Once upon a time there was a Star Wars MMOG that didn't really feel Star Warsy. But it had some neat motion-captured dance moves. And then ...

http://shabitz.com/videos/Ice_Man[1].wmv (22.9Mb)

(edit) new link, thanks 3SM: http://sorethumbz.com/swg/download.php?list.2

Certifiable lollercaust. Someone make a torrent of that one.

That was too cool!!! Thanks for sharing.

Not the first, but I misplaced the link to the one done to that painful Timberlake song. Somewhere, someone must be plotting to do an entire embarassing series of these...

That was funny, though your opening statement is off a bit.

Very nice. Better than the dancing Gnome stuff EQ produced.

Working link.

http://sorethumbz.com/swg/download.php?list.2

You bastard. I will now have that song stuck in my head for the next hour.

Yeah, I could have gone the rest of my life without having to hear that song again.

This movie really makes you appreciate all the effort the SWG team took to mocap all these dance emotes.





Oh wait, no it doesn't.

It makes you appreciate how little time went into the core SW professions so that they could have dancing wookiees.


As smuggler will never be fixed.

Stop, collaborate and listen...

Hell, lets take it one step further!
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Yo, VIP, Let's kick it!

Ice Ice Baby, Ice Ice Baby
All right stop, Collaborate and listen
Ice is back with my brand new invention
Something grabs a hold of me tightly flow
like a harpoon daily and nightly
Will it ever stop? Yo -- I don't know
Turn off the lights and I'll glow
To the extreme I rock a mic like a vandal
Light up a stage and wax a chump like a candle.

Dance, Bum rush the speaker that booms
I'm killing your brain like a poisonous mushroom
deadly, when I play a dope melody
Anything less than the best is a felony
Love it or leave it, You better gain way
You better hit bull's eye, The kid don't play
If there was a problem, Yo, I'll solve it
Check out the hook while my DJ revolves it

Ice Ice Baby Vanilla, Ice Ice Baby Vanilla
Ice Ice Baby Vanilla, Ice Ice Baby Vanilla

Now that the party is jumping
With the bass kicked in, the Vegas are pumpin'
Quick to the point, to the point no faking
I'm cooking MCs like a pound of bacon
Burning them if you aint quick and nimble
I go crazy when I hear a cymbal
And a hi hat with a souped up tempo
I'm on a roll and it's time to go solo
Rollin' in my 5.0
With my ragtop down so my hair can blow
The girlies on standby, Waving just to say Hi
Did you stop? No -- I just drove by
Kept on pursuing to the next stop
I busted a left and I'm heading to the next block
That block was dead

Yo -- so I continued to A1A Beachfront Ave.
Girls were hot wearing less than bikinis
Rockman lovers driving Lamborghinis
Jealous 'cause I'm out geting mine
Shay with a gauge and Vanilla with a nine
Ready for the chumps on the wall
The chumps acting ill because they're so full of eight balls
Gunshots ranged out like a bell
I grabbed my nine -- All I heard were shells
Falling on the concrete real fast
Jumped in my car, slammed on the gas
Bumper to bumper the avenue's packed
I'm trying to get away before the jackers jack
Police on the scene, You know what I mean
They passed me up, confronted all the dope fiends
If there was a problem, You, I'll solve it
Check out the hook while my DJ revolves it

Ice Ice Baby Vanilla, Ice Ice Baby Vanilla
Ice Ice Baby Vanilla, Ice Ice Baby Vanilla

Take heed, 'cause I'm a lyrical poet
Miami's on the scene just in case you didn't know it
My town, that created all the bass sound
Enough to shake, kick holes in the ground
'Cause my style's like a chemical spill
Feasible rhymes that you can vision and feel
Conducted and formed, This is a hell of a concept
We make it hype and you want to step with this
Shay plays on the fade, slice like a ninja
Cut like a razor blade so fast, Other DJs say, "damn"
If my rhyme was a drug, I'd sell it by the gram
Keep my composure when it's time to get loose
Magnetized by the mic while I kick my juice
If there was a problem, Yo -- I'll solve it!
Check out the hook while Deshay revolves it.

Ice Ice Baby Vanilla, Ice Ice Baby Vanilla
Ice Ice Baby Vanilla, Ice Ice Baby Vanilla

Yo man -- Let's get out of here! Word to your mother!

Ice Ice Baby Too cold, Ice Ice Baby Too cold Too cold
Ice Ice Baby Too cold Too cold, Ice Ice Baby Too cold Too cold

My take exactly.
I've never felt the need to even try out SWG (and I'm sure I could wrangle a free account in a heartbeat). Looking at that made me marvel at the number of dancing emotes...
... and then wondering WTF a Imperial Stormtrooper shakin' his booty has to do with Star fucking WARS.

that is just a sign that the animator they got to do the character models had way too much free time

Yes, it wasn't intended at all for all characters to have full means to dance around. It was just the animator's free time, back when they were working 15 hour days for months just to get SWG out the door.