Soul Calibur IV - Heishiro (Soul Calibur machinima) - Mitsurugi Taki

Soul Calibur IV - Heishiro

ソウルキャリバーIV - ヘイシロウ

御剣平四郎 （ミツルギ ヘイシロウ） - 多喜（タキ）

Cast: Mitsurugi, Taki, and other custom characters (see ending credits).

After vanquishing the threat that was Soul Edge & Soul Calibur, Mitsurugi is taking his long journey back home to Japan. Along the way, he helps a mercenary army defeat an Asura establishment in China. Always searching for the ultimate challenge, he declares his victory after the long battle on a terrrace outside a fortress standing on the foothills of the Hall of the Warrior Gods.

Meanwhile, in Japan, Taki is on the hunt for a new threat after vanquishing the demons that possessed her former master and leader of her former Fu-Ma Clan. As a nukenin or a "runaway ninja", she calls upon her former clan members who also left, to help her find this new demonic threat. Her first clues lead her to an old harbor of shipwrecks where she finds a band of samurai warriors searching about. She discovers them to be part of the Demon Clan, a clandestine group aiming to resurrect the Nightmare sword. Little does she know, her long old adversary is about to arrive back home. But she's ready once again to meddle in his path cutting short his obsessive aim of perfection.

Director's Notes
What can I say... after a short hiatus, this is pretty much the "BEST" work to date I've done so far. (But I'll probably say that again after I work on the next film too.) In a nutshell, this went from concept to finished product in nearly a year. I pretty much scribbled the story last summer (2008) and wanted to work on this project months ago but the thought of doing a Star Wars film (my last major project) was simply irresistable. So this project went on hold for some time. After completing the Star Wars film (and reworking the Algol/Ivy video), I ran into some workflow issues mostly related to waiting for software updates (editing software). There was of course time constraints as well since I was busy with other things that were going on in my personal life and work. So finally after getting everything squared away, I finally had some dedicated time and resources to finish this project.

The actual work took about 2 months. Once the scene acquisition and choreography for composition was completed, the real gritty work in post production effects took a few more weeks to complete. There were a few scenes that required multiple characters in the same shot. This was accomplished using keyframing, rotoscoping, matting and compositing various video layers to achieve this feat. Sound editing and dialogue was the last part of work in the project. It was decided that dialogue would be in Japanese as the English dubbing would not suffice given the setting and story that was to be told. So this would also be my first work to do some kind of subtitling for spoken dialogue.

As a sidenote, my Japanese language skills are basic, so I do apologize in advance for any errors I may have made translating to the English equivalent. I do welcome any corrections and would be happy to work with someone who is proficient in both Japanese-English. Also if another language translation is desired, I'll be happy to work with other native bilingual speakers as well.

Anyhow, enjoy the film. Also if you like this check out the next episode to this film in the video response link or go here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLLHunBlm88

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NOTE: PLEASE TURN CAPTIONING "ON" by TOGGLING the "CC" button "ON". It's located on the bottom right corner of the video by the arrow menu.

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[Mamoru0Hasukage]

Hey sky toast! Plan on making a video with SC5?

[skytoast1]

@Mamoru0Hasukage Absolutely if possible. Hopefully the in-game camera stays intact and/or hoping for better controls and replay. BUT... we're not done with SCIV just yet. I know a lot of you have been waiting, in the process of moving so I cant finish right now. Soon as I settle in my priority will be to complete SCIV machinima project.

[Mamoru0Hasukage]

Well thats cool that you got something in the works, I look forward to it. My suggestion is for 5 (if the cc is alot better and fix what I hope) ever thought of making one based on your own character? Perhaps they have a beef with a sc character? Perhaps they are simply in search of one of the blades? Just a thought, i most certainly am in the process of trying such a thing.

[skytoast1]

@Mamoru0Hasukage I've thought about that as others have suggested that as well. But right now I want to concentrate on the main characters first as each episode will focus on their specific plotline and/or background. I usually mix my own characters in there as sub characters. The closest thing to an original series I've done would be the silent X-mas episode revolving around Santa Klaus & Rudolfo kicking shit out of the original character cast.. lol Maybe we'll see a final episode this xmas

[TSUNAMIxxTIGERxxFANG]

skytoast1, your work is AMAZING!!! thanks for all the tips for my next SCIV video, but if u would like to see some real-life apple slicing action... check out my NEW youtube video: "KATANA APPLE CUT"!!!

[ryder148]

WELL DAMN

That was fucking amazing dude

[TVJethro]

do a amy machinima

[BrutalMoonDragon]

Rofl!!!! Setsuka

[ramidabi101]

@Wylahk Machinima

[Mamoru0Hasukage]

Ok, so you have xD. Well keep up the good work.