Digital Domain Going To The Game?

[thekenny]

Okay I'll bite.

Anyone want to comment?

http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/46952

Digital Domain, best known for its work on the films Titanic and The Day After Tomorrow, hopes to capitalize on the budding video game industry by moving into video game production.

Leading the charge to interactive entertainment is co-chairman Michael Bay (pictured left), director of films including Bad Boys, The Rock, Bad Boys II and the upcoming Transformers. Bay is currently at work on one of the company's first titles, a first person shooter budgeted at $25 million.

Beyond Bay's game, the studio also hopes to develop movie-based titles helmed by the filmmakers themselves, a procedure mostly unheard of in the video game industry. Instead, licensed games are often made with the directors largely removed from the process, often acting as little more than consultants. Shiny Entertainment's Enter the Matrix--written and directed by Matrix creators Andy and Larry Wachowski--serves as a notable exception to this norm.

"I make world-class images," Bay explained to the Los Angeles Times. "Why not put those images into a game?"

"It's going to be very difficult," countered industry analyst Michael Pachter. "The skill set of a game maker is very different from the skill set of a graphic artist."

In addition to games, the studio plans to focus more on commercials, such as its work on last fall's "Mad World" Gears of War commercial, as well as feature-length computer animated films aimed at teenagers and young adults

[aschwo]

"It's going to be very difficult," countered industry analyst Michael Pachter. "The skill set of a game maker is very different from the skill set of a graphic artist."

Does this stooge think world class visual effects are created with a Wacom Tablet and a pirated copy of Photoshop CS2?

I don't know whether or not this is a good idea; if DD can lure some world class designers away from some of the other studios; then this is the greatest move ever. But as it stands, world class directors aren't world class game designers; they're two different skill sets.

I think I've filled my quota for the phrase 'world class' for the rest of the year =p

Edited May 17, 2007 by aschwo

[brandonY]

Does this stooge think world class visual effects are created with a Wacom Tablet and a pirated copy of Photoshop CS2?

I don't know whether or not this is a good idea; if DD can lure some world class designers away from some of the other studios; then this is the greatest move ever. But as it stands, world class directors aren't world class game designers; they're two different skill sets.

I think I've filled my quota for the phrase 'world class' for the rest of the year =p

good news on my end considering i do realtime FX in UE3, and i always wanted to work at DD hopefully they will start hiring soon