AICN Episode III Video Post

I found the following article on theforce.net this afternoon ... was anyone able to catch the video while it was up ?? If so, can someone host it and repost. Must of been something legit for them to pull it so fast .. right ?? 🤨

EP3: Clip from the Movie?
Tue, Aug 17, 04 11:05:16 AM EDT

AICN posted a sweet video clip saying it was from Episode III, then retracting it saying that it was from a video game. They've updated the story again, now suggesting it is not from a game or ROTS but something else to be announced this week. Our guess it is from the Episode III preview on the Star Wars Bonus Disc coming to DVD next month, though the fact that it is still online makes us wonder if it is legit at all, considering Lucas' now familiar heavy hand.
The clip shows Clonetroopers landing on a forest planet in gunships and shooting lasers at unknown enemies. It is about the quality of an animatic and must be seen no matter what it is for. Nice!

Hmm maybe, I dunno, but I don't trust anything coming from AICN unfortunately. 🙁 After all, it was them who said that Episode 3 was going to be called "The Creeping Fear." lol

But still that was interesting. Someone with that video please?

This has been revealed to be a vid shot from a video game. And I saw it yesterday downloaded it and then deleted it because it was indeed crap.

Si, senorita.

I saw it, and it is pretty crude and crappy.

cornponious

it is not from ep 3 .The clones are the versions from ep 2.

ok. 2 things for sure:

1. it isnt any game footage
2. It isnt final scenes of ROTS

it could be some animatics tho. they took the old troopers, cause maybe the design of the new ones werent decided yet. remember, animatics are done even before shooting starts.

hmmmmm, Ive read several places that it was going to be game footage....odd

It is game footage it's from Star Wars Battlefront games coming out in the UK the same day as the OT DVD box set, The scene is from the opening credits displaying all of the units on different planets the planet on the clip is Kashyyyk, trust me i've been lucky enough to play some of it, oh and by the way it's great

Originally posted by Jedi Priestess
hmmmmm, Ive read several places that it was going to be game footage....odd

heh, there isnt any gma engine out there that can render such a quality in real time. As Darth Malik said, it coulb be an intro video. they are prerendered.

That would be what she meant, Nomen.

Seriously- don't trust AICN.

I think it is just an animatic. If you watch the Ep. 2 animatics, they are of a similar quality, just not quite as good.

I don't think it's an intro movie to a game, since it seems a bit empty and lifeless.

The only thing that I know for sure is that AICN is as bad as Supershadow.

I've seen it too and its star wars battle front, it tells you that when you download it 😮‍💨

Well, I thought that at one point too, but go to the page that has the link, and look under it. It says something like footage from sw: battlefront. Then look below that, and you see another update that says it is not from sw: battlefront, and since the link to the download was made before they made that update, well, it doesn't count. The real point, however, is that none of what is on that site should be taken as a fact. In a little while we'll know what that footage is.

Originally posted by Ushgarak
That would be what she meant, Nomen.

Seriously- don't trust AICN.

i don't. ;-)

well, its crap whatever it is.
that we are all agreed on.

if that was an actual movie clip i would have to stay home on may19
🙄

well someone mentioned at the time it 'surfaced' that it was actually a peice of footage used by a smal firm trying to demonstrate their software at Sigraph his year. Now I'm trying to verify (or otherwise) his sotry as a good mate of mine works for a big firm that are there and if theres anything like this been shown he'll have seen it. But of course when you need him he's not there...lol
My thoughts are this on the footage itself. If this was a fan piece or a cut scene from a game I'd be pleased enough but there is no way i can see thiss being real for a very good reason. Forget teh clone troopers jumping out of the transport [that look very dodgy indeed!] its actually the background that looks fake to me....to much like soemthing filmed by a fan. There is no epic quality you see on lucas's recent work. Plus compare a clone footage piece from AOTC and you'll see teh 'colour' of the actual footage is all wrong.
thats my views for what they are worth.
Sorry for the terrible typos as well but I cut the end of my finger off yesterday [on a laptp battery of all things!] and its bugggered up my typing...LOL

Wayne...

damn, sorry to hear that...i guess i will handle my battery with much caution from now on.

I've read this on a german page (starwars-union.de) :

"Dieses Video ist ein ILM-Test, der während der Vorproduktion von Episode II für George Lucas erstellt wurde. Mit einer Handkamera sollte experimentiert werden, wie die voll computergenerierten Klonsoldaten aussehen und mit ihrer Umwelt interagieren würden, teilweise eben auch im Stil einer "echten" Kriegsberichterstattung (mit verwackelten Bildern, etc.). Weil das eine neue Technik war, wurden mehrere Testläufe dieser Art durchgeführt, um die Effektivität der Technik zu beweisen und um zu zeigen, daß es möglich sein würde, alle Klonsoldaten am Computer zu verwirklichen, anstatt sie von kostümierten Schauspielern darstellen zu lassen.

Das hier gezeigte Material wird Teil der "The Legacy of Star Wars"-Dokumentation sein, die im Rahmen der bald erscheinenden DVD-Box zu sehen sein wird. Unter anderem wird diese Dokumentation bestimmte Filmtechniken zeigen, die in der Krieg-der-Sterne-Saga erstmals überhaupt zum Einsatz kamen."

It says it was an ILM test video for AOTC that was made during the post production. They were trying to figure out some new technics. That video will be part of the "Legacy of Star Wars" video included in the DVD box.

EDIT: Could it be that this topic already exists? 🙄

thanks PVS... yeah those batteries are killers 🙂 beware the dark side! I think it must have been a sith laptop....LOL

Wayne...

I cut my finger on a plaster once, the ironey of it!!!!, still pretty sure its battlefront, its way too similar to what ive seen of the game, cant wait for that, ARC's oh yes 😮‍💨