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	Gamasutra - Features - "GDC 2003: How to Build a Better Cutscene"
		Prerendered cutscenes are little movies, and they exist as individual frames that are created outside of the game engine.
		If your cutscene is prerendered and the set is being designed and built specifically for the cutscene, then it makes sense to create a mockup set first.
		With prerendered cutscenes, the only things that keep you from creating film quality animation are your budget, and the skill of your artists.
	www.gamasutra.com /gdc2003/features/20030306/schnitzer_02.htm (3383 words)

	Prerendered User Interfaces for Higher-Assurance Electronic Voting \| EECS at UC Berkeley
		We propose an election system architecture in which the voting user interface is prerendered and published before election day.
		The prerendered user interface is a verifiable artifact -- an electronic sample ballot -- enabling public participation in the review, verification, usability testing, and accessibility testing of the ballot.
		Preparing the user interface outside of the voting machine dramatically reduces the amount and difficulty of software verification required to assure the correctness of the election result.
	www.eecs.berkeley.edu /Pubs/TechRpts/2006/EECS-2006-35.html (209 words)

	RPGamer Editorials - Are recent SquareSoft RPGs really games?
		Prerendered graphics are done on a supercomputer before being compressed into a format the PlayStation can read and play back.
		Prerendered stuff takes a lot of space, so that's why Square opted to use the CD format.
		Besides, prerendered graphics are not very interactive, and 3D characters look really goofy walking on 2D backdrops (FFVII, Parasite Eve).
	www.rpgamer.com /editor/1999/q1/022099cb.html (596 words)

	Koudelka - GameCritics.com
		It sported impressive CG graphics, rich prerendered backgrounds and was made by a collection of developers who once worked at Squaresoft -- all the things needed to garner some attention and positive early reviews.
		The prerendered backgrounds may be amazing to look at, but traveling in them is an amazing endeavor.
		I could be in a room and simply pass by objects because they looked to be part of the scenery and this only lead to more pointless backtracking.
	www.gamecritics.com /review/koudelka/main.php (1388 words)

	Prerendered User Interfaces for Higher-Assurance Electronic Voting
		The key idea we propose is to construct and verify a prerendered description of the UI before the election.
		The ballot definitions we propose contain not just the prerendered images but a complete description of the user interface—the locations where the images will appear, the transitions from screen to screen, how these transitions are triggered, and so on.
		Prerendering the UI is not incompatible with a further partitioning of the user interface into two steps as suggested by the frog voting architecture.
	zesty.ca /voting/prui/prui.html (9745 words)

	The Space Toast Page
		Instead of prerendered stills (Myst, Riven) or prerendered VR panoramas (Myst III, Myst IV), the game is rendered in realtime 3D.
		We can regain the detail of prerendered scenery and filmed actors without sacrificing the ability to animate portions or all of a given scene.
		On the inside of the ball is mapped a high resolution image of a prerendered scene.
	www.spacetoast.net /STP/165.html (1845 words)

	Adobe - Flash TechNote : 3D approaches in the Macromedia Flash and Shockwave Players (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Prerendered stream: The 3D scene is entirely rendered to pixels during design, then it is put in a sequential animation format, such as QuickTime, GIF animation or page flipping.
		These three approaches, prerendered streams, 2D animation of prerendered sprites, and full 3D rendering, take increasing amounts of processing power.
		Prerendered pixel streams usually perform better in the Shockwave Player than in the Macromedia Flash Player.
	www.adobe.com /cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=tn_14650 (1424 words)

	GGL - Prerendered Call Of Duty Ads Banned In the UK (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		If the prerendered graphics were actually in the game, like in a cutscene, then it should be ok. If it was made exclusively for the ads, then I can see why the ads got banned.
		Yea, all the graphics displayed were prerendered of gameplay, nothing that actually happens in the game.
		Thats why games always look so good in the comercials, the prerendering, but usually youll see the movies of the commercial scenes in teh game.
	www.ggl.com /news.php?NewsId=2388 (403 words)

