CRITTER WEEK ! :: Open Source Filmmaker

Hey everybody, Zachariah Scott here, Critter Week is over! we had another great turnout this week, with headcrabs especially turning up in all sorts of hilarious and disturbing places. We recieved 60 entries, totalling just under 32 minutes. thats over 10 minutes more content than the last event. We also as a community, generated some bad-ass rigs that we can all continue to use going forward, linked in the thread below.

With october and the Saxxies coming up, I expect alot of you will be very busy, so We're only going to do one theme week next month, It will be Infected week, where videos using Left 4 Dead zombies and survivors reign supreme. That event will run from October 14 through october 21. If anyone want's to get started early I have no problems with that, just make sure to release during the release window.

Check out the Awesome Critter week playlist
It's really pretty great to have everything collected in a nice place that auto-plays through them all. I reccommend when sharing videos from Critter week, that you link to them in the playlist form. I don't believe anybody managed to hit the secret sprint challenge this week. Borderlands 2 saw to that.

Also if you havent' checked out the OSFM group chat, it's Pretty active most days. so if you ever have questions that need answering about SFM, just pop in and we probably have someone who can help you hanging around.

PS. If you missed the boat, you can still submit your late theme week entries to this thread, to be collected in the late entries playlist.

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Zachariah

Sep 13, 2012 @ 8:03am

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Let's have another Theme week. Starting sunday September 16th and running through sunday September 22nd, will be Critter week. in honor of the release of Black Mesa this friday, Make Videos of headcrabs, bullsquids, antlions, alien swarm monsters, or whatever creepy crawly you want. Put "OSFM critter week" in the Video description and post it here. There are a couple people working on rigs to make animating monsters like headcrabs easier, so keep an eye out and I'll post them here.

Some Great assets have come out in the past few days that will really help you put together your shorts. I'll list them below.

A massive pack of high quality headcrab sounds Courtesy or Rigaudio

Special IK compatible headcrab models Courtesy of Jimbomcb

Antlion IK rig, for the bugs in all of us. Courtesy of Rantis

A very special IK script for black mesa aliens Courtesy of Jimbomcb again

THEME SPRINT CHALLENGE : Every theme week there's an additional secret challenge! Are you man/woman enough to Upload a theme relevant video EVERY SINGLE DAY OF THE WEEK!? if you are, cool. do that. if not, that's okay too. no prizes. just the satisfaction of setting a goal and accomplishing it. and special recognition in the end of week wrapup.