Welcome to Riverwood (Skyrim Machinima)
Nigel shows you the good and bad of Riverwood.
DanIsAllied = UpwardDanward
DanIsAllied is now known as UpwardDanward
Skyrim No Fall Damage Tutorial (An actual hilarious tutorial video)
DanIsAllied made a new youtube account for a fresh start. He will be abandoning his old youtube account, so SUBCRIBE! to his new channel here -----> www.youtube.com/upwarddanward
MW3 In Depth
MW3 In Depth
Drift0r goes further with the first episode of "MW3 In Depth"
In Episode 1 of Modern Warfare 3 In Depth the FMG9 machine pistol's
range, damage, rate of fire, draw time, recoil, hip fire accuracy,
attachments, and strategies are discussed. The FMG9 is one of four
machine pistols available in MW3 and is best when used hip firing. It
does however have a very unique draw time.
Battlefield 3 HD vs Standard Res Comparison
Watch this in 720p for more epicness!
I was interested to see the difference in quality between the two, so I went ahead and made a video. The HD texture is much better. In the beginning clip, look at the plant. There's a big difference in the shadows too.
Images:
The image on the right is HD.
Right is HD
Left is HD
1.21 GIGAWATTS!!
OK here is a little update on the car model, more info on what this project is will be coming very soon.
Great Scott!!
"If my calculations are correct, when this baby hits eighty-eight miles per hour... you're gonna see some serious shit."
I am currently working on a top secret project, but shhh you must not tell anyone! it could create a time paradox, the result of which could cause a chain reaction that would unravel the very fabric of the space-time continuum and destroy the entire universe!...ok well maybe not but it would still be bad!.
All im going to post is this one image, there will be more in the coming weeks so stay tuned! and remember....Where we're going, we don't need roads.
Hey everybody! Robert Merritt here!
Limited Cognition EP2 has been released on machinima. So be sure to go and watch it, comment, and like it! Try to get it some views. That would be much appreciated! :)
Thanks,
Robert Merritt
Limited Cognition EP2 has been released on machinima. So be sure to go and watch it, comment, and like it! Try to get it some views. That would be much appreciated! :)
As for Episode 3 of Limited Cognition, unfortunately, we have come across more problems, as usual. The composer problem is all good, but some voice actors are having some life problems, and we need to respect that always comes first. So, we will be re-casting his character. As we need to keep producing LC. We also have some problems with one of our 3D Graphics Designer's on creating a character for us on CGI. So we will do whatever is necessary to keep producing this stuff as necessary.
Thanks,
Robert Merritt
Quick projects update and a new member!
First of all, I'd like to welcome DanIsAllied to EF. He's been working with us for quite some time now with IIWR and other shorts. It was only natural that he should join. Dan's style of humor and effect work can best be summed up with this fast paced WTF-style video:
It's a strange one but we liked it.
In other news, Rob's been a busy beaver, his fourth episode of Three Man Army is out:
Spearhead is busy working on making Captain Assassin very badass:
Martyn, Octane, and CoolGuy are all grinding away at various shorts that we hope become viral. CK is back and intermittently working on some experimental short films. Last but not least I'm working my balls off to finish the last few episodes of IIWR season 2.
It's a strange one but we liked it.
In other news, Rob's been a busy beaver, his fourth episode of Three Man Army is out:
Spearhead is busy working on making Captain Assassin very badass:
Martyn, Octane, and CoolGuy are all grinding away at various shorts that we hope become viral. CK is back and intermittently working on some experimental short films. Last but not least I'm working my balls off to finish the last few episodes of IIWR season 2.
Limited Cognition Ep2 is out!
Rob has done an excellent job and I hope you all enjoy it. Unfortunately you won't be enjoying on Machinima.com for at least another few weeks. Limited Cognition has been dragged to the forefront a debate amongst directors about video quality and promotion.
