Dark Side - Halo 3 Machinima Short

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In your last moments...everything is suppose to slow down.
Now a man gets to see what killed him, in this alternate strange reality.

After the good comments about The Light of the Fading Sun - A Halo 3 Short: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUzaPji2cdg
I decided to try to do something similar but different, by creating a one man story but having no words at all and letting the actions and mixed music tracks help move the narrative along.

Originally this was going to be a lot longer but after re-thinking ideas I decided to shorten it, this is why the opening sequence is so long, and then everything else happens so quickly, rather a dramatic contrast.

Also without explaining anything in the video to the audience it lets everyone take away their own conclusion to the video.

Captured with: BlackMagic Intensity Pro
Edited in: Sony Vegas Adobe After Effects
3D in: 3DS MAX

All music used is used in a non-profit manner and follows the terms of use from www.freeplaymusic.com where the music was downloaded from. See http://freeplaymusic.com/licensing/te... for any other information regarding the music and using it (see section 5).

(Week of Mon 29th Dec 08 - Sun 4th Jan 09)
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[Se7enMechProductions]

This has the most production I've seen so far 5/5! Keep up the good work boys. If your script writing is half as good as your animation and compositing were looking at a machinima at the likes of witch we've never seen lol.. south park qoute.. But seriously, good luck and keep it EPIC!!!! P.S check out my page...and watch 360 baby the video quality on there is shit but I thought it was kinda funny. i threw it togeather in like 2 hrs.

[FireDragon04]

Thanks, i do everything myself so its nice to hear people like it.

[BoNzI1995]

its pretty amazin.

how did u get a pelican on sand trap? bastards !

[FireDragon04]

They're not really there, i added them in with CGI animation.

[kaz0lace]

when you show the text you shouldn't stop the camera like that, you should have made the positioning keep going slowly but other than that nice try, I'd make a long machinima myself but I cant really think of a story

[dragoonhydra132]

I have a video with 40,000 views and 4 1/2 stars.

This video has 15,000 views with 4 1/2 stars.

My video does not deserve NEARLY as much credit as this one deserves. This video was just... brilliant. The fact that you let US come up with the back story is genius. The editing was awesome, the quality was impressive, and the song choice was spot-on.

Very creative video. 5/5* and more if possible.

[warriorbug35]

Dude if u stole mine I be mad at u u kinda did but eh not ur flat it's my dman friends they give me theseideas

[BuBBleGe0]

Even after 2 years, this still beats most machinimas. If I could, I would have this on the front page on youtube every day so the world can see this.

[Fireice1337]

Hey, amazing film. Wish I could do those text effects. Could anyone pm a link to those "stationary text"? Also, can anyone tell me the music in the film, perferably the "sad" music. Love this video. I've been watching it still for about 2 years now. Simply amazing!

[soniciscool143]

Can u use autodesk 3ds max to animate the halo 3 characters arms and legs

[awsomedudaz]

is was supose 2 be a movie

[SpectreGuy1997]

dude make this into a series.

[FinitumProductions]

Very interesting in regards to your editing style. Very good but I think no dialog killed it.

[BionicSstryderr]

people need to view this more

[gizzle434]

song???

[kaz0lace]

@oromaaka3 Yeah but nooblaster asked me if I had mw2