Monday, 25 February 2008

First Person Shooter

RPGs.
from Role Playing Games to Rocket Propelled Grenades

The idea for the D&AD project is coming along well. We've been developing the concept of the video game aesthetic for army recruitment posters. Heres what we've been working on so far.

Andreas made the figures in 'Poser', and i photoshopped them to look like computer game packaging. The idea is to also produce a 'back cover', with screen shots of army life -also created in 3d, covering various aspects of army life, from initiation ceremonies, the torture of locals in the countries the army 'visit', to being denied help or compensation for P.S.T.D you'll get after witnessing all the violence and death. The age 7 ranking relates to a news story from earlier in the year about the army targeting youngsters as young as 7 in recruitment campaigns. (maybe this too).

Here's one of Andreas's 3d rendering of the initiation fun mentioned in an earlier post.

I mentioned several other propaganda computer games in an earlier post, and I've also been looking at other forms of propaganda with children as a primary target audience, in the war there was quite a lot of animations and cartoons used as public (mis)information films. Walt Disney made many , like this 'education for death', with it anti German theme.







2 comments:

Anonymous said...

maybe this film is propaganda, maybe this film is 'anti German'.....at the time the Nazis were busy wreaking murder and genocide across Europe, so where is the 'misinformation'? Everything in the film is true.

pixelmixer said...

hello, cheers,
good point, though i was referring to the fact there was a large number of such animations made at the time by various parties, some of them serving to misrepresent their opposition and shape public opinion.