Garry and his never discussed influence on machinima as a medium
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Gentlemen, hello. I have a tale with little impact to tell. Maybe it's boring, maybe not. But before this sounds like an ass kissing post, most you guys seem to remember me as being JsXanatos on the youtubes, primarily being on there 2008-10 doing that whole Source Wars and Gman Squad thing.
So machinima was quite honestly this thing that got started by a bunch of Quake gamers in 1996 by sharing demo replay files to each other. Demos that contained action and a simple text narrative at the bottom. The only thing that really kept it alive was the hardcore community for Quake. I feel like the same thing is happening with machinima today, the only hardcore gamers with any kind of intelligence to keep that spirit alive are found right here, because there has been a lot of lag time now within the community after Episode 2, there's not a whole lot coming out, and there are few other communities out there now with a well versed fan base. Consoles can't do with their games what Garry is doing with updating Garrysmod, changing it dramatically over time. I have yet to read any of the pandemonium on here in response to the GMOD+Kinect update but I hope there's a lot of it. Because this just quieted all of the nay-sayers who were saying that crap about Garrysmod fading away when Source Filmmaker made a splash. I'm serious. This news is incredibly good. Garrysmod has always answered questions regarding efficient machinima making and modding, and it's doing it yet again with the upcoming Kinect update...which is multiplayer compatible. Because who wants to spend three hours animating or doing NOT-live motion capture for Source Filmmaker? This, right now, is a pretty big win for GMOD in my book. I don't know if Garry is at all interested in discussing machinima but he's definitely been a huge role in the whole scheme of things.
Machinima making is not the priority of Garry or the gmod+kinect update, but it's just one of those things again that is benefiting from it. When Garrysmod and Source Filmmaker are integrated together, some scary things will happen. lol
I just simply cannot believe that Garry, and even Garrysmod, goes widely untalked about (maybe even uncredited) amongst the machinima elite and gaming world. I think they should get some serious recognition by these folk. Garrysmod just opened up a lot of ideas for me and others again in the Machinima sense, and continues to expand as a sandbox game. The kinect update just means we combine the live motion capturing with all of the features in GMOD. We'll be jumping around as ragdolls with dual pistols at each other in no time.
Here are the videos of it for those who haven't seen --
[url]http://youtu.be/NEZYyr7e_YQ[/url]
[url]http://youtu.be/avgqr75MVcg[/url]
Hope this makes sense. Excited to be making videos with this feature.
[quote]When Garrysmod and Source Filmmaker are integrated together, some scary things will happen. lol[/quote]
The day this happens... I can only imagine the amount of machinimas that would benefit from Garry's Mod's scenebuilding/contraptions. I forsee an Source Film Maker + GMod video which shows different players contraptions dueling[ACF?] on some server, and someone making a dramatic film over it.
And when you add kinect to the mix, it'll allow you to make decent animations/films in like 1 week, since atleast the animating part will be nearly skipped.
[QUOTE=KatNotDinner;38637050]And when you add kinect to the mix, it'll allow you to make decent animations/films in like 1 week, since atleast the animating part will be nearly skipped.[/QUOTE]
With the Kinect, we won't even need to think about realistic looking animations.
[QUOTE=Xanatos;38635311] I feel like the same thing is happening with machinima today, the only hardcore gamers with any kind of intelligence to keep that spirit alive are found right here[/QUOTE]
Anyone else read that as "If you play games and are not an indepth member of the machima community then you're dumb"?
The idiots who used to go on about garrysmod dying once Source Filmmaker came out where pure idiots. Sure garrysmod gets a lot of traffic from these sources but it's just one of many. Plus You can still do so much in garrysmod for movie making that you would struggle to do in filmmaker.
garry did not make gmod. his wife did.
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