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Here comes the first episode of Wrecking Cannes! We will be blogging (almost) daily from the 61st Festival de Cannes for the next couple of weeks.

So, we arrived here in Cannes today (tuesday), and started to drag stuff into our office, and make it look like presentable and livable. First episode of the season two of Energia Dailies kicks in with a lot of blabbering, as usual. BTW., if you have questions you’d like us to answer live on the show, post ‘em here or to the YouTube video as comments!

Edit: Official Beer Bet

In the video, at around 3:20 mark, we see a wall of beer, approximately 20 cases, or somewhere around 500 bottles of beer. The question is: When will the beer run out?

The closest answer will get some yet undecided piece of Iron Sky stuff. If there are several answers the first one will take the prize. Post your answers to the official beer bet thread at our forum. You’ve got until the beer runs out, only one answer per person and your answer is final.

Thanks a *lot* for everybody for spreading out the message of Iron Sky, we’ve now covered the first 100k viewers on the demo on YouTube and other places. We intend to go for 1 million by the end of the year, so please keep spreading the good word!

Twitch Film also released the demo in a bit better quality, embedded here:

We’ve also been featured in news and blogs around the world pretty well, if you wanna know where, we have a thread about media coverage in our Forum.

So, here it is, finally! And I’m feeling pretty good about it! We are right now rendering the DV-resolution version, which should be available here by the end of this week, and Full-HD -version is gonna be released pretty soon as well!

Anyhow, Iron Sky demo teaser is here! And please, spread the link as much as you possibly can!

The direct link to YouTube is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KEueJnsu80

Timo.

Energia Daily for Tuesday. Deadline approaches and no matter how little we sleep time keeps running.

W00t!

Finnish Film Foundation has granted Iron Sky a production development money of 50k€, and marketing money together with Sauna another 40k€!

Energia team is flipping out here, this is awesome!

More about this on tonight’s episode of Energia Dailies!

In this episode we feature for example a conceptual dove, and Jarmo taking a dump, plus some technical difficulties we here at Energia keep on fighting against all the time.

As we promised. The second daily video in the countdown to the Iron Sky demo release. And yes, this time we’ll tell you when it’s coming out…

Also included is some rather worrysome attempts at humor.

The next Daily will propably be out on Monday.

I broke my record. One week of work with only 8 hours of sleep. And I didn’t even leave the office during that time! Beat that! Only Imperial Edition deadline rush came close…
A couple of months ago we decided to do Energia’s first music video: White Flame - Hour of Emptiness. And now some will undoubtably ask “why are you wasting time on some stupid music videos, do the fucking movie!” Well, the answer is very simple: we need practise, practise and practise before filming the Iron Sky. Timo needs to practise directing, I need to figure out how to produce on a larger scale, our CGI team needs superior 3d skillz etc… After all, we don’t want to practise with Iron Sky - it needs to be perfect - at least very close to it:)

A band playing on the moon and “Ilsa the shewolf of SS” sounded like a good idea. And were able to use some elements from the upcoming Iron Sky demo - which made the video possible in such a short production time in the first place. We ended up with 100 composite shots, about 1/3 of those were 3d tracked shots. And that means awful lot of work! But we enjoyed the challenge as always. Although I doubt that my body enjoyed so much. After the week I was crippled in every possible way, I couldn’t even speak decent sentences!

So was it worth it? Well hell yes! We gained much needed practise on basic filming with tight schedules, 3d tracking, greenscreen filming. I really enjoy being on the set during the shootings (with beautiful women), it’s fun! The deadlines are not fun - but you really can’t avoid those in this business.

So check out the video now and get a glimpse at some (unfinished) elements appearing in Iron Sky demo! One more thing: this is not an official Iron Sky music video, it only happens to use the same moon setup :)

Here’s also a better quality non-cropped h264 version (.mp4) . Use for example Quicktime or VLC media player to view it.

And remember to vote the video so that we can see it on tv primetime! Write “White Flame - Hour of Emptiness” to the second box.
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