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So the xmas break ended a while ago, I kept going through demos and watched all of the demos from the spreadsheet, DHS2013 and FaceIT legends demos. I found a couple of movie worthy frags, but nothing jaw-dropping really. I've downloaded a whole lot of other demos from different events, probably gonna download more soon, BUT right now I don't have the time to view them. The semester is about to end so I'm really busy with uni stuff.

Concerning my last post and possible abandoning the project, don't worry, even if I'll think that making av3k movie is a waste of time because of the content quality, I'll surely release the timestapped demos so that any willing moviemaker could pick them up and make an av3k movie instead of me.. And yeah the quality of footage so far wasn't that good, it's a bit sad that I was more fired up watching my own dm17 demos, *sigh*.

As proof that I'm busy with uni stuff, here's a doghouse concept for a dog pound. :)

All your base are belong to us

Jeez, it was already a month since I last posted, damn time sure flies. A lot of things happened in the meanwhile. I passed my driving license exam, broke up with my gf, qualified for that 2nd course at my university.. Oh yeah, I have some damn cool classes now, like drawing, paiting, sculpting, basics of interior design, visual communication, product design, etc. All in all, interesting stuff. The downside is that I don't have time for slacking, and I have to buy a lot of stuff (large paper sheets, paint, paintbrushes, etc. etc.) But I guess it's all for the best. :) I'll try to post some of my work later.

Last month I visited Gdańsk and took photos of some more murals! yay! Here's a little teaser. A while ago I posted a picture of a mural made by the same author - "M-City".

I've already made a gallery of the photos of murals I've taken in Gdańsk, but I yet have to upload it somewhere.. picasa most likely. I also have to finally sort out the photos of murals from Wrocław.. soon!:D

Update

I've been very busy as of late and, to be honest, I still am. I applied for a 2nd course at my university, so if I'll manage to qualify, I'll be attending two courses simultaneously. I applied for industrial design, so I would have classes like drawing, painting, sculpting, etc. Pretty damn neat.

All the things I was working on are on low priority right now but I promise to get back to them as soon as possible. More news next week.

Home sweet home!

Today I finished the semester at uni and came back home. I'll be staying here for a couple of days before heading out to Wrocław (polish city) to spend the vacations with my girl friend.
So yeah, I have a couple of days left to the deadline and I'll be trying hard to make it in time. I was thinking a lot about the concept of the movie and I'm pretty sure what I want to do. Tomorrow I'll start capturing footage and possibly start putting it into sony vegas.
I also want to make some changes on my blog. I was thinking about adding pages and lists of tags. There would be a page with my movies, a page about me and a page with tutorials (which I have to write first hah!) So yeah, no slacking!

11 days to go!

Recently I didn't have much time to work on the movie, but don't worry, I have a song I want to use, and I'm  pretty much done with stuff for university. In the following days I'm going to start capturing footage (lossless .avi's). I'm still thinking about how I want to make the movie.. I surely don't want to make another normal fragmovie, without anything unique and special. I'll do my best!

Exams ugh!

This semester is about to end and I have to finish some university projects. I'm also doing a driving license course so I spend 2 hours almost everyday driving around the city. All in all, I don't have much time for movie projects right now. Things will normalize in a week or two and then I'll be back on track!

Anyway, I was looking around a bit for tools to import .md3 (quake3/quakelive models) files into some 3D editting software like blender or 3DS max. I found some stuff but I still have to try them out. AAAAhh I can't wait to start messing around with those models. It'll be complicated for sure though:)

Humble bundle 5!

If anyone isn't familiar with HumbleBundle, it's a pack of games made by independed developers. To get it, you can pay what you want for it, but if you pay more than the average, you get an extra game. Some of the cash goes to charity, for more info check out their site. Anyway, this is the first humblebundle I purchased myself. I was tempted about buying the previous ones, but in the end I gave up on them.

This time the games listed were pretty awesome. I found Limbo especially interesting, and it's the only game I checked out so far. It's a side scrolling adventure/puzzle game. It's dark and eerie and at times it's quite gruesome. Especially since there's no health bar and thus all the dangers that await you are lethal. Luckily enough for all the casual gamers, after dying you just reappear a little behind the obstacle that killed you. I played it for quite a while now and I love it. My girlfriend likes it too:)

Other than limbo, there are some other games that also seem to be very interesting.. I'll post more once I check them out. That might take a while since I'm busy with stuff for university, this semester is about to end and I'm still due with some projects and reports. Yikes!

Short break.

Capturing the footage from the demos made me excited about the movie again:) Gonna do my best!!

But unfortunatelly, I'll have to deal with some personal boring stuff releated to my university in the following days, so yeah gonna leave home for a couple of days. But when I'm back -> movie making full speed ahead :)

Getting there.

