crafted models. As we (little_donkey and myself) are progressing towards part3 (the last one) of Sands of Fire we have already come a long way and it's still far from finished. But we do see an end in the tunnel and that's the exciting part of making such huge/complex movies. The satisfaction you get out of it is just so overwhelming, it's like giving birth to a baby (in iraq) :D. J/K, good job Smiley.

The movie needs to be on the frontpage for sure!

PS were those mec speaking Japanese? ;)

Smiley_ie

07-22-2006, 12:16 PM

First of thanks for all the positive reply’s makes all the work worth it. A few people thought it was a bit short but the entire project was done by myself and if I spent any longer making it I would probley be in a mad home by now.
Time frame of the film I wasn't worried about, it was more of the pacing I wanted to keep, I basically made each section as mini movies then while editing seen what worked and what didn't. I also spent allot of time with the music / sfx and I didn’t want to us any bf2 sounds redubbing the hole thing was fun but it took a hell of a long time which i dont think id be doing again soon ! But I think it was worth it for the end results!
If i get a chance i'll go a google video version !
Again ta for the reply's.

StRupie : No the babys mouth wasn't rigid for movement when you moved his head it would drag the mouth.
PS were those mec speaking Japanese? ----- LOL no that was a friend of mine mixed with voice's from team america LOL.

sMull

07-22-2006, 02:27 PM

Brilliant work Smiley :cool:

[C22] yrethguad

07-22-2006, 05:05 PM

. 1337

John-Paul

07-22-2006, 05:35 PM

I absolutely loved it, Smiley!

Watching the end credits, the first thing I realised was that I'd been anticipating this project to such an extent that within my own mind, I'd put you in a really difficult position. I had such high expectations they were bordering on unfair because the video was going to have to be of an amazingly high quality to meet my expectations ... but the thing is, you exceeded them and left me completely amazed! I was watching the whole movie with an expression of absolute delight on my face. :D < Like that but with more detail.

I'm so looking forward to showing it to friends and family members!

I think what I liked most (well, aside from the jaw-dropping technical proficiency) was the pure, light-hearted fun of the whole scenario. This kind of premise is very much in keeping with my sense of humour, so I was laughing the whole way through and genuinely loved the way you executed idea.

Merely having an original concept / storyline is one thing but to execute it in just the right way is something else and I think you deserve huge credit for the way you conceptualised the whole project.

You've got some serious talent! Anyone who can't see that is a fool.

Congratulations on a job so well done! (Well-and-truly worth the wait, too! :p)

Smiley_ie

07-23-2006, 01:08 AM

Thanks Jp im glad you like it.
:D < Like that but with more detail.

LOL very funny. im pissing myself :D
Cheers m8

Ive uploaded some low res versions for google / Rapidshare thanks Key
And ta to JP : they upload the film @ http://www.moviefactory.fr/ cheers JP Which is allso fun they posted freedom isnt free allso. LOL
:rock:

Belzebuth Jr

07-23-2006, 01:29 AM

It's bad I'm not enought fluent in english to say how I appreciate this movie.

2 thumbs up and 10/10.

Nice Work

Smiley_ie

07-23-2006, 03:10 AM

yrethguad']. 1337

And that means ?:confused:

[quote=Sir. XaliaS]I'm so surprised at the fact that you can make the most awe inspiring, 3D animated! highly professional movie, yet can't grasp the simplicity of video encoding?!?

Ta for the tip Xalias I could do i higher version but the problem is with the sound not video, I rebubbed it @ 48hzh ! the video is 74mb with filteres hd movie look... without its 25mb and then ad the amount of music & sound @ 48hzh = 184mb ?

xW0LFx

07-23-2006, 03:46 AM

^^ means leet as in great :D

Smiley_ie

07-23-2006, 03:52 AM

^^ means leet as in great :D

Ok :laugh: Ta

imported_NeoRicen

07-23-2006, 07:07 AM

Video encoding can be hard, I'd say give Windows Media Video a shot, it's actually quite a good codec. Be careful with the sound 90% of the time it's the sound that's making the video so much larger than it needs to be, I haven't quite found a good way to encode the audio.

