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October 3, 2005 Link to this post
The Ark is recruiting
Another machinima project is recruiting - go visit The Ark if you're interested in helping out. They've got a script for episode one posted, if you want to see what you'd be getting into. (Louis Wu 12:55:35 UTC)
September 28, 2005 Link to this post
The Squadron Ep 5: Location Location Location
Broken Console Productions has posted Episode 5 of their ongoing machinima, The Squadron - grab it from their Videos page. Things are about to heat up... writing is a fun mixture of serious and silly, filming is topnotch. Go watch! (19.3 mb in WMP9 format, 18.1 in QT.) (Louis Wu 16:32:52 UTC)
September 26, 2005 Link to this post
ArcXnuS - Upcoming
A group called Silhouette-Robin Productions recently came to our attention when the trailer for ArcXnuS, the "first full length halo 2 machinima trilogy" (their description), passed our Movie Peer Review Rating System. They weren't looking for hosting, just feedback - it's a short trailer, but the reviewers liked the way it told its story. Go grab a copy from their site! (Louis Wu 13:34:32 UTC)
September 22, 2005 Link to this post
This Spartan Life - The ILL Clan Interview
The latest segment of 'This Spartan Life' has been released - Episode 2, Module 2 is now available for download in QuickTime format. (WMP9 is coming later today sometime.) It's 10 minutes long, and Damian talks to Frank Dellario and Matt Dominianni of the Ill Clan about the origins of machinima, the direction it might be headed, and the annoyance of Mr PoopyDoodoo. Thought-provoking dialogue and some great laughs. Go watch! (Louis Wu 12:15:05 UTC)
September 19, 2005 Link to this post
Project 117: Trailer
Treeskunk Productions, the folks behind 'Outpost: Coagulation' and 'Lethal Tactics', have released a trailer for 'Project 117', an upcoming machinima film that follows the Spartan IIIs, a group hunted by the very people they were created to protect, as they try once again to save humanity. 22.7 mb, WMP9 format. Great camera angles. (Louis Wu 03:32:06 UTC)
September 17, 2005 Link to this post
Deadline closes in for Mackies
We don't normally post news verbatim from press releases, but this one was good, as-is. It came from the good folks at machinima.org:
The annual Machinima Awards ("the Mackies"), presented during the 2005 Machinima Film Festival is nearing its submission deadline. The awards, honoring the best in Machinima, include the following categories:Please note that all entries must be in high-quality video format at broadcast NTSC resolution of 720x480 (AVI/MOV with DV codec, or Mpeg2 on data DVD). DIVX films will be rejected.
- Best Picture
- Best Direction
- Best Virtual Performance
- Best Virtual Design
- Best Sound
- Best Writing
- Best Editing
- Best Technical Achievement
- Best Commercial/Game Machinima
- Best Independent Film
- Best Off-The-Shelf Machinima
- Best Machinima Series
We encourage Machinima filmmakers from all over to submit to the festival - the deadline is Oct. 6th, so get movin'! For more information about the festival and the Machinima Awards, visit festival.machinima.org.
