Almost done - DH highlights

I'm close to finishing my latest movie. For those that don't follow my blog frequently, I'm working on a quick Dreamhack summer 2012 quakelive frag highlights movie (phew, that was long :)). Initially, I wanted to make it for the recent Republic of Gamers movie making contest, but due to some personal stuff that took priority over finishing the movie, I missed the deadline. I didn't drop the project though, and so I'll be finishing the movie shortly. I'm missing a proper intro, ending, name tags, and some final touches. Other than that, the release might be delayed my current poor internet connection. Heck, I might even might go find a good hotspot to upload it! I'll figure something out:))

ASUS RoG Movie contest

Yesterday, there was a news posted on ESR about a gaming movie making competition. I though that it could be a nice idea to make a frag highlights movie from the recent DreamHack Summer QuakeLive LAN tourney. I left a comment about it under that news post, and I got some positive response which reassured me about participating in the contest. There's not much time left though - the deadline is 10th of July. So I have 18 days to make and upload the movie to youtube. It'll be a nice test, I wonder how much can I make in such a short period. So yeah, for the time being, I'm putting the DM17 project aside. I'm going to download and watch all the DH demos today (or at least, that's the plan) :)

Daily update #14 and #15

Yesterday, I wasn't able to make a post because of the massive thunderstorm that was coming and going during the evening which eventually leaded to power outage in the night. 

Because of the wheather I wasn't able to do a thing. The only notable thing I've made was measuring the time my sony vegas turns on. It takes almost 30 minutes, lol. Hardcore.

Today, the power went out a few times as well, they were probably fixing some power lines. But this time I made some significant progress, sorted out all the audio issues encountered so far. Also, I spent around 2 hours on fine polishing the intro, and it's done. It's nice and short. :)

I've also messed around with some frags, but didn't make a lot of progress there. 

Time is slipping away and the tek9 contest deadline draws near. I have a lot of ideas in my head for the side project thingy and I'll do my best to make it in time, dunno if I'll make it tho. I'll probably use latest qcon demos as well so stay tuned. :)

Oh, yeah. Here's today's editor shot. Things are starting to look busy. At the same time, it's pretty clean, I really like this shot. :)

Daily update #2!

I've done quite a bit today, pretty much got the intro ready, I've also rendered a short gameplay clip to check if everything is alright. I've sent it to a few trusted players to check if they can playback it properly. 

After asking ESR members for their opinion, I've decided not to submit this movie for the tek9 contest, instead my entry will be a funny mix, I'm sure people will like it. :)

Here's today's editor shot.

Tomorrow, I'll most probably start putting frags together. :)

Next stage!

I'm done with demos. Today, I finally finished rendering lossless quality footage. My footage folder now contains 79 .avi files and uses 140 GB of my HDD. That's quite a lot, I'm not sure if I had this much for my previous projects. I won't use everything though, I think about 1/4 of those avi's won't make it to the final movie.

Few days ago I started working with photoshop, making name tags to be exact. It's a lot of fun :) I hope people will like them, there's a lot of variety, I don't want to follow one pattern.

A while ago I was thinking whether I'll use this movie for the current Tek9 contest or my next project. Now when there's about a month till the end of the contest, the question changes: Should I enter the contest with the IEM4 movie or should I withdraw. The worst thing about entering the tek9 contest would be the release, according to the rules I won't be able to upload the movie anywhere else before the voting/judging period is over.. which really sucks, because to download the movie, people would have to register at tek9 site. From experience (Zero) I know that people don't want to register at sites to vote/download.. I'll probably make a post at ESR and ask people if they would support me. 

Oh, btw I'm planning to post daily updates of my work on the vid. Stay tuned! :)

Back to work!

Finally, holidays.

After a few days of delay and complete focus on reading a wicked manga called 'berserk' I'm back to work on the vid. As I write this post on my pc, on the laptop calipt is melting cypher with a plasma gun in slow motion as I render the lossless avi file. Today, along with my brother we've installed a new router and hence I finally have internet connection in both my PC and laptop.

Recently TEK9 announced another movie contest, it's not a mini movie contest like last time. Movie length must fit in between 3 and 7 minutes, rest of the rules do not differ from the usual tek9 set. I didn't sign up yet, but I surely will, but I'm not sure if I'll submit my currect project or rather the next one. As I posted before my next project will be a community movie. I already have the idea for the vid in my head, it will be a type of movie that you either love or hate. Soon I'll remind people about sending me the demos..

Alright, on my laptop calipt's plasma balls didn't leave much of cypher's body, time to get back to work!

