[Multi] Anthem (neue bioware IP)

Before RoboCop Returns, Neill Blomkamp directs a live-action Anthem short

Though it’s not as long as some of his other 20-minute-long films, Blomkamp estimates six months of work went into making the short. That includes the days he and his team at Oats sat in Bioware’s Edmonton Canadian headquarters to location scouting in Southern Spain and the jungles of Hawaii to actually making prosthetic Javelin suits for the actors to wear.

“The amount of shooting time and how much imagery you have to actually capture into three minutes to make it feel legitimate is exponentially more work than you think it would be,” Blomkamp says.

“I wrote two 10-page scripts, going off of the idea that a page is roughly a minute,” he explains. “I was proposing 20 minutes of footage, which was way beyond the budget scope we were dealing with. So I eventually condensed everything into one 10-page script and everyone was like, ‘Dude, it’s a three-minute piece. You can’t hand in a 10-page script.’ I was like, ‘No, it has to be 10 pages because we don’t know what’s gonna live and what’s gonna die in the edit room.’ We have to overshoot it in order to make it feel like a trailer so we can pick the best pieces. We can’t know that until the footage exists.”

Link: ew.com

Anthem Doesn't Have an Excuse for Repeating the Mistakes Destiny Made Five Years Ago

This Friday, BioWare's Anthem finally has its full release. The game is currently available for players who are subscribers to EA Access on Xbox One, or Origin Access on PC. Those folks get 10 hours to experience everything Anthem has to offer, while Origin Access Premier subscribers can play the entire game. Anthem isn't even out yet, but some have already rolled credits on the main story campaign.

Link: www.usgamer.net