	XO Forum - See Real PS3 Graphics, Not Some Tech Demo crap
		Another thing that makes me think it's all prerendered is the introduction like a movie, and the slo-mo at the end.
		May 17th, 2005 07:36 PM I agree that the beginning and ending are pre-rendered, but as I said before, I believe they are seamlessly integrated into the gameplay so smoothly, that it is nearly impossible to see where in-game ends and pre-rendered begins.
		May 17th, 2005 10:31 PM Killzone was prerendered, an action game has never had action that fluent and persistant.
	www.xboxcircle.com /forum/printthread.php?t=603&page=2&pp=20 (1135 words)

	IGN: Parasite Eve II Review
		While a lot of people like to complain about the inadequacies of prerendered 3D backgrounds and how they limit player interactivity and camera angles, there's no denying that if you want the best looking backgrounds possible on PlayStation that they have to be prerendered.
		One of the biggest problems with this type of an environment is that most games that feature polygonal characters in prerendered settings, the characters stick out like a thumb and don't really fit their surroundings.
		As good as the 3D characters and prerendered backgrounds are, they don't even come close to the visual quality offered in the astonishing CG cut scenes.
	psx.ign.com /articles/163/163208p1.html (1973 words)

	Evil Avatar - PS3 Killzone 2 video pre-rendered? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		On the other hand, the mighty impressive recreation of the once prerendered Final Fantasy VII intro was a true tech demo as far as I understand it, or at the very least it was rendered on the actual PS3.
		And the way that scene was set up it would have been so heavilly scripted that the player would have gotten to play every other second of the sequence, which no one should 'be looking forward to'.
		Anyone who's played games for most of their lifetime knows that not all scripted sequences are prerendered and there is such thing as in-engine cinematics.
	www.evilavatar.com /forums/showthread.php?t=2249 (928 words)

	Pre-rendered - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A scene from Final Fantasy VII depicts Cloud and Aerith in front of a prerendered background.
		The use of pre-rendered backgrounds and movies was made popular by the Resident Evil and Final Fantasy franchises on the original PlayStation, both of which use prerendered backgrounds and movies extensively to provide a visual presentation that is far greater than the console can provide with real-time 3D.
		Pre-rendered graphics are used primarily as cut scenes in modern video games, where they are also known as full motion video.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Prerendered (722 words)

	GameSpot Forums - System Wars - I wonder what the Killzone guys think of Kojima making fun of them
		He's saying forget prerendered stuff b/c the mgs4 vid was real time on the ps3.
		That's why the "forget pre-rendered stuff" comment at the beginning of the trailer is framed by the killzone footage at the end.
		then it says forget prerendered stuff b/c the demo is running real time unlike a lot of the demos from e3.
	www.gamespot.com /pages/forums/show_msgs.php?topic_id=24096391&page=1 (9349 words)

	Postmortem: Star Trek: Hidden Evil
		Due to our experience with prerendered adventure games, we were given the task of creating a prerendered action/adventure title.
		The prerendered group was responsible for designing the scenes, creating background images, and prerendered cut scenes.
		And whenever a problem was found in the placement of a crate or a camera, it required getting into prerendered Electric Image files, making changes, rerendering, and then trying out the new scene often with the result being that we didn't change it enough or we changed it too much.
	www.gamasutra.com /features/19991119/startrekpostmortem_pfv.htm (4911 words)

	TheGreyDragon.com
		That is how a prerendered game can feel like a natural stroll through the game worlds, even though it is not.
		One thing i've noticed in Myst 4, the prerendered environments are getting more and more and more complex and it's really honestly become a royal pain in the butt to find which direction to click in.
		In the prerendered scene there is no fog so it just sort of fades into existence when the scene fades to the movie.
	www.thegreydragon.com /2005/09/real-time-vs.html (6114 words)

