The Battle Begins! ROD vs TF2

drewaconclusion · Post by **drewaconclusion** » Mon Jun 16, 2008 12:10 am

Hello everyone,

Just finished a new video and uploaded it. Basically, it's a bit of a comedic action video pitting the characters of Read or Die against the characters of Team Fortress 2. Not too much else I want to say about it here; the video information page has everything I want to mention at the moment. Anyhow, I hope everyone gets a kick out of it!

dazza1008 · Post by **dazza1008** » Mon Jun 16, 2008 4:43 am

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Great editing, and I could actually tell because one was anime and the other cg. (I'm not familiar with heaps of anime titles). Fantastic continuity. I admire your CG manipulation as well.

RatQuiRit · Post by **RatQuiRit** » Mon Jun 16, 2008 5:32 am

What do you mean by CG? It was just some TFC2 trailers to me. I liked your idea a lot, and you did quite a good job making the anime scenes fit with the TFC2 scenes.
But besides that, it was a bit tasteless, maybe not as funny as it could have been.
3/5

Tsunami Jones · Post by **Tsunami Jones** » Mon Jun 16, 2008 8:58 pm

Anyway, while I like ROD and TF2, I didn't think they were combined very well (perhaps because of ROD being 2D compared to the 3D nature of TF2).

Overall, it was ok. (I liked both parts seperately, but not really together).

Org Profile · Post by **GloryQuestor** » Tue Jun 17, 2008 5:02 pm

While I agree that some parts didn't seem to mesh well, there were some pretty nice moments. The ending was also great.

3/5

Org Profile · Post by **Otohiko** » Tue Jun 17, 2008 8:46 pm

I thought this was a lot of fun actually. Sure, it didn't mesh 100%, but I was pretty impressed at how much it did mesh. And I thought some of the "crossovers" were downright clever in how they were tied in. I'd say this worked quite well!

Kitsuner · Post by **Kitsuner** » Thu Jun 19, 2008 1:52 am

I like this kind of crossover more than the more common rotoscoping crossover, because it feels a little more natural.

Jnzk · Post by **Jnzk** » Thu Jun 19, 2008 4:12 am

Not bad at all.

drewaconclusion · Post by **drewaconclusion** » Fri Jun 20, 2008 10:02 pm

First off, thanks to everyone who downloaded and for the interesting comments.

dazza1008 wrote: Fantastic continuity. I admire your CG manipulation as well.

Thanks, the continuity was what I worked the hardest on to get right. In my mind, the whole thing would have come undone without it. As for CG manipulation, I didn't do any. That was all just the Meet the Character videos. By the way, the new Meet the Sniper video is hilarious. If you haven't seen it yet, you should.

Bryr_Röz wrote:I like this kind of crossover more than the more common rotoscoping crossover, because it feels a little more natural.

I agree. Though, I kind of have to eat my words on that because the first approach I had for making this video was to use a good deal of rotoscoping. However, after a couple hours of work in this direction, I trashed just about all of it. It just didn't look right (2D characters on a 3D image; along the lines of what Tsunami Jones was getting at). Not that it would ever perfectly mesh anyhow because of the whole 2D/3D issue (plus you're going from train/canyon scenes straight to NYC, etc. kind of like DBZ In a Nutshell "We need to go to someplace completely desolate and that would never be in real life at all..., but it's right over there").

At any rate, the only piece I saved was the clip used during the credits. I thought it was too funny a gag to just toss. Anyhow, I'm glad most everyone got it though. I just made it to be 2 minutes of silliness, nothing to be taken too terribly serious.