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A Few Good G-Men - HL2 Machinima

Posted by Zonk on from the pretty-movies dept.

Alamar3 writes "Just to give an idea of how awesome Half-Life 2 is for Machinima, R. Glass has produced a 6-minute clip of a well-known scene from A Few Good Men." From the article: "All of the camera cuts were done in the game (at least 15 point_viewcontrol entities). When you launched the level it went right into the movie and didn't stop until the end credits. I used Cannonfodder's tools to create the animations (with 3DS Max). There were a few glitches along the way (I'll go into detail later... you may notice that there isn't hand animation in some shots). I plan on doing at least one more cut of this movie with some of the missing details put in (for one, a Marine uniform for the G-Man)."

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  1. Torrent link by kalayq · · Score: 3, Informative

    http://www.filerush.com/torrents/fewgoodgmen.mov.t orrent

  2. Very Impressive by TheRealJFM · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Just finished watching it, an amazing piece of technical expertise. It certainly shows how impressive the HL2 engine is at speech and lip-syncing.

    I thought the depiction of the less cortorted emotional reactions was very nice, but I felt that the "angry" faces just weren't angry enough. (The yelling looked like talking, for example).

    Perhaps we won't need "pre-rendered" graphics for truly immersive film sequences any more. I know that a lot of games don't use them, but in thing such as Final Fantasy, the gap between the quality of the pre-rendered and real-time sequences is always quite painfully obvious.

    I think the creator(s) could probably find a place at one of the game studios though...

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    Joseph Farthing
    http://josephfarthing.com
  3. Look out! by oO+Peeping+Tom+Oo · · Score: 3, Funny

    The RIAA's Spiders are gonna getcha

  4. Re:Dang by jasoncart · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yeah, to pay this month's bandwidth bill...