Archive for October, 2008

Little Big Planet!

Posted by treadster On October 26, 2008 ADD COMMENTS

Bought it at my local game store (Game Force) before the recall’s got in. So far we are on the 3rd intro level and I have NEVER seen my kids have so much fun playing a video game. I wish I had some video, it is really non stop laughter around here tonight. Most fun  [ Read More ]

digitalphil's "spotlight" officially released!

Posted by treadster On October 24, 2008 ADD COMMENTS

I’m excited to announce the release of “spotlight”, a machinima podcast! Check it out and download a copy directly from the tekbreeze.com community page. We encourage you to leave your comments and let us know if we can be doing something better! We’ll have additional information available on tekbreeze soon regarding the release schedule of  [ Read More ]

Make Something Unreal Contest submission complete!

Posted by treadster On October 17, 2008 1 COMMENT

Well after a fair amount of re-work from just a couple days ago, I am submitting treadster media’s MSUC entry “DoubleKill”. Sadly there are no other machinima entry’s that I can see on their page. Hope I am wrong about that.

AAA_Final_2_b_useTHisOne2.avi

Posted by treadster On October 16, 2008 ADD COMMENTS

In going through some of my folders tonight needing to clean up many 10′s of gigabytes taken up by test renders, progress vids and various other folder fodder. I found some pretty interesting naming conventions I had used for the file names. That made me think about what some best practice naming conventions are for  [ Read More ]

Submitted!

Posted by treadster On October 14, 2008 4 COMMENTS

Well DoubleKill is now officially submitted to the MachinExpo. Thanks everyone involved for your hard work. We are all very happy with it and that is about all we can control. Big thanks to Ingrid, Ricky, Phil, and Damien for putting on the Expo!

It is an inevitibility

Posted by treadster On October 13, 2008 1 COMMENT

When does perfection become the enemy of good?

Posted by treadster On October 4, 2008 3 COMMENTS

My dad Peter Tyner, the writer for our Double Kill machinima series has said these words in reference to the making of the film. Making sure every model is lit perfectly, animation is timed right, not too much dialog but not too little, etc…all takes a tremendous amount of time, skill, and effort from the  [ Read More ]