Janus Syndicate

I guess it’s a good time to be under the weather again. With Garrysmod Machinima Tricks Episode 1 out as of last week, a project that was completed due to an update breaking the source SDK under the orange box engine, it seems we’ll need to scramble for some fixes. A Team Fortress 2 machinima which I was hoping to crank out in time for my first video comeback in a while, can’t be worked on until I fix this (unless I go with the ever so lazy shortcut approach of not lipsyncing characters and dialogue). On top of that, I’ve been sick on and off the past two weeks. Probably doesn’t help that I’m stressed the hell out too.

However, you may have noticed on the Machinima.com youtube page that I guest starred in a “Director’s Spotlight” video, a weekly video magazine the guys from Machinima.com put out to show the uploads from all of the directors in the current week. I got to do the voiceovers for the entire thing in an impromptu matter, so check it out, I’m pretty fond of the joke at the very end:

Machinima Today: Director Spotlight W/ Xanatos (CS For Kids) 6/6/10

WATCH:

Youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgAB8GYBV6w

Take it easy and I’ll let you know what comes out of this ongoing faceposer issue.

-Xanatos

Finally, a brand new video!

WATCH:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsvhrrbVbpI

Since I couldn’t progress any more on the TF2 short project due to an update delaying things, I went ahead and finished this first outing in a potential GMOD tutorial mini-series for machinimakers and players.

It’s rather specific – about greenscreening airplanes/spaceships for use in your machinimas so they don’t look so two-dimensional in movement, but this isn’t meant to just stop there. Sure, it’s only a 3 minute video, but the idea is to have our viewers think up their own ideas too and be inspired. There’s a heck of a lot one can do with green screening, and that’s pretty much what I want to stress here. See if you can come up with your own other clever uses for other things. This little machinima tutorial series will likely be continued due to the positive feedback it’s already getting. The links referenced in the tutorial video can be found on garrysmod.org, for some reason the machinima guys haven’t put those in the description yet.

Keep your eyes open for the June 6th Machinima.com Director’s Spotlight – they asked me to provide the voiceovers for this episode of their weekly video magazine.

Take it easy  and more updates soon,

-Xanatos