Cinematic Game Trailer: World In Conflict

[Enayla]

It looks great :) Heartfelt congratulations for a job well done :D

[Ranimate]

My god, that left me with goose bumps.

Looks very good, impressive.

:thumbsup:

Ranimate

[kemenyi]

Simply brilliant!
I am still picking my jaw from the floor, WOW!

[Lovati]

Yeah, this looks great. Actually got the link to the Gamespot article last night from your website, linked it to some friends, and they were impressed. Very nice work.

[TheSoracle]

Sick! I can't wait to play the game :D

[Nux]

really amazing stuff. i am speachless. way way cool.

[tamahoma22]

Man that is a sweet sweet trailer... great job guys :)


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[alnori]

have nothing to say

that clip with the bombardment of a industrial ciy blew me away
so much details

you all all crazy

hope you ll make alot of mony

[Jaycee77]

Wow...I can't wait to check this out, great job there guys!

[tylerdurden369]

This punched my head…amazing work guys!
Is this all keyframed?

[AndersEgleus]

Hey, thanks for all the kind feedback!

Is this all keyframed?I guess you're referring to the character animation: no, that was motion captured, but there's a lot of keyframing involved when tweaking and cleaning the motion capture data.

[emptyslot]

well it feels good its just that some piece of the clip is like off. the timing feels wrong sometimes in the editing. well thats what i think otherwise its nice love the last shot when the russians run out of the plane

why did you change the logo in the end? i saw an early version of the video some time ago..

[AndersEgleus]

Always nice to hear some constructive criticism, thanks emptyslot. Maybe you'd care to elaborate, give an example perhaps? We're all really greatful for any honest feedback, it will help us improve.

About the logo - yeah, it went through a few iteratitions before marketing decided on a final version.

[harmonic01]

Wow, that was a freak'n awesome trailer. Thanks for posting. :thumbsup:

[Basura3d]

Cinematic team kicks ass! Top row! 5 Stars ofcourse...

[AndersEgleus]

Thanks Basura! I assume your praise is completely unbiased ;)

[avajayam]

awesome, the visual effect of war.

[Mio]

:thumbsup:
well done~!! really nice trailer~! already wanna to play~

[wrosado]

WOW! This is one awesome looking trailer. Hope the game is as good. That set-up in the first sequence is one of the best i've seen. I just love that 'reveal' of the mall battlefield.

very nice.

[turx]

superb trailer! congrats for such beautiful work!

[fellah]

you're doing some really impressive work guys!! (and girl.. :D)
one of the coolest trailers I've seen in a long time..! :)

[DDS]

Wow thats really incredible. U sure have great art direction! Thanks for posting :)

[shtl]

Wow THAT IS a really cool trailer! Rough and original image, maybe also thanks to post treatment that very tough, perfect for this kind of subject, and very great for the feel. Ok don't laugh, but it kind of reminded me... videodrome! :D
Also 3d is very impressive plus very fluide.
Great feel of confusion, action (urban, jungle, even on the beach!), well, congrats to the team, superb work.

OK

For what listed it's 5 stars from me, even if i just don't really like war video games.

[[nitin design]]

Loved it specially the parachute jumping scene at the end and also the the part where the heli crashes into the house.

[mamurphy]

Superb job.

That was kind of scary, though.
War in the suburbs and cities of America...
I have a feeling that trailer will be prophetic in a few years.

[jeremyhardin]

un-f***ing believeable!! :thumbsup:

great works guys. some incredible stuff in there. and particularly impressive for the number of people working on it. I'll be keeping an eye on your future work. :thumbsup:

[BloodHo]

Nice job with the atmosphere and overall feeling. Really liked the camera work. Great smoke effects, people want making-of ;)

[eek]

Exellent work AndersEgleusn

The pacing is pretty beautiful, and light and staging of shots is exellent. The tank scene with the chopper crashing is my favorite, and the pull up to see the amusement rides from the beach is a great shot. Once again, brilliant work.

[jalingo]

I agree with Ranimate - absolutely chilling and disturbing. Congratulations!

I think all U.S. policy makers need to see this on a weekly basis. Very effective.

