Producing/directing/writing
team David and Scott Hillenbrand have a slick sounding flick up their
sleeves called GameBox
1.0
(view the trailer here).
It stars
Nate Richert
and
Danielle
"Topanga" Fishel
and
will hit DVD shelves on
April 10, 2007
via LG
(Pre-order it here).
Here’s
the Synopsis: Charlie Nash’s, who is an expert at
testing video games, life has become unbearable since the tragic death of his
girlfriend ‘Kate’.
One day Charlie receives a
mysterious futuristic video game system that pulls him into game worlds in the
style of ‘Grand Theft Auto’, ‘Resident Evil and ‘Halo’, while forcing him into
a coma in the real world.
Charlie realizes that he
must use all his expert gaming skills to navigate through the dangerous streets
of a crime-ridden city, a zombie infested forest, and a war zone on an alien
planet. He must win the game to survive.
Here’s some info on the
film’s zany special effects:
– Unique look created (never
before seen in a feature) where real actors are made to look like CG characters
in games such as Grand Theft Auto, Halo, Doom, etc. to feel like they are fully
in the game environment.
Computer generated worlds
that make viewer feel like inside the world of a modern day video game –
advanced to the near future.
My kind of visual effects…
-Video Game concepts
embedded into special effects and story, such as ‘Repeat Mode’ where characters
start back at last checkpoint reached prior to losing a "Game Life".
Video Game angles are used
extensively such as ‘1st Person Shooter’.
-Used latest on-set camera mounts from
Doggie-Cam to lock the camera to actors’ movements to provide this game
perspective look when composited with computer generated effects.
-Specialized filters were
created to give sporadic pixillization and degradation to simulate the
processors in video game effects – so as to add stylized imperfections to
movements and worlds.
Topang these
Topangas baby!
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