Unused animations in rott

[Shockwav3]

i just stumbled upon those when taking a look into darkwar.wad and i'm sure there's a nice story behind those. i mean ... those look kinda funny instead of seriously like the other dead animations. or am i even totally wrong and just never saw them in game?

[Frenkel]

Animation that didn't make in into Keen Dreams:

[Marty]

whos that scary man in the picture above his bed?

[Dr.Dude]

I'm saving both of those extremely awesome animations onto my computer right now.

[Carger2000]

Looks like Einstein to me..

[Mike359]

Keen's face looks pretty messed right there.

[Flaose]

The ROTT animation looks like an unused death animation for General Darian (the first boss).

[Joe Siegler]

The ROTT animation looks like an unused death animation for General Darian (the first boss).

Not EVEN CLOSE. It's an unused death for the character that throws a net on you. Forget the name at the moment.

I find that animation hilarious for some reason.

I don't know why. I guess it's because he looks like he's about to break into tapdance, and then both his legs mysteriously snap off.

[Dukefan]

That must have been interesting to film, since all the ROTT character animations were really digitized Apogee employees (right?). If you look closely, it just looks like the guy is on his knees and being lowered in the frame. Probably the blood and legs were just added later.

I wonder what you weapon you were supposed to use to break his legs off.

[Joe Siegler]

That must have been interesting to film, since all the ROTT character animations were really digitized Apogee employees (right?). If you look closely, it just looks like the guy is on his knees and being lowered in the frame. Probably the blood and legs were just added later.

Correct. We saved all that stuff, and I actually still have all the VHS tapes from the recording sessions. I looked through them about a year and a half ago, and it's actually quite boring to look through.

The most annoying thing is that the one tape that doesn't work and is all gummed up is the one from MY SESSION!

[JR Ewing]

Correct. We saved all that stuff, and I actually still have all the VHS tapes from the recording sessions. I looked through them about a year and a half ago, and it's actually quite boring to look through.

The most annoying thing is that the one tape that doesn't work and is all gummed up is the one from MY SESSION!

Any chance you could capture those sometime in the future and let us see them. Or is that something "the public isn't meant to see"

[Rider]

would be cool!

[Joe Siegler]

There's about a dozen tapes, each with 2 hours of video on them. There's way too much material to capture. Besides, I don't think anyone at 3DR has capture equipment anymore. I used to, but that stuff is long since gone away.

Wait, whoa.

You captured some of the animations in ROTT?

Which ones?

[Frenkel]

BTW Do these two creatures appear in Keen Dreams?

[Joe Siegler]

Wait, whoa.

You captured some of the animations in ROTT?

Which ones?

Every one. Including the robots. Those are real models, they were captured. All the enemies in the game are captured video of a (then) Apogee employee.

Not many of us in the game are still here. I am, Scott & George are. I'd have to go look at all the characters and see who is still here from back then.

[Flaose]

Frenkel, no.
The celery was changed into the Broccolash, and the squash has a completely different attack and animation.

[Frenkel]

I think the left one is corn as the filename is corn.gif