Operation Bayshield (1997)

Genre

fan film

How it feels

A short film made entirely inside the video game Quake. A team of soldiers tries to stop terrorists armed with chemical explosives.

amateurplayfullow-budgetenergeticlighthearteddatedexperimentalquirkyfast-paced

What happens

Operation Bayshield is a short 1997 film made by Clan Undead, a group of video game players. The work was created by using the machinima technique of recording a demonstration file of player actions in id Software's 1996 first-person shooter video game Quake, which could replay such files on demand. The group had seen the first known machinima productions, made by United Ranger Films, and decided to make a comedy film. The result, Operation Bayshield, follows a task force's attempts to thwart terrorists who have chemical explosives. Released on January 23, 1997, the work received praise from contemporary Quake movie review sites and helped to attract others, including Hugh Hancock of Strange Company and members of the ILL Clan, to machinima. It pioneered technical advances in machinima, such as the use of custom digital assets and of lip synchronization. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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