NS2 Machinima still an idea?

SkymanderXSkymanderX Green Marine - The Few, The Proud, The Green. Join Date: 2011-07-29 Member: 113006Members
edited January 2012 in NS2 General Discussion
Just wondering if this idea has totally lost its appeal or if it just needs to be revived. I Still think that this would be fantastic for promotion of the game (and Fun too!) but i haven't heard any word about it from other members of the community in quite some time. I'm just wondering if this is still a viable idea and something we could put together or is it something that we should just scrap.
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  • WolpertingerWolpertinger Join Date: 2011-12-24 Member: 138958Members
    I think an Machinima would be very cool, as some kind of promotion for the release of the game.

    And if you not that, another cool thing would be to have some kind of introduction video to the universe of Natural Selection 2. Describing the path mankind took in the 21st century that lead to the stars and encounter of the Kharaa.

    Something like <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNzf6erIhlw" target="_blank">the intro-commercial for Duncan Jones' movie Moon from 2009</a> or <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-cYgf6WyGA" target="_blank">the first trailer for Neill Blookamp's new movie</a>.

    Possibly even something like <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faFuaYA-daw" target="_blank">the great commercials from the movie Starship Troopers</a>.
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  • SkymanderXSkymanderX Green Marine - The Few, The Proud, The Green. Join Date: 2011-07-29 Member: 113006Members
    edited January 2012
    Yea sure anything like this. Its just getting together a group who are actually willing to do it seems to be the problem. I'd love to do an intro type thing as well but i don't know what we would use to lead up to "modern day ns2"
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  • WolpertingerWolpertinger Join Date: 2011-12-24 Member: 138958Members
    Well,

    we would need a good voice-actor. (Maybe there is a person with a suitable voice in the NS2 community.)
    I am sure UWE would be willing to provide all kinds of footage, renders of technology, turnarounds of weapons, etc.
    It is also always good to throw in some real world footage from the news, etc.

    Of course, the most awesome thing to do would be something like the live action Halo commercials:
    <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTw3qeQrjvI" target="_blank">Halo: Reach</a>
    <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rxUOdpAliE" target="_blank">Halo: ODST</a>
    <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDaVvsTNbf0" target="_blank">Halo: Live Action commercial 1-3</a>

    I am into cgi myself, Autodesk Maya, etc. But I am not yet very good at it.
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  • SkymanderXSkymanderX Green Marine - The Few, The Proud, The Green. Join Date: 2011-07-29 Member: 113006Members
    True. Someone one would have to do some kind of narration probably. and we'd need some marines. It depends on the script though. What it calls for. It again comes down to if we'd like to do a story line ( Sanjii maybe?) a trailer, or some kind of lore. I still think that reenacting six says in Sanjii would be cool.
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  • SkymanderXSkymanderX Green Marine - The Few, The Proud, The Green. Join Date: 2011-07-29 Member: 113006Members
    is there anyone willing to do this though?
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  • MuYeahMuYeah Join Date: 2006-12-26 Member: 59261Members
    edited January 2012
    You could start out with something small that doesn't require voice acting, like Ignis Solus:

    <center><object width="450" height="356"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/eRARcZL-4XM"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/eRARcZL-4XM" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="450" height="356"></embed></object></center>
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  • Kouji_SanKouji_San Sr. Hινε Uρкεερεг - EUPT Deputy The Netherlands Join Date: 2003-05-13 Member: 16271Members, NS2 Playtester, Squad Five Blue
    edited January 2012
    I made a few short intros once <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtA7RU4nlRQ" target="_blank">spoofing</a> Startrek TNG (using gameplay footage) and an intro <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72LZeI_2ySE" target="_blank">spoofing</a> the Half-Life Black Mesa Transit System... Other then that I find the options quite limited. I really don't like the Halo machinima's with their silly looking bobbing-talky-head syndrome for instance, which is about the limit of what NS2 can do right now using game footage...

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    Ignis Solus... Something about a lonely Gorge and his marine buddy alone on a map... Interesting stuff, gives me something to think about :P
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  • SkymanderXSkymanderX Green Marine - The Few, The Proud, The Green. Join Date: 2011-07-29 Member: 113006Members
    hehe I think that came up in the other thread about a gorge and a marine...
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  • MuYeahMuYeah Join Date: 2006-12-26 Member: 59261Members
    <!--quoteo(post=1895796:date=Jan 19 2012, 04:06 PM:name=Kouji_San)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Kouji_San @ Jan 19 2012, 04:06 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1895796"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->I made a few short intros once <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtA7RU4nlRQ" target="_blank">spoofing</a> Startrek TNG (using gameplay footage) and an intro <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72LZeI_2ySE" target="_blank">spoofing</a> the Half-Life Black Mesa Transit System... Other then that I find the options quite limited. I really don't like the Halo machinima's with their silly looking bobbing-talky-head syndrome for instance, which is about the limit of what NS2 can do right now using game footage...

