An Inside Look at Dan Chosich

Posted by: Mhaddy at 11:03 AM 

We found out a little bit about him in our Spotlight earlier in the year. Now, with the release of his recent movie and behind the scenes write-up, Cybrfrk from HBO caught up with Dan to learn a little more about the man behind the camera.

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4. You recently achieved something that every Bungie fan wants -- can you tell me what it is?
Every fan wanted to play the game early - I suppose I achieved that. I doubt every fan would want to edit something or watch the process everyday. Most fans would want that instant gratification of just hitting a button and watching it all unfold, it's not that simple. I doubt people would have been envious if they saw the state the game was in. A lot of the light maps were broken most of the time, some of the builds had no texture or bump-maps, there was no music and the only cinematic was the Gas Giant opening cinematic. The fact that I was capturing footage/playing the game definitely sounds cooler in your head than what the reality of it was. Multiplayer looked good, but the documentary is about single player so it didn't matter all that much. Some thing's worked and a lot more didn't. Seeing how Bungie pulled this game off is the greatest kick in the ass that the documentary throws at you.

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