Big news buzzing around the computer gaming community on the Internet right now is related to Half-Life, one of the most well-known and critically acclaimed computer (or video) games ever made.
When this video went up, it sparked buzz immediately across game websites, blogs, and gaming news outlets across the web. Why? Well, it’s not because the graphics are outstanding by today’s standards. Half-Life was as game created in 1998. What this independent animator did, was take everything in the game, and polish it up.
As the animator, James Benson, describes in his video, he took 99% of what the game gave him in terms of materials and graphic assets, and he worked with it to create a really damn epic movie-like trailer for a game that just about anyone who plays computer games will know about.
As you’d think. It went big quickly. And when I went to his channel, I realized that this guy had done something else pretty spectacular.
This post from a while back introduced you to my favourite game in the style of a dance-off with a bunch of crazy lookin’ characters. Same guy. Makes sense really. But all those dancing dudes? They all came together.
The common consensus is that James Benson should be hired by Valve Software already (the game developer who created both the Half-Life series and Team Fortress 2). If anybody’s interested, he animates using the program 3DS Max, and yes, it is a program for the pros. I jelly.
Half-Life 3, get this guy on board. 2022!
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