Machinima melting pot
Checked out a few cool things today.
A screencam'd video of the CryEngine 2, next generation of the Crytek engine used in Far Cry. This shows some amazing results. Of course you will need a hollywood sized production team to produce stuff this detailed but at least the technology is out there (almost... its coming).
An interesting trailer of 'The Movies'. This game has not interested me in the least, particularly with all the machinima hype behind it. I may be old skool purist but it just looks like a sims2 engine with more assets and content to play with. This type of thing is well suited to those who are really about the story and an easier way to get it produced, like some of the great stuff thats come out of Sims filmmaking. My personal interest is as much about the art of using the game engine to tell the story as much as the story itself. But hey, I do not consider myself closed minded so we'll see what comes of it. Its only been almost 2 years in the hype.
The big gaming news of the days has been the info release of the Nintendo Revolution controllers. My machinima.com visiting friends will already know of the video I posted about this one. What the hell is that?..Hey, I said I was open minded. I betchya their bass fishing game will rock! ;)
That is all.
A screencam'd video of the CryEngine 2, next generation of the Crytek engine used in Far Cry. This shows some amazing results. Of course you will need a hollywood sized production team to produce stuff this detailed but at least the technology is out there (almost... its coming).
An interesting trailer of 'The Movies'. This game has not interested me in the least, particularly with all the machinima hype behind it. I may be old skool purist but it just looks like a sims2 engine with more assets and content to play with. This type of thing is well suited to those who are really about the story and an easier way to get it produced, like some of the great stuff thats come out of Sims filmmaking. My personal interest is as much about the art of using the game engine to tell the story as much as the story itself. But hey, I do not consider myself closed minded so we'll see what comes of it. Its only been almost 2 years in the hype.
The big gaming news of the days has been the info release of the Nintendo Revolution controllers. My machinima.com visiting friends will already know of the video I posted about this one. What the hell is that?..Hey, I said I was open minded. I betchya their bass fishing game will rock! ;)
That is all.
posted by 3dfilmmaker @ 8:31 PM
1 Comments:
At 12:29 AM,
Booklad said…
The new Far Cry engine sounds wonderful, but the direct download link doesn't work. You have to have bittorrent installed.
I'm not as cyncial as you about The Movies. You are right about the hype, but I've been following it pretty closely for the last few months and I think it will have much more visual variety than you give it credit for. But we'll have to see. I'll certainly be making films with it right out of the gate.
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