Civil Protection: The Tunnel

[UnlicensedPro]

I honestly don't think there needs to be much of a sequel on this. It seemed to have wrapped up nicely if you've ever at least heard of the themes from Lovecraftian fare. Or really most any scary story for that matter. Plus, Mike and Dave are most likely still alive. In every other episode they get badly injured or put an in "unbeatable" situation. This is just another one of those situations for the duo.

[Kotzata]

Damn it, Ross, you're scary!

Than again, Bulgaria is a scary place on it's own.

Note to self : DO NOT enter eerie tunnels if I see one.

About the episode : Well done I must say!120 GB of raw matherial?!No wounder Macihima need so much time to upload it.

This is a truly spooky episode!I expected more laughts but the horror element is something new and exciting in the CP series.The only thing that bugs me now, thought, is that I will have to wait months(hopefully not years) for another CP episode or maybe a sequel(it would be appropriate, I think).

Good job, mate! (:

[Michael Archer]

Ross, I hope the video is a bit less than 120 gig when it's compiled and put on your website.

[J.C.]

Ross, I hope the video is a bit less than 120 gig when it's compiled and put on your website.

 

That's gonna suck up some bandwith

[Geneaux486]

I honestly don't think there needs to be much of a sequel on this. It seemed to have wrapped up nicely if you've ever at least heard of the themes from Lovecraftian fare. Or really most any scary story for that matter. Plus, Mike and Dave are most likely still alive. In every other episode they get badly injured or put an in "unbeatable" situation. This is just another one of those situations for the duo.

 

Exactly. They've been through ordeals just as bad in other videos and they always just sort of... get past it. I like Mike's theory about borrowed time.

[Bjossi]

Ross, I hope the video is a bit less than 120 gig when it's compiled and put on your website.

 

It should be only a few hundred MBs if it is in HD (720p more specifically.).

[Mr. 13]

Did anyone find the scene which Ross had to remake in Hl2 Ep1? I watched it and couldn't locate it. Damn Ross... you're good. *showdown stare*

[Jek Jek Roo]

I really like animations in this Episode

and J.C., your signature is... scary...

[spankme]

Hello from Bulgaria . I see that there is some confusion as to is Dave speaking bulgarian at the end of the episode and I want to clearefy that he is definitely NOT speaking bulgarian. Maybe Ross intended it to be bulgarian, but didn't actually know any words, sooo... who knows . Anyway, good episode, hope to see more soon.

[optic]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WhhSBgd3KI

[J.C.]

I really like animations in this Episode

and J.C., your signature is... scary...

I agree

Edited April 12, 2011 by Guest (see edit history)

[Wimpoman]

Loved it, Ross. Very nice work!

[xxxxxxxxx]

Twas a good episode. It seemed like it would be longer, but if you did that, I think some of the people here would've preformed hari kiri.

[Jay Steinman]

Nice Job, Ross. A genuinly scary episode, and I'm not easily scared. The speeding car bit got me in its sudden-ness, the Diary Man's story was just creepy, and the rotting corpse scare was just right.

The music really helped. Those original compositions were very well done by the musicians. Kudos to them.

Quick question, will there be a sequel? I only ask because the ending (I personally thought) was going to be them getting to the bottom of what it was, leave, and have a typical ending where Mike ends up bleeding on the ground. This ending was similar in the sense of Mike bleeding on the ground (in a way), but Mike and Dave are still stuck there with the Stalker thing and the Diary Man. This seems to be the only episode that you can't watch in non-sequencial order. I'm only imagining a resolution, but I'm not expecting it yet (although, the wait was definetly worth it for the episode, although it would've been more fitting for Halloween, just sayin'), 'cause I know the editing, animation, voice acting, and all that jazz is time consuming and you're a busy guy.

 

Sorry if I rambled. Still, top notch stuff.

[Jay Steinman]

One last thing, this episode blew my mind. I can't wait to see the other stuff if you ever get the time and budget to do them.

[JPController]

Once again I'm reminded why I keep coming here. Great machinima. Keep up the great work!

[Darthvoorhees]

Does anyone know the music track at 11:00 in the video? (Part one for those who saw the youtube version)

I KNOW I've heard that track before in "IGN's 13 Scariest games of All Time" segment, and they say it's from some game called "Black Mirror", but I've looked through tracks (on youtube) and can't find that specific piece.

[dmmaxwell]

Your best work yet, despite the anti-hype attempt. Well done, Ross.

[Fujin]

Best episode ever.

[Ross Scott]

Raicuptra: Keep in mind CP episodes aren't necessarily chronological. The next episode might take place at a different time period.

 

Coraje: My atittude for that music there was that this wasn't just some helpless cheerleader wandering the tunnels, it was Civil Protection. They have body armor, training, guns, etc. If there was some danger down there, they were presumably going in ready for it. I'll expand on this more if a sequel ever gets made.

 

DaftMink: Yeah I feel the same way about Machinima.com's logo marking. I leave one on the downloadable copies but tend to scrap the rest.

 

n3o: No, this was all in the Source SDK.

 

People commenting on crackers: That was a joke I threw in the trailer to give people an excuse to watch it in addition to the video.

 

Lovecraft people: This was loosely inspired by "Pickman's Model." I might elaborate more if I was to make a sequel. Also I was originally going to call it the "Arkham Tunnel", but then a batman game came out and I realized people would never get the reference.

UnlicensedPro: I normally would agree about not needing a sequel, but I left a LOT of unanswered questions. While I normally like to have some, I think I went overboard on this one and wouldn't mind tying some ends up.

 

Mr. 13: The scene I had to remake in Episode 1 was the car shot and the second half of the outdoors sections in general. There were way too many animation glitches in Episode 2 there.

 

Jay Steinmann: It depends on the technology. What I have in mind can't currently be done for a sequel because of limitations of the Source engine. We can only hope that will change at some point in the future.

Darthvoorhees: All the music from the flashback sequence is from "The Black Mirror," I was able to get permission directly from the composer to use it. That's a good super-atmospheric game, if a little slow. Also nice Raziel glyph, I'm more of a Kain man myself.