[xtrm3d]

really breath taking ..
i looove it ..
a couple of question ..

how did you do the pyrotechnique effekt ?
lw or something else ?

hypervoxel is great .. but can be a really beast sometime .. :-(

anyway ..
again ..
a great great work !!!

[Romero]

Its game like this that keep me up till 5am, when i have to be at work at 9am.

Awesome trailer can't wait to get my hands on it.

[Oink]

I was on one of the first showings... maybe the absolute first? (you said something like that anyway. Cant remember if it was you that showed it to us though :S )

I like the video alot. Especielly the beginning and the part in the end with the russians. It almost looks like one of them jumps into the plane. Its an angle-thing i guess. :)

Anyway, I hope Massive gets more recognition with this game than the last ones. Who knows, Maybe you will take over the throne from DICE? :p

See ya around next time you visit SOFE.

[HellBoy]

wow that is so cool

well done guys :thumbsup:

[TychoCelchuuu]

I saw this a few days ago; truly one of the best trailers I have ever seen. Great job. :thumbsup:

[Noren]

"War is coming home" <--- perfect slogan!
The trailer is awesome and I love the idea with the jungle/mall.
But that one-liner in the end is the icing on the cake.

[PaulAdams]

Stunning. At first I thought it was just another run-of-the-mill war trailer, but the settings really get you to sit up and take notice.

[trthing]

So let me get this straight: basically 3 3D people made this in ten weeks of work?

Wow!

[sysgrunge]

Is an Incredible Work all is fine to make five star for you..

[sysgrunge]

Is an incredible work all is very professional, five star for you..

[ChewyPixels]

That was freakin' badass! :buttrock:

Particularly liked the camera movement.

[PeteS]

I can't praise you anymore then you alreaqdy have...and rightfully so.

I just wanted to give you my official "nice job!"....so...um...consider it given.

[Lman]

thats so good.
great work, I really like the last bit,
I liked the stray AA missile making its way across the screen.
Amazing work a few great suttleties that makes it really special and very rewatchable
I think this is an accomplished next generation version of the old red alert 2 trailer
:D looking forward to your next endeavor.

Take it easy.
L

[sinistar]

Superb job.

That was kind of scary, though.
War in the suburbs and cities of America...
I have a feeling that trailer will be prophetic in a few years.

Hell yeah dude, looks like its gonna be a good game for Americans to crack our knuckles to while waiting...

BRING IT! ;)

[Shortricci]

Well firstly I have to say this trailer is superbly made... very intense emotion involved. I must say the motion tracking is top class!

On the otherhand, I've one small crit about the last scene. I reckon the 'running' out of the plane for the drop is incredibly off-putting. The viewer gets the idea that the camera must represent a soldier, yet the motion, taking into account the motion of the soldiers in front, doesn't seem correct somehow - it's seems too smooth and high. However, if the camera is just a perspective then congratulations on an incredible trailer! :applause:

[ClayCox]

Awesome trailer! I liked how you used the same format as you see with movie trailers (web site design layout).

Also, is the city at the end New York? That was my intial guess, but I can't always recognize New York right off (being from Texas).

[Kaffein]

Very impressive trailer. Something seems off though with the soldier up against the tree in the opening scene in the jungle. It looks like his hand goes through his gun a couple times. Also in the mall scene, the dynamics on the stools and the box towards the end of the shot look a little floaty. But there's a lot of amazing stuff going on. In my opinion the beach scene stands out from the rest. Not just the look but the animation (mo-cap) seems to work better there than anywhere else. particularly when the soldier adjusts his face mask. good stuff.

[BlueCougar]

Awesome trailer! I liked how you used the same format as you see with movie trailers (web site design layout).

Also, is the city at the end New York? That was my intial guess, but I can't always recognize New York right off (being from Texas).

Great job indeed. The scene in the end looks like Seattle, I think that's the needle to the right in the skyline...

[jeremyhardin]

seattle was my guess as well.

[emeyers]

I remember seeing this trailer the other day. There is something very different about it, I can't put a finger on it, but the motion capture and camera direction just pushes into very realistic territory, and the environments are wonderful. It feels much different than most CG cinematics, and I like it for that

[Kapow]

Good, Lord, that's beautiful!!!


