A Few Good G-Men

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by R.Glass

Hey gang, this is my first crack at making movies with the HL2 engine. I originally thought this would be a quick "two-weeks" maximum project ("hey, the phoneme editor practically does all the work for you!"), but turned into a 2 month learning experience. I probably would have hesistated had I known what I was in for, but thought this would be a good test project (and didn't you always want to see the G-Man get grilled?).

I see this primarily as a portfolio piece (SEATTLE AREA VIDEOGAME DEVS, I NEED A JOB), but hopefully you'll get some entertainment value out of it (or at least rent the movie). I feel that this is about 75% of what I wanted to accomplish (I may write up a post-mortem after I get back from vacation). The animations are spotty in some areas and I need to make some of the expressions more fluid, but overall I think it's a pretty decent attempt (I need to work a little more on Angry Tom).

All of the camera cuts were done in the game (at least 15 point_viewcontrol entities). When you launched the level it went right into the movie and didn't stop until the end credits. I used Cannonfodder's tools to create the animations (with 3DS Max). There were a few glitches along the way (I'll go into detail later... you may notice that there isn't hand animation in some shots). I plan on doing at least one more cut of this movie with some of the missing details put in (for one, a Marine uniform for the G-Man).

Channel: Entertainment
Uploaded: September 24, 2007 at 3:10 pm
Author: machinima

Length: 00:05:50
Rating: 4.90
Views: 39053

Tags: machinima animation game movies half-life 2 garry's mod comedy funny few good men

Video Comments:
darksoul929 (January 6, 2009 at 2:10 pm)
absolutely the best half life 2 movie
ZeroD3lta (January 5, 2009 at 2:29 pm)
How do you get the characters move like that? What program was used? Garry's mod?
darksoul929 (January 6, 2009 at 2:09 pm)
how he moved them i dont know, but there a program u can download to facepose them however its very difficult
WhiteShield0101 (January 5, 2009 at 1:15 pm)
i think so, a few good men. never saw the movie so i'm gonna assume it is
PuzzleboxFilms (January 4, 2009 at 4:28 pm)
holy fuck this is like...HOLY SHIT THIS IS GREAT!
himuraBattosi (January 3, 2009 at 8:23 am)
Awesome lol.
mauistrife (January 2, 2009 at 3:26 pm)
OMFG the fucking lipsync was fucking grat men and the video too,great
jeffamarie (January 2, 2009 at 2:48 pm)
haha 2:34
SimonGuy10 (January 2, 2009 at 3:29 am)
jack nicoleson?
FlipNGenius (January 1, 2009 at 10:55 pm)
Well done!