Soon we'll be releasing more works, so I figured I'd update the FAQ!
FAQ- General
- Who runs AVCOM Productions?
- Nabsuh, main overlord, Ziper27 is our inhouse assistant director and puppeteer. We do most of our work inhouse with the exception of music and voice acting. Our music is done by FEARDVA.
- What hardware do you use?
- A high spec'd PC.
- Two Xbox 360's with controllers
- A Blackmagic Intensity Pro HD with cables
- M-Audio Fast Track Ultra
- Audio-Technica AT-2020 Microphone
- ALTEC 2.1 Speaker Setup
- What software do you use?
- Capturing: Blackmagic Media Express
- Editing: Adobe Premiere Pro 5.0 64-bit
- Visual Effects: Adobe After Effects 5.0 64-bit
- Sound: Audacity 1.3 Beta, Adobe Soundbooth 5 64-bit
- Animation: 3Ds Max 2010, Lightwave 10, UDK
- Image Editing: Adobe Photoshop CS5 64-Bit
- Will you animate for me?
- No, I'm afraid I do not animate for anyone outside of my affiliates. This is because these people are official production groups which I work on part from as a second party.
- Will FEARDVA do music for me?
- If you buy him a midi keyboard. Or if you get him food. Or tickets to E3. Or the Valve Corporation Headquarters.
- Can you give me any contact details from your production group?
- No, I'm afraid out of consideration and privacy from the crew; I will not be giving anyone's details out.
- Can I voice act?
- Sure! Send a voice demo to AVCOM.Productions@googlemail.com & I'll have a listen! Formats preferred are MP3 or WAV, or any other equivalent.
- Can I body act (really should be puppeteer) for you?
- We do all of our films over system-link, so I'm afraid we do not contact external puppeteers.
- Can I haz a copy of the moosics?
- Yes you may, feel free to contact FEARDVA at (alphadagio@hotmail.com). With that, specify the song you want and what you thought of his music; but I'm a afraid his friends list is very exclusive. Sending him a midi-keyboard would be helpful towards this goal.
- "is there something moare than 5 star?"
- I'm afraid not.
FAQ- Affiliates
- Who are these affiliates?
- These affiliates are production groups which I know somewhat personally out of experience and groups I have made clear who I would work with.
- Can I be an affiliate?
- Bribes towards FEARDVA might work considering he is the composer. But, otherwise, it is very hard to become a new affiliate.
- Do you work solely for AVCOM or work for machinima.com as a director?
- Machinima.com is a sponsor of AVCOM Productions.
- What are the machinima based websites for?
- Those dudes are just highlighted machinima which I enjoy.
FAQ- High Charity
- How do you do all those space sequences?
- I (meaning Nabsuh) animate them in Lightwave 9 3D by Newtek.
- Do you animate all the scenes in your films?
- Most space sequences by me are definitely animated by myself. Halo Cutscenes have not been involved at all in the creation of my film. However, any Halo 3 maps shown just require puppeteering and setup in forge; and of course Halo 3 is created by Bungie Studios.
- Where did you get those ships from?!?
- Many years ago I managed to extract a few of these ships (though I wouldn't recommend it now days) and used a few tools to get the models from the game. However, after viewing the models, it appeared they did not have enough definition. Therefore, I went back and cleaned up all the models; with some assistance from jtdoepke. The original models and textures are by Bungie, but otherwise I have done up everything in a higher resolution so the ships appear better and more… realistic to the Halo-Canon.
- Can I have a copy of the models?
-No, you may not, I have spent some considerable amount of time fixing these models along with a friend of mine, and so I wouldn't want to hand the models over to anyone else. I would like to point out such an action is illegal as well.
- How do you animate?
- This question is similar somewhat to how to create a machinima; with the exception being that animation is more manual and requires time to create. Choose a program such as Lightwave and 3ds Max, and look up tutorials. No 3D Program comes free so I would recommend you think before you buy one.
- Look at the armour on the elite, isn't that the incorrect colour? You should read into the lore a bit more shouldn't you?
- I spend a considerable amount of time while making my videos making sure that the Halo-Canon is maintained throughout the films; while the stories themselves may not have happened, a lot of the technology and systems you see have been canon to the maximum.
- Who voice acted the fleet-master elite?
- David Keith , he worked on-part with Angsty Studios and ODST Sarge.