	Review: Resident Evil and Resident Evil 2
		The up-is-forward and back-is-backward control system is perfect for the prerendered backgrounds and allows perfect control for the seasoned or unseasoned player.
		The puzzles and obstacles are all very well-done, from collecting pieces of a puzzle to putting aging pictures in order.
		Not being able to peer around the corner adds tremendously to the feeling of anticipation or dread that the player will feel as he or she enters new territory.
	www.justadventure.com /reviews/Resident_Evil/Resident_Evil_Review.shtm (1539 words)

	Killzone Prerendered E3 Trailer Talk - Beyond3D Forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		See I think it's a good thing that Sony got called out on using Prerendered target video for their up and coming hot franchise (Killzone universe is a great idea...just not executed effectively in the first game due to hardware limitations)....
		All the yelling and screaming will do from the ******s is make sony and guerilla's effort to build quality into the game unrelenting.
		I would not be surprised if the final build of the game came very, very close to the prerendered target...unlike some other companies that don't really need to worry about living up to expectations because they monopolize their arena with exclusivity and licensing agreements (cough cough madden 2006 cough cough EA sports)
	www.beyond3d.com /forum/showthread.php?t=26959&highlight=killzone (1718 words)

	Team Ninja's Itagaki Interviewed news from 1UP.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Tomonobu Itagaki: Our first priority as far as creating the prerendered cinemas is to split up the work volume in a sense.
		For prerendered sequences the cameras angles are fixed in preproduction so you're able to go in there and add a level of detail that wouldn't otherwise be possible.
		For opening and ending movies, where you are establishing or ending something, I think prerendered cinemas are a very viable option.
	www.1up.com /do/newsStory?cId=3154580 (1973 words)

	Final Fantasy VII - Review
		When everyone else was still using sprites and tiled backgrounds, Square made the leap to lush prerendered backdrops and three disks worth of gorgeous FMV.
		Additionally, while the backgrounds are prerendered, the characters are extremely crude polygonal models when exploring.
		Particularly when compared to the large battle models, these look terrible on the rare occassion the screen is zoomed in enough to see detail.
	www.rpgamer.com /games/ff/ff7/reviews/ff7strev1.html (591 words)

	BlueSmoke - Review : Warcraft III : Reign of Chaos
		Players will also be treated to some undeniably breathtaking prerendered cinematics, which show key developments in the storyline.
		During the game itself, players may also notice the many subtle details which grace the screen, with shadows changing with the passing of the day / night cycle, blood staining the earth in the wake of combat and so on.
		The quality of the voice-acting for each and every unit as well as those found in the prerendered cinematics are nothing short of superb.
	www.bluesmoke.net /review58_3.html (308 words)

	KillZone // PlayStation 3 /// Eurogamer
		it doesnt look prerendered to me, it looks like it could be ingame..
		I'm pretty much certain that this is prerendered stuff, theres no way that this can be delivered given the specifications of the machine.
		I can understand showing a FMV as a game trailer to give you an idea of what the style of the game will be, but prerendering first person videos and calling it "gameplay" is downright deceitful.
	www.eurogamer.net /article_discussion.php?article_id=59113&comment_start=0 (487 words)

	IGN Boards - Resident Evil 4 has the potential to become the most important Resident Evil to date.
		Limited by the power of the console, prerendered were pretty much the only way to offer awesome games that really stood as milestones not only for the series, but for the games industry in general.
		Basically, prerendered backgrounds are "flat" and have no depth, but it is rather the great detail rendered allows for a false sense of depth.
		The difference between 3d and prerendered is that prerenders are just pictures pasted on.
	boards.ign.com /resident_evil/b5234/121571640/p1 (2782 words)

	Killzone Prerendered E3 Trailer Talk - Page 3 - Beyond3D Forum
		We knew thanks to the "leaks" and because of the hypervoxels smoke that it was 100% rendered in a software solution, but I didn't expect people from NT to talk publicly about it.
		His rationale for giving public access to his portfolio was that it "appeared" now to be common knowledge that the KZ trailer was prerendered.
		No doubt, the game director himself said it was prerendered to show people what to expect when playing the final game, uk.playstation.com had an interview with Jan-Bart Van Beek - go and search the site, just put "Killzone PS3" and it should come up.
	www.beyond3d.com /forum/showthread.php?t=26959&page=3 (3035 words)

