OH-MY-FREAKIN'-GOD!!!!
You guys rule! Your videos just keep getting better and better. You put out the DVD Box Set and I'll buy it in a heartbeat!
Love your stuff, both of you! You guys make an awesome team (and Mr. Abyss, any husband who can take hits like that an knows when to fall down is a wise man in my opinion... 
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Awesome job!! Thanks for all your hard work.
I'm humbled by the talent that is rampant in CoH. Fantastic...absolutely LMAO! 
This is an absolutely fantastic video, making perfect use of the song. Kudos to Mr. Abyss!
too cool.
freaks are funny, trucks hitting people...priceless 
Very funny. Great work.
Darkestrike - Founder of Nova Watch
DJ Templar - Owner of The Cape Radio Station
Great job!! kudos (and COH Oscars) for writing, editing and direction!!
OMG that was the best player made video game movie I have ever seen!!!! Congratz!!!
My wife and I belly laughed and had tears coming down from that video after I heard the music with it. OUTSTANDING!
The Kronos has a hold n00b!
Not getting a Cryptic or NCSoft response to this video would make Santa Claus himself vomit with rage.
Everyone basically just said it for me....awesome job to you and mr. abyss...and I know it's a little late but happy birthday
laughed my [censored] off.
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This is a video made by Mr. Abyss for the one year anniversary of CoH. Enjoy.
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Very nice video Mr Abyss i liked it a lot... its going into my CoH video collection
Oh
my
God.
That is the best thing ever!!! Love it! I was laughing and clapping so loud I think my neighbors are gonna move away!
Great job! I'll be heading on over to your site to watch BOTH your videos....as soon as I watch this one again! Way to go!!!!
ROFL!!! I LOVE IT!!
How can i do that? 
Having probs accessing your site. 
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Having probs accessing your site.
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How very interesting. So am I. The bandwidth is not exceeded, so that's not the problem... I can only assume my domain host is having problems at this point. I sent them a message via their support about it and I suppose we'll wait and see.
EDIT: Good gawd, that was fast. It's up now in the span I took to write this out.
"Looks like we arrived in the nick of time. What does that make us?"
"Big damn heroes, sir."
"Ain't we just."
-Mal & Zoe, "Firefly"
holy crap that was funny.
thanks guys!
OMG, MOST excellent!!!
The Hellion is freaking brilliant. I hope to see more in the villains series from you soon =)
Wow!!! Amazing!!!
As other's have said:
How did you get thoose Freaks to dance??
There's definitely some demo edits in there! You just put the Freakshow NPC in the right place and orientation (seriously tedious work) and set him to doing the dance emote. Then put the next Freakshow NPC in (more tedious work, though not as much as the first one) and set him to dancing. And so on. Eventually it will be time to make them do a different emote (gotta find exactly when, which can be tedious) so you give them a new MOV to do. And, of course, you have to move the camera around sometimes, which means moving it through a lot of points. (Super duper tedious!) Pretty much the same with the truck sliding along. And the hero. Oh, and every time you want to check how it's going, you have to start up CoH in demo mode.
I can see how it's done - and I can see that it's going to take a LOT of hours to do. These two are working hard to get these things out!
Then there's the music. The beat of the music fits right with our in-game dancing speed!? That's.... an amazing coincidence. How many songs have you heard on the car radio that matched up with your windshield wipers in the rain? I suspect somebody is using some tools there.
Definitely one of the great films! Cryptic should stick it on their LAN so anyone who needs a boost can give it a click.
Just saw Thank You and checked out your site.
Twisted Forever!
And AC/DC's song from the Highway to Hell album, "You Want Blood (You Got It)" grace my COH songlist. Awesome!
For anyone who was wondering how the Freaks were made to dance, and other things, there were three main steps involved; demo editing, demo editing, and demo editing.
Seriously though, the dancing Freaks, and pretty much everything else in this movie was done from edited or custom written demos. (actually, now that I think about it, only 4 shots were recorded in game and edited later, the rest were ground up creations)
As for what demos are, how they work, and how you can edit them to create a Freakshow chorus line, the Guide to Guides in the Player Guides board has some very usefull guides that explain most of that far better than I could ever hope to here. Zloth's guides are where I started. You can also search the Players Guides forums for "demos" and should come up with a few more results that have yet to make their way into the great, big guide to guides.
I suppose I could toss out one of the demos I wrote for this movie. Preferably a short one. Here's the first set of dancing freaks (and the Doc) from the start of the movie, as they appear in the demo file.
