Just stumbled over your channel by random surfing youtube, and I have an JD-Xi and love it, your tip is a good one, didn't know we could do that (albeit I did know about the JD-Xi app), so great tip there, thanks. You got one more sub.
Wow, man, that's nuts. Hope karma caught up with the makers of the movie. Random question.....I see you have a cut scene from the movie here. Do you happen to own an entire workprint or just these two scenes? Would be curious to see the full workprint if it's something you had. I'll buy a copy of it off you if so!
Sorry for the delay but I never get notices from YT about replies it seems. Sadly, no, no work print but yes, the cornfield scene was indeed cut from the movie.
FINALLY!! I remember so fondly when this 3D webisode series premiered on the Warner Bros. website back in summer 1999 (I believe), and I’d naively assumed they’d be a permanent staple there, especially on the basis of having featured Carradine’s original voiceovers. After they disappeared after a matter of mere weeks, I’ve spent the past 20 years searching for even a hint that they’d at one point existed. I’d written Warner Bros. many times over the years, who’ve routinely told me they have no record of it, and that I’d probably imagined the web series. I am SO thankful that they’re archived here!! All it finally took to find them was the difference of typing in “Kung Fu” animated + Carradine, rather than the “Kung Fu webisodes” title I’d remembered all these years.
Haha - glad you found them. I think the reason they don't show up in searches is because I won't pay RU-vid to promote my videos so bottom of the pile they go!
Xorcist Bat As a lifelong Kung Fu fan, I’m still so enthralled by these. How did this project come about, and were You given any particular restrictions in lining them up? Were they firstly scripted and voiced by the actors, and then the audio and scripts sent to You to animate? Was there ever any talk of these being released to DVD alongside the live action series episodes? It just floors me that these show more of Cain’s story, voiced by Carradine, but are so incredibly rare. Hopefully Warner Bros. could one day pony-up to remaster them!
Mehhh.... well seems the guy who stole my ideas is now public facing only with his documentary on the music is wrote for his dead mother so me trying to do anything about this just makes me look like a monumental douche... Oh well... At least I know how he got to where he did in the industry. stephen-edwards.com/
HAHA - This is rich. I wrote the music for this film basically (if you watched this, then you'll see they pretty much copied my original score) and now there's a copyright notice tagged on my video!!! Talk about irony!
I designed clothes back then and got to go to 3 shows backstage to give out clothes for free to the bands. I have to say to this day, the cyberpit was one of the coolest things going besides the music. The company I worked for used an AS400 system for sales and inventory tracking. That thing took up at least 3000 square feet of environmentally controlled space at our HQ. A cell phone today has at least 10 times the processing power and fits in your pocket. People don't really realize, do they my friends. I went for the music getting paid by my job, but nothing off of the stages was as cool as what you guys did. Thanks for the share, puts things in perspective.
Thanks Eric! Hmmm... did you have a specific clothing line? Yea, the CyberPit was a lot of fun to do even if it did almost end up killing me and left me with a permanently fucked up back due to someone driving too close to a pole in the beginning causing me to hit my foot on it twisting my knee and forcing me into a full leg temp cast for 2 weeks combined with the icing on the cake, those kiosks almost killing me as shown here :P ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-7e6ReTa4s7I.html
Wow, that sucks, but I feel your pain. Oct '93 I got hurt, needed 2 spine surgeries in '94 to walk again, and needed 3 more over the years, getting lots of Titanium parts in my spine, and never getting relief from pain. I was 23 then, I'm 47 now, so literally over 1/2 of my life not being able to bend and living with chronic pain, so yea, I feel ya. I worked for a company called Merry Go Round back then, and did a lot of in house design, but I helped JNCO with their first lines, Yes I helped make the Raver jeans, as well as Cross Colors and Karl Kani. They all had good ideas, I just helped make them great selling ideas, because trendy clothing has to make a quick bang. Before that, it was Z. Cavaricci's and Hammer pants by the old guys that worked, which is why I had the job so young. Nobody's rollin out in Z. Cav's or Hammers, but I still see kids sporting JNCO's from time to time. That's kinda what brought me to see this. I was one of the few people who could actually have a camera to take photos of the bands wearing the clothes I brought, but when I got hurt, all of that stuff went down with the Merry Go Round ship. They went out of business while I was still in and out of hospitals. I'd just really like to have some photos to go along with the awesome stories to show my kids. They're getting old enough now to tell about the adventures in music I've had over the years. I knew Jim Rose fairly well, his museum was right behind the bar my wife worked at back then, but he was never around the stage, let alone backstage. My roomie who did sound never took photos because he was always around it I guess. I figured i'd try using social networking for something good, and try to reach out to people who might be able to help. Most of the main stage bands were wearing gear I brought between the Philly, Charles Town, W.V. and Charlotte N.C. shows, I know for sure. I was at those 3 and brought more stuff each time I came. As for other shows after that, I wouldn't know. If you can help out, I surely would appreciate it, if not, we got to share some cool and messed up stories. Even though I got hurt back then, it was still some of the best times of my life. I'd love to share that with my kids.