	PlanetDreamcast: Games - Reviews - Alone in the Dark: The New Nightmare (European Version)
		While this may not be considered a bad thing, some may be afraid that AITD: TNN will play too much like a Resident Evil: Code Veronica clone, and thus detract from the gameplay experience.
		The detail in the prerendered backgrounds is pretty astounding.
		While the backgrounds are prerendered, a meticulously accurate meshing has been created around each object to ensure you genuinely feel that your 3D polygonal character is part of the overall scene.
	www.planetdreamcast.com /games/reviews/aitd4 (1121 words)

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		BUT when you see a close up on the characters face, you can see small tiny strands of facial hair, which concludes that it is prerendered...
		Yes there are tricks to do "hair", but not with that detail.
		Of course there are tricks to pull off some stuff that "looks" like, but for example, global illumination you couldn't move the lights in realtime, because the lighting is baked into textures.
	www.ureader.co.uk /msg/106211.aspx (1092 words)

	Xbox.com \| Xbox 360 Games - Another Halo Wars FAQ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		At the moment, there are no current plans to release Halo Wars on the PC and the game is being touted as Xbox 360 exclusive.
		All current Halo Wars media can be found here. At the moment however, all the screenshots and videos are either prerendered (CGI) or concept art. There is no in-game media yet.
		As said above, yes the current trailer is prerendered and is not an indicator of what the game will look like (although we can always hope!).
	forums.xbox.com /8603027/ShowPost.aspx (478 words)

	EmbedPDFPlugin < Plugins < TWiki
		Check whether a prerendered image of the PDF file with the specified extension is available, and if so, embed the image rather than the PDF file itself:
		Note: You do not need to have a PDF plugin installed in your browser for this plugin to be useful.install anything on the browser to use this plugin.
		Here is a pdf file for which we have a prerendered version available (I did not actually upload the pdf file, so the link under the image is dead):
	twiki.org /cgi-bin/view/Plugins/EmbedPDFPlugin (505 words)

	N-Sider.com: Rebirth
		The computer graphics production was started in May, and Rebirth was completed three months later in August, just in time for Nintendo's Space World debut of the Nintendo GameCube.
		Mix-Core attempted to transcend the gap between prerendered CG and realtime CG.
		The sections were prerendered due to time constraints (not hardware limitations).
	www.n-sider.com /gameview.php?gameid=637 (334 words)

	Pool of Radiance: Ruins of Myth Drannor On GameVortex.com
		Graphically, Pool of Radiance is somewhere between the prerendered gorgeous-yet-static state of the Baldur's Gate series and a fully real-time rendered RPG like, say, Anachronox.
		The result is similarly mixed--the prerendered backgrounds aren't anywhere near as sharp as those found in the Bioware and Black Isle offerings, but the 3D character models are considerably better detailed than those found in most games of the genre.
		The first time I saw an Orc I thought, 'No freaking way!', but then I realized that over the years I had gotten used to the 'main characters are huge' syndrome in RPGs.
	www.gamevortex.com /gamevortex/soft_rev.php/408 (1753 words)

	looking for media on the 3DO M2 prerendered or simulated demos - The ASSEMblergames.com message board - home of the ...
		I'm looking for any screenshots and/or videos of the prerendered or simulated M2 demos.
		from what I remember, it looked like it could've been prerendered CG, but could also have been realtime on a highend SGI workstation.
		the demos were either prerendered CG, or they were realtime simulations on high-powered workstations, but not running realtime on M2 -ive seen the green polygon donuts / rings / mpeg demo, so no need to see that again.
	assemblergames.com /forums/showthread.php?t=5421 (1470 words)

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