Day of Darkness II from Dire Lauthris on Vimeo.

Based on EVE the Chronicle The Breakout, this video is no doubt the epic one that you can watch as a short film. The author Dire Lauthris explains a little about the background to his masterpiece:

This film covers a bit from the Caldari-Gallente war, based on the Chronicle The Breakout. It’s set 200 years ago, before any of the 4 races had pod technology. I tried to use ships that may have been around back then, though sadly there’s not a huge amount of information that I could find.

Initially I tried making this in 3DS Max with hilariously bad results. (I might post up some of the initial shots for a laugh one day). I was about to go back to the old Sisi + alts method when I thought I’d ask CCP if they could help out with the locations of some complexes to use on Sisi. Instead they invited me over to their offices and let me have a tinker with the software they use for making their own vids.

I was able to bring a cut-down version of this away and set about making the film - so without CCP this probably wouldn’t have turned out anything like it has. A big thank you to CCP for being an awesomely open company to their players.

Also a huge thank you to Stevie for doing the voice, the film was pretty much just an explosion slideshow till she stepped in