The Afterspray - my newest quakelive movie

Finally, over almost 6 months of work it's finished. Making this movie took A LOT of my free time, but it was fun, and it was worth it. I hope you'll enjoy it.

For now just a direct download link, I will update this post with streams and mirrors.

maverickservers.com
YouTube

As for additional content, I will upload all the demos from both events, downloading them from ESL site was really a pain and took a couple of hours to click every demo one by one.

Here's a slideshow of the screenshots of the editor shot, I think it looks quite interesting.

Here we have some rejected name tags, most of them look pretty hilarious.

Here's a preview of my favourite name tag I made, which belongs to fox.

More stuff to come later.

Daily update #1

As promised here's the first daily update! Today, I've setup a good .veg (sony vegas file) for the video. Had to enter the right frame rate, resolution and stuff like that, pretty boring but it didn't take more than 10 minutes because I basically based it on the trailer one :)

Most of the work today I've spent on making a nice ESL logo animation for the intro bit. Luckily I found a high res version of the logo. I've put it into photoshop and seperated stuff into different layers, upper stripe, lower stripe, background and so on :) The outcome looks pretty decent, I'll probably fine polish it later on. 

Here's an editor ss, almost nothing to see yet :)

I also worked a bit on some name tags again, still a couple of players left.

Tomorrow, I'll probably make a "Hell5pawn videos" intro, with the usual no-life "room" :D Gotta think what to put on the monitor :) Cya tomorrow!

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!

IEM4 Frag highlights trailer released.

As promised, I've managed to put together a short trailer, a download link is on it's way. The used bloom settings may still change. Also I'm considering not using enemy models. What do you guys think? Feedback and critics are welcome :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrZmZeWZy5g

edit. here's the promised download link:

http://download.maverickservers.com/iem4movie_trailer.mp4

Next week - busy week

Today I watched the whole Rapha's POV from the global finals, it took me about 2,5 of an hour. And there's nothing special about it, each pov takes me about the same amount of time. But this week I'll do my best to watch at least one POV per day. I'd like to have this stage of making the movie behind already and start some footage capturing / editing stuff, which is way more fun. Few days ago I've tweaked a nice movie config. I'm thinking about uploading a short video on youtube to demonstrate it.. hm, yeah possibly gonna do that this week.. maybe a short trailer? Who knows :)

Still watching demos

Damn, watching demos is soo time consuming. I've spent the last two days just watching demos >.<.. Still 2 POV's (k1llsen and stermy) left to watch.. from the Euro finals! Then I have to watch the demos from the world finals.. Jeez. But well, some of the frags are enough to pay for my effort, haha. 

Few days ago, my clan mate asked me if I'm getting paid for making this movie. heh. Come to think of it, I wouldn't mind HAH, since I'm putting so much of my free time in this.. and what I'll get after the movie is done?.. cookies, hopefully. :)

I thought I'll finish the movie this month, but after watching all these demos I'm starting to have doubts. Maybe if I'd have some more motivation.. heh, that's why joining contests is good, even those a quake movie doesn't have a chance to win (read: tek9 contests). They give you a deadline, and it really motivates you to work..

I'm still alive

Ages passed since my last post hah. I've been busy with uni and stuff. Didn't work on any vid really. But ha, yesterday I've ordered a new lenovo. It's a decent 15,4" lenovo with 500gb's of HDD. I'll use it to watch/capture footage when I'll have some free time at the dorm, and believe me or not I have tons of free time. :P So yeah, new movies soon :) First in the line is ESL IEM4 euro/world finals frag highlights. Damn, I can't wait to work on it. I know what music I'll use. It will rape!!

What's cookin'

Just downloaded 257mb of demos from the IEM4 Global finals, uh. It's really a pain to download them one by one. If someone would be interested I might zip 'em all together and upload somewhere.

Again, a few demos were missing, some interesting ones too =/ oh well.

I'm not sure about adding demos from american and asian finals.. maybe if someone would watch those demos and write down the timing.. yeah that would be nice. Watching all those demos is so damn time consuming.. Especially since I have only time on the weekends, but that might change soon.

Lack of time is my main problem right now, most of my free time on weekends I spend on practice matches with my clan (bibs #3 around the corner). I still didn't watch the povs mentioned in the last post >.<.. If someone is willing to help me out by watching at least a few of the demos I'd be really grateful. If you're willing to give me a hand, email me - hell5pawn@hotmail.com

Update

Still watching demos.. It's taking longer then I thought it would. Additionally, I've been playing more CTF PCW's with my clan recently, we're getting ready for bibs season #3.

Still have to watch demos from av3k, calipt, fox, k1llsen and stermy.

Those demos do not contain too many outstanding frags, what makes me think about adding other continental finals to the movie. I'd add frags from the global finals as well, since they're starting soon.. hmm

Also, I'm still thinking about the music.. There's an awesome song on my mind all the time, but it was already used in a popular COD4 frag movie :/ I might also use some classical 'epic' music from Hans Zimmer.. or some electronics.. or idk really.. Maybe some suggestions?

Winter break

Today I passed my last exam, which means I have a bit of free time now. I'll try to spend as much time as possible on movie making. ;)

Here we go!

Just downloaded over 280mb's of demos from ESL site. Which means that I officially started working on the IEM4 Euro Finals Frag highlights vid. huhu :> I also started looking around for some fresh music. Next weekend I'll start watching the demos

New movie - seventeen

Almost a week ago my latest movie for the tek9 minivideo contest was released. It's called seventeen. It's a one map video with midair rockets only. Unlike 'Zero' I didn't use any colour correction as well as no motion blur. If you like it, register @ tek-9.org and rate it :) After the community voting is over I'll upload it to youtube and add a download mirror from Maverick.

I also started gathering demos for future projects. More info here.

I'm also starting work on another video, hah. Frag highlights from the IEM4 european finals! Gonna be epic :o