1 0 Version 2
0 0 Map maps/City_Zones/City_02_02/City_02_02.txt
0 0 Time 18.375
0 CAM POS 1591 -105 -4025
0 CAM PYR -0.0 2.345 0
0 1 NEW Dancer1
0 1 NPC FRK_15
0 1 POS 1579 -110 -4021
0 1 PYR -0 2.1 0
0 1 MOV READY
0 2 NEW Dancer2
0 2 NPC FRK_24
0 2 POS 1582.5 -110 -4017.5
0 2 PYR -0 2.2 0
0 2 MOV READY
0 3 NEW Dancer3
0 3 NPC FRK_36
0 3 POS 1586.2 -110 -4014
0 3 PYR -0 2.3 0
0 3 MOV READY
0 4 Player
0 4 NEW "Doc Trauma"
0 4 COSTUME 0 c9dfff 5.494505 -0.538462 0.000000 -0.269231 -0.711538 -0.792308 -0.269231 0.004176 0.000000 0.180000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 -1.000000 0.000000 -1.000000 -0.990000 -0.150000 0.000000 0.510000 0.000000 -1.000000 -1.000000 0.000000 -0.100000 -0.250000 -0.170000
0 4 PARTSNAME Tight tights Stripe_1 ffffff 0000d4
0 4 PARTSNAME Tight tights Stripe_1 ffffff 0000d4
0 4 PARTSNAME Standard skin_glowing_eyes_01a skin_glowing_eyes_01b ffffff 5800ff
0 4 PARTSNAME Smooth skin_fingerless_01a skin_fingerless_01b ffffff 5800ff
0 4 PARTSNAME Smooth leather_01 None 000000 000000
0 4 PARTSNAME Tactical tactical_02a tactical_02b 0000d4 3b3b3b
0 4 PARTSNAME Style_03 Style_01a Style_01b 4cfdff 7eeef1
0 4 PARTSNAME None None None 1f0000 5800ff
0 4 PARTSNAME Goggle_03 Lens_01a Lens_01b ffffff 0000ff
0 4 PARTSNAME Tight base Cross_1 0000aa 0000aa
0 4 PARTSNAME Small spiked_01a spiked_01b 0000aa ffffff
0 4 PARTSNAME None None None 1f0000 5800ff
0 4 PARTSNAME None None None 1f0000 5800ff
0 4 PARTSNAME None None None 1f0000 5800ff
0 4 PARTSNAME None None None 1f0000 5800ff
0 4 PARTSNAME None None None 00000000 00000000
0 4 PARTSNAME None None None 00000000 00000000
0 4 PARTSNAME None None None 00000000 00000000
0 4 PARTSNAME None None None 000055 000000 000000 000000 Auras/Male/Glow/GlowEyes.fx
0 4 PARTSNAME None None None 00000000 00000000
0 4 PARTSNAME None None None 00000000 00000000
0 4 PARTSNAME None None None 00000000 00000000
0 4 POS 1586.5 -110 -4019
0 4 PYR -0 2.4 0
0 4 MOV READY
13000 1 MOV EMOTE_JUDGE_1
800 2 MOV EMOTE_JUDGE_2
800 3 MOV EMOTE_JUDGE_3
300 4 MOV EMOTE_ATTACK
1000 4 MOV D_BLOCK
0 1 MOV D_BLOCK
0 2 MOV D_BLOCK
0 3 MOV D_BLOCK
3000 4 MOV D_WASHER
0 1 MOV D_WASHER
0 2 MOV D_WASHER
0 3 MOV D_WASHER
3000 4 MOV D_BOUNCE
0 1 MOV D_BOUNCE
0 2 MOV D_BOUNCE
0 3 MOV D_BOUNCE
2500 4 MOV D_BASE
0 1 MOV D_BASE
0 2 MOV D_BASE
0 3 MOV D_BASE
3000 4 MOV EMOTE_WHAT
0 1 MOV D_ARMSUP
0 2 MOV D_ARMSUP
0 3 MOV D_ARMSUP
2500 4 MOV EMOTE_POINT
2000 4 MOV EMOTE_CHAMPION
3300 4 MOV EMOTE_THUMBSUP
9000 4 MOV READY
You should be able to just higlight the above, copy and paste into your prefered text editor (notepad for example). Then use "Save As" to save it as "freakdance.cohdemo" and put the file in your "City of Heroes\client_demos" folder (you may have to create a folder with this name, don't know if its there by default) and follow the steps in Zloth's or MasterMarble's guides from the guides forum mentioned above to play it back. (or just get Zloth's DemoLauncher )
If you have any trouble getting this one to work, or if you have some specific questions about editing demos feel free send me a PM (I check those about once a week, and sometimes I even respond to them ) or post the question on the Player Questions board or in one of the threads that follow the above mentioned guides and hopefully someone can get back to you with an answer better than "read the guides."
CoH's demo system is one of the most powerful and flexible videogame movie making tools I have ever seen. Just one more reason to give thanks to the the folks a Cryptic.
Thanks again,
-Doc
It was amazing I dont even have sound at work on my computer and it was great! Cant wait to see it at home!
The Kronos has a hold n00b!