Jim Vessella, producer of Command & Conquer Remastered and Red Alert 1 Remastered has posted an update about the full motion videos and the bonus gallery that should be featured on EA's upcoming remasters. He has explained that in the long video below, with a teaser of the remastered FMVs.
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Fellow Command & Conquer fans,
Ever since we announced the project in late 2018, one of the biggest questions has been how we’re going to approach the FMV cinematics. Today we are finally ready to describe this approach, but there’s actually quite a story to tell about our FMV journey over the past year. So this time, instead of a written post, I’ve put together the above video to tell this story and provide all the intricate details. And in addition to the FMVs specifically, be sure to watch the entire video to learn about an exciting new feature coming to the Remaster.
This post is then kicking off a special week for the Command & Conquer Remaster. As mentioned in the video, be sure to refresh the subreddit here on Monday for another Remaster announcement, and we’re looking forward to engaging with the entire C&C community over the next week.
Ever since we announced the project in late 2018, one of the biggest questions has been how we’re going to approach the FMV cinematics. Today we are finally ready to describe this approach, but there’s actually quite a story to tell about our FMV journey over the past year. So this time, instead of a written post, I’ve put together the above video to tell this story and provide all the intricate details. And in addition to the FMVs specifically, be sure to watch the entire video to learn about an exciting new feature coming to the Remaster.
This post is then kicking off a special week for the Command & Conquer Remaster. As mentioned in the video, be sure to refresh the subreddit here on Monday for another Remaster announcement, and we’re looking forward to engaging with the entire C&C community over the next week.
The original VQA files, which is what they could start work on, for the FMVs from both remasters, consists of 320 x 156 resolution videos. So, for those wondering why faces are so blurred and eyes are like aliens, that happens due to the lack of data of the original videos (probably not much more than one pixel to represent the eyes). Taking these conditions into account and the fact that it is humanly impossible to record these videos again or repaint them from scratch, this is the best they could have. And I must admit that, the upscaling quality of their work is fine, but it won't do miracles.
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