Video: “Code Guardian”
posted at 10:53 pm on April 20, 2007 by Allahpundit
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Did I say awesome? I meant criminally awesome. Click the image to watch.
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Thanks for putting this up allah
William Amos on April 20, 2007 at 10:54 PM
AP, thanks, that was awesome!
stonemeister on April 20, 2007 at 11:17 PM
Finally…music from the newer Star Wars atrocities backing up a good film.
Bryan on April 20, 2007 at 11:17 PM
Rock on! I’d see it in the theaters.
Verbal Abuse on April 20, 2007 at 11:24 PM
That’d make the most kick ass WW2 game ever!
lorien1973 on April 20, 2007 at 11:25 PM
Very Good, would luv to see a movie of it.
djohn669 on April 20, 2007 at 11:34 PM
Dude that was AWESOME!
Bad Candy on April 20, 2007 at 11:40 PM
That was totally worth the longass time it took to load!!!!
And I rarely say that!
Bad Candy on April 20, 2007 at 11:41 PM
When I was akid, I thought that “Rockem, Sockem Robots” was the coolest thing ever.
If I had only known…
billy on April 20, 2007 at 11:41 PM
Amazing. Great video.
Slublog on April 20, 2007 at 11:50 PM
Is this how the robot that Michael Jackson is building is gonna look like? Will it be wearing a burqa?
Kini on April 20, 2007 at 11:56 PM
Full length movie and video game of this needs to be made NOW!!!
Yakko77 on April 20, 2007 at 11:59 PM
Finally a movie about Fred! kick’n Nazi booty!
Limerick on April 21, 2007 at 12:04 AM
Retro-revisionist-historical-science-fiction is always the coolest!
The Nazi news film thing is a bit passe’ but still effectual.
I’d play the video game!
Ya Know… It’s telling how many folks on that website (and here too) are clamoring for a war movie where WE have a victory, Eg: WWII. Even for a fantasy one like this would be.
Hollywood’s missing out on some BIG cash…
-Wasteland Man.
WastelandMan on April 21, 2007 at 12:09 AM
That was some surprisingly cool war porn eye candle. Thanks for the cool find.
KCtheKat on April 21, 2007 at 12:16 AM
Very cool P51-D action.
The soundtrack is OK, but I’d rather hear Black Sabbath – Iron Man during the Mech Deathmatch.
infidel4life on April 21, 2007 at 12:21 AM
Not a fan of Jar Jar?
/running like Homestar
- The Cat
MirCat on April 21, 2007 at 12:31 AM
those P-51s were the best part! Awesome movie!
Defector01 on April 21, 2007 at 12:31 AM
Good stuff. The Italian actor doing the voice-over for the American wing commander was hilarious.
spmat on April 21, 2007 at 12:42 AM
My freinds who pointed this video out to me (and I passed to allah Im gonna take credit) Say this is also his work
http://youtube.com/watch?v=i1yQODB_6tw
I think the voices are also CG
William Amos on April 21, 2007 at 12:47 AM
http://www.steamwars.com/
fusionaddict on April 21, 2007 at 12:48 AM
I didn’t really get the ending. But it was freakin’ awesome anyway.
DaveS on April 21, 2007 at 12:56 AM
I hate to nitpick over historical details in a film about giant friggin’ mechs in WWII, but I saw Air Force stripes on one of the American servicemen on the ground toward the beginning. The Air Force wasn’t around until 1947.
Sean M. on April 21, 2007 at 1:21 AM
“Aw, I hit you wit your own pimp! I’m the Juggernaut, b***h!”
see-dubya on April 21, 2007 at 1:28 AM
Of course was always “Space Battles” star trek vs star wars verse B5 vs battlestar galactical
All short little CGI battlescenes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXnPG19npW8
William Amos on April 21, 2007 at 1:31 AM
Yoshimitsu?
Bad Candy on April 21, 2007 at 1:32 AM
Fusion, that’s actually pretty cool…
Bad Candy on April 21, 2007 at 1:40 AM
My mama said only bad things happen after midnight. Dude, that was BAD and mama ain’t disappointed.
pistolero on April 21, 2007 at 1:48 AM
The US has a kiss ass robot -and the best they can give it is “Captain”?
