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

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

Treadster Media, makers of cool, fun, high quality Unreal Engine machinima. Created by Dave Tyner.

Heed the warning!

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When you open up Disk Manger (right click my computer > manage) and next to your 1TB drive (that incidentally houses all of your FRAPS clips and finished projects) there is a “AT RISK” icon and text.  Heed it! Else you will find yourself running chkdsk to try and recover whats left.  Which will fail [...]

Anatomy of a 3D fight scene

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After completing Jess for the MSUC, I was turned on to what is probably some of the best martial arts I have seen in a movie so far. The movie is called Dragon Tiger Gate. I loved it so much I bought the blu-ray on Amazon (2 weeks ago and still waiting btw [...]

DoubleKill Episode 1 in HD

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I have re-rendered our original machinima series machinima: DoubleKill “Chance of Rain” Check out the HD version HERE

Unreal Engine FaceFX tutorial part 3

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Part 3 of our Unreal Engine FaceFX tutorial.

Unreal Engine FaceFX tutorial part 2

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Part 2 of my FaceFX series

Treadsters new look

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I have updated the look of our site. It certainly looks better, hopefully things are a bit easier to find now. Having some problems with the redirect but as soon as that’s done the blog will replace the entire site.

Unreal Engine FaceFX tutorial part 1

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A comprehensive start to finish tutorial. I will do another one with the existing meshes either soon or a long time from now. *Video was too long, re-uploading now…

Catch the Train – GTA IV machinima

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really great work by crazeefool for you action junkies. I thought the driving scenes drug on a bit but hey…those things are fun to shoot! Some really nice shots of the motorcycle ride as well. Nice Job!
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More Unreal ..ugh..renders?

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Sorry, this was a 3D render…but cool none the less!  This one by Jan3d

Hilarious Pepsi Advert

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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!





Gears of War – 3D

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