So when's the movie coming out? ;)

[Jhonus]

send my props to whoever was responsible for the colour grading and palettes

[Jadetiger]

That last shot where everyone is parachuting literally made my jaw drop. This looks awesome!

[ClayCox]

lol ok well I was totally off, but still great job!

[stantang]

wow, you got one hell of a team there... in 10 weeks, all that modeling, texture, effects.... geez...

[Tilstrom]

Incredible work, this is insane! The actual game has a lot to live up to now, after seeing this trailer. :twisted:

[goulei]

wow......very good Game

[Opeth]

Looks excellent in general - concept and shots are brilliant and very enthralling.
Forgive me if i'm repeating an already asked question, but what kind of rendering power did you use?
It seems to me that many of the shots, especially the tank shot, could benefit much from a 60% opacity, multiplied occlusion pass. And with such excellent compisiting elements, motions, lighting and everything actually, I found it difficult to understand why this wasn't done.

Another question, if I may; what software did you use for the smoke and explosions? I'm used to seeing Afterburn work behind these kind of effects, but you didn't mention Studio max being used so... What did you guys use? :)


Again, great job.

[jscheel]

Great job! Who else found the Adobe rubber ducky in the trailer?

[thatoneguy]

Cool, It's nice to see this thing is finally out in the wild. I was actually trying to look up information on a possible GC:3 and ran across this on some backwater page a week or two ago. What a coincidence, I guess I could just sense there was a new Massive RTS coming out.

Amazing cinematic. I'll put this up on a shelf with Warcraft III and Warhammer 40k's. A good shelf to be on indeed.

[qijie301x]

cool!!! good work!

[qijie301x]

haha! It's so good! like it

[dunkelzahn]

Comment of a coworker of mine after watching the trailer that says it all:

"Ohmygawd, this is going to be soooo good!"

:thumbsup:

[marciy]

nice job!
I love it .hehehe....................................

[shoaib]

amazing work... 2 thumbz up!!!

[mickatt]

impressive work!!

maybe the best cinematic that I could see this year with the final fantasy intro of course!

congratulation

[admiraligor]

Whoa! that's awesome. Comming from someone in the Airforce, I'd like to say that this video is very impressive and quite accurate.

[HerrKatt]

Woah, just amazing! Very nice work guys.

[APD-Jack]

ı couldn't display it :shrug:
Do u have any mirror?

[Spc]

Just Awesome.
Can't wait to play.

[Artie]

anders: really great cinematics! :thumbsup: How long it's been made?

[loocas]

Holy crap that was awesome! :buttrock:

http://forums.cgsociety.org/images/rating/rating_5.gif :buttrock: :buttrock: :buttrock:

[MARTSMONDE]

whaaaaaaaouuuuuuuuuuu amazing

just it beautiful. :eek::applause:

[MrPositive]

It's most certainly a fantastic work, but is it just me or do cinematics for games sometimes ruin the excitement level when you see the real game in action? Personally, I cannot wait until the game itself looks like the quality of this trailer! We can dream....

[3DDUDDE]

I've only three words for this piece.... A MA ZING!!!

[Stritar]

My God How Realistic Is That!

[djmaya3d]

This clip is simply amazing. When i was young the only reason i played games was for the cinematics. This clip brings back that same warm feeling in my tummy. If the game is half as good as this movie is i am buying it. It will probably become one of my favorite games ever.
I really love the clever use of reveling shots unveiling the setting of your game.
/drool
/bow

Can't wait for the game.

[akewt]

n1 anders. looks pretty sweet. can you tell us what kind of game it is?

[-NG-]

Wow friggin awesome, gave me the shivers. :)

Come to wonder, how long the production time is on such a animatic?

[warpy]

wow, great feel to things, wish you all the best.

[Teriander]

Looks good, but I have a question. What is the actual game play like? Graphics like the trailer or FPS? or 3rdPS? or 2D?

