Team Fortress 2 Video!

Posted on June 14, 2011 by Martin

Another thing that happened while I was gone was that Team Fortress 2 got video capturing, editing, and rendering tools, and me and my buddy Dave used them to become YouTube sensations!

Well, the first part happened, anyway.  The second part almost happened, but alas, not many people watched our video.  I’ve taken the liberty of including it at the head of this post, if you’re interested in watching a Pyro and Medic take on a handful of bad guys.  Spoiler alert: lots of people get burned.

I used a combination of Team Fortress 2′s built-in tools, Adobe Photoshop, and Adobe Premiere to create the video. Oh, and a little help from a tool called GCFScape.

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Minecraft Renders

Posted on June 12, 2011 by Martin

One of the things I’ve been doing in the time since my last major blog post was dabbling with rendering some of my Minecraft exploits.

One of my biggest projects in the game (before I started “cheating” with INVedit and MCEdit) was Skull Island. Across a wide expanse of water from my original spawn and home base, I found an island with a large mountain near the water. It could be seen faintly from the water’s edge near my spawn, and I thought it’d be a cool project to carve a large skull into the cliff face. After a few weeks of work (not always consistent play, but it did take a awhile), I was finished. It wasn’t the best thing I’d ever seen made in Minecraft, but I liked the result, was proud of my work, and have decided to post the results here, for the curious.

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Impending Update!

Posted on June 7, 2011 by Martin

Just a small update here. Wanted to let everyone who might not have known that I’m not dead, and haven’t *entirely* forgotten about this blog yet, hehe.

It’s been a while since I’ve updated the blog software though, so I’m going to do that, and will probably revert back to a default theme for the time being to make sure there aren’t any odd incompatibilities between what’s up now and the newer version of WordPress. I was a bit sick of the old look anyway.

Thanks for bearing with me here, if you’ve been checking in. Will be back later on with a more detailed report on what the hell I’ve been up to!

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