Ultima 8: Pagan – The Movie
Okay, not quite. Kobra Kai Dragon found this on YouTube yesterday and posted a link thereto in the forum. It’s kind of a technical demonstration which appears to be for a class someone is taking. That said, it’s darn cool:
The guy is a talented 3D artist, to be sure!
The storyboard at the end of the video, and the text at the beginning, suggest that the ultimate goal of all this work is to produce a trailer for a not-actually-real film adaptation of Ultima 8. That said, the developer is going all-out, rendering detailed 3D models and blending real-world footage with animation.
Highlights to watch for: the Avatar falling down, the golem rising from the dirt, and the skeleton in the graveyard.
Anyhow, this is a pretty phenomenal piece of work. Thanks, Kobra Kai, for bringing it to our attention!
That is pretty cool. Lets hope he finishes it 🙂
This video reminds me that japanese actually did Wizardry animated movie. Too sad, that they didn`t the same with Ultima. Gosh, Origins made so much cinematic footage with WC and no live-action Ultima? It was all about Richard Garriot bad acting, i presume 🙂 And i think, it is good idea to make Ultima 9 movie mixing game CG with brand new footage like shown in this video. Or may be Ultima machinima with future Ultima installments like Redemption.
Admittedly, my takeaway from what you said was: There was a Wizardry movie?
FFS, that must have been awful. Not that Wizardry was a bad series; it wasn’t (and indeed, I’ve enjoyed it quite a lot since I acquired Wizardry Gold some years back). But a film — even animated — adaptation? That can’t have been good.
Yeah, it was 50 min OVA. Have not seen it yet. http://parttimeotaku.wordpress.com/2006/06/09/wizardry-ova-adventure-on-the-10th-floor/
Ooof…good synopsis, but man does it sound painful.
As in…just…I can’t…no. No, no, nein, no. I’ll stick with the games, I think.