Eight Days’ footage proven prerendered
Aah, what would a Sony conference be without a bit of lie? Whereas the majority of the conference was spent breaking every single promise of last years conference, they had to sneak at least one untruth in there.
We did all definitely suspect that the Eight Days trailer was prerendered, but it was the HUD that flicked on and off from time to time that threw us off. In that respect, when you find out that it was definitely prerendered, its even more of an insult than the Killzone debacle. Like they went that extra mile of deceit. Like me taking a photo of a corridor and slapping a health bar on it, forcefully convincing you in an increasingly loud, aggressive voice that it is a realtime screenshot of my latest video game masterpiece. Eight Days used such a process.
Turns out the guys behind the trailer are from Cafe FX, a CG company who’ve worked on Visual Effects for Hollywood on everything from King Kong to the Oscar winning masterpiece* Battlefield Earth.
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