When Professionals Get Their Hands On Valve’s Film-Maker, Good Things Happen

14 responses to “When Professionals Get Their Hands On Valve’s Film-Maker, Good Things Happen”

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   Jodski

   July 26, 2012 at 9:52 pm

   Red wins!

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   nick

   July 26, 2012 at 10:01 pm

   The animations are the worst thing about this. It LOOKS like they used a kinect for motion capture. It’s stiff and floaty. It sticks out like hell from the in-game animations. The cinematography is what redeems it, and is what he’s a professional of. But the animation isn’t much better than what the fans have produced. But a great short overall.

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   Puck

   July 26, 2012 at 10:04 pm

   Awesome work overall, but the animation itself was really terribad, it looks like it was captured with a pair of Kinects!

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   Banefire

   July 26, 2012 at 11:10 pm

   Ive enjoyed the amateur films made much better than this. Sorry but it was a pretty bad film.

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   EmbraceThePing

   July 26, 2012 at 11:22 pm

   Using Kinects for motion capture? Now THERE’S ya problem!
   What nick/Puck/Bane said.

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6. 

   Roninski

   July 27, 2012 at 1:08 am

   Fantastic cinematography, character animation needs a LOT of work. Really like it =D

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   DeeDee

   July 27, 2012 at 1:25 am

   I actually liked the animations. I thought it suited the art style of TF2 quite well.

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   BigBoss

   July 27, 2012 at 7:42 am

   God damn trolls. nice video, using the kinects to do the animations was a good touch.

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   Whiplash

   July 27, 2012 at 8:22 am

   I swear that music is from a Cheerios ad…

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10. 

    yrrnn

    July 27, 2012 at 9:54 am

    Yeah, I don’t think you can really call a cinematic designer an animator. They’re two completely different roles.

    If you want to see what happens when professional animators use the Source Film-maker, just watch the Meet the Team videos again.

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11. 

    Sean

    July 27, 2012 at 11:14 am

    I thought the animation was much better than the keyframed stuff a lot of people are doing it looks much more natural and has a many subtleties amateurs miss.

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12. 

    Jk

    July 27, 2012 at 11:56 am

    I thought it was interesting that they used Kinects. Sure the animation itself isn’t amazing, but it was worth watching it just to see how it worked.

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13. 

    Dudeface

    July 27, 2012 at 2:21 pm

    Great video, but the animation was the weakest part. Not saying it was bad, just not at the same level as the rest of video.
    Using the Kinects produced a good result but hand it over to a proper animator and they’d be able to make it shine.

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14. 

    Cats

    July 29, 2012 at 1:26 am

    Most impressive

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