[Machinima] Silent Hill: Despoiled Heart

[The Gentleman]

"With life going normally and smoothly for him, his only concerns were student loans, bills and getting through the daily grind. When he got an offer he couldn't refuse, he knew not of the truth.

Only the strange and mad ever come here."

A Garrys Mod machinima series created by Hat n' Suit productions, based on the Silent Hill series by Team Silent KCET, Climax, Double Helix and Vatra. An original story, following another unfortunate, wayward soul lost in the fog of this deeply disturbed town.

Written and directed by The Gentleman
Co-Written by Vinctia

Mark - The Gentleman
Jacob - Metal Man
Lucy - JaneTheNurse
Katelyn - MiladyRedeem
??? - ???
Extras - Jill Valentine/MsEoweniel, ???

Series trailer (updated)


Episode Zero (REMAKE COMING SOON)

Episode Zero directors commentary


Episode One preview


Episode One


Episode Two preview


Episode Two preview 2


Episode Two


Episode Three


Episode Four preview


Episode Four


Episode Five (COMING WHENEVER I GET SFM's BUGGY ARSE WORKING/WHEN GMOD BECOMES A GOOD MACHINIMA PROGRAM AGAIN)

[JaneTheNurse]

Sounds interesting. I have a pretty good mic, and I've always wanted to try this sort of thing. What lines would you like to be read in order to try out for this?

[The Gentleman]

If you tell me which part(s) you want to audition for (as you see on the blog) then I'll PM you the lines.

[JaneTheNurse]

Thanks! Hope I can help!

[The Gentleman]

Quick update, I can proudly announce the Episode 1 is at 50% completion. Just got one more scene to record lines for, facepose and film.

[TraceBASS]

May I audition for a part in this too, Gentleman? Could I maybe try for the gentleman (I'm sorry, I couldn't help myself there ) in his early 20's? I'm not quite in my twenties yet, but apparently I have the voice of one. I have Skype as well, if that helps.

[The Gentleman]

Go ahead man! You do know how to audition right? Plus there's a male character that's not up there I haven't written for wich might just suit you. I'll decide once I've heard your audition.

[TraceBASS]

Yeah, I think so. Do I just say random lines, or are you going to PM me some to read out?

[The Gentleman]

I'll PM you some lines later today, but feel free to throw in lines alongside if you want.

[TraceBASS]

Okay, well I just recorded something for this. It should be sent to you pretty soon.

[The_Kumatei]

I really liked the lighting and the camera placement, but I felt that the running animation seemed too mechanical, in that he didnt look like he was putting effort into it, but sliding across the surface. Also, the fog seems to start/stop at nearly the same distance, making it seem more like a gray wall than a gradual fog. If you can edit it, perhaps pulling in the starting distance of it.
Sorry I cant help with Voice Acting, I suck.

[The Gentleman]

Thank you for constructive feedback, very much appreciated. If you're talking about the shot in the church (about the walking thing) I agree, I was still getting used to the HAT addon I use for Garrys Mod (where you manually animate a ragdoll frame-by-frame), I promise animations will be much improved for the final release, plus I'm using almost entirely custom maps from Gmod.org so I didn't make the map, and there's the limitations of the source engine to consider. But as I said, thank you for responding constructively.

[The Gentleman]

Update:

The post on my blog about voice acting has been updated, if you're still planning on sending auditions to me you should read the updated post here: http://agentlemanlyblog.blogspot.com/20 ... oject.html

And thank you for the auditions everyone who's sent them so far and to anyone still wanting to get involved. I'm quite close to finishing the story and am still waiting on auditions from some people (mostly from DA).

[JaneTheNurse]

An idea on how to fix your fog problem based on experience in photoshop.
I don't know anything about Gmod but maybe this will work: Get a cloudy texture, make it the proper grey color, change its opacity to that of fog that would be between your character and the world, then get another texture and put it at about the same opacity. Put that in front of your character so the person is sandwiched between them with the camera on one side. That way you have a pretty stable fog effect. Again, not sure if it will work, since I don't know squat about the program, but you could try it out.

[The Gentleman]

An idea on how to fix your fog problem based on experience in photoshop.
I don't know anything about Gmod but maybe this will work: Get a cloudy texture, make it the proper grey color, change its opacity to that of fog that would be between your character and the world, then get another texture and put it at about the same opacity. Put that in front of your character so the person is sandwiched between them with the camera on one side. That way you have a pretty stable fog effect. Again, not sure if it will work, since I don't know squat about the program, but you could try it out.

Great suggestion, I could do it for maybe certain shots as the only way I can think of doing that with what I have is greenscreen in Sony Vegas. If I did that for long shots with moving characters it'd look like I'd put an animated cardboard cut-out character over a shot, for close up conversation shots possibly. For the afformentioned far out shots I could just have two fog layers moving opposite directions over the shot to try and make these two types of shot consistant (as in it, looking less like the amount of fog is hoping about between shots).

[TraceBASS]

Forgive the obnoxiousness, but how are the auditions going? Any news yet?

[The Gentleman]

I'm going to give all the auditions I've got so far another few listen overs and someone on my blog has expressed interest. Casting's almost done, news within the next two weeks at the latest!

Episode zero (as it is now called) is almost done, VA for the episode is finito and lipsynching is 60% done. Expect episode zero within three weeks max.

[harrymason2356]

It is nearly finished.I hope I'm in but if I'm not thanks for the opportunity.I will be watching this.I'm looking forward to it.

[TraceBASS]

Ditto what harrymason2356 said. Can't wait, mate!

[The Gentleman]

Dialouge for episode 0 lip-synced and choreographed! And most of it's been fillmed and edited, just waiting untill tommorrow to film a few more shots. Depending on how well my poor, crappy processor handles the rendering (it has the irritating tendency to overheat and scuff it) it will be up in the next two to three weeks. I'm close to announcing who's got what role but I still need someone interested in the hot-tempered early 20's woman, the two people (one on DA one who commented on my blog) who expressed interest in the role haven't given me any auditions yet so if anyone's interested who hasn't send auditions yet just let me know on this thread so I know to expect any more auditions.

Once again, a hearty thanks to Jane, Metal Man, Richard and all others who have shown support!

P.S: Did you get my PM Jane?