I'm pretty sure everyone who has sent me demos is getting impatient by now. I didn't get to work on the movie yet, BUT! I'm almost done with exams and stuff@uni. Since the 1st of July I'll be working in the weekdays from 7am to 3pm, but don't worry I'll have time for movie making since unlike university, I won't have any 'homework'. So yeah, starting on July the 1st I'll be movie making on full speed. Expect updates, teasers and such.

Oh yeah, btw, I applied to a 2nd course on uni, and guess what, it's about computer animation, movies and montage. :> Perfectly fits my interests. I hope, I'll manage two courses simultaneously, we'll see :)

Slow, slow, super slow

Yeah things aren't going as fast as I'd like them to. I really have a shitload of stuff to do for uni and on top of that I had some personal things happening which surely didn't motivate me to work on the movie.

Since I've already seen and rated all the demos, it pretty much comes down to capturing and putting everything together.

When I started working on this movie I thought to myself 'Ok, I'll work an hour or two on the movie everyday during weekdays and some more on the weekends and it'll be done in no time!' - but now I've realized that I can't work like that, I can't split my attention between movie making, uni and personal life, so to work on the movie I have to really focus on it. I won't have much time to spare until July, and that's when I'll be able to focus solely on the movie.

Also, I'm not gonna accept anymore demos, I think I have enough, or at least I hope so. I'll do my best. Oh and btw, I'll be working on another movie this summer, I'm probably even more excited about it than I am on my current project. heh anyways, probably gonna take a while before I post something again, but don't worry, once I'll get to work seriously on the movie, I'll make up for it.

phew.

Just catched up with all the demos I've received so far. From 1,8 GB I rejected 1,49 GB and accepted 325MB.. and believe it or not, I still want more.

More outstanding frags of course, not average, common frags. I'll be working on a trailer to encourage players to send in more frags, I'll announce a deadline once the trailer is released.

Few days ago I received my additional cooling unit so high temperatures aren't a problem anymore. I'm really happy with it.

You might think that I'm really slow with this, but I have other stuff to worry about too, movie making is nothing more than a hobby, and I don't get paid for it. This semester at uni is really tough, I have to work on simultaneously on 4 different projects and learn how to use ansys and matlab. But it's interesting so I can't really complain.

Watching demos part.1 :>

Yeeeeah, finally I found some time and actually had the motivation to go through a part of the demos yall gave me so far. So yeah, today I watched 63 demos, out of these only 33 were labeled as OK. The rest was rejected, either because they were too average or were already used in another movie or weren't a quakelive demo at all (yeah really, wtf :D). It took a few hours to get through those demos, and my notebook didn't like it apparently.. even new its bottom is hot.. gotta buy a cooling mat or w/e it's called.

Oh yeah, and for those who are wondering: I'm still accepting demos. :) Right now I'm in the middle of the exam period but once it's over I'll have from 2 to 3 weeks of free time! yeeeh! And I'm planning to spend it on movie making mostly.

Quad stunts video :))

Yeah, as mentioned in my last post I was working on a short clip for my room mate, and really it's nothing special at all, in the end I didn't even use any effects from AE. Anyway, it was nice and refreshing to work on live footage, I'm planning to buy a camcorder, so expect more live footage videos. Oh btw I didn't record it, it was his sister afaik, shaky hands :))

Change the quality button to 480p, quality will blow otherwise.

By the way, I don't wanna brag but recently at uni they posted the list of best students on my year, and I'm 4th.... which is pretty damn awesome. I'll receive scholarship because of it, yay! \o/

waaazup \o/

huhu, again it's been a while since the last time I've posted, sorry about that :) Studies and student life occupy nearly all of my free time.

For anyone interested, I'm still accepting demos for my next project, actually I didn't get any recently.

I didn't start working on it yet though. But no worries, time isn't going to waste, right now I'm working on a short clip for my roommate, I'm using after effects to add some fancy stuff. It's pretty much the first serious time I'm using it and I'm learning tons. I'm especially interested in 3D effects and animations cause I want to use some of those in my next quake movie.

The short clip will be available on youtube, but not on my channel, I'll make a post when it's done and paste a link to it. It won't be anything spectacular though, so don't expect much. :)

O hai

Sorry for not posting anything for a while. I was away dealing with some university related stuff, everything went fine and now I'm back. :)
Concerning demos, I already received a couple, didn't have the time to go through them tho, but I recognized some names and I'm certain I won't be disappointed.

I'm thinking about finishing the stuff I wanted to do for the tek9 contest and release it as a minor project. I was thinking about making daily updates again, just like with afterspray, but this time I would really explain everything I do with details, talk about important stuff. It would be a kind of a movie making tutorial. I think it's a neat idea. What do you think guys?:)

Busy :(

Right now I don't have a lot of free time. The end of the year and exams are closer and closer. The movie won't be released this month. >.< 

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!!