Last year Monty Oum, a maniacal genius of action choreography and animation unleashed Dead Fantasy. It was a bold experiment merging fan-favourite franchises DOA and Final Fantasy in an crazy Matrix-inspired show-down. The first chapter was successfully cut together a dynamic tag-team fight scene while the second took things even further by turning up the difficulty on the action-photography by throwing up to 6 additional characters into the mix for a head-spinning 10 minutes of animation.
Previously it was a bit difficult to tell, but Monty Oum hasn't ripped the character models from source, these are custom. In the third installment the experiment introduces new edit tricks (feels kind of like watching a movie trailer) and more detail on the facial expressions as reducing the number characters helps us get a closer look. Tifa's design looks like a half-way between her Advent Children appearance and her original FFVII face... it's a little unsettling but that's not what we're here for.
http://www.gametrailers.com/video/dead-fantasy-monty-oum/52613
In the fourth installment (which Monty Oum surprised us with by posting only a few weeks after the 3rd chapter was released), the environment is new and improved. Ocean, grass fields, and lonely desert roads surround our heroes. The wide open spaces also allow for some vast camera swings as Yuna goes back to her classic costume for some Summoner action.
http://www.gametrailers.com/player/52837.html
From what I gather this is all just a pet project for Monty Oum as I hear he's got a pretty sweet industry job since the Dead Fantasy debut. I hope he doesn't drop this project because he's got some serious fans on Gametrailers.com
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
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