Watch this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruNLA0LSdrs


Can you guess what it is?



So far, it has taken me 2 hours and 30 min to get 1 min of footage. And that was how long it took me to make the easy scenes. It feels like I am making an actual movie. It takes months of set up, practice runs, takes, and retakes just to get something like 2 hours of actual movie.

Don't suggest 3D animations. I have no experience making those. If you are going to fight a war, do it efficiently, unremittingly, or don't do it at all--I'm not into ethics, I'm into efficiency.--Benjamin St. John "Descent" by Peter Telep

Thats not bad, I know how hard it is to get things to work right in GMod, so kudos~

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UPDATE:

I am almost done with the sequence in space. I just need to make the Material Defender say "Easy money. That's what I like" and I'll be done with that portion. Making that might be an additional 30 min because I am animating close up shots.

Total work time: 5 hours 20 min


It's somewhat difficult to get things to work. It took me about 35 min to animate the Admiral saying "Fire! All batteries fire!" and the rest of his line. And then some action sequences, something goes wrong and I have to retake the scene. My rig that I had set up for the torpedo arming room kept falling down because I kept clicking the wrong buttons which unfroze all of the objects that I was using. I was making using a whole bunch of crazy things to get the torpedo to move, but I got fed up and got rid of everything except the room, the tube it goes in, and I just stuck a thruster on the back and slid it down the room and into the tube. It took me an hour to make that.

I heard that there was a GX somewhere in some spaceship pack, but several of us were unable to find it, but I have a pretty cool fighter that works out well. If you are going to fight a war, do it efficiently, unremittingly, or don't do it at all--I'm not into ethics, I'm into efficiency.--Benjamin St. John "Descent" by Peter Telep

Things are getting a little exciting around the studio (jk, there's no studio ). I'm all the way up to the part where the MD says, "we've got a few issues to resolve." The part where the MD walks over to Dravis is clunky. I took it in stop motion and it was hard to place him, not to mention the fact that the ragdoll kept forming into a frail old man just because I saved the day before with him still frozen in a certain position. He looks like a spaz walking over there. If I was to set up some kind of rig, it'd be even worse. I could animate the legs, but not the arms.

I'll be releasing another teaser soon, but there are 2 scenes that are both cool and I cannot decide which one to use. I need your help to decide.
Your choices are:

A. Shows Dravis, the door exploding, and then Dravis having a seizure (shock waves from the explosion ). (I also snuck in a referance to Dr. Hax (you'd only know him if you watch Gmod videos often))

B. The MD removing the table and then saying "we've got a..." (Amazing animation with the mouth when he says his line)

B is a little more of a spoiler than A.
What'll it be?




I've put this up over4 different forums. I will tally the results on 4/10 (saturday next week) If you are going to fight a war, do it efficiently, unremittingly, or don't do it at all--I'm not into ethics, I'm into efficiency.--Benjamin St. John "Descent" by Peter Telep

I did not add in that Dr. Hax referance in this teaser.


Anyway, counting in all of the overwhelming votes from the 3 other sites, I went with choice A.

Here it is:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHQ-GCUk0_U If you are going to fight a war, do it efficiently, unremittingly, or don't do it at all--I'm not into ethics, I'm into efficiency.--Benjamin St. John "Descent" by Peter Telep