After playing Skate2 for the last three weeks, I'm selling the game.

I've been a hardcore THPS addict since the 1st release, and I was very excited for the release of this game. Don't get me wrong, the graphics, physics, moves, camera, tricks, parks etc are all stellar. But the controls for me are just way off the mark. It's far too "real", as opposed to THPS in how to approach grinds/ramps/etc.

Some things are much easier in Skate2, but a lot are way far more difficult, to annoyingly impossible.

Loved it. So creative.

I think this is done by waving an LED around to trace out a shape in mid-air with the camera's exposure time set to roughly the time taken to trace out the shape once. So every time the camera captures an image it captures the entire outline that has been traced out using the bright LED. The quality of the animation created in this manner is greatly influenced by the person's ability to trace out the same shape over and over again consistently.

I found the shots where the camera is moving the down the hallway really impressive. In these shots they are able to capture the traced LED outlines (suggests the use of long exposure) and yet the background doesn't blur out when the camera moves (which would happen with a moving camera if your exposure was too long). They must have played around with the brightness of the leds, the amount of ambient light in the scene, the exposure time, and speed of movement until they had it nailed down. Or maybe I missing something. Obviously the people who made this video think the moving camera shots are impressive too since they play those shots several times back and forth.

"The porn industry would love this. Take a picture of some B-cup porn star and BOOM, double D's."

I didn't realize there were B-cup porn stars Unfortunately the B-to-DD cup transitions will probably have to be made by the cosmetic surgeons for now since the work being shown here can only handle videos of static scenes (i.e., videos shot with a moving camera but containing no moving objects in the scene). Efforts are being made to lift this restriction in future work.

Any time someone needs to do the "passing back and forth" bit, just take it for granted he is grabbing a new ubmrella. Just like the moving camera in that earlier clip about the "paper manhole cover".