Saturday, January 24, 2009

Best in Class 1 Winners Announced

Rockstar finally published the winners of their first machinima contest:
Best in Class 1 Winners

Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Movies

First the winners of the Journalist Video Editor event at SocialClubTV
Gold medal: "The Bellix Reloaded."
Silver medal: "My Weapon"

Having fun when playing the game is always good start for a Machinima movie:
Grand Theft Auto : Music to the Madness by chaosPerfection
What the Fork? by Zarathustra Studios

And finally l
ooking for a style that they hadn’t tried at before:
Burgeur Shotte by LitFuse Films

Friday, January 16, 2009

Best in class 2 contest

Rockstar Games is running another film contest on SocialClub TV. This time your video (up to three minutes in length) needs to be tagged “Best-In–Class-2-Contest”. Deadline is January 19, 2009. The winner will receive an Nvidia GeForce 9800 GTX + graphics card. Good luck!!

Saturday, January 10, 2009

More GTA4 Modding

Overman has put together an extensive list of links of GTA4 mods:
Overman’s links to mod stuff

Sunday, January 4, 2009

Modding GTA4

GTA4 PC is just out a month but we already see some great modding tools published. Not everything is perfect and useful for filmmaking but there is some great stuff out.
The most useful for filmmaking might be tools to view/edit textures and models like:

SparkIV an IMG/RPF Archive Viewer/Editor for GTA:IV

OpenIV a multi-purpose editor for GTA 4

Of course there are a lot more things that can be modded like weapons, cars, etc.
Most of those tools need Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 installed.
More infos on modding GTA4 and tools can be found at:
gtaforums GTA4 mod tool thread
gta4 category at gtamodding.com

And don't forget modders first rule: Always backup your original files.
Happy modding.

Friday, January 2, 2009

Happy New Year + contests

First I would like to wish everyone a very Happy New Year. I think 2009 is going to be an amazing year for GTA4 and Machinima. I can't wait to see what movies and talents will show up this year.

Right now we have already around 3000 movies on SocialClubTV getting 3 Million views so far. That means and avarage of 100 new movies released with an average view of 1000. Not to count all the movies published on other platforms. For the end of this year we might hit 100.000 movies and over 1 Billion views. And maybe even one or more movies that get over 1 Mio views.
Although the winners of the first movies contest on SocialClubTV have not been selected yet, they announced to run another contest soon.

The German computer magazine GameStar is running a GTA4 video contest right now. Unfortuntaley you'll have to send in a CD/DVD and no music allowed. Deadline is January 8th.
No price money, but your film will be distributed with the magazine.