We’re HUGE alternate-and real-history fans in this abode.
I’ve a feeling this will be getting plenty of viewing here.
Btw Bryan:
I totally agree with you about the ‘later’ Star Wars.
I was dragged to see the original when I was what-6..
I actually still have some of the ORGINAL Star Wars cards.(remember those?)
My 13 y. o. son likes the newer-crappy-movies.
Generation gap maybe?
annoyinglittletwerp on April 21, 2007 at 1:49 AM
Nice, when do we see the “Harry Reid” robot kill the “US Soldier”?
PinkyBigglesworth on April 21, 2007 at 1:57 AM
How about the “Al-Queda” Robot, loosing to the “US Soldier”?
PinkyBigglesworth on April 21, 2007 at 2:11 AM
Huh? What would the Harry Reid robot do, dialogue it to death?
You have to have a modern industrial civilization to build a robot, so that Al-Qaeda bot won’t be happening for at least a few centuries, if ever…
Bad Candy on April 21, 2007 at 2:33 AM
“Holy crap, we’re under attack!”
(not spoken) “Let’s continue to fly in circles around a giant robot firing 88mm AA shells at us!”
Reaps on April 21, 2007 at 2:33 AM
A German mech attacks a US port, surrounded by BBs with 16″ guns, and they decide to try to take it out with…
Mustangs.
And only when all but one of the pilots are dead, THEN they get their own mech out
Alright, alright, I could pick at this for ages – I can understand the point of ‘dramatic effect’, but.. eesh.
At least the ‘half power rangers, half Godzilla vs Mothra’ mech-fight at the end makes up for it
Reaps on April 21, 2007 at 2:53 AM
The results…
PinkyBigglesworth on April 21, 2007 at 3:47 AM
Allow me the indulgence to point out a historic error:
There was a flash of a rank insignia on one of the servicemembers in the harbor. He wore Air Force Chevrons with the rank of “Chief Master Sergeant” with a first sergeant device.
Aside from the fact the Air Force didn’t exist back then, the rank of Chief Master Sergeant didn’t exist until much later and the third upper stripe wasn’t moved up (from the former down rocker) until the mid-1990’s.
Alright, so what. It’s a cool-looking game anyway.
Black Adam on April 21, 2007 at 4:56 AM
I hate giant robotic Illinois Nazis.
saint kansas on April 21, 2007 at 5:41 AM
Illinois Nszis?
What makes you think he’s from Illinois?
You’re a Cards fan, right?
(A Chicagoan in St. L.)
annoyinglittletwerp on April 21, 2007 at 6:55 AM
Dude, that was freakin’ awesome! Yeah, you could probably nit-pick some of the technicalities,but, dude that was freakin’ awesome!
vcferlita on April 21, 2007 at 8:03 AM
We’ll see Marco Spitoni’s name again.
As for battle mechs, I imagine they’ll be man-size, light, fast, and controlled from virtual-reality workstations by rotating shifts of middle-age men who got their start with Wii. They will be the most fearless infantry ever seen, for an obvious reason.
Kralizec on April 21, 2007 at 9:01 AM
“Its a robot, how surprised could it be?” What a great line
Capitalist Infidel on April 21, 2007 at 9:13 AM
I don’t get why it was shooting at men on the ground when they obviously couldn’t harm it in any way. Seems like a waste of ammo. Also it seemed to be shooting at things it could have easily destroyed just by smashing them. You’d think after the first ineffectual attack the fighter planes would have given way to some kind of rocket attack. The voiceover acting was awful.
That said, the animation was KICK ASS. Very realistic and very cool.
Farmer_Joe on April 21, 2007 at 9:57 AM
Motivated to re-load “Mech Commander” and play a few rounds. Totally cool. I was doing some research on my hero’s from WWII because of Sen. Harry “Testicals Removed” Reid and came across this:
http://www.pattonhq.com/speech.html
Made my kids read it last night.
