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The villain for the 'Ultimate Spiderman back at high school' reboot is....




Surprising!, but he can do psychotic very well. I'd say that this comment;

I would take a duplicate oil rig from Sirens and place it in deep water off off Talos Island.
I would alter it in 3Ds Max so that it is looks a bit more of a scientific research platform.
I would have at it's inner core a large pool with depth markers marking a tunnel plunging down into the dark depths, then via submersible or just plain ole' swimming I'd make this so that going down deep you see the City of the Coralax looming out of the depths.

I'd finish that darn launchpad and get us up to Space station Gagarin and Moonbase Armstrong.

I'd put a ruined Amphitheatre built into the hillside in the Hollows. It would be for all intensive purposes at lower level - just a RP enviroment if needed, but at higher level i would make it so that clicking on an enchanted pillar in the arena took you back in time to before the hollowing and to a time when the Arena was in its prime and you could fight various beasts of increasing difficulty in a tournament.


I'd use Ouroboros to do historical missions properly in the game. Use the lore that we read about in the books and in-game. I want to visit the Isle of Praxidae for the Incarnates TF, I want to visit Eastgate and witness the Hollowing, I want to visit Whitesands before The Rikti saucer crash, I want to see the launch of The Moraine and its ill-fated journey.


In short after 6 years of so of a City of Heroes, i think the franchise can allow itself to explore the wider global enviroments - It doesn't mean we stop being a City of Heroes.
Lets get Tokoyo, Egypt, Antarctica and the a Wakanda-style Jungle complex in there, lets have that zero-G space station, the underwater City of the Coralax, and an underground city at the earths core.

As gorgeous at The new GR zones are, it is more urban sprawl. I'd love to see Ultra-Mode applied to something entirely different.
See Frozen Fire's excellent post: #306 for some ground-breaking architectual examples that could be used for inspiration to populate said new zones.

My sympathies to those affected by the layoffs. I hope you find positions elsewhere as quickly and painlessly as possible.

I must admit to being slightly confused on the press-release spin though. How can you 'put greater focus on' and 'optimize the refocus' when its your only gig.
I can't see this as just possibly trimming the surplus after GR development because the loss of your senior animation lead doesn't make sense.

Quite frankly I'm suspicious of NCwest re: possible targets / interference and/or timescale demands for the product. Its that kinda thing that pushes otherwise enthusiastic and capable staff to breaking point.

Anyway, thankyou for all your hard work. Good luck Chris and the rest of the recently liberated. Heres hoping opportunties arise for you all asap.

How did i know you were going to say that! >.<


Actually, re: the OP and considering the appeal of StarWars is multi-generational now, I'd go with George sitting in the Emperor's garb stroking his beard and saying to the next generation of blu-ray/3d/hologram consumers ; "It is unavoidable. It is your destiny. You, like your father, are now mine".

Yes theres the Blu-Ray editions coming with addition of Luke sitting in his cave fiddling with his lightsaber bit. You can bet there will also be the Blu-Ray 3D versions released as well following their theatrics.

....then the live action series in blu-ray and blu-ray 3D.

....then the next 3 films following ROTJ in both formats, then the KotoR film in both formats,

...and in the near future when the Japanese have got the 'middle of the room' 3d hologram tech working and commercially priced (yes thats right: hologram broadcast - some student has already developed a test rig demo'ing the tech) - you can bet we'll have the saga unfolding on the very medium R2-D2 demonstrates when playing the 'help me Obi-Wan' message - hows that for eerie.

then the smelli-vision (so real you'll swear you can smell the bantha-poodoo™) tech, then the holodeck tech (would you shoot Greedo first ?™) - In short, be prepared to keep seeing this saga refreshed everytime new technology is released.

I've had enough. I'm perfectly happy with my boxset.
And considering the age of the original trilogy, even though they have been restored, they were not filmed in high def so are not going to be as crystal clear as if they were filmed with todays camera-tech. I've read several reviews that said the Blu-Ray Superman film is barely worth it over the normal remastered dvd re: picture quality.

So yes, sorry George, enoughs enough for this 1080i upscaled luddite. I can catagorically say i won't be replacing any of my StarWars films unnecessarily.













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Aww.... Dammit, I will won't i.

Wayne's exam papers spoke for themselves.

Follow-up IO9.com article: Posters from Zarmina.

Loving both 300 and Watchmen I'm ok with Zach having a stab at the Superman franchise.
I'll be brutally honest though and say that I am far more comfortable knowing that it is Chris Nolan who ok'd him as director and will be godfathering the project.

