Lebron Assures: “Nothing that should effect the internet release”
The estimated 1,000 or so who packed a panel at MAGfest on Saturday for the world premiere of Blue Core Studios’s Sonic fan film appear to have left there disappointed. Multiple reports, including some from attendees writing on the fan film’s Facebook page and other sources like SonicRadio.net, one of the film’s backers, have told TSSZ the finished film was not shown due to a Trojan that infected the producer’s computers.
“What we did see was awesome,” assured a fan writing on the Facebook page.
It appears the problem was accidental. The planned Wednesday release of Sonic to the Internet should continue as planned.
“(It’s) Nothing that should effect the internet release,” wrote Eddie Lebron after the incident.
Blue Core brass did thank fans for their attendance on Facebook.
“We thank you all for attending the World Premier [sic] of Sonic. Over 1,000 of you showed your support. And It was great meeting all of you,” wrote Blue Core president Dan Horowitz.
UPDATE: Eddie Lebron himself has clarified the matter in our comments, and it appears a virus was not the culprit behind the botched premiere, but rather corrupted data ahead of time that prevented the finished film from making it to MAGfest:
It involved corrupted data from a render farm, a hard drive crashing, and our back up being unaccessible in NYC. Our workstation was taken to the convention since we were awaiting 2-3 re-renders and a series of events began. After the film’s release, I’ll make note of what exactly happened so people are completely aware but I have to spend the next day re-linking the film to our NY-back up so it goes online Wednesday. We don’t want to hide anything in regards to what happened but my priority is mainly releasing the film. What happened was tremendously frustrating and I’m glad we had something to show the audience (who seemed pleased).
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Might be good for me to clear up come of the info: The collective tally of people who came to watch included all 3 screenings the con wanted to schedule with us, not 1000 at a time (I wish though!). Despite the issue which was, by far, one of the most exhausting situations I’ve ever had to face, an assembly cut was shown to the audiences so they wouldn’t go empty handed. Seems people enjoyed what they saw but I wish there was more that could of been done to make sure the audience was 100% satisfied with the screening experience.
Its Murphy’s Law! Anything that can go wrong will go wrong. Sometimes you just can’t prepare for these sort of things. But if people are reacting positively towards what little they did see, then that only makes me even more excited to see the finished product! It will all pay off Eddie, promise! Can not wait until this Wednesday!
[Insert Sonic 2 Game Over theme here]
It was probably Eggman
What happens when you watch all that porn on a “professionals” computer
Thank God the release date for “teh interwebs” won’t be delayed!
This reeks of BS. Even if his system was infected with a trojan, was it not possible to copy the file to another system? (And don’t say the virus would “spread” through a video. Computers don’t work that way.)
^^^ Indeed, the story is vague on what happened exactly (it wasn’t as simple as a trojan, I wish it was since this could of been resolved). It involved corrupted data from a render farm, a hard drive crashing, and our back up being unaccessible in NYC. Our workstation was taken to the convention since we were awaiting 2-3 re-renders and a series of events began. After the film’s release, I’ll make note of what exactly happened so people are completely aware but I have to spend the next day re-linking the film to our NY-back up so it goes online Wednesday. We don’t want to hide anything in regards to what happened but my priority is mainly releasing the film. What happened was tremendously frustrating and I’m glad we had something to show the audience (who seemed pleased). Now, to focus on our release!
More than likely…GOOD ole fricken malware…GEERRRR…the time I lost spent fighting malware over the last couple of years. If I had my way…I wouldn’t allow a single frigging ad to ever load on my comp. There is ways of fighting ads with specific proxy server setups or even through router software such as IPCop but IPCop is not gamer friendly that I’m aware of. Not sure though haven’t researched it in quite a while. Well for everything else there’s always http://www.malwarebytes.org (Malwarebytes Antimalware) Not 100% effective but 9 times out of 10 it will find the shit that gets loose and kill it….works best in windows safemode.
I swear by Malwarebytes for my Windows machines. We initially thought it was virus or malware and some of the confusion that it was a virus stems from the fact that it was the initial thought we had this past Saturday. We ruled the issue down but I could be wrong. For all we know, it could of been a combination of a both. After the film’s release, I intend to take the defective hard ware/drive to someone to see what really happened. In addition to “Sonic”, various other projects fell victim to the issue which I have to spend post-release getting back up.
I can’t wait to see the movie! Awesome that the film will be released on the internet without delays
^^Hour or two delay behind what we wanted but not bad all things considering :’3
Next time he should use a Mac for presentations.
So…. where’s the film? It was supposed to come out today, right?
@Edcedc:
Just keep checking the fan film’s Facebook. Apparently, they’re still trying to fix the technical difficulties right now, but it should be up some hours later. Eddie’s trying his best to make sure there are no problems with film’s VFX shots that were corrupted and they’re on the very last one. He would have cut the shot, but he said it’s very important to the film & feels that fans would want to see it. So he’s really trying his best for us and deeply apologized for the delay.
I just hope the fanbase don’t give him a hard time for this.
AngelJump: Too late.
-T
I don’t mind how long it takes, I can wait a long time, I waited over 8 months for the last part of a redub and I didn’t get angry at how many times it was delayed. Take your time Eddie.
I support you Eddie! Gogogo!
Thanks for making this fan film possible.