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How to Recreate the Battle of Omaha Beach on a Small Budget

youtube.com — How 3 graphic designers created D-Day on a shoe string budget for the Timewatch program "Bloody Omaha"

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  • Soriven, on 01/14/2008, -0/+59bloody brilliant!
    • LmaoTzu, on 01/14/2008, -9/+1bloody, brilliant.
    • iiBeLiEvE, on 01/14/2008, -0/+4Couldn't have said it better myself. After everything was done editing, those scenes looked straight from any Hollywood blockbuster film with a budget 100 times its size.
    • markperia, on 01/14/2008, -0/+1jawdropping. Im just astounded.
  • h4ckler, on 01/14/2008, -38/+2...start a unjustified war with Iran?!
  • jtibble, on 01/14/2008, -1/+31This is incredible!
  • LmaoTzu, on 01/14/2008, -4/+52The local residents who were watching the 3 guys run around all day must have been thinking "Wtf?"
    • CabesMojo, on 01/14/2008, -0/+5Haha, I bet they were. Thats actually really impressive, I was looking for their groups of 3 in the final shots.
      • SimianSamurai, on 01/21/2008, -0/+1Incredible! There ought to be classes on how to do things like this from beginning to end.
  • ghm101, on 01/14/2008, -0/+25It made for an interesting documentary as well.
    I was in Normandy last year and was surprised at all the D-Day stuff left about, gun emplacements, memorials, museums and cemeteries.
    The soldiers who took part in D-Day had it hard.
    • CraigCarlyle, on 01/14/2008, -0/+3I too traveled to Normandy last year. It's absolutely a must for any history nut.

      Nothing feels as amazing as standing in a crater at Pointe du Hoc.
  • ZWarren69, on 01/14/2008, -1/+11Favorite! This is spectacular!
  • LiquidIse, on 01/14/2008, -2/+5Awesome.
    Also song?
    • MrBabyMan, on 01/14/2008, -3/+8Two Tribes by Frankie Goes to Hollywood
    • EricAnderton, on 01/14/2008, -1/+3Actually, it was a really good remix of Two Tribes. I dunno who the remixer was.
      • anagoge, on 01/14/2008, -0/+3Really good remix? It was just sped up by roughly 150%. Nothing remixed.
  • xdvx, on 01/14/2008, -6/+1Richar is the best
  • dyranios2, on 01/14/2008, -7/+2I wonder what someone who was actually there would have to say about all of this tomfoolery.
  • ShooterMcGavin, on 01/14/2008, -4/+13I'm sorry... that song was driving me absolutely crazy.

    Cool vid, otherwise.
  • humanerror, on 04/03/2008, -2/+39Seems to me the easiest way would be to invade France
    • OsiVert, on 01/14/2008, -0/+16They wouldn't have needed all 3 of them.
      • heatmiser, on 01/14/2008, -1/+1brilliant!
        • HenvY, on 01/14/2008, -0/+2That's what Hitler said when he realised that the larger and better equipped French army were going to lay down and spread their cheeks.
        • msgdealer, on 01/15/2008, -0/+1I don't think your right about the "larger and better equipped" part, but I'll give you points for it anyways.
  • jeuhrn, on 01/14/2008, -4/+25I think it'd be a more riveting experience if maybe that ***** technopoprock song didn't accompany the god damn D-DAY invasion.
    Other than that, this was totally excellent.
    • HenvY, on 01/14/2008, -0/+1It didn't in the documentary(in which it looked excellent, i'll add), just in this obviously light hearted 'making of'.
    • darlyn, on 01/14/2008, -0/+1I think the song fit the video great ...
  • leha, on 01/14/2008, -3/+24Now the main question is why hollywood spends hundreds of millions of dollars and still produces mostly ***** movies at best?
    • adraft, on 01/14/2008, -0/+9You mean you don't want to see Meet the Spartans?
    • fatdog789, on 01/14/2008, -5/+5It took them more than a week to film a 15 second scene.
      Hollywood movies, even the short ones, are usually 1 hr 30 minutes long, or roughly 1350 times as long as this clip, which would require more than 12 years of filming.
      • dezmo, on 01/14/2008, -2/+9or 12x3=36 people working for a year, and your point is?
    • digggggggggg, on 01/14/2008, -0/+11These guys made a short clip that mostly is about the technical details of this sort of filming. Movies, on the other hand, are centered around a plot, and the effects are devices to convey the plot.

      The reason why so many movies are just awful nowadays are simply because the plots are awful. Sometimes I wonder if the writers are even trying.
  • Ovalteen, on 01/14/2008, -0/+4Outstanding effort, and a really excellent final product. If it hasn't already, I hope the publicity brings some jobs their way. Does anyone have any info about the guys who did it?
  • MeHow, on 01/14/2008, -4/+3Wow, I just realized how bloody that battle must have been, like... Just waves of man running too the cliffs... Just astounding..
    • greenlight2001, on 01/14/2008, -1/+19You JUST realized this? Really? Wow bro, you must have been living under a friggin rock your whole life.
    • Supernova36, on 01/14/2008, -0/+18Have you never watched Saving Private Ryan? Or seen the Normandy cemetarys?
    • digggggggggg, on 01/14/2008, -0/+7It was even worse on the eastern front. The ill-prepared Soviets just threw everything they had at the German offensive, resulting in a really really high casualty rate.

