Hello OpenXcom community, big anouncement. Xcom movie coming to a computer screen near you soon(ish). This is not going to be movie commonly seen on Youtube or similar site where game footage is recorded and slapped together with duct tape and called a movie. This is a full fledged movie with actors, sets, props, and more explosions and pixelized death you can shake your stick at. I am going to do this movie in the style of Claymation, move an actor and take a picture then combine all pictures into video, mostly because of lack of skillset to automate most of the things I would like to accomplish. The tests I have done don't take long to do and look really nice. If you would like to part of this massive project (world first) any help would be greatly appreciated.
If you would like to be in this movie(pointing at you lead developers and modders and anybody else reading this) send me or upload on here all 8 directions of a head picture of you in the Xcom isometric view. The soldier picture below is an example of the detail available at that resolution, I will be able to make their mouth move for when they are talking. High resolution would be best, but send what you have. The Xcom main base is being created with a 8000 x 8000) resolution. Also below is a reverse view of the Skyranger, I spent way more time looking for a Gimp addon or graphics program capable of do that kind of mirroring than actually doing it. It still needs some work, but happy with it so far. The resolution will be doubled once I finish all the tweaks. You will see the Skyranger fly into view, touch down, and see the ramp drop down and the carnage begin. Hope you don't mind the OpenXcom logo on the wings. That logo is also on the command center floor in the base as well. If you have some music for a kickass Xcom soundtrack then by all means lets have a listen. Got some high resolutions buildings you would like to see get obliterated, I will have some rookie xcom soldier blow them up after a veteran soldier slipped a primed high explosive inside his backpack and told him to go scout that suspicious looking building over there.
I am aiming at about a 2 hour movie broken into 15-20 minute chunks. After the first movie is released I will either upload all .xcf files and other
resources on OpenXcom mod site if able to, or will upload somewhere else so others can create their own movie (ultimate mod??). Other snapshots will be released in the following days and weeks to show progress and video teasers. All comments, tips, criticism are encouraged.