There are a bunch of people in this community with a pretty good shot at this stuff - get cracking! (Louis Wu 21:49:35 UTC)
September 16, 2005 Link to this post
Sponsor the Codex
The Codex Series, a popular machinima series, has finished its first season, but is still seeing serious amounts of web traffic. (One of the news posts on their front page right now talks about numbers - they're pretty high.) To recoup some of their investment, they're offering sponsorships - there aren't any episodes to see, but if you donate enough, they'll send you a DVD, containing the full first season, plus plenty of extras. (Give 'em $50 or more, they'll even autograph it for you.) (Louis Wu 19:11:27 UTC)
September 7, 2005 Link to this post
Filling in the cracks
Over at the Halo CE Chronicles website, you'll find a document entitled 'The Halo CE Chronicles Universe' - it's a backstory for the Halo CE Chronicles, and attempts to put that machinima series in sync with the Halo universe as we know it. Go read! (Louis Wu 19:45:57 UTC)
September 6, 2005 Link to this post
F.E.A.R. - learning from Halo 2
Not really Halo-related, but it seems to be inspired by more than one Halo success story, so... According to geek.com, it's been confirmed that there will be a Director's Edition DVD available to US buyers of the game F.E.A.R - and that along with items like a 'Making Of' documentary, there will be a F.E.A.R. machinima episode from Rooster Teeth Productions - interesting to see how this goes! Thanks, tLove. (Louis Wu 15:17:10 UTC)
September 6, 2005 Link to this post
Goose's Story
Bunker 27 Episode III, 'Goose's Story', passed the MPRRS last night - you can grab a copy in either WMP9 format (15.5 mb) or QuickTime format (15.3 mb). How many machinima pieces contain a hand-drawn storybook? Go watch. (Louis Wu 14:20:34 UTC)
September 2, 2005 Link to this post
This Spartan Life Ep 2 kicks off
This Spartan Life has kicked off Episode 2 - module 1 (Opening and extended monologue) is up now. 28 mb in QuickTime format, 22 mb in WMP9 format. (The WMP9 link is actually not active on their site yet - but you can grab it from the GearboxGameZone website for now.) Hey - who couldn't love a talking shotgun? Guests in Episode 2 will be The Ill Clan (a machinima crew that has been making cool vids for years with the Quake engine(s)) and Marty O'Donnell from Bungie. Lance returns! (These folks aren't in this module - as with Episode 1, this episode will be broken up in to several modules, for ease of downloading.) Go watch. (Louis Wu 17:28:16 UTC)
September 1, 2005 Link to this post
The Halo Theatre Digs Deep
You gotta love the horn-self-tooting... a new Halo blog focused on machinima, The Halo Theatre, asked me a few questions about the subject... it may or may not be worth a read. (There is not a single shot taken at KP, so some of you might decide to skip it.) Lucky for me, comments don't seem to be enabled - you'll have to find other ways to take snide potshots at me. (Louis Wu 18:25:47 UTC)
August 24, 2005 Link to this post
RvB Firefox Toolbar
And1balla2829 writes to point out (in a post on the RvB forum, registration required) that he's created an RvB Firefox toolbar - contains tons of mini-buttons for the best movie/machinima/Halo 2 sites, plus news feed menus and a ticker from Rooster Teeth, and more. Here's a small screenshot to show you what you'd be getting. (Louis Wu 04:46:57 UTC)
August 22, 2005 Link to this post
Killikatari, baby.
A couple of days ago, Eisen Feuer posted a bunch of dialogue snippets to our forum - high-quality recordings of the various multiple-kill announcements in multiplayer. We've finally added them to our Dialogue Databank - one that doesn't show up in that link is 'Un-Freakin-Believable' which was in the databank before, but in a much lower-quality recording. These are good enough for use in machinima projects, I'd say... (Louis Wu 12:23:49 UTC)
August 16, 2005 Link to this post
Machinima as a Money Machine
CNN has an article on machinima, and its potential as a new medium for Hollywood - Red vs Blue gets prominent mention. It's clear that many in Hollywood still don't get it:
"Hollywood looks to all kinds of places for a fan base and given the enormous success of video games, that's a natural place to look," said Jon Richmond, managing director of media and entertainment at Houlihan Lokey Howard & Zukin. "But 'Final Fantasy' was a movie based on video game technology and that was a whopping failure."
