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3D seems to be the new direction the video game industry is trying to pursue. So far, we have 3D TVs with PS3 supporting 3D game play and the 3DS.

Hawty McBloggy posted a video earlier today a YouTube video that actually lets you see 3D from a regular 2D video in a nice Reach Montage. You cross your eyes to get both images of the video to line up together, and then let your eyes naturally focus on the mixed image. The result: a surprisingly good 3D image. Now I’m just wondering how long it took this guy to record all the right angles, especially with the moving camera parts of the montage.
Remember to watch in HD. It’s easier to get the cross-eyes down with the higher resolution.

Yes, I’m still here. I’ve just been living under a rock while school starts this semester.

So I was watching Inside Gaming today and they always have “the best video ever” at the end of their episodes. In their latest, they have a clip of someone who animated the Scout and Soldier from TF2 to “dance”. The video they used is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TY476OfuCgg. There’s a newer version that adds some value to it. This guy definitely has talent. If you like TF2, I suggest you subscribe like I did.

I have just started writing up character profiles for this machinima, and I’m happy to say that they are coming along nicely. There is one main character with two supporting characters and three other ones in there for story. I’m still building the back story for the main character, but it’s going to be as close to a military situation I can get info on. Time to contact my armed forces friends.

If you play Halo and are interested in helping out, I highly encourage you to register on the forums, where I’ll be making an announcement soon enough on this topic. This is something I’ve wanted to do for some time, and now I’m getting the opportunity to do it. There are enough ideas doing on in my head to write a novel, so there is definitely a good chance this series could last as long as two seasons.

More info to come as I develop the story-line.

It’s that time of year again, which has lead to me not being able to keep up too much here and in the production forums, but homework is starting to settle down and I’ve gotten a good grasp of what my schedule is looking like.  Machinimas should be put into production soon and more frequent blog posts.  Couple of things I wanted to note: I have uploaded some of my favorite clips in HD to youtube, which means, for all my Podtacular people out there, an HD capture service may be in the works for you to get HD videos.  This will probably work in conjunction with Amplified’s HD capture service, but more details to come.  In the mean time, I’m really excited about Halo 3: ODST, which I will post about soon, before it comes out.