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2005 Halo Machinima Award Winners
ThatWeasel writes "It was announced on /. almost two months ago and now, finally, the 3rd Annual 'Rockets on Prisoner' Awards have announced this year's Winners. Several video segments have been produced documenting the Nominees and Winners, along with the acceptance speeches from the lucky few who will be receiving golden Master Chief statues for their excellent work in Machinima. With awards Ceremonies like this, who needs the Oscars?"
What is this actually about? It isn't explained either in the summary nor in the article. The title and the summary seem to have nothing in common.
Red vs. Blue a big winner, what a shock!
(That was sarcasm for the impaired.)
No penguins were harmed in the making of this post.
Zzzz
I love how the submitter linked to a previous /. article with a WHOPPING 13 comments. /.'ers must really dig this. Can someone explain to me what this is "Rockets on Prisoners" is all about and why I should bother downloading the videos to look at? What's on the videos? The link really doesn't say anything apart from being Halo related.
While they seem to be the big dogs in the genre and have garnered a lot of mainstream attention, looks like they only won a couple of awards. (One of them being a "Best Series" award so I guess it's a pretty prominant one. It looks like some series called The Codex was a bigger winner here, with its 20th episode and 18th episode raking in a lot of awards.
Yup...
I know this may come across as flame bate, but damn, some of those were downright painful to watch.
I don't really have a problem with Red Vs. Blue. Those guys can be fairly funny. But man, I found myself actually felling embarrassed for some of the directors (?) of those machinema flicks.
They weren't good, and they weren't bad enough to be funny. They were just kind of, umm, "uncomfortable" bad.
Now, for good machinema, watch Summoner Geeks
"Things are more moderner than before- bigger, and yet smaller- it's computers-- San Dimas High School football RULES!"
Over a gig of videos on that site and the 3 random ones I watched were total shit - Lots of Blue vs Red wannabe clones and some boring footage of Halo matches.
Anything in there with an actual story?
However, I'd like to plug the guys doing a new machinima: Bloodspell. That group has done a number of machinima shorts and features over the years and has constantly been pushing the envelope with machinima. The quality they get out of engines never designed for this is amazing.
Machinima is a genre of cinema made with video games. In the case of productions like Red vs Blue, this involves taking video feeds from a game (like Halo in multiplayer) in which "actors" control characters as per a script and subsequently, on a computer, editing the footage and adding an audio layer for dialogue; in other instances, it can mean scripting a game engine (like Half-Life 2's Source). What it always means is, as I said, films from games.
Some history here.
Bradens Adventure. LOL. It's obvious a geek made it, so this must be cool.
http://media.putfile.com/BradensAdventure
I can't think of anything more to say.
when Halo 2 is released for PC. Zzz
With the current ease of making machinima videos, along with the popularity, an insane amount of movies are being pumped out. Obviously there will be many bad ones, and these will probably overshadow the few good ones. I've seen some impressive editing, dialogue, and scripting used in Halo machinima films. Just don't look at a few and make a judgement on Halo machinima in general.
http://www.xboxottawa.ca/movies.htm/ and RvB and possibly PANIC (seems to be picking up)
that is all.. move along people.. nothing to see here
If you want to watch some good machinima, the original Doom has some great stuff done for it. Try this: Imp Encounter.
were you expecting to see a sig here? perhaps you'd rather see the inside of an ambulance!
The Codex Series is one of the best. I enjoyed it more than I enjoy Red vs Blue, although not everyone would. Codex is a storyline within the Halo Universe that could have happened and not interfere with the story we learn from the two games and three novels.
The first episode or two is somewhat dry, but it rapidly picks up after that.
http://files.filefront.com/mine/;4157978;;/fileinf o.html
Not epic but well choreographed and funny.
A larger appeal (and real-life) Machinima festival takes place next month in New York. They have their own awards too (the Mackies?).
Not Halo-specific, and hopefully, with a much better offering of works.
Honestly, it's just watching a guy run around and kill monsters. What's so compelling about that?
I still don't understand the hype of Halo. As far as first person shooter game goes, it sucks. And if you disagree you don't play first person shooters on a PC do you? Not trying to troll, I just don't understand what's so great about it. I've played it, it sucks. Nothing original, on consoles the control sucks.
Please, what am I missing?
*DrugCheese rants*
I wish I could go attend this! I hope they produce a DVD "best-of" release or something. Because downloading and installing and tweaking all the drivers to render it locally would be a pain in the ass.
Anyway, folks who're into novel uses of existing technology should take a look at Notacon, a yearly tech gathering in Ohio. You know you want to enter the Anything But Ethernet contest!
If there's interest from the Machinima community, I'm sure some projector time could be arranged. If some experienced animators would like to submit a presentation, the Call For Proposals is open! I'd love to see a public screening of a few films, and maybe an intro-and-how-to.
I realize they may be receiving a minor slashdotting, but I'm not going to download a video without seeing at least a tiny thumbnail screenshot so I'll know what the hell I'm wasting all this time to see.
"The Prizes: That Weasel Television is donating TROPHIES to be given to the winners this year. Yes, you will be awarded an actual Golden Master Chief on a black pedestal with the category with year, your name, and your movie name will be engraved in a plague attached to the front."
Great, if they give all the winners a plague, who's going to enter next year?
.. that English Patient was indeed a horrible movie.
Oh God, I can't erase the memory! It was so awful, so banal to hear dramatic lines delivered in such bored tones.
And those were the winners.
I know these aren't professionals, but is it really so hard to inject some emotion?
Sombeody that knows filmakers have learnt something after 100+ years of cinema: it is the plot, stupid.
Action!
IANAL but write like a drunk one.