Battlefront3.net

[Wenis]

So after finding a lot of old Free Radical developer's sites, I managed to come up with this stuff which I haven't seen before.

http://www.salvadoryoung.co.uk/3danimation.html <<An animation reel, which shows various games including Battlefront III. You can even hear a little bit of the voice acting of that Shara bounty hunter, and some other guy.

(I'll quote the sections to keep it organized. to view the full images, right click them and "View Image")

Geonosis Arena:




All found here: http://www.dropbox.com/gallery/476940/1 ... o?h=20cf65

Loading/Menu concepts. These were originally posted on swbf3.de, but with their huge watermark plastered on it. However I managed to find the originals on this man's website http://boadle.com/

"The Loading Screen of BFIII was a hyperspace sequence, which showed information about the planet you were about to do battle on. It featured animated 'warp' effects based on those seen in the Star Wars movies."


"One of the most complex screens I concepted for the front-end of BFIII was the 'Select Spawn Location' screen, which was intended to illustrate the 'Vertical Battlefield' concept (encompassing ground, sky and space), across all 12 different planets."


"'Select Spawn Class' was intended to allow the gamer to choose from a dynamic list of classes. This concept (with placeholder art) envisions a scenario with many class options for the 'Heroes Vs Villians' game mode."


"The 'Galactic Conquest' game mode was one of the highly anticipated modes of BFIII. This concept illustrates the visual approach I defined to the main 'chess board' screen. The animated camera would zoom in on your planet selection."


"Many of the front-end screens were projected as 'holograms' onto a battle table, which was situated on a Star Destroyer bridge. This 'Control Configuration' screen concept shows how we were planning on realising that goal."

And here is the animation showing a Super Battle Droid, an AT-AT, an AT-ST, General Grievious (which looks awesome..) http://www.thegraphicsengine.com/animation_frame.htm

Of course all of these were from Free Radical developers, so its really just sad to see this beautiful stuff

[mikill]

Nice!!

[HeadClot]

EPIC!

[Nitro]

Awesome thanks!

[Wenis]

No problem, I saw the article in the frontpage, you forgot to add this link http://www.thegraphicsengine.com/animation_frame.htm (unless its already been found, I just dont remember seeing it)

and if anyone was wondering how I found all this, what I did was found the game credits for Haze, then did a linkedin.com search for all of the artists and animators and got links to their personal websites. I even tried the same with some Pandemic Employees but only managed to come up with some old SWBF1 and 2 stuff, nothing about BF3, some its makes me wonder if they really had the game or not... maybe they just didn't post any of their work on their sites (yet)

[Matthew]

You didn't find any TimeSplitters 4 things along the way, did you?

This is a good find. The menus look quite nice.

I found the early TimeSplitters Future Perfect scenes quite funny.

[Sam]

It's a real shame these pictures are from the dead project as they look really good!

Although I suppose it could be possible if another publisher has picked BF3 up they will still have this material at thier disposal as its all under the same publisher? I would think it would make more sense to continue with this or atleast use this as a base rather than start from scratch, unless you wanted to go about it in a completly different way...

Great work on digging these up!