Hello - Lets make Elite Machinima!

DCAL

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Hello Everyone,
I backed during the Elite Dangerous Kickstarter and have been lurking on the forum waiting to get a little closer to Beta, which I will be participating in. I am very happy with how Elite is shaping up so far and look forward to joining all of you soon.

What I am looking forward to the most, other than playing of course, is continuing my favorite hobby using Elite Dangerous. I like to make Machinima or Fan Films using PC games. To that end I really hope that ED will have a replay, recorder, camera system with multiple angles, etc. that can be used to create stunning cinematics.

Some of the videos will require voice acting and I am hoping that a few of you would fill voice acting roles when the time comes. I can also help with other ED players videos as well.

Here is some of my work, one of the videos you may already be familiar with from the KS campaign:

Elite Dangerous Promo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DKJLgA4mwU

Surviving the Storm - a War Thunder Fan Film
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0XiQ9p0mUM

WarHorse - A War Thunder Fan Film(just released)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTZriuSs1A8

Collision of Empires - A Planetside 2 cinematic
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KgsT678zKM

This is going to be great fun! Has there been any talk of the above mentioned tools or camera options so far? I have not seen anything yet.

Thank You,
DCAL
 
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Neon Raven

Neon Raven
Good stuff! welcome to the forums. :)

We are quite limited at the moment in terms of camera options but machinima is certainly not impossible!

We will have some new environments to play with soon too, let me know if you need a hand with anything.
 

Jack Booted Thug

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Allen Stroud said:
Welcome DCAL,

Would be nice to see original music on some of these. We have a huge amount of Elite and Frontier Inspired music collected on the Soundcloud group. I'm sure artists there would be happy to share their works with filmmakers.

https://soundcloud.com/groups/frontier-and-elite-inspired-music
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How do you contact the authors on that site so I can find out purchasing and licensing restrictions. I see links to their Twitter accounts but not an email or message link.

I'd like to use Conrad's "Thargoid Attack" in a video.
 

Allen Stroud

Allen Stroud
Jack Booted Thug said:
How do you contact the authors on that site so I can find out purchasing and licensing restrictions. I see links to their Twitter accounts but not an email or message link.
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Everyone has a messaging account on Soundcloud. I think you need to register an account first.

Either that, or you can comment on the track and get in touch with him.
 

DCAL

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Thanks for the warm welcome everyone:)

@ Allen Stroud, thanks for the Soundcloud link. I have found some great music on Soundcloud and did not know there was some Elite material there.

@ fourty6to3, nice video, looking forward to more.

I look forward to flying with you all and seeing amazing cinematics and fan films!
 

NeoRacer

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Im affraid your in the wrong place, apparently lots of people here dont want ANY 3p cameras or cinematic cams of any kind and will probably get their way, so unless you hack the game its gonna be quite hard if not impossible. Very sad I know we waited over 10 years and people wanna go back to the days of the spectrum 48k.


DCAL said:
Hello Everyone,
I backed during the Elite Dangerous Kickstarter and have been lurking on the forum waiting to get a little closer to Beta, which I will be participating in. I am very happy with how Elite is shaping up so far and look forward to joining all of you soon.

What I am looking forward to the most, other than playing of course, is continuing my favorite hobby using Elite Dangerous. I like to make Machinima or Fan Films using PC games. To that end I really hope that ED will have a replay, recorder, camera system with multiple angles, etc. that can be used to create stunning cinematics.

Some of the videos will require voice acting and I am hoping that a few of you would fill voice acting roles when the time comes. I can also help with other ED players videos as well.

Here is some of my work, one of the videos you may already be familiar with from the KS campaign:

Elite Dangerous Promo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DKJLgA4mwU

Surviving the Storm - a War Thunder Fan Film
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0XiQ9p0mUM

WarHorse - A War Thunder Fan Film(just released)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTZriuSs1A8

Collision of Empires - A Planetside 2 cinematic
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KgsT678zKM

This is going to be great fun! Has there been any talk of the above mentioned tools or camera options so far? I have not seen anything yet.

Thank You,
DCAL
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flylow

flylow
A Normal Day in Space

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I just found this thread about Machinima and it is interesting because I just published one article about creating videos and narratives in Elite, using different programs, and also mentionned Machinima. If someone is interested in checking the article, the link to the video I've created is also there:

http://provideocoalition.com/jantunes/story/being-a-videographer-in-virtual-worlds
 
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Jack Booted Thug

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NeoRacer said:
Im affraid your in the wrong place, apparently lots of people here dont want ANY 3p cameras or cinematic cams of any kind and will probably get their way, so unless you hack the game its gonna be quite hard if not impossible. Very sad I know we waited over 10 years and people wanna go back to the days of the spectrum 48k.
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Why not think outside the box and therefore think of solutions which compliment Frontier's design decision as opposed to making a simplistic insult which negates it?

I would like to see a photo-journalistic role introduced into the game where a specialist ship could be outfitted with cameras whose data could be extracted back at the Space Port and therefore edited outside the game. I think such an idea would be a "first" in gaming and would not infringe in any way upon the "immersive experience" that Frontier is focused upon achieving.

A specialist role such as this could interface with their recordings from within the cockpit via a viewscreen which would make it possible for them to frame their shots. For example a forward mounted camera on the nose of the ship could be viewed from within the ship on a cockpit display screen.

A role such as this would be fantastic and I can just imagine the immersive feeling of flying around as I film and take pictures.
 
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