@@toomanyaccounts I completed the game on all three difficulty levels on the PC. The only ending I saw was Admiral Arbok congratulating me and telling me to go to the star base for each one. That was it. I never saw these except on the Sega CD version. Edit: Look for a commenter called IC on this video. He says the exact same thing.
@@NocturnEternal i remember seeing it on pc. I also remember it took just a few minutes to install not an hour like some websites claim. this was in 1995.
I've said it before and I'll say it again, this game just DRIPS atmosphere. Very eerie atmosphere at that. This was one of the first and finest examples of what audio could do to immerse you into a game. If and when a new game is made in the Metroid Series, your music could make for some interesting and amazing results, indeed. And that Iron Helix theme! My 9 year-old self had no idea what genre was, but I knew I liked it! (I didn't rediscover Gothic and Industrial music til years later, but my jaw hit the damn floor when I found some of your albums in a Seattle industrial music shop.) I have noticed, though, that the Iron Helix theme in your album is different than the one that appeared in the game. It's longer, of course, but it sounds like the vocals were re-recorded, too. Any chance you have an HQ version of the original? So yeah, thanks again! And I'll let you know if I ever find one of those old light up phones. No luck yet, but I keep looking! lol
Xorcist is a legend. This is what made the game great. The fact that we are chatting here on youtube is technologically possible by the work of a lot of people but Peter Stone is one of of those few unsung heroes in technology that shouldn't ever go unnoticed. The Cyberden held a lot of influence over how people interact over the internet and how things are shared. Excellent video.
Very well done. I like the twist at the end. My only complaint is that Caine seems unbelievably weak, like when he can't break the rope or the handcuffs (which could, because he's Shaolin), or when the bounty hunter can overpower him. Those mistakes have been made in the show many times, so the original is much to blame. I would prefer the lady to leave the bounty hunter for Caine. All in all, I can see the computer graphics of this short being used for a video game adaptation.
Awesome animation! I just can't believe that Caine's Shaolin character can be easily overpowered by those guys, since being a Shaolin monk makes him stronger than any of them. Still, this is better than most of Kung Fu's original episodes combined, and it gets the dramatic structure right.
The PC version ended with Ms. Admiral switching her camera off with the remote, hinting at some foul play. After that you really couldn't expect much of a celebration and I imagined my character took the hint and buzzed off in the opposite direction. Now I see the guy was stupid enough to actually go to the starbase to be tortured?! I guess next time I fetch the Defender with the tractor beam, let it out on the starbase, follow it with the Darwin and take pics of the badass robot kicking butt.
Lamentably, the cyberden.com site appears to be down. I can't be the only one that wants to lay their hands on the incidental and intro music for this pioneering game.
Search for Xorcist on SoundCloud. Some of the Iron Helix "Lost Tracks" (Incidental music) can be found there. Not the intro, sadly, but some other good stuff is there.
Can you please get me the disk for this I had it came with my Sound card system. Would love to play it again. BTW is there going to be a remake or a sequal
Ever since I found out that the bitch interrogates you at the end I lost all desire to play this game. Let the O'Brien blow up Calliope and start the f***ing war.
@djbat3 Funny how internet related things develop in 'dog years'. I remember connecting with my dial up modem (56K, bitches!) and waiting impatiently for pictures of Asia Carerra to slowly draw line by line. I blogged about this video: amancalledfrank (dot ) com/blog/
Oh the crazy stuff we did! Watching this today you only think, "That guy is texting at the wheel!" Back then it was, "No way, that's not real!" or, "Why would I ever want to use the computer when I'm not at work?"
Sorry - it's been so long I don't recall the secrets and all. As for the music, the theme song is available on the Xorcist release PHANTOMS available via digital download at dubdubdub dot xorcist dot com. Still trying to secure a hi-res pic of the Obrien :)
The sound design in Iron Helix was very fitting for a game like this, especially when there is no in-game music outside of the menu theme. My favorite sound happens when you click the left or right arrows that causes the probe to rotate. Moving forwards, backwards and going up or down the ladder system had a nice fluid like resonance to it. I still have the original CD-ROM that has some of your sound work directly accessible, which is nice since I cannot play the game on OSX. Excellent work!
