At last I got to finish this movie:

Thanks a lot to Russell Boyd (Joe 90) who helped me with video aspects and Michael Lockhart (310th Falcon) with sound effects.

In this movie you will see the integration of IL2 and COD game engines by means of screening/overlaying as well as real human appearance made possible with the blue screening method.

Blip-tv stream viewer (not the best resolution but much better than You-Tube, thanks Russell for tip):

http://blip.tv/file/828296

High resolution download on avi format with divx codec:

http://files.filefront.com/Stuka+Ju87+Gavi/;10011596;/fileinfo.html

On Youtube (45 sec cut)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qW_zHZ5MPIA

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Excellent work, biltongbru.

It was great to see this all wrapped up into the final movie.

You've put a LOT of effort into this to combine the 2 game engines as well as adding humans and it has really paid off.

Well done on completing a very good piece of work

Cheers! Biltongbru.

I watched the video half away in a school... without sounds so now im downloading the HQ version.

Looks awesome... If yal start new project sometime Drop by to send me PM about it maybe i can help.

Oops.. no need to move & link.. again great stuff...

Very well done biltongbru!!

Like Joe-90 has already mention to you...nice to see the final movie.

Indeed a very nice piece of work!! Super great job blending the game engine together.

Excellent job on the SFX also...Love it!!

Outstanding job on inserting the overlaying/masking the human element into the movie.

An "Oleg Trophy"...I hope so!


Best Regards

Great movie and very well put together. Love the visuals on the dark deep shadows and colour (or lack of).

Excellent job.

Posted it here too: http://il2mdb.montydan.com/IL2MovieDB&tags=biltongbru

Wow! A truly superb movie...Exceptionally Artistic in both sound and visual modes, with superb technical achievements in Special FX. Stuka Engine sounds stand out as unusually realistic, and the incorporation of "live" human characters is clearly a remarkable, nearly unprecedented, feature.

While it is always difficult to compare apples to oranges, I must say that this is definitely one of the Best movies ever produced using the IL2 Flight Sim game engine....Masterful merging with Call of Duty to present hugely superior ground scenes/objects...

It is really thrilling to see such a creative movie appearing on the scene so late in the life of the IL2 Series and in the continuing evolution of the IL2 movie-making niche.

I'd say that with this movie following your "Inside the Whirlwind" that you have stepped into the very front rank of IL2 Movie-Makers!!! No more mere newbie Silver Oleg's for you, my friend...

Well Done!! 5 out of 5 Stars from me and a Big Salute!



[Standby for more to come.... ]

Fabulous!

elephant, Joe-90, Andy, Bearcat, Falcon, BBloke, Doolittle and JG52Uther

Many thanks for your kind comments; I am a member of this forum for 4 months but gained so much "unrestricted" info from this forum and it's members; thanks for that as well

Nice! Very hard to get a 'style' when so many have tried before so coming up with your own is great to see. Often blue (or green) screening a character immediately looks comical but you've managed to fit it nicely with your cello mooded film. Fantastic!

This cutting-edge movie has just been added to the Best of the Best IL2 movies indexed at the "Flight Sim Movies" website, and it is now the featured selection for 2008.

It has been especially recognized with the award of the Golden Oleg for outstanding artistic achievement, along with superb technical achievement in special effects.

Congratulations biltongbru!

Well deserve!!


Best Regards

Thanks for the award, much appreciated

I will see if I can do a little tutorial to show you how to get an aged pilot climbing into a stuka cockpit.

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I've just got around to watching this, I'm amazed , wonder who's going to be the first person to do a simulated parachute descent The thing is apart from the human element I liked the other aspects even more.
The airfield sequence with startup(best sound ever)and take offs is fantastic, and the ground attack truly impressive particularly the couple of integrated shots of the train yard which looked even better than the tanks, also the flak guns and matched to the ariel action.

Biltong (or is it mr Oleg ) I've got a couple of questions, in COD I can see how you most of those shots from first person ground troop view but how did you get to look down from above? this game does'nt have an editor or freecam right?
What do you use to get your washed out visual effect, you have vegas I think? is it simply darkening and adding glow or some special after effects package.

Hi Wolf

Thanks for your kind comments ; yes it was your mistake to introduce me to this forum ; now my free time is mostly occupied by this (lol)

quote:

wonder who's going to be the first person to do a simulated parachute descent

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2k6GsuUTs48

I am sure you have seen this vid, brilliant, with parachute decent, (pilot somewhat aged though... and a bit cheesy according to Joe...} But still excellent effects.

quote:

in COD I can see how you most of those shots from first person ground troop view but how did you get to look down from above? this game does'nt have an editor or freecam right?

In COD 1 and 2 You go in multiplayer and use the spectator pan to move around and do the frapping.

quote:

What do you use to get your washed out visual effect, you have vegas I think? is it simply darkening and adding glow or some special after effects package.

Yes you are correct: use contrast, brightness and glow, play radically around with these until it looks ok.

keep well

Thanks Biltong, I can never figure out all that glow contrast stuff I'll have to experiment more.
Yes, it was me who posted the captain quinn clip last year in a thread about human pilots,I was wondering when you were going to attempt the bail out sequence I know the cheese-o-meter goes off the scale but when you realise he's actually made it for his wife and kid rather than a WWII movie it's quite touching..... in a cheesey kind of way
I think he's great anyway, he's out there pushing the envelope with his balls in wind, I take my hat off to the guy.

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Hi biltongbru,

The above comments are really justified, a simply wonderful piece of work, you can see that you have put so much effort, thought and creativity into every aspect of this little gem

This one is a keeper and has been burnt to disc already to keep in my favourite’s box, and there aren’t that many in the box

Great movie and your contribution to the forum so far is top draw. Don’t stop now

Monty-Dan

Nice work, Biltongbru. This is the best integration of live-action and IL-2 video I've seen yet. A little bit of color correcting would make it even better, but this is much better than the previous efforts I've seen. If I'm not mistaken, that's Joe90 in the Stuka.

Hi GL2

Thanks for the kind comments

quote:

If I'm not mistaken, that's Joe90 in the Stuka.

Yip, I specially flew him in to S Africa for the shoot but told him to work a bit on his weight for the next shoot



(only joking)