PS: Downloading now, will review later.

Just watched it...fantastic. Very cinematic and very professional, my main criticism with movies is their camera work, here it was FANTASTIC, but I have to know how you got it to be so smooth, the camera movements were much smoother than anything you can do with a mouse, did you use a joystick or just move the video around in the editor?
Criticisms - the length, it ended somewhat abruptly, also the sound effects seemed to lack a bit of impact, boosting the volume of the effects compared to the music could probably solve this. Other than that it was fantastic, I just have to know how you pulled off that camera work.

margav

07-23-2006, 10:31 PM

this sort of production makes me wonder why we dont join and create a Snoken type of team to make longer scripts with more "actors"...

Sir. Xios

07-23-2006, 11:12 PM

It generally not the actors part that is the problem.
Creating a film like this takes unbelievable amounts of time in editing because of the advanced programs and effects used through out.
What would be helpfull is a warehouse full of the best editors all connected in LAN with a handy rendering farm. Then the results would be truly breath taking. Shame this is never gonna happen. :p

DoubleVee

07-24-2006, 05:53 AM

A really great movie, but it was way too short! :(

margav

07-24-2006, 06:50 AM

Sir. Xios I understand you since I do edit for fun using all sorts of programs at once ( eg Aftereffect7+Pemier pro1.5+sony vegas 6) and hell yea if you want a good movie its gonna take you agonizing time =) But if you look at the video productions, they generally don't work alone ;)

Smiley_ie

07-24-2006, 12:25 PM

Ta for the replys.

NeoRicen
Just watched it...fantastic. Very cinematic and very professional, my main criticism with movies is their camera work, here it was FANTASTIC, but I have to know how you got it to be so smooth, the camera movements were much smoother than anything you can do with a mouse, did you use a joystick or just move the video around in the editor?

All done with a mouse recorderd in slow motion, then rendered back in real time its the best way i found in BF2. Then in Vegas on a lot of the shots i zoomed slightley in and cleaned them up.
Another good way i found to get strange camera pans was do a pan shot in bf2 scroll shot right to left, then in vegas zoom in and pan the opposite left to right, the same with zooms , zoom in, in bf2 in vegas start zoomed in and zoom out. try it

Sir. Xios
What would be helpfull is a warehouse full of the best editors all connected in LAN with a handy rendering farm. Then the results would be truly breath taking.
No that would be fun :laugh:

margav
this sort of production makes me wonder why we dont join and create a Snoken type of team

Nice suggestion lol

StRuPiE

07-24-2006, 01:16 PM

All done with a mouse recorderd in slow motion, then rendered back in real time its the best way i found in BF2. Then in Vegas on a lot of the shots i zoomed slightley in and cleaned them up.

I guess it is because we're still experimenting with cameramovements but we can't figure out how to get them smooth... we have already tried the slowmo trick and results got better but not as expected. I guess you didn't use Fraps to record your shots. BF2 is a pain in the *** when it comes to movie recording, I liked the BF42/V style much more.

$n4ke108

07-24-2006, 05:40 PM

nice movie nice effects lol thats a big baby lol lmfao!

Smiley_ie

07-24-2006, 08:23 PM

I guess it is because we're still experimenting with cameramovements but we can't figure out how to get them smooth... we have already tried the slowmo trick and results got better but not as expected. I guess you didn't use Fraps to record your shots. BF2 is a pain in the *** when it comes to movie recording, I liked the BF42/V style much more.

Didnt use fraps and bf2 recorder. I find it works well but you will end up shooting the same shot a good few time to get it right. I acted out the shots myself which is a lot easier never mind 10 - 12 people running around trying to get good shots !

Rezjah

07-24-2006, 08:27 PM

wow, excellent job smiley :D

This should be on the front page :)

[3MD]A|Pvt.iTrek

07-24-2006, 08:29 PM

wow im blown away that was amazing,this competes with the pwned life and mine,defintly be put on front page!

TheEn|gma

07-25-2006, 12:34 AM

I'm realy impressed, I saw that trailer and wasn't that impressed the full video is frankly creative and funny.

