Re: 'Deep Angel' site

Nev wrote in rec.arts.anime.models:

> http://www.deepangel.com/
> 
> Anyone heard of this?

I have. I found this site a couple of years ago while reading an article 
on supercavitating undersea weapons (like Russia's "Squall" high-speed 
torpedo [1]) on the Scientific American website titled "Warp Speed 
Underwater":

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=000CA29B-0EA6-1C70-
84A9809EC588EF21
(watch for text wrap)

"Deep Angel" is the story, set in the year 2078, of the crew of the 
U.S.S. Angelus, a huge supercav sub/aircraft carrier operated by the 
U.S. Navy, and its fight against a despotic empire located in the mid-
Western Pacific. The draft scripts I read back then had the story kick 
off with an attack on the U.S. Navy's fleet yards at Pearl Harbor by the 
Kalithan Empire.

The creators of "Deep Angel" are apparently shopping it around as a TV 
or theatrical screenplay and as a computer/video game. It reads and 
sounds like a rather ambitious and expansive work -- the creators have 
gone into great detail on the ship, the fighter craft, the characters, 
and even the plot and scenario. 

(I'm left wondering at a couple of images on the website, though -- one 
of the lead characters is named "Ryan Hunter" and one of the Storm Rider 
air/sea fighters is painted in marking reminiscent of Roy Fokker's 
Valkyrie in Macross -- an anime homage, perhaps?)

Parts of this kind of remind me of another work involving CGI and 
submarines -- a 4-part anime series called "Blue Submarine No. 6".

Maybe the brains behind "Deep Angel" could learn a thing or two from the 
people at Gonzo Digimation....

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[1] Interestingly enough, there is an entire page on deepangel.com 
dedicated to the Squall, and the site's image gallery has two images of 
CGI renderings of the Squall.

-- 
Glenn Shaw
Indianapolis, IN USA
Sergeant-at-Arms, Indiana Animation Club (www.indyanime.org)
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