A little update

Didn't have time since last weekend to post anything. A lot of exams and stuff @ uni, luckily so far everything related to uni goes great. :)

Last weekend I've managed to upload the vid yey! Today the tek9 staff updated the 'video release rules' so that starting from tomorrow, they will release 10 videos per day. Which means I have no idea when exactly everyone will be able to see it! Within 2 weeks that's for sure (over 100 vids)

I've signed up for some QL duel cups recently:

• ESReality Community QL League - Season #2
• SideWinder Arena Championship

Today I managed to play and win my first game in the second one. It's a tourney reserved for polish players. Tomorrow I'll have my next match, this time it won't be so easy ;)
I'll also do my best to play a few matches from the ESR league, so yeah some crazy duel action this weekend :)

Deadline around the corner

Uh, not much time left and the vid isn't done yet.. Not much left to do.. I hope I'll make it in time

Grrr >.<

Damn, weekends are waaaaaay to short.. Time is flying and my minivideo isn't done yet, too many distractions :/ I wanted to finish it this weekend but it's quite far from being ready and I'm leaving to uni in about an hour.. Next weekend is the last chance to upload so I'll have to finish it then.. I hope I'll make it in time.. and I hope I won't have any problems with uploading, my internet connection has a crappy upload rate, additionally my connection got all wacky after christmas :/ Stupid provider ::/

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Heh, @ students' hostel I've installed gtkradiant and started some mapping. It's quite fun, my first map is almost ready, I'll post some screenies soon.

Happy new year 2010!

woho 2010!

AAaanyway, noghost mapping competition has come to an end. Results:

• -1st Place: Justin "StormShadow" Ingels with Devlilish
• -2nd Place: Tom "Phantazm11" Perryman with Substation11
• -3rd Place: Simon "Sock" O'Callaghan with Focal Point

More info on the official site

On a side note, a little birdie told me that some of the contest participants might have a chance to map for id! Great news =)

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I'm working a lot on the vid.. and there's not much time left =/ Well, it's over two weeks but I'm going back to uni on Sunday and I won't be able to work there. So basicly I have time till Sunday plus two weekends, where while the second weekend I'll have to render and upload the vid. meh
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My friend maverick showed me a site with great music. If you like dubstep or alternative electronic music this is a must www.getdarker.com

Xmas! w00t

Didn't have the motivation to post anything for the last few days. First of all I hope everyone is enjoying the holidays. Santa brought me a shaver from Braun ;)

Oh, yeah! Tek9 released the signup list.. and whoa.. I'll give you the exact numbers
number of participants - game

• 1 - BF2
• 1 - COD MW2
• 1 - CS 1.6 / CS:S
• 2 - undecided game
• 3 - COD5:WaW
• 5 - Q3
• 5 - QL
• 6 - DoD:S
• 8 - trackmania
• 11 - TF2
• 13 - COD2
• 28 - CS:S
• 87 - COD4
• 126 - CS 1.6

Which makes a total of 297 participants! >.< pretty sick

I can't wait to see the Q3/QL vids, I'm also curious about TF2 movies.. :)

But I'm not losing time myself, today I've rendered an alpha version of my vid, still quite a bit to improve, but I guess you can call it a minivideo already :)

I'm pretty sure I won't make any bigger changes (music, concept) after changing the concept 3 times ( >.< uh) I'm pretty sure this is it. Experimenting a lot as always. I hope people will like it as much as I do :)

Heh, while rendering the alpha vegas crashed a few times, always in the same point of vid, had to remove it for now.. pretty gay since I've spent few hours on that part yesterday.. gonna try to fix today. Vegas never crashed while my previous projects..

Free time!

Yesterday I got home and I'm not leavin' till like 3-4 of January :) But I don't have time to rest, without wasting time I'm starting to write map reviews today and I'll probably finish them today to start making my minivideo!

Today tek9 will release a signup list for the contest. Three days ago they gave everyone a sneak peak, showing the number of registered participants along with the games they will be working on.
I'll post something once the list is released.

Busy December

December just started and it looks like I'll have plenty of work. First there's the Maverick Servers Mapping Contest where I am one of the judges. I'm really excited about it because I've seen some beta versions and teasers and believe me or not, it will be hot :D I'll post more info about the contest later on. Other then that, 2 days ago TEK9 announced a new video contest. I've participated in the last one, Zero being my submission. This time it's a mini video contest sponsored by AMD. The rules say that the video should be from 60 up to 90 seconds long. I already have millions of ideas in my head :) Thank god I won't have any exams in uni this month ;)

Oh, btw few days ago my friend showed me a great game! It's called isketch and it's A LOT of fun! Especially if you're playing with your friends. Check it out! :)