So Jack and I have been up to a couple of little for-fun video projects at our local college. They are fake little spots for a restaurant chain combined with the Beatles. Go ahead and check them out here, starring Paul Mccartney & John Lennon:
“A Hard Game’s Night” has been selected in the third group of films to be screened at the 2009 Machinima Expo, a huge machinima event that takes place online in Second Life, held by the greats Phil Rice, Ricky Grove, Ingrid Moon, and Damien Valentine. The expo takes place Sunday, November 22. Check out the website at http://machiniplex.net/expo/ for more information and revisit it again later for information on where in Second Life it takes place.
Looks like we’ll be making at least a commentary/how-to style video next, alongside another project. Will let you know when those are underway.
I know we don’t have a very large following for our website and it’s decreasing even more due to our inactivity, but a few of you guys are still curious as to what the heck’s goin’ on. I didn’t see the point in making a post right away saying that our productions have come to a serious halt, but seeing as how it’s been some time, well, our production effort has been in a bit of a slump lately. A number of ideas are just not worth attempting, or I’m not comfortable with all the specifics within an idea, or something like that.
Looking back on a lot of our old videos, I can’t say I care for them too much, but at the time I thought they were something worth uploading, whether it be for a laugh or whatnot. I’ve never wanted to half-ass a project for the sake of having a video to upload on a regular basis, and I won’t start by doing that now. So I figure it’s best that we wait it out and take our time on videos. We’re still around, however, we’re just a bit occupied at the moment in real life and, more importantly, I think it’s best to wait for an idea that’s really worth going for (and that’s capable of being done) to start our next project.
Once we begin work on a brand new video, you’ll hear about it right away in a site post. So don’t worry about it, and don’t use words like Ringo here:
This past Thursday and Friday, Stev and I went and paid a visit to boris, had fun times, and even recorded a new (RL) video that’ll probably appear on STEV’s youtube channel fairly soon. Will keep you posted.
Not sure what’ll be next in the JS machinima department. I’m hoping to get a short in before we begin work on any projects requiring a major league effort and a lot of time. Will let you know what it ends up being.
I got an email this weekend that “A Hard Game’s Night” was accepted into the DragonCon Film Festival’s “comedy” segment in their machinima category. I’m thinking about going to Atlanta for the weekend of the festival (the first weekend in September) and attending if I can. The comedy machinima segment would be from 7pm to 8pm on Sunday, Sept. 6th. Cool stuff!
Also, two things to keep an eye out for – Nefarious Guy, creator of the film-noir/mob machinima “Clockwork”, is very near finishing the sequel to it entitled “Clockwise”. I had a whopping one-line cameo in the second half of Clockwork, and in Clockwise my character makes an appearance in a couple of big scenes at the beginning.
Second, I have another small voiceover role in a large-cast machinima short that Phil “Overman” Rice is working on. Both projects are looking great and i’ll definitely post about them when they’re released.
Our new Left 4 Dead short in the making is close to being completed. I have yet to talk to the machinima.com guys on a release date for it, but I see no reason for it to not be this week sometime. So without the double negative, yes, release SHOULD BE this week. It’s a bit different from what we’ve done in the past and we’ve entered new territory that we haven’t taken a stab at before regarding music (hint hint).
This video will also introduce another something NEVER BEFORE SEEN in a JS video – the use of the STAR WIPE transition. I know, incredible news. Oh, and we finally started recording our footage in widescreen 16:9 format to fill the whole Youtube frame. About damn time for that too.
I won’t spoil the other half of the concept not revealed in our last site post until we have our release post made. The video, again, is a short video. It honestly should’ve been created in a much faster time span, but recording footage in Left 4 Dead was the worst shit ever. You can probably imagine why. Ah well, still got it done, stay tuned this week!
Surprise impromptu video release – Source Mod Todd went to E3 this past week and reported live after going to the conferences! You probably have already seen it if you’ve been checking out our facebook page lately, but if not, you can check out the movie here. Has our typical style of humor. It’s an idea that originated from MrSentual.
The DOD:S vs Hidden extra bloopers compilation is still needing work, but you can expect that before we leave for Columbus, Ohio this coming June 12th-June 14th. A total of eight or nine JS people will be travelling there for a first ever actual group meetup. Sounds gay, doesn’t it? Yeah. But a lot of good stuff will probably come out of it. As far as our next project goes, that’ll be decided and will begin work on once we all come back from Columbus. See you then.
Mm3guy, who’s an admin over at Garrysmod.com, interviewed us last night for a website post. Myself, Stev, Crackbone, Boris, and DMGaina were apart of it, and MrSentual even showed up near the end.
Also if you’ve been checking the facebook page lately, you’ll see that I posted an older prank call video of Boris calling in Tom Green Live and reading guest Pamela Anderson a poem. Good times and reminiscent of when that show used to be funny (mainly because of people calling in pranking).
The next Source Wars episode “Day of Defeat Source vs The Hidden” begins its production soon, real soon!
