Cylindric Router (Fright Machine) Animation/Music Video

Intel/Atari's Make Something Unreal Contest
Best Matinee
3rd Place

(For best viewing, play LOUD, and in fullscreen)

This is a music video to my song "Fright Machine" along the same animation lines as Animusic (except far less professional x.x).

Idea: A lone machine in a damp basement hisses and sparks to keep a dark energy at bay... and almost fails D: spooky!

This video was a labor of love. It took me about 7-9 months altogether to make it, but that's mostly because there were times where I would go weeks (if not months) without going back to touch it and work on it, mostly cause I had no reason to make this other than my own personal satisfaction and ability to say "Holy shit look what I dId!"

The animation was done in UnrealED 3 (same software used to make Unreal Tournament 3 for the un-initiated). The entire video is made up of 5 primary matinee sequences (so I could work on each part of the video one at a time), each primary sequence being between 1 and 1 & 1/2 minutes long. The meshes were premade.(came with the program when I bought UT3), but the room, animations and overall design of the video was programmed entirely by myself (including the spark and smoke emitters, which I programmed myself but used premade particle skins).

I don't know the exact count but I'm sure there is well over 100 individual matinee sequences. Matinee sequences in UnrealED are used to control anything that moves or changes within the level, which goes from the camera and cinematic elements of the video (or level) to all the animated instruments to the emitters and lights turning on and off. Programming most of time-based instruments (drums, lights, sparks) was fairly easy given that the program's timeline function worked straight down to the millisecond and I just had to match up the timing to the actual timing of the music itself (if drums come in at 33.564 seconds, I start the drum animation at 33.564 seconds, give or take however much time it takes them to actually hit).

I worked really hard on this and I didn't receive any outside help save for a lot... A LOT of stuff I had to research for myself (how to turn emitters on/off, how to make lights dynamic and cast moving shadows, etc). Special thanks to 3DBuzz's UED3 tutorial videos which helped me a lot in learning the editor itself and the matinee programming.

Due to recording and editing issues, there are still parts where instruments are out of time by a frame or two, mostly due to the fact that when I exported it out of Adobe Premier, it would un-synchronize with the preview version and the time line. I attempted to edit some of the parts, but I gave up since I could never get a solid result.

To download the song, visit http://www.soundclick.com/bands/default.cfm?bandID=95378&content=music (downloads require a free account, streaming does not).

That's cool, Some video about Farting in public can get 10 million views but mine can't top 1000 in half a year. BRB killing myself.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• RCT
• Fright
• Machine
• Music
• Video
• Techno
• Trance
• Dance
• Animusic
• make
• something
• unreal
• contest

[humor4fun]

hey man, if you put together like 30+ minutes of videos like this, and stitch them onto a DVD (with a seamless song-to-song transition would be even better) that would TOTALLY be worth paying for. Pair HD graphics with super Hi-quality audio on DVD and you've got a winner for sure

[RCTFORME]

@humor4fun Yeah, but the problem is I don't have the high-end equipment or programming to put something like that together. Obviously I was inspired by Animusic to make this video, but they have both high-end equipment and a whole team working on it. I actually do have a 2nd video in the works but I can only work on it off-and-on due to time constraints and such.

[Julibugs357]

Hey, where can I go to buy this video?

Its far to good to be seen for free; I would say this would be worth at least 10 pounds on its own.

Thats an idea, make a whole DVD of your epic animated music things.

I would definately buy it. ^_^ pweeeese?

[RCTFORME]

@Julibugs357 I'm working on my 2nd music video right now, though I've hit a major snag due to offline life issues and my lack of ability to get to my computer :p I do hope to complete at least this and one more music video at some point, though I don't know if I'll ever be good enough to make them worth selling. We'll see, though.

[SlippstersVideos]

Wow. amazing. 5 stars bud! mindblowing performance!

[Rhykker]

Brilliant! I left you an in-depth critique on the Epic forums.

[Julibugs357]

@RCTFORME Who needs high end when you have skill?

I mean, look at Gok, he can turn second hand clothes and turn them into cat walk meterial.

And all for £50! (well, in the first series he did.)

If he can do that, then you can do this with only your imagination and a RW DVD.

...And the programme you use to make this with of course. ^_^

[Julibugs357]

Y'know, it's been two years now and this vid hasn't even topped 5K yet, whats going on?

This is madness! No, this more more then madness. This... Is...

SPARTAAAAAAAAA!

[Julibugs357]

Hmm, also, in some stories i've read, the ones where good magicians or people with magical powers battle evil spirits, demons or monsters, sometimes the music is the thing that keeps those nasties at bay.

and i wouldn't be the least bit surprised if that was the case with this bit of tuneage.

^_^ XD

[Julibugs357]

Why the heck are there less views or likes or anything then this video deserves?

This is flipping fantastic!!!

The bass goes through your whole body the tunage is just heavenly and the "instruments" fit perfectly.

[Derekmanster]

panoramic views were very cool....good job

[Xkonoko]

This is UnrealEd 4.0 (Unreal Tournament 3 / UEngine 3)

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UnrealEd 3.0 runs with UEngine 2.0 / 2.5 (UT2003 / 2004)