[Joachim]

Since Fred started to that new trend "post your old stuff", I thought I could post a movie me and micke did together when we were around 18 years old.
I'm not very happy about this now, of course, but in a way I'm a bit proud of all the work we did put into this project at the time. It took about 3 months to do it.

It was before the days of afterfx and all, so we made the whole thing on Amiga. I guess some of you have seen it before, but here's an avi of the movie.

It's quite large, but I hope someone will bother to download it anyway And, as mentioned earlier, this should be enough old stuff to make me and micke emarassed for a long time, hehe. But, atleast it's worth a laugh.

here's some screenshots:


download it here:
NinjaMovie_BIG (23,0mb)
NinjaMovie_SMALL (7,84mb)

Have fun ! I'll duck and cover now

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Joachim
web:
http://home.online.no/~j-barrum/

[This message has been edited by Joachim (edited August 10, 2000).]

[Lange_Pisang]

Aww...I can't see the movies, my windows media player says it is playing but the screen stays black...

...But if I look at the screenshots with my magnifier I must say you guys had way too much talent for 18 year old guys...

[Frost]

Joachim! You finally fulfilled my request! =))

This rocks! Thanks for converting it to AVI for us!

[Joachim]

Lange_Pisang,

maybe you need to wait for it to be downloaded. It's pretty big. Because it goes directly into the player, but I can imagine it takes some time before you can see anything.

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Joachim
web:
http://home.online.no/~j-barrum/

[AliasMoze]

Joachim, that's pretty cool! How did you do the ink and paint? How long ago? Wait, how old are you guys anyway?

The character stuff is quite good, nothing at all to be ashamed of.

[Belisarius]

Yeah , that one is far better than some of
the stuff , that is currently running on
TV .
Ok,ok,the characters would never come into
a Disney or Dreamworks film but the clip
is very ok to me , thats as far a compliment
as you can ever get out of me .

The art at producing is not only the drawing
but also animation and other stuff . By the
way what program did you use to create the
clip ? The animations are well done and thats
the point for me .

[The Dude]

Very Cool!

Always impressed by the work of you two.

Is there a sequel in the works?

[Snake Grunger]

Either download a 23mb MPG, oooorrr, get the 2mb demo and run it. But it wouldn't run on my Athlon650 with a Matrox G400 and SBLive

I guess I'll buy myself a 486 with VLB video card, 16mb ram, GUS and SB 2.0 to run old demos

Since you guys posted this, katode.org is being hammered by downloads ans is slow as hell. I'll download it later
People should try and download the NINJA2 demo and try to run it. If you have a semi-old very common video chipset and a non-pci sound card, it might run! or at least without sound.

[This message has been edited by Snake Grunger (edited August 10, 2000).]

[Binke]

That's some funky ass shit Micke & Joachim hehe , I like it! And to believe you pixeled all that stuff.
*shrug* drawing frame..after frame hehe


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[Binke]

Oh and hehe, were you in anyway inspired by the anime Ninja Scroll?
ill get the high res version sometime.

Big files makes binkes modem go cough cough.




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[waylon]

I'VE MISSED NINJA 2! I was seriously considering putting together an old 486 just to run THAT DEMO! Err, well, a couple others besides. BUT MOSTLY NINJA 2!

You guys are my heroes.

[pastaboy]

very very nice.. I like it alot ..id like to see another ..any more???

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[nightmare]

nightmare needs movies in realplayer mode because avi's make her comp sad.

[Plop]

Joachim, Mike
That was awsome! The ninja guy has a very unique design. When he slised up the big dude i was kinda expecting the pants on him to fall down and then he would run away in shame covering himself, but it was cool nonetheless. Especially when he fell after a jump.

[Fayvren]

Any chance I can get a full copy of the soundtrack? Was looking for electronica type stuff so was just curious.

[ozenzo]

Great stuff......poor kid........what happened to him.......a ninja sword mishap?

[CapnPyro]

are yall on crack? that is NOT AN AVI. its an MPG. if windows media player isnt working, get apples quicktime, works great

anyway, that was a really cool short, nice backgrounds, the fog effect is pretty neato, i was wondering also, what happened to the kid? that ninja musta gone overboard with his swings

[HumanClay]

That was awesome guys, you kick ass

It does remind me of Ninja Scroll too... especially the way the guy sorta slides apart.. cool stuff. I'm gonna go watch Ninja Scroll now

[psi burn]

god i love ninja scroll, one of my fav animated movies ever. the treetop sequence is awesome!

[Golongria]

Heh..I know this is gonna sound lame, but could one of you (Joachim or Micke) explain in a little more detail how you went about doing this, and, with the amazing technology of nowanddays *cough cough* is there an easier way to accomplish it? Thanx in adavance.
ps. it totally reminded me of Ninja Scroll when the dude slid apart...i love that movie..
-Matt

[iska]

Aaahhh! this brought back some good old memories I did love it back then too

Great work micke&joachim!

-- Kerberos / VirtualDreams of Fairlight

[waylon]

ACK! NO! I finally finished downloading it (6 hours later....)

MPEG ARTIFACTS ARE EEEEVIL!

I can't believe how much they distorted the movie! If anyone can get the original demo working, IT'S WORTH IT! All the art is so crisp and clear!

Incidentally, is it just me, or are there a few lense flares in the mpg that weren't there in the original?

[Francis]

waaa I can only get about 23 seconds of it. Oh well, at least that part kicks ass.

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TeamGT Studios

[Nex]

Man, thats really great!

Character animation is very neat and the backgrounds rock.

Music is cool too btw.

Some Q's:

1. How long did this take you guys?
2. What was it made in, what would you make something like this in today?
3. have the characters a different format or something? they appear to be more pixeled and. Like Sprites were on the good 'ol C64

[Sumaleth]

I can still remember seeing that when it was first released and it still holds up really well after all these years!

It reminds me a littleof a Moviesetter animation I did on the Amiga back in 92 (in story, not quality). I wish there was a way to convert Moviesetter to mpeg, I'd be really curious to see that again.

Ahh, memories.

Sumaleth.

[micke]

The characters are pixeled in deluxepaint.
Joachim made a hell of a job putting it together with Kim(our musician at work) in after-effects. When looking at the stuff i did now, i think they stink, except for a couple of backgrounds, but as Joachim said
we're kind of proud putting in the effort
it took making it.I'm not much of an animator either...

-Micke

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-Mikael Noguchi-

http://www.katode.org/noguchi/

[eetu]

oy!

how about the first ninja as well ? =)

frank/orange

[GoldenBoy]

Just Watched it, Oh man! It is good. I love it. Just great. Shame I only could dl the small version. Thought I had good conection but it was s-l-o-w! Micke & Joachim, you're the best. Amazing. Oh my.. I'm paralyzed, just so stunning piece. Hope 'm not overreacting.

[waylon]

I posted the big version of the movie on one of my work machines. It should be a bit faster.
http://fear.incarnate.net/~vlad/misc/ninja_big.mpg

I hope neither of the original creators have a problem with this?

(And I hope our connection doesn't get totally swamped!)

[Jeezus]

well i thought that was VERY well done.
nice job, guys. something to be very proud about :]