      By the end of the war, their losses alone were around 25 million. Personally, I can't even imagine that.
    • iiBeLiEvE, on 01/14/2008, -0/+1*to.
  • arcangelgabriel, on 01/14/2008, -0/+4Excellent work.
  • republikdh, on 01/14/2008, -0/+2Impressive work-
    Id love to get more into video editing, but it seems like something you would need to be completely dedicated to, to be that good-
  • h0lyHandGrenade, on 02/20/2008, -2/+7Impressive. Movie studios should take note and learn how to make a movie without spending hundreds of millions.
    • lotsotech, on 01/14/2008, -0/+11Lots of movies do compositing for scenes like that. I know Starship Troopers did back in '97. The tough part is making it look good on a 50' screen and not just a youtube flash video.
    • fatdog789, on 01/14/2008, -9/+1It took them more than a week to film a 15 second scene.
      Hollywood movies, even the short ones, are usually 1 hr 30 minutes long, or roughly 1350 times as long as this clip, which would require more than 12 years of filming.
      • Zyrix, on 01/14/2008, -0/+4They also have slightly more than 3 people and a bigger budget...
  • CptCheerios, on 01/14/2008, -0/+1Brilliant.
  • cabooglio2, on 01/14/2008, -11/+2I don't get it. If there were only three soldiers at D-Day, why does everyone always make such a big deal out of it? Is this like the "moon landing"? Anyone?
  • Tyrghast, on 01/14/2008, -1/+4Yes, yes a thousand times yes!

    isnt that guy at the beginning from Top Gear?
    • dykemoney, on 01/14/2008, -0/+1Yes, yes a thousand times yes. Yes he is.
  • TheKidd, on 01/14/2008, -1/+3inspiring
  • donkeySays, on 01/14/2008, -1/+1What an inspiration!
  • erwlas, on 01/14/2008, -0/+6I watched this the other night and had no idea the amount work that had gone into it.
    The scenes of US Rangers climbing Pointe du Hoc were so realistic, I was asking myself how the film makers had got permission to climb the actual cliff. Excellent
  • Kronk42583, on 01/14/2008, -2/+6that video was great but the music was unbearable.
  • 2point71, on 01/14/2008, -0/+4That was sick, I eventually tuned out the music so it just became background noise to an epic battle for awesome screen play.
  • edtruckell, on 01/14/2008, -0/+7Damn impressive. Would be nice to see a little more of the compositing work.
  • lhughey, on 01/14/2008, -2/+5I've been seeing too much political news lately. I thought the title said "the battle of OBAMA"!
  • Gryffydd, on 01/14/2008, -0/+6Was it just my imagination, or were the Germans in the bunker using M1 Garands alongside the MG-42?
    • jeuhrn, on 01/14/2008, -0/+19They selected the wrong class before spawning, so they had to wait for the next round.
  • whoamarcos, on 01/14/2008, -0/+3really well done.

    i wonder how long all the compositing took.
  • yuriko474, on 01/14/2008, -0/+4truly amazing.. a gem in the digg turd pile ;-)
  • bdbr, on 01/14/2008, -0/+6There were a few technical inaccuracies that I know of (mostly based on Stephen Ambrose's books and seeing History Channel documentaries) - probably the biggest was that the entire horizon was filled with ships as far as one could see. Still, it was well-produced given the budget, and shows at least a bit of the horror of charging in an open beach against fortified machine gun emplacements.

    Comparing it to "Saving Private Ryan" is a bit unfair - keep in mind, their D-Day scene was over 30 minutes long, so of course it cost a lot more. Having read and seen personal accounts of that day, even that felt understated.
    • wondertwins, on 01/14/2008, -2/+2well duh its unfair. Steven Speilberg frickin made the movie. Who do you think he is, a bum? He prolly had crazy amount of money spent on the movie
  • dezmo, on 01/14/2008, -0/+11photoshopped
  • drunkdriv3r, on 01/14/2008, -0/+0so cool! i wanna do know how to do all that post processing stuff too!
  • xo0r, on 01/14/2008, -2/+7mad ***** props. just showed this to one of my classmates in CISCO.. he is a movie editor, he gives this video A++++++++++ (as do I)
    As a graphic designer ... I am speechless, just wow. i love it. you guys are brilliant.
    • kamikaze87, on 01/14/2008, -1/+11EXCELLENT POWER SELLER! ITEM WAS IN EXCELLENT CONDITION! A+++++++
  • SeanEB, on 01/14/2008, -0/+1Does anyone know the production house that did this? It'd be interesting to know a few more details about the production and see some of their other work.
  • kkeith02, on 01/14/2008, -0/+3Production blog for the series: http://open2.net/blogs/historyandthearts/index.php ...
  • doogly, on 01/14/2008, -0/+1This is very similar to how 300 was created. The best example being the scene where the Persians are pushed off the cliffs. That was like twelve guys, pushed off a rock onto mats in front of a blue screen, and repeated like twenty times. Then put together in the end with a background. Also there was one fake rock used for about thirty different scenes in that movie, just shot at different angles. Pretty sweet stuff.
  • tupperbacharach, on 01/14/2008, -0/+0How to recreate the battle of Pearl Harbor on a small budget:
    http://youtube.com/watch?v=vMqSmiC_xHg
  • orangetiki, on 01/14/2008, -0/+1That's right. Leave it to the graphic artists to create an awesome scene. I'm gonna vote for the next designer who runs for president.
  • darthom, on 01/14/2008, -0/+1So, in a modern movie of D-DAY the multitude of extras is -- sand?
  • wondertwins, on 01/14/2008, -1/+1du hoc's cliffs were much more rockier than the cliffs they were climbing. It was so muddy
  • Adunn, on 01/15/2008, -2/+2didnt know vfx artists were graphic designers...oh wait they arent
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