Seems to me we get the best of Snyders imaginative work tempered by the masterful slant of Nolans approach. Colour me interested.



[EDIT]: Relevant io9.com feature

I really like the retro-prototype I version (they've got that iron man mk I feel) with that bulky actuator on the back and windy-cranking noises.

The Prototype 2.0s are a good improvement though. I think its really interesting to see the actual inventor's workshop and bench in this video.

Plenty of hoverboard videos (both real and fake) on youtube. The only ones capable of carrying any substantial weight though are not skateboard size but essentially mini-hovercrafts. Theoretically you could do it with superconductors and magnets like the maglev trains, but then again you would have to have magnets imbedded in the ground and be comfortable riding a liquid nitrogen-cooled deathtrap.

I love the fact that she took this on and made it real though!, I don't know if Nike has approached her or not, i mean they are not short of cash and could help by donating a % of sales towards arthritis research.

The ones in the movie are quite a bit faster though aren't they, i mean in lacing tight in an instant. I've always thought it would be quite funny if you got your fingers caught in the laces if you tried to put both feet in at once as you'd keel over with your fingers caught in the shoes. I also thought the lacing up would start near the toes, i mean who ties their ankles tight before securing their feet?.... still, authentic to the movie and all that.

Isn't it the 30th anniversary of BTTF this year?, maybe Nike will have these Nike McFlys in production for the 40th.

I know of people whom after watching the crappy 'Clash of the Titans' remake specifically went out, rented, watched and then bought on Blu-Ray the original 1982 masterpiece in preference.

Its much better.

I'd say the Authors participation in this redux saves it from being filed under the typical 'lazy Hollywood' remakes catagory. Sounds authentic in tone and vision, and if he the Author is happy who am i to argue.

I'll draw the line at Bollywood's musical interpretation 'Let the right naan in' though.

Seeing as though we are talking about CGI in the context of superheroes i'll point out this sneaky little cross-forum link (because theres no way i'm reposting all these links. ) - Zbrush is incredible (and you don't need to rig the model with a skeleton to pose or animate).

Nuff' said, see post #69 and the links highlighted throughout for case studies of superhero competition goodness..

Seeing as though the 21st Century is set to be the age of Biotechnology, some experts have said it would possibly be easier to adapt Man to the destination's enviroment rather than the other way around.

Thus in the future we could have different varieties and cousins of the original Human species colonizing space. Those strange hard-skinned tri-eyelid humans from windswept dustworld, the gilled and web-fingered waterworld Humans from the marine planet, the hulking muscular humans from dense gravity world all round a stretcher talking to the thin and delicate ambassador from light gravity gasworld - all together having a party, an anniversary-bash and commonwealth of humans.

Be one hell of a party!. I imagine racism would be dead by then.... or maybe not knowing our track record. *rolls eyes*

I'd love to see an homage to the funk-tastic 70's themetune in a tv series. Maybe Diana in trailing a suspect to a nightclub where its 70's night and the tune is playing with dancers spinning round with their arms outstetched.

Kinda like how the old Spidey tune was paid homage to in Raimi's Spiderman 2 with the Chinese female busker plucking away on the violin to the 70's spiderman tv theme and Peter Parker looking at her with a bemused expression.

My advice to anyone who wanted to learn 3DS Max or Maya would be to get the reduced price Autodesk Education Suite ($199 i think) which has full versions of 3DS Max, Maya, Mudbox and Softimage in it (amongst other stuff) available from the Autodesk site.
You can use it to learn the software in conjunction with those sites i mentioned.

You have to be registered as on a college course for a certain amount of hours per week to qualify (part-time & evening classes qualify too). Other than that the commercial full price of both Max ($3,495) & Maya ($4,995) are ridiculously expensive.

Shame Blender isn't used more in industry, but like i said... once industry standards are set in stone for a good long while (like Max for games & architectectual visualisation & Maya for Animation) and artists have spent years learning the software, it takes an enormous amount of innovation and price penetration to get them out of their entrenched positions as far as those being the industry standards.

As far as expectations go; from scratch and knowing nothing about 3ds Max you could probably get to about this capable in an academic year. Makes Blur Studio's 3ds max work on the 'Decieved' and 'Hope' sw:tor trailers seem a long way off doesn't it. =D

Yes, but the difference was it was not her job that was on the line.... it was all about pleasing Steve because she wuved him and genuinely fretted about letting him down.

I want to see something more akin to the build-up of the Kingdom Come Diana. A proper Amazonian princess with a clear mission.

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