Comments on: Fake step (on water)

Fake step (on water)

Cool Papa Bell — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 12:48:40 -0800

"For those of us who are not Ryu Hayabusa, we'll just have to fake step on small ponds and fountains." It's the return of AZO, the video game animator that can actually do the animations in real life.

By: hincandenza

hincandenza — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 13:05:36 -0800

That original video was incredible, but somehow I missed until the fountain video that this guy lives here in the Puget Sound area. I was watching the fountain video and was the most impresed when at 1:20 I exclaimed "Holy cow, that's Redmond Town Center!!!"

By: jbickers

jbickers — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 13:11:58 -0800

Missing the "badass" tag. Awesome stuff.

By: misha

misha — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 13:12:13 -0800

Okay, that guy is cool. Can I go back and redo my life now? I want to be him.

By: ignignokt

ignignokt — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 13:14:06 -0800

That guy is kinda living the dream of boys ages 5 through 35.

By: DMan

DMan — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 13:16:01 -0800

Yeah I'm pretty sure that's my dream job. Or at least I want to be able to smoothly slide over a table like when he enters his office in the last video. I'm pretty sure that one move alone would be enough to make the ladies swoon.

By: From Bklyn

From Bklyn — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 13:18:16 -0800

Wasn't there a really long video of him somewhere? I remember seeing it a couple ... right, right, that, ahem, second link you posted, that's it. Golly, that was silly of me. Frankly, that he is an animator and can pretty much do what he animates is cool as crap. thanks.

By: Burhanistan

Burhanistan — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 13:27:33 -0800

I'm surprised he doesn't also do any motion capture of his moves.

By: lucidium

lucidium — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 13:30:25 -0800

Yep, everyone else can stop making stunt videos. This guy's basically got it all covered.

By: anthill

anthill — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 13:35:04 -0800

Oh no, oh man. AZO does a real life Mirror's Edge.l

By: Burhanistan

Burhanistan — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 13:38:36 -0800

Dude needs to get an HD handheld.

By: griphus

griphus — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 13:39:25 -0800

Holy god that is the most excitement ever had watching someone eat Pringles, exercise on a treadmill and sit in a chair.

By: him

him — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 13:40:11 -0800

Yep , everyone else can stop making stunt videos. This guy's basically got it all covered. What the what? Did he just... And with the dice... How the...

By: griphus

griphus — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 13:54:04 -0800

You like the the dice stuff, him?

By: him

him — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 14:03:48 -0800

Oh man, now I'm going to spend the rest of the day throwing dice at random into the far corners of the room, swearing at them and yelling, 'You were supposed to STACK, damn it!' Thanks a lot.

By: Mr. Anthropomorphism

Mr. Anthropomorphism — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 14:20:26 -0800

I love how the showreel contains some of the most mind-bending physics-defying crazy things ever, interspersed with just a few really, really mundane and silly things. I think he may have done that intentionally, but I'd much rather believe that he can do all these things with no effort at all, and genuinely has no idea of what other people find impressive or why. "You want me to walk on water again? That's nothing, I can jump from picnic table to picnic table! I can jump over this bush!"

By: neckro23

neckro23 — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 14:54:25 -0800

Well, it's good to see he puts his pants on one leg at a time, just like everyo-- oh shit.

By: djrock3k

djrock3k — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 18:52:44 -0800

Holy Cow! So I guess I'm buying Monday Night Combat if it comes out for the Wii...

By: ErWenn

ErWenn — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 20:37:45 -0800

Griphus: You like the Pringles lid trick? The last time AZO showed up on Metafilter, I got into an argument with someone who claimed that it was easy. Just to prove him wrong, I tried it with the lid to a can of peanuts. I was wrong; it is easy! And it's fun. So go give it a shot.

By: Hogshead

Hogshead — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 03:41:08 -0800

That is how you get people interested in a game they've never heard of.

By: Cool Papa Bell

Cool Papa Bell — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 12:33:07 -0800

So I guess I'm buying Monday Night Combat if it comes out for the Wii... I would be incredibly shocked if it does. While the game is not a resource-hog, the Wii is way, way underpowered for a game like this. Also, the developers are aiming at digital distribution first and foremost. WiiWare sales are awful for developers not backed by Nintendo itself.