[Commando Nukem]

Some years ago I recall someone found the original stock footage that was used for the Octabrain's brain blast effect. It was based on a pool of gas being hit with a match or something along those lines. It appeared and was reused later on in the Duke Nukem Time To Kill trailer,and I know it crops up in the 2006 footage of DNF, also. I was just wondering if anyone had a link to that stock footage still lying around?

[Hendricks266]

They come from a stock footage compilation called Pyromania. Some of the materials are still being sold. Note however that any 16:9 or 1080p copies you buy will be cropped at the top and bottom, which is unacceptable. The original compilation disc probably would not have this problem.

Jimmy, on 26 April 2014 - 03:02 PM, said:

Was talking in the #EDuke32 IRC channel, got on the subject of the stock footage 3DR used to create effects in Duke3D.

Source for the Duke3D/Blood/Nuclear SW explosion.
Source of SW's gas/smoke puff.
Source for Octabrain mindblast.
Source of some of the Duke3D/Blood/SW fire sprites.
I believe Fate or another Build game might have used this explosion.
You can see a very small preview for the Blood explosion on this page. This is also the page where you can buy the VFX compilation disk.

Fox, on 26 April 2014 - 03:04 PM, said:

The videos in the first video are cropped, which is just silly. The second one seems good.

Jimmy, on 26 April 2014 - 03:06 PM, said:

Yeah, I'm not sure what the deal is with that. I've never seen it without the clipping, so I'm assuming that 3DR drew the rest of the sprite.

[Commando Nukem]

Hendricks266, on 02 January 2020 - 11:07 AM, said:

They come from a stock footage compilation called Pyromania. Some of the materials are still being sold only. Note however that any 16:9 or 1080p copies you buy will be cropped at the top and bottom, which is unacceptable. The original compilation disc probably would not have this problem.

Hah! There it is.

Thank you, sir! :)