Hey everybody. Gman Squad Episode 7 released a couple weeks ago in case you missed it – check it out here. Now that I’ve had a little downtime, it’s time to get started on the next couple of projects. First will be the second Source Wars Episode with Day of Defeat: Source versus The Hidden: Source. I didn’t understand why so many people in the comments for the first source wars video thought that the promo for it in CS vs GMOD was just a ruse, especially when we had an extensive preview for it at the end of the video. I know we had a joke near the start saying ‘last time we witnessed the Dystopia team CRUSH the Battlegrounds 2 team’, but that was just for laughs. Anyhow, we are going to be doing the DOD:S vs Hidden episode, although I can’t promise there will be a third Source Wars, at least not relatively soon after this is released. After this, we have something new & separate from our existing videos and series in mind.
Why not let us know in the page comments what you would like to see in this new Source Wars episode with DOD:S and The Hidden? Anything from characters/cameos, action ideas, topics of announcer debate, you name it.
It was both Stev and my birthday last Tuesday (the 14th). We’re not brothers, but we still share the exact same birthday. Wolfer, upon hearing of this, responded “What the fuck? What is this shithole?”
And finally, here’s something I put together the other night – a little montage with clips from past videos for fun as seen on our facebook fan page:
Stay tuned for more updates on the new Source Wars and more!
4/5 UPDATE: Gman Squad Episode 7 gets released later TODAY! Stay tuned and keep checking back for the link!
Hi everybody. It’s of little importance now – but our website experienced a little downtime a few days ago for a short time. Luckily, it’s all sorted out. We’ve had a history of website problems. For any of you who remember our old url, janus-syndicate.com, we lost that domain because our previous webmaster refused to renew it, and noone else could do it in his place – it had to be him. And he refused it because he began working for Uncle Sam and didn’t want our website to be under his name. Why wouldn’t he want that!?
Anyway, that was almost a year ago, and soon we will actually be able to renew the old domain ourselves. What we’ll do is make janus-syndicate.com a redirect to this newer website.
Secondly, Gman Squad Episode 7 – Boris and Clyde, began filming yesterday. Make sure not to miss it when it comes out. I imagine it will take two to three weeks to finish amidst a busy work and college schedule. I’m back from Spring Break too, and had a good time. Went to lunch one day with Phil Rice.
Since this site post doesn’t really have much more in it, I thought I’d list a number of some of my favorite and incredibly talented one-man-team Source machinima makers. There’s FncyPntz, Mystfit, and xcloudx01, to name a few. One thing that amazes me, in addition to that, is how every once and a while, new people that emerge onto the Source machinima scene with a great first product. This is one of them: Follow Freeman by EddieSmithson. Say what you will, but for this to be his first shot at making something in Source, it’s pretty damn cool. More even greater examples of crazy-good first go’s were Ian Chisholm’s Clear Skies and Sam Goldwater’s The Monad. It’s good to be involved with Source.
And finally, Stev made a fun new video addressing some of the comments on the Zombie Killer Competition Source Mod Todd video.
Hi everyone, it’s spring break time for most of us in college, and I’m headed off to Naples, Florida for the week. Going to see for the second time Phil Rice aka Overman while I’m there, last time was at the NYC Machinima Fest, really looking forward to it. Upcoming machinima projects will begin when I get back next Saturday…and that will be none other than…
Xanatos and Wolfer taken hostage! New “Gman Show” sequence! Crackbone’s fate! Boris and Clyde’s run-and-gun adventures on Half-Life 2’s Coast! New prank and more!
Production on the new video will begin upon everyone’s return from break. We wanted to make something else before we progressed onto making the next second episode of Source Wars (which it’s great to see how positive everyone is reacting to the CS vs GMOD episode, thank you all for your great comments) so up next is Gman Squad Episode 7. Also check out our machinima.com made Facebook page – become a fan if you’d like, I’m quite fond of our goofy profile description. See you later!
2/22/09 EDIT: Should be coming out later this week!
In our latest WIP news, we are currently well into the production of a new machinima series called Source Wars, in which two different Source engine games/mods will square off in one arena with mock sports commentary. This upcoming debut will feature a team of Counter-Strike Source players versus a group of Garrysmodders, with each team using the weaponry unique to their games while adhering to the gameplay of Counter-Strike on the level de_dust. The Counter-Strike players will take the role of the Terrorist side, trying to plant the bomb, and the Garrysmodders will be like the Counter-Terrorists, attempting to stop the opposing team as two announcers document the battle. There will even be a few cameo roles for some of the players to look out for. Coming soon – this should be completed sometime this next weekend for a following weekday release. Just not sure when yet. I see Source Wars as being at least a 3-episode series, with each episode having 2 different games/mods per video.
Secondly, the machinima.com guys that we work with have set us up with a Director’s Page on facebook. It’s pretty cool! I’m going to use it as a secondary place to post updates, lots of pictures, links, and anything else that comes to mind. If you’re registered to facebook, you can go to our page and become a fan by clicking on “Become a fan”. Here’s the link: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Xanatos/48999482881
Also, for the past few weeks there have been a few updates on our jokeful (and incredibly sarcastic) Cast page. Some of our guys are still in the process of coming up with material for their mini-bios, so more revisions to come.
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