Two years in the making, Generation War: Near Dead is the first feature film produced entirely on a PC, published on CD-ROM, and shown in weekly installments on the Web. Although Pixar made Toy Story on high-end workstations, Phil Flora, the creator of Generation War, resisted the temptation to use better equipment. He fed live video directly into two 486 machines and a Pentium, then composited the film's backdrops and special effects.
To make the futuristic police-state rescue film, which runs an hour and 15 minutes, Flora shot footage in a small townhouse apartment. "We didn't need a lot of space," he says. "With our modeling software, we could shrink down the people who needed to look farther away." Email philflora@aol.com.
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