Martyn has quit Machinima, at least the main channel but he continues to work on Respawn. Martyn, like many other directors does not work on a quantity basis and doesn't always do comedy either. While it's great that Machinima.com will upload pretty much anything we send them, priority is given to short comedic videos and established series. There are many reasons for this, but they all ultimately boil down to profitability. The majority of the audience simply isn't interested in anything but comedy. While it is true that you push something new onto an audience and make them like it, this is not the preferred method. It cuts into profitability and can create a backlash. While videos like Limited Cognition perform excellently on smaller channels with a narrower focus (like the EF channel :P ) they do not have a lot performance potential on Machinima.com.
When Martyn quit he made his feelings clear on both the private director forums and on on Virtual Flicks. Even though we work together, I disagree with a lot of what was said. Martyn was soon engaged by Jeremy the, Director of Entertainment Programming at Machinima.com, or one of several staff members that directors engage on a regular basis. Jeremy countered Martyn on all points and was not amused by the more sharp statements Martyn left. Let's just say that a tiny flame was ensued that I wasn't much interested in but I decided to have some input. The one and only thing I discussed was that dramatic and serious productions are often marginalized. I used Rob's Limited Cognition as an example and several other's picked up discussing it.
Episode 2 was finished right in the middle of this. At this point in time it doesn't feel right to submit the video. It would seem like we were doing some political maneuvering in order to get a better upload spot. This is not what I want people to think of when they think of Euphorian Films. We want our works to stand on it's own merit. We'll get it uploaded in a few weeks, and I hope that the wider audience will enjoy it when it does come out.
Martyn has quit Machinima, at least the main channel but he continues to work on Respawn. Martyn, like many other directors does not work on a quantity basis and doesn't always do comedy either. While it's great that Machinima.com will upload pretty much anything we send them, priority is given to short comedic videos and established series. There are many reasons for this, but they all ultimately boil down to profitability. The majority of the audience simply isn't interested in anything but comedy. While it is true that you push something new onto an audience and make them like it, this is not the preferred method. It cuts into profitability and can create a backlash. While videos like Limited Cognition perform excellently on smaller channels with a narrower focus (like the EF channel :P ) they do not have a lot performance potential on Machinima.com.
When Martyn quit he made his feelings clear on both the private director forums and on on Virtual Flicks. Even though we work together, I disagree with a lot of what was said. Martyn was soon engaged by Jeremy the, Director of Entertainment Programming at Machinima.com, or one of several staff members that directors engage on a regular basis. Jeremy countered Martyn on all points and was not amused by the more sharp statements Martyn left. Let's just say that a tiny flame was ensued that I wasn't much interested in but I decided to have some input. The one and only thing I discussed was that dramatic and serious productions are often marginalized. I used Rob's Limited Cognition as an example and several other's picked up discussing it.
Episode 2 was finished right in the middle of this. At this point in time it doesn't feel right to submit the video. It would seem like we were doing some political maneuvering in order to get a better upload spot. This is not what I want people to think of when they think of Euphorian Films. We want our works to stand on it's own merit. We'll get it uploaded in a few weeks, and I hope that the wider audience will enjoy it when it does come out.
Commentators need to step up their game
Even though I don't really consider myself a game commentator, everyone else does. It isn't something that I flocked to for fun but simply as a way to get a little extra money to pay for a new TV, and then a new laptop, and now a wedding. It started off pretty mundane and uninteresting, but the more did commentary the more I liked it. The audience seemed to agree too. With around ten of them under my belt I'm still very new at this but I see a lot of flaws with a lot of other commentators videos.
