Is source the next music vid tool?

[MPUK News]

This has got to be seen to be believed. Totally created in Valve's Source engineed game HalfLife 2 the music video "Still Seeing Breen".<br>
<a href="http://www.machinima.org/paul_blog/2005/03/still-seeing-breen-take-3.html">Still Seeing Breen website</a><br>
<a href="ftp://ukftp.multiplay.co.uk/pub/other/movies/StillSeeingBreen-v1.1-HQ.wmv">Local UK only mirror</a><br>
<B>Warning:</B> The movie contains HalfLife 2 spoilers!!

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[Gunsmith]

ok, im impressed :)

[WroawMinidisk]

That is good :D

[dcoder]

The song was good too :P

[Optimus]

great track... shame about the HL2 stuff spaffed over it :)

[Baz]

class

[Zenith]

I'm downloading it right now, but if it what I think it is, then it is machinima. That's using CG animation to create a movie-like effect.
For more examples of this sort of thing, take a look at MTV2 Video Mods... right here (http://www.mtv2.com/#series/13696) (Flash Player 7 req'd)

[Optimus]

Originally posted by Zenith
I'm downloading it right now, but if it what I think it is, then it is machinima. That's using CG animation to create a movie-like effect. Is actually just a load of videos from HL2 strung together, possibly created using Gary's Mod (or that other physics playground, whatever its called) and a lot of work in Hammer

[WroawMinidisk]

no its not.
its using machinima

now go read the site and stfu thanks :p

[Optimus]

Do you understand what machinima is? It's a story (or in this case, a music video) created using a game engine... nothing more, and that still doesn't change the fact thatit is still a bunch of scripted sequences from HL2 strung together and viewed from different angles...

its like calling the Anachronox Machinima released a few years ago 'new' when it was just a recording of someone playing the game...

maybe im just bitter at HL2 still...

[pen]

But hes singing !:eek:

[Say_Ten]

But then all TV and movie is a bunch of scripted sequences filmed and strung together and viewed from different angles...

[Zenith]

Well said Say_Ten.
When you look at something like this music video, and look at something like 'Robots' or 'The Incredibles', the basic concept is exactly the same. They use model meshes being animated in a virtual 3D environment. The difference is the equipment and rendering software.
This music video used Source on a desktop PC system.
'The Incredibles' used RenderMan on a Xeon cluster with 1024 CPUs, 2TB RAM and 60TB HDD space [info from Intel (http://www.intel.com/pressroom/archive/releases/20030210comp_a.htm)]

machinima.org defines machinima as: Machinima (muh-sheen-eh-mah) is filmmaking within a real-time, 3D virtual environment.The difference with machinima over big-budget films is that machinima is rendered in realtime.

[TimmyNoShoes]

What is that song in the background?
Its sorta "punk skater kiddie" but i kinda like it.

[Gunsmith]

Breaking Benjamin - So Cold

if you could be arsed enough you could have looked at the ending credits to see that for yourseld :)

[no friends]

old, i had this over 2 weeks ago :p:

I like it, great track!

[TimmyNoShoes]

Originally posted by Gunsmith
Breaking Benjamin - So Cold

if you could be arsed enough you could have looked at the ending credits to see that for yourseld :)

yeh im slack, i downloaded the vid ages and just ran it in the bg :P

[David]

Haha, downloading the video now mwahahaha!