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Did this one a while ago for a Tom Clancy's EndWar Clan called Pretorian Division.Related content
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Oh, your the guy who did that animated Enforcer video (with the animated logo etc) on YouTube, right? I can tell from the "FOR STABILITY & JUSTICE, ENLIST TODAY!".
I have to ask, how the hell did you animate that? I know you used Flash, but I just don't know how you did all those effects using that little program.
(One thing, sorry to be a dick, but you don't enlist in the enforcers, you have to join the European army first and, if you're good enough, you get to join. They are the special forces after all, made of GIS, Rainbow Six + other elite counter-terrorist/special forces units through out Europe. If the UK were in this fictional European Federation, which I wish it was, then the SAS would be a part of it aswell)
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Yes, I'm that guy.
Well, it's actually quite easy:
The video itself consists of ingame video footage from one of the EndWar Trailers (didn't have that much footage of the EFEC back then so I had to use these few very short sequences), my animated version of the EFEC Logo in Flash MX (if I would have had a more updated version like Flash CS3 it would have looked a lot better), the shiny effect on the European Enforcer Corp is being generated by a lighting effect in Sony Vegas (I think I've been using Vegas 5 or 6 back then) and all the text parts were basically created in Photoshop as AI (Adobe Illustrator Vector Graphic) and combined with a style which I had specifically developed for the video. 
About the "Enlist today":
Don't take that message too literally, I only wanted to encourage all the fellow Clancy fans to give EndWar a try - just like my 'See you on the frontlines' message in the enhanced airstrike ( [link] ) video. I simply wanted to say something that would fit the nature of the game, that's all.
I'm quite aware of the structure of the EFEC as well as it's 'history' (even read the first book and I'm waiting for the next one which is called EndWar 2 - The Hunted was announced to come out October 26th this year).
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Oh nice, didn't know there was going to be a second book.
One last thing, when the EFEC logo was starting to animate in the video, I saw the star move 90 degrees, stuff in the circular part of the logo move around. Did you cut those bits out and then just animate them yourself, or did you make them from scratch in Photoshop/Illustrator/Flash, making them look exactly like those in the logo and then animate them?
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When it comes to Clancy games, books and films, feel free to check out www.wnm-online.net to stay updated.
Speaking of it. We also have a Novel List on WNM.
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About the Logo question:
I built the entire logo inside Flash from scratch and placed every little object on it's own layer, so I was able to animate them independent from eachother.
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Not yet! It's supposed to come out Nov. this year!
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That IS a European Peacekeeper, right? They're the only ones that wore blue, anyway...
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Although the official name is European Enforcer, you're right.
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Oh, I thoguht it was Peacekeepr X3...
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Good :3. European Union, you have a General!
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Cool its just great!
Im a member of that clan, but its the first time I see this..
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Strange, I recall posting it inside the official EndWar Forums.
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stability and justice? war and prejudice are more fun. GO REDS WOOOOOOOOOO.
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I will enlist !
EndWar hell yeah !
Euro's hell yeah !
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