So many of them don't know how to edit anything. I see that the video and audio commentary are not synced at all. The commentator will be discussing a pertinent event ten seconds after it happens or even worse, ten seconds before. I see games with no color correction added, no editing done (not even trimming off the beginning and end), and no sound balance. It's as if they hit record on PVR, record game, hit stop, record audio, drop it in the tracks, and call it a job well done. I've even heard this lot complain about "a lot of editing" when more than two tracks are required. From the standpoint of a machinimator, this is child's play. The gap in the viewing market left by sloppy editing and simply recording gameplay became evident to me after the response to this video:
The response on my page and the EF page from this video was HUGE. Biggest release I've had yet. Put in proportion to it's total amount of viewers, it really struck a cord with about 1/5 of the entire audience. I received so many man messages about how nobody had seen anything like it before and was quite shocked. To be honest, it wasn't really that well made or edited. It took about 3-4 hours to film and edit with most of the edits being done the laziest way possible. However, when I looked around, I really couldn't find anything like it. Nobody seemed to be doing any more than recording straight from the first person perspective.
Is that all there is out there? Are there no more cinematic or unusual commentary styles? Surely there has to be more to this popular sub-genre of video than a gameplay with a dude talking to you. It baffles me, it really does.
So many of them don't know how to edit anything. I see that the video and audio commentary are not synced at all. The commentator will be discussing a pertinent event ten seconds after it happens or even worse, ten seconds before. I see games with no color correction added, no editing done (not even trimming off the beginning and end), and no sound balance. It's as if they hit record on PVR, record game, hit stop, record audio, drop it in the tracks, and call it a job well done. I've even heard this lot complain about "a lot of editing" when more than two tracks are required. From the standpoint of a machinimator, this is child's play. The gap in the viewing market left by sloppy editing and simply recording gameplay became evident to me after the response to this video:
The response on my page and the EF page from this video was HUGE. Biggest release I've had yet. Put in proportion to it's total amount of viewers, it really struck a cord with about 1/5 of the entire audience. I received so many man messages about how nobody had seen anything like it before and was quite shocked. To be honest, it wasn't really that well made or edited. It took about 3-4 hours to film and edit with most of the edits being done the laziest way possible. However, when I looked around, I really couldn't find anything like it. Nobody seemed to be doing any more than recording straight from the first person perspective.
Is that all there is out there? Are there no more cinematic or unusual commentary styles? Surely there has to be more to this popular sub-genre of video than a gameplay with a dude talking to you. It baffles me, it really does.
Limited Cognition Releases March 1st
Yo, Robert Merritt here.
On March 1st, Limited Cognition Episode 2 releases. Most of you probably thought this series was simply dead. For a while it was. This episode has been completed for several months but the lack of its own music was the reason it has been delayed several times.
The main problem was that we needed a new composer for Limited Cognition. We embarked on an epic journey to find one. Many composers had life problems or simply ignorantly stopped communicating with us when they accepted the job. So we assumed they didnt want to compose for it, but didnt have the sympathy to tell us. Anyway thanks to Christopher Arnold from Daemon Productions, he recommended me a fantastic composer named "Jeff Holley". He is a very talented composer, and great to work with! So hopefully those of you that liked Episode 1 will hopefully like this one! Just to keep in mind, just because this story is kind of moving to the military side of things doesn't mean its going to move away from its own drama feel.
So what's after Episode 2? Limited Cognition will deffinately be coming out a lot more frequently thats for sure. Except you may notice that the episodes will be a bit more shorter in length, but much more better in quality as seen in the picture above. We are planning on making it a lot more professional looking and more good stuff like that.
More info on Limited Cognition in the future!
Until then,
Robert Merritt
3 Man Army EP4 and Future Plans
Yo,
Robert Merritt here giving you an update regarding 3 Man Army on Euphorian Film's new blog! I am looking forward to using this website as an advantage to notify you guys of 3 Man Army and more than likely, other projects as well! Don't forget, many other directors in EF will be using this advantage as well!
It's not much, but it shows im working on it. This is a picture from Episode 4. I think it's turning out decent just like the others. However, I don't think DECENT is good enough. Of course, reality is more important to most people including our directors such as myself. So working on machinima can be harder than it looks. There are some things you have to consider when making a machinima which I best not go in to great detail about. But let's just say that we have a lot of work in real life as well. Especially myself. Fortunately the time of work is passing by for me.
