Gears of War 3 – What Have I Become? (fan trailer)

m3 — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 03:47:11 +0000

*This is not an official trailer.* This trailer was a collaboration between: TheDuoGroup, Kootra, Treadster Media and Sound Wizardry with pre-production help from Eric Hibbeler.

Treadster Media was responsible for all the non-game character animation of Cole and Baird. I would like to thank Graham Cornell and The Duo Group for letting me contribute to this excellent project. Hats off to Kootra (Jordan Mathewson) who did a fantastic putting this together in the Unreal Development Kit.

War has taken its toll on Cole and the other Gears. Their backs are up against the wall. The enemy is closing in. They must rely on each other more than ever. Brothers till the end…together till the end.

Directed & Edited: TheDuoGroup – http://www.theduogroup.com

Cinematic Design: Kootra – http://www.youtube.com/kootra

Animation: Treadster Media – http://www.treadster.com

Sound Design: Sound Wizardry – http://www.soundwizardry.com

Storyboard Artist: Eric Hibbeler – http://www.sketcheth.deviantart.com

Music: Johnny Cash – Hurt (NIN cover)

Special thanks to Mitch Briggs and Anton Borkel.

Creating cinematics in the UDK – 7 part tutorial

m3 — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 14:03:07 +0000

I recently created a series of tutorials for a graduate school assignment my wife is working on. I am happy to share them out and hope some people get some good use from them.

UDK Cinematic Tutorial Part 1 – The User Interface – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYiKV5xDdSE
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UDK Cinematic Tutorial Part 2 – The Content Browser – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08oFP2R6-qM
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UDK Cinematic Tutorial Part 3 – Lets get moving – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wabg0WslPRI
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UDK Cinematic Tutorial Part 4 – Lets KEEP moving – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mj7KhjFqAFQ
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UDK Cinematic Tutorial Part 5 – Lets blow stuff up! – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlHkmsoNf9s
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UDK Cinematic Tutorial Part 6 – Using the camera – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vzi4xdkUz5Q
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UDK Cinematic Tutorial Part 7 – Wrapping it up – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdZB9S0MWmU
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UDK and corporate America, machinima goes commercial

m3 — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 20:02:18 +0000

Something I have been working on for The Shaw Group, Inc. The entire animation is 35 minutes long and up to 16 participants from anywhere with an internet connection are simultaneously able to walk through the animation as it plays. The ability to do that is kind of a big deal in the construction sector.

WATCH IT HERE

Gears of War – 3D

m3 — Sun, 02 May 2010 08:25:19 +0000

Hey all! Sorry things have been a little quiet here lately. I have been battling some health stuff lately that has all but zapped my energy. When I can however I have been doing some tests to see if I can make my next GoW movie in glorious 3DS max. I think I can I think I can I think I can. Here are a couple renders for you to chew on! Hope you guys are great!

Hello Unreal Development Kit!

m3 — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 16:19:41 +0000

I am moving from the UT3 editor into the wonderful new world of the Unreal Development Kit. There are many, MANY enhanced features that I am excited to check out. I am also working with it full time at work for the next month or so on some VIZ stuff. Overall it’s a really exciting time to be using this engine! Fin

UDK – http://www.udk.com/index

The Fate of the Union

m3 — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 07:18:56 +0000

I have released our latest short film called “Fate of the Union” - Enjoy

click image to watch!

Special thanks to:

President Obama for being a good sport and knowing that the ONLY thing that matters right now is getting people back to work!!

TermiATT for the score idea.

http://www.youtube.com/user/TermiATT

deucer for the great title!

Ricky Grove

http://rgrove.com/

Phil Rice

http://z-studios.com/

Antipathy scores 1M youtube views, and there was much revolting

m3 — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 13:09:07 +0000

When you post a video other people think is cool on youtube, you can expect 3 things to happen.

You will get a lot of views
Your video will be republished
Some of your republished videos will be rick roll bait

The Antipathy trailer was just such a video. It received numerous awards for which I am eternally grateful and it was republished numerous times which is also fine with me so long as proper credit is given etc.

So, when I saw this pole smokers republished Antipathy video not only claiming it was the Official Gears of War 3 trailer but then being ball-less enough to take credit for it to boot?? I had to take action – right up to the point I saw it had received like 100k views in just 30 days or something. So the “view whore” in me took over and decided that exposure is exposure and just let it ride. I did send him a few PM’s at first asking him to give us credit for the vid which he did not do. The last correspondence I had with him was me calling him a various assortment of expletives. That video has now surpassed one million views and I imagine will keep on keeping on unless someone reports it.

And that’s sort of the way it works with me. I got my first million view video but it will be under false pretenses and not even on my channel. HA! /grumble

Treadster gets spot in Xbox World Magazine UK

m3 — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 02:25:53 +0000

Imagine my surprise when I got an email from Xbox World UK magazine asking me if they could put my movies on the DVD that accompanies their magazine. Well low and behold it has released and god damnit…WE’RE IN IT!! or on it whichever you prefer. In any case, hate to brag but I am just so full of awesome happiness right now that I just had to tell someone!! I guess the only bad news is that it’s from November 2009’s Issue. Weird, AMIRITE!

Movies that were included on the CD:

Huge thanks to Kimberly at Xbox world 360 magazine for contacting me.

This is the magazine’s DVD and Magazine cover art so if you have that – check the “extras” section on the DVD!

The Seed – concept homes

m3 — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 05:23:40 +0000

So I decided maybe concept modeling was more my speed. Tonight, I began to create what may be the homes the settlers will live in. Each dome will be modular and depending on how much money you had on the start of your trip will depend on how big a home you can buy. This would be an example of a fancier home. This week I will try out some different styles and hopefully come up with a good mix of designs.

One model may have a retractable roof with an observatory. Here it is retracted

And here it is closed.

This is an example of how the homes might be laid out. A group of 8 with a central water/sewage system.

The Seed – concept sketches

m3 — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 07:16:06 +0000

Let me preface this post with…”I am a shitty drawer, or drawing artist, pretty much the opposite of a REAL artist” Which will be readily apparent in the sketches below. In fact, up until a few years ago, I thought you spelled it “Scetch”…yeah, exactly. That said, I did manage to whip up a decent looking cyborg, or at least the robotic portion of him on my trusty ol grid paper. The rest of these sketches were done with my wacom tablet.

The Seed takes place in space on one of the first “modern” era space colonies. So the idea is to create massive bio-dome like structures that contain the settlers of said space colony. The plan is to make the settlers homes inside the dome structures to be designed as energy efficient as possible while at the same time try to make them as visually interesting as possible. But hey, as I said this is a ‘modern’ corporate settlement where individuality is not discouraged therefore giving us some creative freedoms in designing the architecture. In any case, this is where I am at with the artwork. While Jeremy continues to iron out parts of the story.