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    Ignis Solus... Something about a lonely Gorge and his marine buddy alone on a map... Interesting stuff, gives me something to think about :P<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

    The idea of a gorge tending its garden to a soundtrack of Everything In Its Right Place by Radiohead tickles me.
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  • Kouji_SanKouji_San Sr. Hινε Uρкεερεг - EUPT Deputy The Netherlands Join Date: 2003-05-13 Member: 16271Members, NS2 Playtester, Squad Five Blue
    It tickles my copyright infringement bone :(
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  • WolpertingerWolpertinger Join Date: 2011-12-24 Member: 138958Members
    I want an opera, featuring a male gorge opera singer, standing in the spotlight ;)
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  • SkymanderXSkymanderX Green Marine - The Few, The Proud, The Green. Join Date: 2011-07-29 Member: 113006Members
    alas, this would still be interesting. I like the "a Gorge and his Hydra" idea as well. The main thing is to determine something and then do it.
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  • Kouji_SanKouji_San Sr. Hινε Uρкεερεг - EUPT Deputy The Netherlands Join Date: 2003-05-13 Member: 16271Members, NS2 Playtester, Squad Five Blue
    <!--quoteo(post=1895804:date=Jan 19 2012, 04:37 PM:name=SkymanderX)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (SkymanderX @ Jan 19 2012, 04:37 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1895804"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->alas, this would still be interesting. I like the "a Gorge and his Hydra" idea as well. The main thing is to determine something and then do it.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Kyliegirl's comic could be a awesomely drawn storyboard for something like that...
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  • SkymanderXSkymanderX Green Marine - The Few, The Proud, The Green. Join Date: 2011-07-29 Member: 113006Members
    i have never seen this. Could You link it to me. Also i think once the game if further along, six days in sanjii would be great to do.
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  • Kouji_SanKouji_San Sr. Hινε Uρкεερεг - EUPT Deputy The Netherlands Join Date: 2003-05-13 Member: 16271Members, NS2 Playtester, Squad Five Blue
    <!--quoteo(post=1895806:date=Jan 19 2012, 04:41 PM:name=SkymanderX)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (SkymanderX @ Jan 19 2012, 04:41 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1895806"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->i have never seen this. Could You link it to me. Also i think once the game if further along, six days in sanjii would be great to do.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    <a href="http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=114295&hl=" target="_blank">http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/index....=114295&hl=</a>
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  • SkymanderXSkymanderX Green Marine - The Few, The Proud, The Green. Join Date: 2011-07-29 Member: 113006Members
    ah. Yes indeed, but how would we get the hydra into those forms without spikes or bulbs?
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  • Kouji_SanKouji_San Sr. Hινε Uρкεερεг - EUPT Deputy The Netherlands Join Date: 2003-05-13 Member: 16271Members, NS2 Playtester, Squad Five Blue
    edited January 2012
    I dunno, green screening and masking using the modelviewer perhaps...
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  • SkymanderXSkymanderX Green Marine - The Few, The Proud, The Green. Join Date: 2011-07-29 Member: 113006Members
    perhaps...
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  • HughHugh Cameraman San Francisco, CA Join Date: 2010-04-18 Member: 71444NS2 Developer, NS2 Playtester, Reinforced - Silver, Reinforced - Onos, WC 2013 - Shadow, Subnautica Developer, Pistachionauts
    So up for this.

    Still of the opinion that we need a replay editor / demo recorder to do it. Even gameplay trailers, like the beta trailer, are extremely time consuming and difficult to do when you need to record in real time.

    But if someone wants to be uber-brave and get something going, I'll help out any way I can!
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  • Kouji_SanKouji_San Sr. Hινε Uρкεερεг - EUPT Deputy The Netherlands Join Date: 2003-05-13 Member: 16271Members, NS2 Playtester, Squad Five Blue
    player is working on something Hugh, but he's pulling the when its done card on us :P
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  • SkymanderXSkymanderX Green Marine - The Few, The Proud, The Green. Join Date: 2011-07-29 Member: 113006Members
    ooh cryptic. I like it.
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  • SkymanderXSkymanderX Green Marine - The Few, The Proud, The Green. Join Date: 2011-07-29 Member: 113006Members
    attempted bump
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