QuakeCon 2005 Day Two Coverage

Articles: Event Coverage

CES 2006 | CES 2005 | CES 2004 | QuakeCon 2005 | CES 2007

Author:
Editor:
Sponsor:
Published:

Kurtis Kronk
Brian

Aug. 13, 2005

Specifications

<< Home

Next >>

The videos available for download in this article require the DivX codec. Download it here.

Introduction

If you read our QuakeCon Day 1 Coverage article, you know that we walked away disappointed and, well! a bit shaken. The problem was that we were excited to see a "Special Presentation" by NVIDIA, but instead we were bombarded with... half-naked dancing men, lame dares and an utter lack of anything we would call "special.' We left that night extremely disappointed. In fact, we were considering driving around Dallas to find something fun to do, but the event was such a downer for us that we didn't even feel like going out and having fun. We just wanted to post the article, and go to sleep. Truth be told, we wanted to go home, but we decided to give QuakeCon another chance.

Luckily, our decision to stay in Dallas paid off, because today went very well. This is what our schedule looked like today:

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM: The DOOM Movie - A special panel discussion
1:30 PM - 2:00 PM: id Software Special Presentation
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM: QuakeCon Keynote - John Carmack

The DOOM Movie Panel Discussion

Basically, the DOOM movie panel discussion was a sort of question and answer session where Stephen Butts (from IGN.com I think) was doing the asking and Todd Hollenshead (CEO, id Software), Jeremy Steckler (co-executive producer, DOOM the movie) and John Rosengrant (special effects supervisor, Stan Winston studio) were there to answer.

I managed to take videos of a couple of the more interesting questions / responses, so make sure to check those out, but here's some of the more important things! A lot of effort has been put into the movie to make it stay true to the game - part of which involves a very unapologetic sort of approach, and apparently it was the intention from day one to get an R rating. Todd said something along the lines of "as with the game, we knew the movie had to be violent! just to be violent." After only a few minutes, they asked if we'd like to see the movie trailer - obviously we all said yes. We recorded a movie of the trailer, so make sure you give that a look.

DOOM the movie trailer (5.79 MB)
Todd talking about DOOM movie (3.42 MB)

Regarding the script, Jeremy mentioned that they had to revise the script over 30 times to get it just right. When asked about the basic storyline, and whether it follows with the game, Todd said "You're on Earth, you go to Mars through a worm hole, and then you realize you're in over your head and try to fight your way through demons from hell to get back." Todd noted that while visiting the movie set in Prague, it felt as though he felt as though he walked from Prague into the UAC center - everything looked as it did in the game, and as though you were on Mars, just like the game. John and everyone else at Stan Winston were of course thrilled to hear that they had Todd's approval, and then John started to talk about the various animatronics, prosthetics, and CGI work that went into the movie.

You may have heard rumors that the movie will feature a scene that attempts to re-create the feel of the FPS genre by showing you the character's point-of-view. It was revealed that this is in fact true, and better yet, we had the privilege of being the first to see the scene. We were even nice enough to take some videos so you can see it as well. However, a couple of things to note are that the scene is still a work-in-progress, the music, lighting, and other details will be polished more from what we saw today. Second, there were a lot of very low tones (heavy bass) during the scene, and our PowerShot A95 doesn't exactly have an amazing microphone, so we got lots of nasty distortion; also, the movies came out pretty dark. Oh well, we did our best with what we had, just check out the videos.

Jerry introduces FPS scene (709 KB)
DOOM movie FPS scene (8 MB)
DOOM movie FPS scene continued... (5.14 MB)
Commentary on DOOM movie FPS scene (6.56 MB)

Todd then mentioned that the movie would be in theaters on October 21st. We were also shown a bit of concept art and behind-the-scenes photos of some of Stan Winston's creations.

<< Home

Page 1 of 4

Next >>

Page 1: Introduction / The DOOM Movie Panel Discussion
Page 2: id Software Special Presentation
Page 3: More BYOC Photos
Page 4: Silly Nonsense

Subscribe to QuakeCon 2005 [more info]

View All

QuakeCon 2005 Day Three Coverage

QuakeCon 2005 August 17, 2005

QuakeCon 2005 Day One Coverage

QuakeCon 2005 August 11, 2005

Add Comment

5 User Comments

1 - Posted by Kurtis on August 13, 2005 - 9:26 am

Check out the stupid movies of us on the last page... We worked hard!

Oh yeah... and that QuakeCon coverage too, I guess that is also important...

(- Brian)

2 - Posted by PennyManDeux on August 15, 2005 - 7:50 pm

Hahaha... dorks... that's great

3 - Posted by Kurtis on August 15, 2005 - 7:57 pm

heh...

4 - Posted by handrail on August 16, 2005 - 8:43 am

you guys are cracking me up with the golfing videos. lovely spinning brian. kurtis is so uncoordinated i'm surprised he didn't impale himself on the putter.

5 - Posted by Kurtis on August 16, 2005 - 12:41 pm

my awkward jump was an attempt to actually hit the ball, heh. a couple holes before that, he gave me a similar, um, assignment? and every time i would miss the ball :-D

Add Comment

To add a comment without being a member, you may omit the password field, but you must enter your name (or nickname) along with your comment. * Denotes required fields.