Trailers: Difference between revisions

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-finish, let's call it done; divhiding that massive 1998 trailer post, and since the divhide box needed a title, I credited the famous Bungie fan who wrote it; added para. about trailer's immediate takedown
(→‎1999: since the analysis of the trailer happened on both Pre-beta pages, linking to the other one here and removing the "Later" notice)
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==1998==
==1998==
At the time this trailer was made, Oni had only been in development for a year. There was probably no actual gameplay footage that the team felt was decent enough, so this CG trailer was produced by the two main artists for the game, Alex Okita and Chris Hughes, as well as Steve Abeyta. Abeyta revealed in an {{OCF}} thread that "[i]t was my first try at animating since I was hired on as an environment artist." His skills would improve amazingly by the time Oni was released.
At the time this trailer was made, Oni had only been in development for a year. There was probably no actual gameplay footage that the team felt was decent enough, so this CG trailer was produced by the two main artists for the game, Alex Okita and Chris Hughes, as well as Steve Abeyta. Abeyta revealed in an {{OCF}} thread that "[i]t was my first try at animating since I was hired on as an environment artist." His skills would improve amazingly by the time Oni was released.
The trailer, however, did not fare as well. Alex Seropian was rather displeased that the Bungie West team had taken it upon themselves, as a satellite studio, to advertise the game with their own self-released trailer before any in-engine footage was available or the feature set was locked down, and asked game journalists to cease hosting it. It was quickly taken down from many parts of the early Web.


Notable elements:
Notable elements:
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===Frame-by-frame breakdown===
===Frame-by-frame breakdown===
*This is transcribed from [http://marathon.bungie.org/story/newmay-june98.html here]. Since so little was known at the time about Oni, and Oni itself was yet to be revamped, this is more interesting for historical purposes than it is informative.
*This is copied from [http://marathon.bungie.org/story/newmay-june98.html here]. Since so little was known at the time about Oni, and Oni itself was yet to be revamped, this is more interesting for historical purposes than it is informative.
*I deliberately didn't edit the text. [[Konoko]] being called Kokono and Koko... datz kewt :)
*I deliberately didn't edit the text. [[Konoko]] being called Kokono and Koko... datz kewt :)
*Notes from me are in '''''bold italics''''' [[User:Geyser|geyser]]
*Notes from me are in '''''bold italics''''' [[User:Geyser|geyser]]
*I'd love it if people made the snapshots the guy is talking about... or I'll have to do that myself at some point :(
*I'd love it if people made the snapshots the guy is talking about... or I'll have to do that myself at some point :(
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{{Divhide|Post by Forrest Cameranesi, June 19, 1998}}
Interesting things, as I flip through that Oni trailer frame-by-frame:  
Interesting things, as I flip through that Oni trailer frame-by-frame:  


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THE END
THE END
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==1999==
==1999==