It sure has been a busy couple of days. With the merge over to Machinima.com and then our recent release of the first teaser trailer for Chapter II, I am really tired. Well, its a good thing I actually haven't filmed anything the last couple days. :)

I have started writing a bit of Chapter III which I think will be my favorite chapter so far, both visually and story wise. The events in it will lead our main character to the main focus of the story: The Grey People.

So, not much of a update as far as progress. But I encourage you all to check out the new trailer. Its uploaded to machinima.com's youtube page or you can watch it at tmunderground.com.

Also, I almost forgot, I have updated the "About this Film" section on the official The Grey People website. It features in-depth backgrounds into the lives of the main characters introduced so far. Check it out!

Have a great weekend!

seems to be working ok for me. Thanks though!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEy6Z3Khe... is the full link.

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THE GREY PEOPLE - CHAPTER II TEASER TRAILER IS NOW ON TMU!!!

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to mushroommunk:

I just found Max tutorials and how to use it, and I taught myself. I'm registered for classes now so I can take my skills to the next level. But yeah what I did was called reverse engineering. I would find a free Max scene from somewhere online, download it, and take it apart and learn what the author did in order to create the final product.

Well, we have begun principle photography today. The first scene we have completed is the second scene in the second Chapter. In this scene, we discover what happened to Nick Stratum after the devastating events which happen at the end of Chapter I.

As before, we are continuing with the Cg backgrounds and environments however for this Chapter, we will be using it for the entire length - which we will push for each episode. It wasn't too hard to complete for this particular scene, just shot it in front of a virtual greenscreen in the game, composited it together in Vegas Pro and whala!

On another note, we have learned that Sisch, who is voicing Julia Camp in this chapter has come down with a nasty bug. We hope she is doing ok and we wish her to get well soon. Get some rest Sisch. We do not believe that this will hinder the release.

I hope you enjoy the first batch of screenshots from Chapter II.

to muchroommunk:

Hey there! To be honest, I don't know a lot about blender. I only use it to export sets from The Movies game into object files so I can import them into 3D's Max 2009 for customization. My recommendation would be for you to see if you can find some tutorials on how to use blender, as thats my biggest problem with it...its user interface.

Good Luck and let me know if there is anything I can do to help.

Well, here we are with our third production update. Today, thanks to Ubernewbie (of The Movies Underground Community), I have acquired the set mesh of the beach from The Movies game. I exported it from Blender and brought it into 3Ds Max and have been working on it all day. I first removed all of the old palm trees and brush as I wanted to use the ones supplied easily from max. I then spent a lot of time trying to smooth as many of the meshes as I possibly could and re-textured here and there. I also removed the confines of the water and expanded it so if I wanted to show the camera looking onto the ocean horizon, it would be believable.

This set is going to be used for the first scene of the film, it also happens to introduce the character Julia Camp, being played by Sisch.

Hope you enjoy!