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Live Action Street FighterPosted by Eric Mu, November 3, 2008 3:44 PM
This stop-motion homage to the classic video game Street Fighter (and contemporary artists) was shot by students at CAFA. The video is from Youku Buzz newsletter. |
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Comments on Live Action Street Fighter
Cool...i loved street fighter when i was young ^^
YES. it's a spoof of a sf clone, though. ending is good, but it's a bit too long. what do you want from art students, though?
Can you please post a link. I cannot play imbedded Youku videos in the States.
That was awesome!!!
Oh noes... "Fa Da Zhao La!!!!!"
That last "boss" guy is hilariously evil with some f***ed up moves!!! The dude who beat him tho is kinda week... Cheap too with him pausing time and leaving flatland and all.
Very nice...
Suggestions... Would've been cooler if they had more background destructions and animation. What I would've done is green screen the background somehow, (although it would be hard to green screen the floor like that. Maybe a green background with glass over it?). Then they can add an animated background, at least it would've been MUCH easier to animate the background on a computer. No, they can still use the same graphical style. You don't have to have fancy super high tech backgrounds.
This is all really cool. More than simply an homage to Street Fighter, it pits three famous contemporary artists against a group of their students.
The first match has 蔡家强, a thin cover for 蔡国强. He's well-known for using fireworks in his art, and lo-and-behold he uses fireworks to eke out the victory at the end. The second one is 口胜中, which I had to look up - it turns out he is a professor at CAFA, known for his work with paper-cutting. link
That's why he whips out the big scissors.
Then finally, there's 徐二水, in other words, 徐冰, who is now the Vice-President at CAFA, and probably the most successful and famous contemporary Chinese artist in the world. He seems untouchable with his Square-Word/New English calligraphy and 天书 super moves but the magic turns out to work against him in the end.
Awesome.
Fichissimo!!
Thanks for that background, M.
sure thing. i forgot to slip in the second artist's real name, which is 吕胜中. so you get the play on words...