SSTICKBASH · TEAM FEEDBACK · THE SPINE
Page 96 · 5 Nov · before SPINELESS goes into the game

THE SPINE.
IS THIS THE ONE?

SPINELESS (fists, EPIC) is on the kill page but not playable in the game yet. Before it’s ported, check it’s the spine rip you meant: the head pulled off with the whole spine hanging from it. Below are the page take, the spine that already plays in the game (BELL TO BELL), and how the port would look, at all three gore levels. Nothing is built until you say yes.

YOU, 27 OCT (RATING SPINELESS)“we need that spine taking animation we had earlier (it was nicer), by taking head along with spine ... add that animation in some of the new ones”
TAKE 3 · EXTREME
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THREE TAKES, SIDE BY SIDE

1 is the page film you rated (its spine is the one we brought back on 28 Oct). 2 is the spine that already plays in a real match today. 3 is SPINELESS as we’d port it. Switch the gore level on 1 and 3, slow them to 0.5x, or tap REPLAY.

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THE PAGE TAKE

SPINELESS · saloon · the original spine rip

  • THE SPINE The anatomy kit’s white vertebrae and discs, with meat on the first links, sliding out disc by disc.
  • WHAT’S MISSING The 62 note: the body drops out of frame, and the head just hangs. There’s no swing.
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IN THE GAME TODAY

BELL TO BELL (SEVEN POINTS) · a real match capture

  • SAME SPINE The game draws it the way the page does: the same vertebrae, the head held up by the hair.
  • GORE In the game the spine only shows on EXTREME. MEDIUM and LOW take the head back without it.
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THE PORT, PROPOSED

SPINELESS in the game · STYLE 3 · + the swing

NEW
  • THE SAME SPINE The page take’s spine, unchanged, on real game fighters (no weapon: fists).
  • STYLE 3 Fast through the walk round, 0.1x on the pull with slow-motion sound, two inserts (the hands on his skull, the boot in his back), the cinema grade.
  • THE 62 FIX The camera stays wide as the boneless body folds to the floor, then follows the head as Faris swings it on its spine like a lantern. Then he drops it on the heap.

THE PORT AT ALL THREE GORE LEVELS

The same moments of take 3 at each level. Faris moves exactly the same at every level; only the victim and what’s in Faris’s fist change.

EXTREMEThe head comes off with the whole spine. The body folds boneless, Faris swings the head on its spine, and it’s dropped on the heap.
MEDIUMNo spine. His head is yanked back hard and let go, and he slumps out cold on his knees. The beanie comes off in Faris’s fist, he swings it, and drops it on him.
LOWA cut-away. On the pull the picture splits into two tight shots (Faris’s face, his fist), so you only hear it. Back wide, he’s sitting there dazed with stars, alive.
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YOUR CALL

Is this the spine you liked?

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ONE MORE FILM WITH A SPINE PULL?

Optional. You said to add it to “some of the new ones”. A short spine-pull beat would fit one more fists film. Each of these already ends with Faris behind his victim or holding the head, which is the grip a spine pull needs. Tick one, or none.

YOUR CALLnot answered COPIED! PASTE IT IN CHAT