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To be honest, I find the matter to be Ross' fault entirely, because if one wishes to get revenue for his work in other languages, he should care about it in the first place, for example by making an arrangement with translators and having them post their stuff on the main channel (Accursed farms in this case) Control! Control! Control! Stopgame.ru have been translating Freeman's mind around after Episode 4 was released. They were okay with me reposting their stuff a day or two after they make a release (which I didn't if anyone's concerned), to avoid viewjacking but whatever. Point is - if you want to have your work to remain yours - be responsible and have it translated and released under your control. As content creators, we have the ability to become "evil", like infamous Warner Brothers and alike are, ripping and tearing through content thieves. Question is - what does it take to use this power and claim what's lawfully yours? Let's take Vsauce, Mike and Kevin AFAIK, are not concerned about not receiving part of revenue from their translated/stolen videos. Here's a quick look at one video of theirs - Original - 4,348,471 views - Russian dub - 169,968 views - Another russian dub - 15,038 views Which makes for 4% lost views to a russian, not english speaking audience. Is it significant? Depends on statistics? How much does a Freeman's mind 01 generate over a month? $400? If so, do 4% ($16) matter? According to http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats7.htm - 77.9% of internet speaks (in declining order) English 26.3%, Chinese 20.8%, Spanish, Arabic, Portuguese, Japanese, Malay, Russian 2.9%, French, German So by covering all of those, except for English one may get control over additional 51% of population, tripling view count sole English provides. Is it economically viable to get involved in all those shenanigans ? Translating, or getting one's content translated ? Only Ross can know. Some people are fans and want to spread the joy on their own terms, working for free, others, like stopgame.ru wish to parasite on Ross' genius and with little effort increase traffic to their own projects, even with partially good intent (like promoting machinimas over russian speaking internet), money come into the equation. They sure think it's viable. Hiring translators and having them work. This is how I picture their internal conversation - "This is a piece of attraction, with $50 we can make it work for us, which will drive 50 000 users to our site. Is it good enough? Let's see! If 1 user * ads = $0.003, then 50 000 users * ads = $150. Solid investment! Should we share the revenue with Ross Scott? Who is Ross Scott? We don't care! Fuck Americans anyway." I'm sorry if this comes controversial. I mean no offense against this community. In short: Is this matter worth be concerned about? If yes - Is the copyright owner going to make a counter attack and claim his rights? If yes - what will that accomplish?

If there are next series coming, is it going to be graphics update? Textures in High Rez? Better models?

Why do I hear slaps and freeman jerks his head arount 1:10? Ross? Why?

Thanks, Science!

Nah, i bet he recovers as quickly as he did when he got hit and dragged to trash compactor by soldiers

Hello there, when reassembling your PC, pay attention to small gaps. water can be trapped there. reconnect wires and ram also. and be careful with the transformer. all in all, if you dismantle your CPU - your bios/windows may give you some trouble. heh if you only had a vacuum dryer . Anyways. It sounds like your system just got irritated. You might want to test things separately to be extra sure. I'd have most concern with transformer and videocard.... and motherboard perhaps. and to the water cooling - there are cool completely sealed(!) systems. I've got one from Corsar and it keeps me warm at cold winter night and chills in the summer Hope that helps

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Sorry people, but need a little help here, finding previous episodes

Where are 1-6 Eps??? In any case! Hail the legendary genius of Ross Scott, as he has the know how to make people laugh! p.s. it kind of relieves the pressure of freeman's mind waiting to come out.

This is going to be the best day ever. Oh man, the whole situation would be perfect for April 1st joke... Like every year... Oh man!!! It makes me feel so much uplifted. The big day of release of not one, and not even two, but *ahem* the whole season of Freeman's Mind. 2Ross Besides, you might want to divide the series into seasons, using Season = year scheme. It would seem professional

STALKER maybe? It is written in the end of the movie. Anyways. For me, this is an A in many things. For the first... well second, after Star Trek Original, time the story and idea overwhelm my fanatic desire of maximum quality. I'd invite you to hollywood if I were some tough guy from there Special thanks to danielsangeo from me ^^

Very interesting points! Cinema4d is just another 3d editor with the ability to render, like XSI or 3ds Max or Blender. For this instance a place where stuff comes together. So all in all its the most flexible you can get with these tools. More time consuming, less if you get used to it. Next thing - more assets in general. There are tons of premade anim sequences or models(props). One makes everything in one of those and exports to UDK or SDK. Common knowledge for fellow forum readers ^^. From this point of view using a game engine as a render machine has more downs then ups. Due to limitations. BUT(!) Even if you stick with games, consider getting finger dirty and tap into "how everything made" zone, so you'd be able to combine RAW-level assets into UDK-level assets you desire. Hope nobody feels anybody was offended, and this message is understandable ^_^ cheers. p.s. E-mails. I'm fine, just expected a "thanks" in return.