[Basura3d]

It's an RTS but with a free 3d Camera. It enables you to watch the battlefield from up in the clouds all the way down to individual soldiers. More info here http://www.gamespot.com/pc/strategy/worldinconflict/index.html?q=world%20in%20confilictand here
http://www.worldinconflict.com/us/

Some screens of ingame:

http://www.worldinconflict.org/screens/screen007.jpg

http://www.worldinconflict.org/screens/screen003.jpg

[Numse]

Go sweden! :) Grin with ghost recon 3, Dice with their new BF and now massive with this.. I´m amazed!

Härligt killar, skönt å se

[roblap]

...but my antivirus detected and blocked a worm from sierra's ftp when I tried downloading the high-def trailer. It was an Apple Quicktime overflow or some such. Anyway, I sent a PM to the original poster to check it out.

If it's just me and there's something wrong with my QT and AV settings, please forgive my idiocy. I have the latest versions of QT and Norton AV.

Humbly
Rob

[AndersEgleus]

Thanks for all the great feedback, we're a bit overwhelmed. Pretty amazing feeling to see the thread being plugged too.
Thanks especially for the constructive criticism that some of you have contributed, that's really invaluable.

I'll try to answer the questions as best I can.

xtrm3d:how did you do the pyrotechnique effekt ?
lw or something else ?

hypervoxel is great .. but can be a really beast sometime .. :-(Some of the pyrotechnics was done in Maya using fluids and particles, but a lot of it was keyed out footage of filmed smoke, fire and explosions, put together in post by Tobbe, our talented compositor (and lead/director).

Oink:I was on one of the first showings... maybe the absolute first? (you said something like that anyway. Cant remember if it was you that showed it to us though :S )No, that would have been Tobbe.

trthing:So let me get this straight: basically 3 3D people made this in ten weeks of work?Well, with such a small team the roles tend to blend into eachother - we all chipped in a bit here and there. So i'd still say 5 3d people and a sound designer.

Kapow:So when's the movie coming out?LOL! Well you can always play the game in 2007...

Krugar:send my props to whoever was responsible for the colour grading and palettesThat would once again be Tobbe. And yes, we'll greatfully accept your props. Always in need of good props to take some load off our modelers :)

Opeth:Forgive me if i'm repeating an already asked question, but what kind of rendering power did you use?
It seems to me that many of the shots, especially the tank shot, could benefit much from a 60% opacity, multiplied occlusion pass. And with such excellent compisiting elements, motions, lighting and everything actually, I found it difficult to understand why this wasn't done.

Another question, if I may; what software did you use for the smoke and explosions? I'm used to seeing Afterburn work behind these kind of effects, but you didn't mention Studio max being used so... What did you guys use?About rendering power, let's just say: too little. That, and a short timespan were the main reasons we couldn't blow all the bells and whistles we would have liked. But it's a very valid point, and something we're working on for future productions. About the smoke and explosions - see the answer for xtrm3d above.

I think the other questions have already been answered (a lot of people asking about production time, funny since it's in the original post :) ).

roblap: Thanks, I'm forwarding that to someone in charge.

One more thing: as you can see in the screenshots from the game (there are more over at gamespot http://www.gamespot.com/pc/strategy/worldinconflict/screenindex.html), it's got some pretty amazing graphics and it won't have any problem holding the candle to the cinematics even though it's realtime. In fact when working on particle effects and stuff for the cinematics, I often get ideas and help from the in-game graphics programmers. And I think all of the cinematics team benefit a lot from working so close (same office) as a bunch of really talented in-game artists and programmers.

[Bryn]

I really enjoyed the cinematic, the mocap on the characters totally added to the realism of the project. I think you guys did a fantastic job. Only thing I would say is that after the explosions in the mall, the chairs seem to slide quite unrealistically, and it also looked like the russians or (the bad guys) seemed to be attacking on xmas, ie xmas lights, on the houses, is that cos they are images on texture planes, or are those lights modeled?
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[seven6ty]

Nice work, especially for such a small team of people. I take it there's nothing of ingame play available for viewing?

[Zellstoff]

really really impressive... !!!:applause:

[unwrap]

Impressive animation overall, good job :thumbsup:. But I have no idea what can be made up about the cold war :shrug:.

[GaryDXD]

Absolutely incredible!

