Hey all! Hope you're enjoying your last days of summer!
I'm currently writing this update from my hospital bed, since I got nothing to do. I got my tonsils taken out and some extra tissue in my right nostril removed. Lol, I actually had the nerve to ask for medicinal marijuana and the dude just laughed...fuckin' asshole. They gave me Morphine and Lortabs. They said I am gonna sound
quite different when I can speak clearly again, which excites me.
Anyways, my summer job has ended, and I didn't make as much as I thought I would make, but it's okay. I managed to buy myself a very fast computer, so yeah. Couldn't afford a capture card though, but it don't matter since I've been balls-deep in the UDK program, as well as other animation software and editing programs such as Adobe CS5 products. Moving on up, eh? :D
OnLive
Remember that new video game system/service called OnLive that was supposed to be released last year? Well it's still in production, I got invited to participate in the Beta on my new PC! It's so much fun. I thought the whole thing was bullshit, but it's not.
I'm gonna be doing a walk-through of the program, some machinimas in the games, and some gameplay/commentaries.
Machinima Respawn
Speaking of gameplay commentaries, I finished a few this so far this month. I did three Halo 3 commentaries from some memorable games that I have saved on various old accounts. Once I can talk again, I will be doing the OnLive gameplay commentaries, and I may try to do a few dual-commentaries with Tristan (FreeStuufGuru).
I may come back to making commentaries in about 2 weeks. That's when the doc says I should sound better. Hopefully you guys still recognize my voice lol.
I'm also doing something special for the midnight release of Halo: Reach (see more below).
Machinima Production
Even though I don't have the HD PVR I wanted to get, I still have a lot of Bungie Pro Render Minutes left to make ONE last Halo 3 machinima. I have this really old script that I'm considering re-writing and making, but I dunno yet. I'm definitely gonna do one more Halo 3 machinima though. It'll most likely be a comedy short or a dramatic short, and I'll try my best to have it out by the end of August.
That's not the only machinima I'm gonna be working on. As some of you may know, I have been messing around with a bunch of new software. The Unreal Development Kit is one of them. Animeeple is another.
The UDK is a professional program used by the guys over at Bioware that they gave out FOR FREE. You guys know the cutscenes in a video game right? Well, the UDK can be used to make cutscenes as seen in games, which is what I plan to do for machinimas. I can extract assets from any game made using this engine (GoW2, Bioshock, Mirrors Edge, UT3, etc) and actually import stuff from that game into the project I'm working on. I'm spending ALOT of free time trying to master this program, so wish me luck!
Now, Animeeple, is a free animation software that I can use to animate my Second Life or Evolver characters in, which would qualify it to be a "machinima". It comes with a bunch of free animations and characters, so yeah. From what I've heard, it's a very good animation program for beginners like me. I'm checking out lots of tutorials for it, and I've managed to make a few cool animations so far! Hopefully I master it soon!
But Wait! You Said That...
I know last month, I said I would start filming some episodes of Best Friends and Self Improvement, but my friends convinced me to wait until Reach. It will be much better I realized if I start the shows then.
I also stated that I would make my final montage...I'm not too sure anymore. If I can afford more Render Minutes, then maybe...but it would be well under 3 minutes lmao. If I decide to capture with my Dazzle, then it may be longer, but look shitty lol.
I also promised a MW2 short. If I get some splitters, then I'll make it. If not, then oh well. You'll definitely see shit from me in Black Ops though. ^_^
I said that I would be looking into GTA4 and Source machinima. Not enough money to try it guys. Sorry. My friends have been complaining about Source anyways.
Reach, Reach, Reach
As I said earlier, I am doing something special for the midnight launch of Halo Reach. I am going with a couple of my friends to my Gamestop with a few cameras. I will be going around asking people their thoughts on the game, what they're looking forward to the most, etc. I might also be rocking a Machinima T-shirt that I'm thinking of making.
Following that, we will all go back to my house, play the first level, then do a multi-commentary Lets Play! commentary, so I can beat everyone else lol.
Hopefully I succeed :D
VLog Updates
Pretty soon, when I get around 500-1000 subscribers, I am going to start a VLog Weekly Update on my Youtube channel. It will be just like these updates, so hopefully those come soon, so I don't have to write all of this damn text lol.
Stirred Creations
SC has been growing slowly, but surely. I put Tristan in charge of the Respawn content and made him Co-Head, so go say congrats or something to him.
I also signed on a new director. Not a commentator, an actual DIRECTOR! Omgrite? Check out his channel
HERE. He's really good with CoD machinima, which is surprising since his stuff is way better than most CoD machinimas, and he films on a console!
But yeah, we're still trying to find more directors and commentators, so stay tuned.
Peace Out Homies
These narcotics they gave me are making me sleepy, so I think this update is done. If I forgot some stuff, I'll edit this post.
Love ya guys!
- Jon
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