[Movie] You and I

Overman at zarathustra studios just released another very nice GTA4 movie:

You and I

"Sometimes fate conspires to keep two lovers apart. And sometimes stupidity saves fate the trouble."

Best in Class 2 Winners Announced

Rockstar finally published the winners of their second machinima contest, this time movies up to 3 minutes lenght were submitted:

Best in Class 2 Winners

Rockstar Games has posted 6 new developer videos to Social Club TV:

New video creations from Rockstar Games

Unfortunately nothing in there that really impressed me so far. Is this because of some limitations of the editor tool? Maybe, but I just don't want to believe that right now. Maybe there are some gems hidden in the 6000 movies submitted so far which got over 13 Mio views in total. Let me know if you have found one, I'll be more than happy to watch it myself an feature it here.

Best in Class 1 Winners Announced

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

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 looking for a style that they hadn’t tried at before:
Burgeur Shotte by LitFuse Films

Installing the beast

It took me over 2 hours to get everything done. Wasn't it GTA4 I would have stopped the process and bought another game.

Hint: Download and read the Movie Editor and have a read through it while installing

My firewall send me never ending notices to which sites that game want's to getconnected during installation (didn't allow most of them to get through) but I'm still puzzling what those connects are for and what data they want to send.
In addition you need to create 2 accounts and the additional software and the recent updates for
a) Game for Windows-Live (for multiplayer gaming)
b) A Social Club account to publish and share your movies made with GTA4

And I just noticed GTA4 PC uses SecuROM as well. Search the Web for what SecuROM can cause.

After finally installing everything. I just got a simple error:
GTA4: FATAL ERROR RMN40

Browing the web relvealed:
RMN40- Windows XP: Need to have Service Pack 3 or higher to proceed.

Ok I didn't RTFM before, but I've really not planned to update to SP3.
Fears are high other (older) software might not work.

Ok, made a backup disk and then installed SP3.

After that I finally got it to work. Now I have to start playing the game to get the phone (you need that to get access to the movie editor) and get access to all areas of the game. Great to have some experience by playing the game on my Xbox before.

About this blog

GTA4 for PC is out now and opens this new world for Machinima Filmmaking. Yes, this version comes with a Movie Editor that helps you making your own movie with it.
See Ricky's post for what this could start:
The Great GTA IV Machinima Flood 0f 2009

I decided to start up this blog to write about a bit about GTA4 and Machinima filmmaking. And to get into blogging a bit as well.

Stay tuned.

P.S. If you have found out something intersting about GTA4 filmmaking, please let me know. I'll be more than happy to add it here.

P.P.S As you see I've just used one of the standard design. I'm not good at design at all. It would great to give this blog a nicer GTA style look maybe. If you like to help, please let me know.