So what do I plan to keep doing for this series? Well we will let the writer keep doing his stuff. But I plan on discussing things with him that could make it greater. I will be attempting at finding ways to make this series better than decent. In my opinion, that would be a piece of cake if this was the only series I am doing. But unfortunately this isnt the main series I am focusing on. Limited Cognition is basically my baby. That is the series that is keeping 3 Man Army from becoming great, and im not willing to give Limited Cognition up. I have many plans for the future with it, and im not just talking about machinima. But I am trying to find ways to make 3 Man Army better. So don't worry, I will do my best to make it great! I hope many of you have been enjoying it none the less.
Until next time,
Robert Merritt
Robert Merritt here giving you an update regarding 3 Man Army on Euphorian Film's new blog! I am looking forward to using this website as an advantage to notify you guys of 3 Man Army and more than likely, other projects as well! Don't forget, many other directors in EF will be using this advantage as well!
It's not much, but it shows im working on it. This is a picture from Episode 4. I think it's turning out decent just like the others. However, I don't think DECENT is good enough. Of course, reality is more important to most people including our directors such as myself. So working on machinima can be harder than it looks. There are some things you have to consider when making a machinima which I best not go in to great detail about. But let's just say that we have a lot of work in real life as well. Especially myself. Fortunately the time of work is passing by for me.
So what do I plan to keep doing for this series? Well we will let the writer keep doing his stuff. But I plan on discussing things with him that could make it greater. I will be attempting at finding ways to make this series better than decent. In my opinion, that would be a piece of cake if this was the only series I am doing. But unfortunately this isnt the main series I am focusing on. Limited Cognition is basically my baby. That is the series that is keeping 3 Man Army from becoming great, and im not willing to give Limited Cognition up. I have many plans for the future with it, and im not just talking about machinima. But I am trying to find ways to make 3 Man Army better. So don't worry, I will do my best to make it great! I hope many of you have been enjoying it none the less.
Until next time,
Robert Merritt
Website is finally ready!
Fans of EF,
Welcome to the new Euphorian Films blog. We're launching the website a bit early. Not all of the links up top are working properly but the main blogging section and the links to the shows are working fine. The goal for this blog is to have myself and the rest of the EF directors blogging here regularly in order to keep you guys entertained and up to date. Right now it's just me but in the coming days you are likely to see blog posts from all of our directors included, CK, Jordan Barry, Josh, GamerRob, Higher Octane, Martyn Tranter, Spearhead, Son Raih Boy, and many others. For now, just go ahead and click the follow button, more content will come.
Lastly, here is a look at the rest of the season of IIWR:
6. RC-XC
7. Jetpacks (interactive)
8. Tomahawks
9. Pip-Boy (live action)
10. Lag (interactive)
11. *Second chance
12. *Holograms
13. Quicksoping
*Production pending
Welcome to the new Euphorian Films blog. We're launching the website a bit early. Not all of the links up top are working properly but the main blogging section and the links to the shows are working fine. The goal for this blog is to have myself and the rest of the EF directors blogging here regularly in order to keep you guys entertained and up to date. Right now it's just me but in the coming days you are likely to see blog posts from all of our directors included, CK, Jordan Barry, Josh, GamerRob, Higher Octane, Martyn Tranter, Spearhead, Son Raih Boy, and many others. For now, just go ahead and click the follow button, more content will come.
Lastly, here is a look at the rest of the season of IIWR:
6. RC-XC
7. Jetpacks (interactive)
8. Tomahawks
9. Pip-Boy (live action)
10. Lag (interactive)
11. *Second chance
12. *Holograms
13. Quicksoping
*Production pending
Website update
Ok, so our other host died on us and the site hasn't been updated since August. I know. We goofed. This site is getting updated with a general EF section a several sub-blogs for our more popular directors. Expect it to be done and active within the the month.
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