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Short cyberpunk film with many Amiga references
« on: December 11, 2017, 01:57:48 PM »
I recently shot a short cyberpunk film, titled "Creation of Sigma" and inspired by the 1990s TV series "Superhuman Samurai Syber-Squad". The special effects were made with a PC for convenience and speed, but I inserted many references to Amiga hardware and software.
Don't be surprised to find familiar names, but versions that never existed (for example: Deluxe Paint 7). To prevent the film from ever getting dated, I decided to set it in an imaginary "near future, as imagined in the 1990s".

You can find it at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VW55_LDuVI . I had a lot of fun making it, I hope you'll have fun watching it.
Meanwhile, here's a screenshot from it.
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Re: Short cyberpunk film with many Amiga references
« Reply #1 on: December 12, 2017, 05:39:29 PM »
Quote from: RobertB;834048
Reminds me of the animated tv series, ReBoot.  :)

Truly,
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group
http://www.dickestel.com/fcug.htm
Heh. That's funny, considering that:
1) a ReBoot reboot has been announced, with the premise of a group of humans with the power to enter and leave cyberspace at will (the original premise of Superhuman Samurai Syber-Squad)
2) a SSSS/ReBoot crossover had originally been teased (but it never came to fruition) in the ending of a SSSS episode, where Megabyte sees Kilokahn on a screen and says he needs to watch him.

Anyway, yeah, I tried to distance myself from modern cyberspace tropes, so I showed colorful environments instead of limiting myself to shades of cyan and magenta, I never used Tron lines on black backgrounds, I made extensive use of specular mapping, and I made every exploding object split into triangles instead of squares. That gave it a mid-1990s look, when cyberspace clichés were still unbuilt and the look of CG productions was purely the result of experimentation. You may be surprised to discover that I never planned to explicitly reference ReBoot, although I *did* insert a couple of nods to The X-Files, The Matrix, and Iron Man.
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