This is being posted as news purely because it's so excellent. Depressing, but excellent.
The Monad was directed and produced by Sam Goldwater.
(Need some cheering up after all that? Today's other machinima addition is Paul Marino's music video I'm Still Seeing Breen!)
Excellent! Thanks for posting this.
Nice? Depressing... nice...
This is great!..Beautiful Machinema
perhaps could you relate this to the Garrysmod Group?
Very well done.
very good quality how long did it take?
wow awesome stuff very deep :D
I did not like it really. But great job anyways. You did a good job with the animations and such. Voice acting was not too bad either.
how is "I'm Still Seeing Breen" supposed to cheer us up after putting up with that video?
You should have suggested
Youtube.com
instead.
freakin' hilarious, that.
Endeed Excelent
This long and boring.
But nice music :)
what are you? 12?
funny how "12" is the youngest anyone on the internet can think of.
why so serious?
I watched it down to about four minutes and while its' production values are high, the guy really needs to learn keeping the viewer interested. After all, no one is interested in someone's bloody life, until that someone comes across with a really intersting story (and some diversion to it). Having a great ending does not mean you can waste the rest of the film on talk. Why are Machinima either all talk, or all action? There is hardly one, which manages to keep a balance and not be merely depressing or boring.
Good work with the Lip-Synch and editing. I'll watch it entirely, when I'm up to it.
not everyone is into boom head shot kinda stuff, some people like the deep dark side of humanity, I for one loved it, it went to a place most machinima chooses not to go. Kudos to you brother!
Fixed for you.
Pretty deep.
Anti Facebook machinima? :P
I guess I'm not that deep, because I just don't get why that had to be a video, I think one word would have sufficed at being just as deep: Disconnect. If anything the video itself distracts from the message, in my opinion.
Message aside, the video itself was high quality. Probably the most cinematic looking machinima I've seen. Not that I'm an avid watcher.
I have to agree with you.. I think thats part of the reason why I did not like it. Its trying to be deep but fails.
excelently produced video but the "deep" meaning is so ******* old and boring that it destroys all that atmosphere, it would be so much better if i couldnt understand the text
It's an accomplishment to make a film with the visual qualities this one has. It had some good moments, but missed the mark in a few places. I especially liked the typing moments in the beginning where sometimes it would rewrite bits of itself. I didn't particularly love it, but I do appreciate the work that went into making it.
Just watched it and I think it's quite great, few pointers:
- Even though the lip-syncing was great, the character models were the default, if I were you I would've used FakeFactory's high-res pack for this.
- I didn't like how the camera was static most of the time, you're not limited to the physical world, use that to your advantage.
- The story was quite awesome, but you did leave a few things unexplained (as to how he died and whatnot).
Overall, really great work, I didn't expect this level of quality.
Okay, finally watched it all, and while it clearly has a message, it maybe a bit over the top.
I think I understand what you want to say about life and virtuality and how we are messing up our being human, by becoming sucked up by a virtual world that is merely an illusion. By accepting it's rules we leave the social bonds of human society and become outstanders, independent and untouchable.We don't belong to society as a whole, but we instead become unchangable islands of solitudes, which will never change, or get better. We are the smallest particle of society, which isn't subject to its ongoing changes. We are like Monads, nothing exterior has an influence on us any more and we seperate from other forms of happiness, like friendship, or love.
Well done. I never heard anyone bringing Leibniz into the equation, but his "Monadologie", is a pretty interesting piece of philosophy, because it tries to build bridges between this world and one we would today call: virtuality.
the plot was confusing, but overall, this is a fine piece of machinima
Nice work and I liked the message even if I am reading into it too much.
Excellent breakdown SinKing :)
Got to applaud the technical polish, but have to agree with everyone else who feels this is about as 'deep' as the conversation in most wannnabe-arty student coffee shops.
It's a noble enough message, but you get said message within the first five minutes, then the next seven just repeat it endlessly and add absolutely nothing new :(
Did he died? D:
Is the male 07 the one that died?
D: sad story 5/5
Did *nobody* mirror this?
artfull , beautifull & meaningfull machinima. among the best short films and machinima i have seen in my life.
Very good. :D I like how they made everthing so unnaturally dark, it really added to the tension of the story. I didn't think it was boring at all. I like action flicks as well as a bit of drama. :D
Watched it several times! I really liked it. Seeing the actors of my favorite game struggling with their purpose of life was impressive. Thanks :)