Excuse the banging noise - that's the sound of my head hitting the desk, over and over. Thanks to Germain Couët for the heads-up. (Louis Wu 20:25:24 UTC)
August 14, 2005 Link to this post
Lost Stratosphere Ep 1: The Fall of Eagle Base
Midnight Carnage, of the Final Supremacy team, submitted Lost Stratosphere Episode 1 to our Movie Peer Review Rating System a couple of days ago - they liked it... a lot. Go grab The Fall of Eagle Base, the first chapter in a Cov vs Human conflict machinima, in either WMP9 (50.9 mb) or Quicktime (50.7 mb) formats. (Louis Wu 14:24:21 UTC)
August 13, 2005 Link to this post
The Squadron Ep 2: Check
The folks at Broken Console have posted Episode 2 of their machinima series, The Squadron. You can grab it in either WMP9 or QuickTime formats at their website - roughly 15 mb, depending on the format. Continues the humor-with-a-storyline they started with episode one - go watch! (Louis Wu 05:04:51 UTC)
August 10, 2005 Link to this post
Spartan Team Zulu Episode 1
Midnight Carnage submitted a video called Spartan Team Zulu, the opening episode of a machinima series based on Relic. The MPRRS liked it, overall. The intro's pretty good, but really - hopefully, like the RvB intro, it'll be in the first episode and no others. It's available in WMP9 format (26.8 mb) or QuickTime format (26.4 mb). Enjoy! (Louis Wu 20:24:02 UTC)
August 10, 2005 Link to this post
Halomachinima.com adds lots of content
Funkmon points out that he's now helping out at halomachinima.com - and that he's mirrored all season 1 episodes of the Halo CE Chronicles there. (Some people have trouble with the HCEC downloading mechanism; this is a bit more straightforward.) He's also added tons of older movies - poke around and see what you find! (Louis Wu 14:56:44 UTC)
August 8, 2005 Link to this post
The Fall of Reach Trailer
A number of movies have passed our own Movie Peer Review Rating Service recently; the first is quite small (1:50, just over 5 mb, in both QuickTime and WMP9 formats) - it's a trailer for an upcoming 8-episode machinima based on the novel The Fall of Reach. The project is coming from a British Clan, and their website contains more info about the project (including a call for voice work). The video itself is predominantly cutscene footage, from both Halo and Halo 2, with some nice timing and coordination. Check it out!
August 8, 2005 Link to this post
HaloZination
We got a note from Gene, a member of HaloZination, a German Halo 2 clan which has been working on a machinima series - there are currently three episodes, downloadable from their website. They're all in WMP9 format, and range from 45 to 75 mb apiece. Without understanding German, this one makes very little sense... but we haven't heard of a lot of projects that aren't in English, so if you DO speak German, give this one a look! (Louis Wu 12:54:15 UTC)
August 7, 2005 Link to this post
More Machinima Coverage
Anton P. Nym found, over at the Escapist, an article on machinima, as well - and again, Red vs Blue is held up as an example of how to do it right (along with Randy Glass, and his latest (non-Halo) work) - but mostly, the author laments the huge amount of mediocre work available on the net, and suggests that if the RIAA gets involved, at least the number of "just-plain-crappy videos" (his words, not mine) would decrease. Eh. (I was also unhappy that many of the example links at the end of the article were dead ends.) (Louis Wu 14:08:18 UTC)
August 7, 2005 Link to this post
NYT Machinima piece - now online
The New York Times article we mentioned yesterday is online now (free registration required, or visit bugmenot.com for a username). NB was right - it's a great article. It focuses pretty heavily on Red vs Blue, while looking at the field of machinima in general - go read this! (Louis Wu 13:59:25 UTC)
August 6, 2005 Link to this post
RvB in NYT
NB writes to say that on page 20 of today's New York Times Magazine is an article about machinima and Red vs Blue. I couldn't find it online yet - probably will show up tomorrow, since the Magazine section is part of Sunday's paper, even though you can buy it on Saturday - but it sounds like it's worth reading! (Louis Wu 19:59:05 UTC)
August 1, 2005 Link to this post
PSP-compatible content at halomachinima.com
trigger119 had to leave for a while - but he's put up a bunch of content on halomachinima.com that might interest you:
- WMP9 and PSP-compatible versions of Bunker27Goose's Used Car Salesmen, a Real Men of Genius spoof
- Outpost Coagulation, for PSP (as well as WMP9 and QT, which were always there)
- Stryke Force for PSP
Go look! (Louis Wu 20:37:56 UTC)
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