Agree about SFM. The sole idea of separate keyframing and other way of making animation made my head explode, like how am I supposed to combine those weird things. Speaking of which. After I tried to port HL2Mod dystopia to Cinema4d, and succeeded. I'm thinking about combination of C4D and Motionbuilder. In fact I don't see any reason to go to UDK, for you. Except it makes video a "Machinima". There is a short of "putting assets together" (premade animation, models, level, rigged npc). Done in an hour or so. p.s. Why don't answer you my emails ^_^? 02dJkug_RdQ

You can alawyas email Ross :] Not that he answered me at least once Thanks for your input We'll see how everything will go. Right now is preparing stage. I'm certain with main theme of pilot clip. Some here may remember Dystopia. I've seen recently some tries to bring her back alive. And I like 'HiTechCyberPunkNearFutrure'. So I've been messing with maps and SMF. Oh God, how ugly some parts of maps look once you put your attention to it. But, I haven't noticed anything wrong about it for years as i played the map on and on. The idea is to take some models and levels, put everything together and learn in process. ^^ Oh well A nice start! And not to forget, there can be a good movie without a single spoken word. Like "ignis soulis". As for the engine - its Cinema4d. I don't see any point in switching from SDK to UDK, but UDK has same interface but much more sexy and functional. If Ross isn't concerned with professional look,but with simplicity... Well... It may be an illusion of "comfortability". It surely would take much more tweaking if Civil Protection was close to physically-accurate-look. I wonder if this could be compensated with lack of countless source bugs he encountered. If this thread won't be deleted, Ross would eventually check on it and say something ^_^

I've learned a great deal from Ross' experience. Especially with picking up people to help. It would be devastating to have every now and then a different voice for main character

The idea of making a short film struck me as I was thinking of what to do today. So I came here for an advise. Ross Scoot and you guys are closest to acting industry people I know at the moment. I'm rewatching Civil Protection for clues and tricks. There are tons of questions like: How to come up with plot How to create characters (Mike/Dave) How to even start

+1 one on the voice. I could feel the mood through it... especially "It was so sneaky of you" at 3:20. I could hear the voice 'trembling'

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To Freeman's month. I'm a bit worried about it. It's maybe pretty obvious, but I'd like to point out such a thing, wouldn't it be better to stretch the writing and thinking part in near future (now->end of September). So that coming up with new script aka "scenario" won't become a bottleneck. Still GREAT GREAT GREAT GREAT GREAT I miss FM

also meet the pyro using that maker ( ) Heh... I suggest there are no changes to the Engine, so it may merely improve Ross' efficiency on FM:S. But who am I to judge . I bet Ross is determined to UDK by now. It's hard to believe that Valve has released epic greatness and salvation to Civil Protection as Source project. Any way I'm looking forward to hear from Ross, his plans, and personal opinion on this matter AFAIK he's the Boss in proper machinima-making-thing. His opinion counts big time. ps Does anybody know why doesn't he has a team or crew? ----------ADDED----------- After I've watched the trailer to the maker, I must take my words back. It just may be the right tool after all, in case of animating. Usually it's a trip between many programs with constant import/export and bugs along the way.

On noes Wasn't it an of expensive one? Can we have a photo to mourn a minute? Let's gather money to buy Ross great mic to his B-Day

http://www.half-life.wikia.com/wiki/Hazardous_Environment_Combat_Unit They are a special forces branch of the Marines... Why would they not have military grade equipment and vehicles? I'm gonna go with the assumption Freeman got a lucky shot. We'll see how lucky he's going to be against NEXT helicopter p.s. Pinkie Sense just slipped my mind. Would be hilarious to cross Pinkie Pie and Gordon Freeman.

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The Copter's door or window might have been opened and bullet could kill a pilot... or damn luck ;D Thanks Ross, We believe in you! BY THE WAY! Have you noticed some additional people in the ending? Some second audio editor. and something about video effects... I wonder what they could be since Ross did blurriness post-effects.