SpaceBattles - a cool video

[Grymar]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ho-uIXGTE9g

Impressive work here.

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

I am not really impressed. I have seen such rendered battles before, and they always lack something. In this case, I think the combat scenes weren't dynamic enough, and the weapons effect didn't fit really fit their originals.
There needs to be a lot more weapon fire and more maneuvering.

Not that I could pull something like that off, and that it didn't like a lot of hard work.

[Meloncov]

Even by the standards of fan made animations, that wasn't that great. There is some significantly better stuff on cgtalk and the like.

[David Howery]

To be fair though, this movie has been out there for several years.... when it was made, it probably was state of the art for a home computer at the time...

and it was a cool way to bring in about every major film/tv space ship into one big confrontation...

[Steel_Wind]

Aye. It's about eight years old now.

for those who remember the game, the video is a VGA Planets 3.5 player's wet dream.

VGAP 3.5: Still my favorite strategy game of all time. Shame Tim dropped the ball on Planets 4. Oh well.