Smiley_ie

07-25-2006, 12:11 PM

Ta for the replys.
A few people suggested that it should be posted as news ! I contacted them but got no reply ? Allso i seen other people have the same problem !!! Fillet allso :confused:

xXSniper1432Xx

07-25-2006, 05:27 PM

good movie but thr baby uhhhhhhhhhhh......

StRuPiE

07-25-2006, 08:39 PM

Ta for the replys.
A few people suggested that it should be posted as news ! I contacted them but got no reply ? Allso i seen other people have the same problem !!! Fillet allso :confused:

Yes, it's strange it hasn't been posted yet... the admins are focussing on mods and the upcoming BF2142 I guess :hmm:

Smiley_ie

07-26-2006, 01:49 AM

Yes, it's strange it hasn't been posted yet... the admins are focussing on mods and the upcoming BF2142 I guess :hmm:

Maybe ur right ?
But they should at least take note. !
Cheers StRuPiE :confused:

GeoffRowley

07-26-2006, 01:56 AM

Stunning, the film work is hella professional

[C22] yrethguad

08-21-2006, 12:47 AM

Reposts FTW!! lol

[BUMP]

zhrooms

08-21-2006, 01:52 AM

Stunning, the film work is hella professional
Word! Damn professionals!

Very nice movie, ill save this for later view to my friends..

[C22] Filet

08-21-2006, 10:35 AM

This is one of the best out there.

GzT_Gas

08-21-2006, 07:06 PM

Filet-o-Fist']This is one of the best out there.

lol.....................

[C22] Filet

08-21-2006, 08:12 PM

^ way to search Gas.

Cobra7892

08-21-2006, 09:20 PM

I'm sorry but personally i I thought that movie was a waste of time. The editing was fantastic but what the hell was that i mean it made no sense at all:mad: . That baby is probably gonna give me nightmares
BTW Is it an American Thing

Keyelite

08-21-2006, 10:44 PM

Well yeah, it is an american thing.. you would assume that just as much as you would assume there would be snakes on a plane..

Smiley_ie

08-22-2006, 10:56 AM

Well yeah, it is an american thing.. you would assume that just as much as you would assume there would be snakes on a plane..

LOL....
The title idea if from "An American Werewolf in London"

Smiley_ie

09-01-2006, 05:31 PM

StRuPiE

09-01-2006, 06:58 PM

Hi all
Just to let you no there's a screening of An American baby in Iraq on Saturday the 23rd of September in Machinima Bits Festival Amsterdam. Anyone in the area gets to check it out let me no cause i cant make it :cry:
If i get more details i'll let you no.
Cheers

Hi there Smiley, that's great news... more bf2 movies should be considered to participate such festivals. I think you should feel honored because the Battlefield machinima scene is rather small compared to Halo, the Sims, WoW and the Movies.

Did you send it in yourself or did they contact you, could you give me some more details (links) about the festival? I'm living in Belgium myself (Amsterdam is not too far), but I won't be able to attend the festival.

Alpha671

09-02-2006, 01:53 AM

Those damn mega-nerds kicked BF2 off the festivals. :D

Also, another version of "Ours Again" could probably get their attention.

struba

09-13-2006, 12:43 PM

Hello BF2 community!

I´m Ruben Zijlstra, organizing the Machinima Bits event on september 23rd 2006 and festival in 2007 in Amsterdam.
First let me say that BF2 is being represented on the event: we´ve got Mine (this got a lot of people I know into machinima) and An American Baby in Iraq. Since we´re only showing about 75 minutes on the big screen that´s a big part of the program.

For people who can read Dutch there is a website:
http://www.kriterion.nl/machinimabits

For all other people: if you want to now what we are up to you can send me your emailadres to ruben at kriterion dot nl, and you will be on our mailinglist. Tomorrow September 14th we will be sending out a pressrelease in both Dutch and English.

What movies do you recommend? I really love An American Baby in Iraq, but what other movies should we check out? We do not have a lot of time left for the event so it would be nice if you could also provide me with a hi res link of what you think is good BF2 machinima material.

Thanks a lot and spread the word :)

Ruben Zijlstra
Machinima Bits Amsterdam