Uprising 1 - Ghosts Awakened
 

I can't believe how much I released in 2000. The second half of this movie was completed in a 10-day marathon in order to....I dunno. It wasn't being done for a film fest, so I'm not quite sure why I was rushing to get it out in December.

This is a series that never quite got off the ground, though for a few years I considered it the saga I most wanted to get done. For whatever reason, it just never congealed in a way I was satisfied with; I even scrapped the first attempt at it at 95% completion (and I will take that version to the grave with me). Even in its much better form, Uprising is painfully naive and cliched, especially in its first half, and never quite comes together in the way Vlarion 1 did. I had huge, huge plans for where all this was going to go, and its resolution is essentially the final story in Vlarion's universe, bringing to bear everything that was left unresolved in V4. Elements of it are even still referenced in AV4, its antagonist playing an indirect role in the final resolution of that movie as well.

One thing that hasn't aged too horribly were the battle scenes, my first attempt to create a really dynamic camera that would make these exercises more lively. Sheer detail of visual effects and scenery suffers in order to make swivels and pans and arcs -- pre 3dmmap -- possible, and I am unbelievably picky about them being accurate. Some of what I do here is actually precursors for what I tried again in Vlarion 1 2006, only this time I didn't have one-piece sets to go cartwheeling the camera around in. Which didn't stop me. It's kind of scary.

Four years before v3dmm and three years before much in the way of expansion work, I was trying my damndest to make custom costumes using 3D words. Something about animating armor during long dialogue scenes is just slightly infuriating. Battles weren't quite as bad, because the movements are more active and have a higher error ratio. And were more fun.

For extra fun, play "Spot the Chrono Cross influence".

Because the comments for this movie just NEVER END, the "secret wordboxes" from Vlarion are back in Uprising, and on crack -- there are 93 of them.

This is the one that made Richard Bevis infamous, isn't it?
I should watch, yes?

Sure!

At 81 minutes, it's waiting for spring break (next week).

The fun comes when you can't be arsed looking for the secret wordboxes, so open the movie in Notepad;)

T- that--it--wor-- * explodes *

I remember back in 2002 when I first watched Vlarion 1 and how I was fairly unimpressed. Then I went and watched this and it was by far the most amazing thing I had ever seen in 3D Movie Maker, and would continue to be, I think, until I saw AV3.

This was such an amazing movie.

If my Midi files worked i would of gave this a good feedback. Good Ideas...

Holy shit, my reviewing was atrocious. Ignore whatever the hell I said.

I'll find it for you!


I wasn't aware Exeter was a normal name, especially not one to be compared with John.

This is honestley the BEST movie i have EVER seen, the fire musta took ages to make!!
Aaron, you genius.

:O.

I'd link you to the Vlarion 1 remake, but I fear you'd probably have a heart attack.

I've already seen vlarion 1.
Vlarion is 0.00000001 points under Uprising 1.

He's talking about the remake.

Ah.
*draws Rapier and stabs self*

Waitaminute! That's the one i saw!

Any possibility of a wmv of this? I want to watch it again, but vista fucks midis up, and that kind of ruins the movie.

You know I be lovin' this Aaron babe.

It was made 8 years ago and it still works.