Another great film produced by Lit Fuse Films. Hopefully Zach and Rob’s departure to Bioware wont hinder their videos.
IGN has posted an interview with Crytek’s engine business manager.
Take the engine that powered last year’s dazzling (and resource heavy) Crysis and put it in the hands of other developers and what do you get? That’s the question that Crytek is looking to answer as it pushes into the business of providing middleware to other developers with its powerful CryENGINE 2 technology. What does CryENGINE have to offer, and can it work on the consoles? And what’s up next for Crytek?
With the announcement of the Sims 3 this week, one cant but help to wonder whether The Sims 3 will be usable for machinima. As many of you probably know, the previous version of The Sims was used to create machinima with limited success.
What are all of your guys’ view on The Sims 3?
Today Lit Fuse Films released Melon 3. It is quite an entertaining little short and is worth a view
Youtube link is below or you can always watch in in HD
As somewhat of a shock, Stage6 announced that it will be closing its doors on Thrusday
I’m Tom (aka Spinner), a Stage6 user and an employee of DivX, Inc., the company behind the service. I’m writing this message today to inform you that we plan to shut down Stage6 on February 28, 2008. Upload functionality has already been turned off, and you’ll be able to view and download videos until Thursday.
You can read the full blog post here.
One of the few FS machinima makers is closing up shop.
The farewell video for Jetblast Productions, after over a year and a half of Flightsim videos, I have raised enough funds doing promotional videos and started a web design business that is going very well working for top property and Model agencies and clubs in the U.K. I have no longer time to Run JBP My new company is called CG Webdesign and the new website will be online soon at www.cgwebdesign.eu, this video was made as a farewell. I would like to give special thanks to all of my viewers and Fans and most of all people who inspired me to go further.
Thanks
Andre Figueira
Surely all of you have heard of both Stage6 and Youtube. Both of the sites are online video hosting and sharings sites. Both do have their strengths and weaknesses though.
Stage6
Stage6 is the newer of the two contenders having been launched in 2006. They accept a wide variety of content from tv shows and music videos to movies. Where stage6 really excels though is its ability to host video up to 1080p, something youtube lacks. Stage6 does come with a few down sides though. The search function is somewhat useless, most of the time giving videos irrelevant to your actual search. The site also has far, far fewer visitors.
Youtube
Youtube is probably the poster child of online video hosting and sharing. Launched in 2005, it has become the benchmark. They accept a wide variety of video formats due to encoding server side. Where stage6 is strong is user base, with millions of people using youtube daily, you are bound the get some views on your video. The downsides of youtube are lack of HD video and the large percentage of jun videos currently on youtube.
Perhaps sometime in the future, a youtube/stage6 hybrid can be made, combining the users of youtube with the HD capabilities of stage6. If only this was a utopia.
A short film by Genre d’Abbatoir. Here is the trailer:
This video is from a recent graduate of Vancouver Film School named Francisco Moncayo.
The HD version is available for download here.
The demo reel is very inspiring. Remember this guy is straight out of school and doing amazing work. Work hard and practice guys!