Wuptdo on April 21, 2007 at 10:40 AM
Not only that, but they’re the newer version of senior NCO stripes that weren’t introduced until the early ’90s.
flipflop on April 21, 2007 at 10:43 AM
Anybody interested in the pure geek angle, a Japanese artist named Kow Yokoyama did a lot of design work and model-building around the theme of WW2-tech robots and battle suits. It’s cool stuff.
Blacklake on April 21, 2007 at 11:15 AM
I thought this was a waste of time. I watched it around midnight and dedcided that worming the puppy would be more fun than this.
robo on April 21, 2007 at 11:47 AM
Ah… WWII, when Dhemocrats still had all their male parts intact.
Mojave Mark on April 21, 2007 at 1:06 PM
Thank you! My 11-year old son wants to be an animator someday. We watched this together and discussed all the little details that went into it, like the rain drops, birds flying in the background, the sparks, everything. He thought it was really cool.
CookeyD on April 21, 2007 at 1:31 PM
Being the contrarian I am…
The graphics and animation are incredibly good; difficult to believe this was a one-man operation, the quality is so professional.
The P-51 wasn’t in-service at this time.
Of course it had the PC “token-black-sailor” shot.
Through most of the film I was thinking, “Palm Trees?”, trying to figure out why a German mech would attack in the Pacific.
The U.S. mech’s helmet made it look more like a Soviet mech.
The Jap mech fighting the U.S. mech to a standstill? TOTAL BS. I hate PC. Then again, maybe it’s a tribute to Japan’s delayed victory sometime in the 1970s. (Go ahead, gripe at me about hating Japanese culture, then go on in another thread condemning Islamic culture. I won’t call you hypocrites, honest.)
That coal-scuttle helmet looked familiar; then after reviewing some documentary tapes, I realised where I’d seen it before. Obviously the BATF rebuilt the German mech to use in the Waco Massacre.
Hiraghm on April 21, 2007 at 1:38 PM
It was a Blues Brothers reference.
“Nazis. I hate Illinois Nazis.”
That’s all.
Freelancer on April 21, 2007 at 1:56 PM
CookeyD,
If you have the cash, and want your boy to have a leg up on CG animation, you’ll want to start out with Adobe CreativeStudio, 3DStudio Max 9, AfterEffects, and Maya. Oh, and a computer capable of running a QuadroFX4500 video card.
Freelancer on April 21, 2007 at 2:06 PM
Freelancer, you’re talking $10 grand worth of software.
If he wants to get a taste of it, and to see how determined he is, I would advise starting with Blender and the Gimp. Both are free, and both have a steep learning curve, but once you can handle them, you’ll be set for any other package. In fact, I’ve picked up Blender for my PC because there is also a version for Windows CE that will work on my cell phone.
Maya has a PLE version, which is fully functional, it just saves in its own custom format and renders with watermarks.
My favorite 3D package is still Lightwave, though I’m considering a switch to Modo. I like the separation of modelling and rendering that Lightwave provides.
I’ve never really liked Max, but I would say if you get Adobe CS and Maya, you’re ready to start. You still will need video edit software, and I haven’t found any I really like yet, though there are some good freeware / shareware ones out there I haven’t really given a fair trial, yet.
I’d love to put together a freeware / cheapware CGI package for wannabe CGI artists to start with..
Sorry to ramble on, I love 3D modelling/rendering, but haven’t really had / taken the time to do any in almost, geez, 3 years. That’s one of the reasons I want to play around with Blender. I always have my phone with me.
Blender’s website
The Gimp
My old work
Hiraghm on April 21, 2007 at 2:48 PM
Sorry freelancer. LOL
I was but a youngster when BB came out.
annoyinglittletwerp on April 21, 2007 at 5:22 PM
Did anyone notice when the third plane goes down and breaks up on the docks it breaks open a crate with the Lost Ark in it? It is about halfway through.
ej_pez on April 21, 2007 at 6:44 PM
Yes I notice that as well. I think there are easter eggs in that video including slip ups on purpose just to see if people are paying attention.
William Amos on April 21, 2007 at 8:46 PM
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