When you consider his entire catalogue to date, it’s easy to make the argument that desk is the best Super Street Fighter IV combo maker around. His videos are consistently creative, innovative, and just plain difficult! How does he do it? Read on to find out.
Maj: Your Ken vs Gief mini-series immediately caught everyone’s attention, and it was probably the reason we got to know each other. For a debut video, it was amazingly good. What gave you the idea to try something like that? (Why Ken? Why Zangief?)
desk: For the 90% of people reading this who don’t know about those vids, they was basically 1/3 machinima, 1/3 combo vid, 1/3 soap opera. The whole concept was born from playing SFEX2 and thinking I might be able to do something cool with it’s quite needlessly involved replay feature.
Again, for people who may not have seen it, it allowed you to re-watch matches but with full control over the camera and the ability to remove the hud, background and/or individual characters. If you have a bit of patience, there’s a huge potential for cool/creative stuff.
Those videos were really ghetto though. They took forever, I had no idea how to edit stuff properly and the actual ‘combo content’ was either massively derivative or not that great. I’m glad they’re not easily available now. Hopefully, anyone who watched them when they came out will remember them as being better than they actually were.
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