May I ask your workflow for MOCAP? Did you use motionbuilder? How did you get the data into Lightwave?

Also, how were your render times using all of the Radiosity, or did you bake a lot of it?

[Lunatique]

Excellent work. Whoever directed it did a great job. The way the camera pulls back to reveal each furious battle as actually being fought in places we don't usually associate with war--mundane shopping mall, suburb, amuzement park by the boardwalk..etc. Very compelling and creates a sense of dread--that war could come down on us just like rain. The final shot of the paratrooper diving out the transport aircraft---just stunningly epic.

[zkanal]

Cheers to all the guys at Massive|Cinematics!
And congratulations on the frontpage :)
You know it's beertime soon Anders?
:thumbsup:

[Russta]

its so annoying everybody is raving about how great this video is but i cant flippin see it!!! i cant download it for some reason, anybody else get this prob? im even trying to dl with getright and its saying the server is busy, is this true?

EDIT: Ok saw it at gametrailers.com instead, pretty cool

[AndersEgleus]

zkanal: Most definitely. :beer:

[Nicoloff77]

The most perfect 3D animation ever done (my inside tell me well, I think). Five stars from me. Great job, perfect and so real ! Whaooo !

[emptyslot]

well i really liked the logo before. now its just text. but anyhow the video stands out and that is what is important on the market (i think)

[sigtorkildal]

Sweet!

Awesome to see those animations in good hands, I heard good rumors about the trailer and had to wait until now to see it myself, but it was well worth waiting.


Hope to work with you guys soon again, now with new mocap toys and everything.



Cheers!

[blasphemy3_d]

Man it is one of the best videogame intro I have ever seen. Congrats!! I am really impressed.

[blasphemy3_d]

One more thing. I cannot understand the 4 stars... :surprised

5 for me. Sure!

Cheers..

[ffourier]

impressive work. Nice VFX !

[Tabu_Nuf]

You guys are my idols :D
This is one of the best videos youve done so far, even tho' the ones from GroundControl 2 also rock :)
Now you got us addicted.. then we need more :)

[bonne]

Wooauwza!
awesome!

[walfridson]

Nice work boys!

[greenj2]

Awesome trailer, I certainly hope the game will live up to its standard. :thumbsup:

[Galo]

haven't posted in a while but i will for this, 5 stars, don't hope this becomes reality though...

[GoranNF]

That's a awesome trailer,very realistic and the effects are very nice.I can't wait till the game is out,very well done guys.5 stars

[rkrehe20]

this is simply incredible.

[ghZaaaRK]

Sh*** again a wargame. Ghost Recon, Battlefield, etc etc
WAR isn't a game or at least not a funny game and prescisely the most uncreative field.

It sucks.

"We rock, we rock... rock you with our ****in' hightech weapons blowing away your illegales lifes in your far away lands" blablabla

[Cageman]

Sh*** again a wargame. Ghost Recon, Battlefield, etc etc
WAR isn't a game or at least not a funny game and prescisely the most uncreative field.

It sucks.

"We rock, we rock... rock you with our ****in' hightech weapons blowing away your illegales lifes in your far away lands" blablabla

Hey.. relax will ya? This thread is about the trailer, not the game. :)

[Mellbrix]

Hey.. relax will ya? This thread is about the trailer, not the game. :)

War is fun and exiting, but only if its fictional! Dont worry, we are only killing polygons, and that is ok =) WIC Trailer is great!

[Cageman]

War is fun and exiting, but only if its fictional! Dont worry, we are only killing polygons, and that is ok =) WIC Trailer is great!

Hi Mellbrix! How is it going at Massive? Having a blast, I suppose? :) You should be very happy surrounded with such a talanted team!

Can't wait to see you and the rest of the guys in May! :)

[Mellbrix]

Hi Cageman, Massive is a really great Game Studio! Not just the Cinematics Team, but the entire office. As a an intern it has been really interesting to see how professionals work in the CG Buissness and how the magic actually comes to life, instead of sitting in school guessing how its done. =) More Internships for everyone!

Looking forward to see you all in May.

[Taxisky]

Looks amazing, well done guyes!

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