Odst Live Action Trailer

[The Ragin Pagan]

I think the funeral at the beginning was his brother/father. Why else would he be driven to recruit?

 

[Harding29]

I'm pretty sure this short was to show the progression of an ODST. It first shows Tarkov, a newbie, at a funeral. He is startled just by the sound of the guns shooting.

Skip past the training to the drop. He is face to face with a Brute, basically about to die. He has some emotion about it, you can tell, but is holding it in, keeping a neutral face.

Now, in kind of a full circle, there is a funeral at the end. I don't think we know who died, since this is obviously farther in the future (Tarkov's hair has grown out a bit, and he just looks older). The blond hair is another newbie ODST; you can see how he jumps when there is an explosion, whereas Tarkov has no emotion about him at all. It's implying that all ODST's start off "human", but eventually get battle-hardened and impassive.



IMHO, at least.

thanks for clearing that up for me thats kind of what i thought but the 2 people that died were confusing me

 

[Shade88]

POST.

That makes since, thanks for clearing that up.

 

[Achille]

I think the funeral at the beginning was his brother/father. Why else would he be driven to recruit?

But the name on the coffin is Stark, whereas the recruit's name is Tarkov, so they're unrelated. Unless, of course, Tarkov is the recruit's first name. Other trainee's had names like "Coady" and "Alton" on their shirts, both of which could be first or last names, so no help there... :\

 

[Loess]

I'd guess 100% Woven polyester, for three reasons. One, that's what is commonly used to make flags. Two, it has the same type of fold creases. Three, the ripped part of the ODST flag is very frayed, but there is another part that looks melted. 100% woven polyester melts, and also frays like no other when ripped.



As for the thickness, they probably doubled the layer of red fabric.



EDIT: Woah, Belakor. Nice. Only criticism is the fact that the flag doesn't have devil horns, but you are probably aware of that.

You're probably right about that. That's kind of what I would assume the flag would be made of, since that's what flags are made of. I think I was just trying to over-analyze the flag. Watching the trailer again now, the weave of the fabric is tighter than I've seen poly, but I'd still expect the flag to be made of poly.



And, Damn Belakor, that looks nice!

 

[Achille]

So I found this on some site:

This is industry standard 200 denier Dupont type 66 nylon, and is used for flag and banner construction.

I then researched the difference between nylon and polyester (Read: googled it), it seems like the only difference is that nylon is synthetic and polyester is natural. Since Nylon is so much easier to find (I haven't found a single site that sells polyester on its own), and comes in a variety of colours, I think I'm going to go with nylon for the flag. Unless, of course, anyone has any other suggestions as to where to get polyester.

 

[Underdogg13]

Just wondering, is there any way to do that transperant-to-opaque thing the visors do?

 

[The Ragin Pagan]

Just wondering, is there any way to do that transperant-to-opaque thing the visors do?

Get a TON of transition lenses. The only other way that I could see is having two visors, made of a thin enough plastic to do this. The outer layer is solid, and is the clear layer. The second layer would be beneath that, but still leave room for your face. This layer would be much darker, but still able to be seen through. The inner one would rotate on a knob on the side of the helmet, and you just transition back and forth.



I'm actually tempted to try that now...

 

[Underdogg13]

Get a TON of transition lenses. The only other way that I could see is having two visors, made of a thin enough plastic to do this. The outer layer is solid, and is the clear layer. The second layer would be beneath that, but still leave room for your face. This layer would be much darker, but still able to be seen through. The inner one would rotate on a knob on the side of the helmet, and you just transition back and forth.



I'm actually tempted to try that now...

Actually, I remember seeing somewhere a glass that had reflective crystals in it that when excited, the moleculeswould make the glass opaque istantaneously. The only downside is that it make it opaque from both sides.

 

[Achille]

Well, I said I would get the logo done by Monday. Thanks to Belakor (Who did most of my work for me), I got it done today.

Belakor did the skull and drop pod, all I did was the banner. I think it's fairly accurate. Any thoughts?

 

[rowan]

If i was home i would whip up one of these flags just with some drill or something (not accurate, but it would look awesome anyway)

Who knows if i get bored next week i might make a good one

 

[The Ragin Pagan]

I might have to get my parents to make me up some T-shirts with this symbol on it.

 

[Trooper Cooper]

I think the funeral at the beginning was his brother/father. Why else would he be driven to recruit?

Considering the Stark-Tarkov thing, I imagine it's a close family friend, or one of his personal friends. It could be that Tarkov is a military brat and that Stark was a friend of his mum/dad's.

 

[mooseguy04]

aw man it would be sick if i could finish my odst costume, make the flag, and show it off at the odst release at gamestop

 

[Loess]

That's some great work Achille and Belakor. Once I get back home, I'll have to hit walmart, and see if they have any decent fabric for this. Might have to switch 19th BN for 405th ID, though.

 

[CommanderFluffy]

so those walpapers. they any good?

 

[Harding29]

there just stills from the vid,like the helmet on the gun,the brute,Tarkovs helm,and somthing else

 

[Achille]

Revised it a little, straightened some edges, etc.

 

[The Ragin Pagan]

Maybe because Russian army training is way harder than USA, or at least I've been told so.

That's exactly why they had them speaking Hungarian (canonically Russian) - to portray the ODST's "tough training."



I did notice, however, that there was an inconsistency. The ODST are taken from the UNSCDF with Marines who show a certain level of "crazy." Given that Tarkov visually flinched at the 21-Gun Salute, it's unlikely that he would have jumped straight into the ODST, as the video seems to portray.

 

[Harding29]

That's exactly why they had them speaking Hungarian (canonically Russian) - to portray the ODST's "tough training."



I did notice, however, that there was an inconsistency. The ODST are taken from the UNSCDF with Marines who show a certain level of "crazy." Given that Tarkov visually flinched at the 21-Gun Salute, it's unlikely that he would have jumped straight into the ODST, as the video seems to portray.

well i think it was over a period of time.It shows how he goes from a normal person to a battle hardened ODST and will start over again with the one ODST at the end that jumps to the sound of the explosion