Fellow cartagophers,
I been experimenting with forge object motion and screenshot comic satire. This is the results of a small experiment.
Tools used:
Hardware: 1 Xbox 360s, and 1 Generic HP desktop PC.
Games and software used:
Halo 4 forge, Halo 4 theater, Halo 4 File share, ms paint, photoshop elements 11, windows movie maker, gimp 2.8.
The YouTube video is listed as Private. You should make it unlisted (since we already have the link in this thread), or just make it public. If you want to get it off the ground, then I would make this Public, unless it’s a pilot of some sorts where you don’t want the general public to see. In that case, I’d put it as Unlisted. I downloaded it, but I don’t think others will want to.
As for the actual video, the ideas are there. I can see what you’re trying to do with it animation wise.
Unfortunately, for one thing, I couldn’t read some of the quotations. Between the poor handwriting and the light color of the text, it was difficult to read. If the poor handwriting is something you wanted to incorporate to help the mood, then a darker color would help a LOT.
Also, I can’t tell if it’s supposed to be a serious comic, or one that’s just for laughs. When the monitor talks about the operations of the installation, it seems like the comic-in-motion (CIM) is going to have a pretty deep and interesting storyline. But when the monitor starts swearing, it breaks continuity and starts to become a comedy, but since there’s already the previously mentioned seriousness, there’s a conflict of identity. I know you said in the OP that it was a comic satire kind of thing, but I think that for people to connect with it and for them to keep going back to your channel every week, every other week etc., then you have to have a strict identity of what your series is. Not everyone can be Red Vs Blue.
In today’s machinima/comic scene, you have to get a clear image into peoples’ minds about what you’re about, and, love it or hate it, humor is a great way to do it. Bring other monitors in, have them jab at each other. Maybe use a Spartan Laser behind one of them to make it look like they’re shooting at each other. Make a dysfunctional family. Make one of them really dumb, and another one really smart and see how they react to each other. Bring in some Spartans, see where it goes from there. You’ve got to experiment, so don’t be afraid to have multiple completely different drafts of the same episode. That’s how great ideas are spawned.
For the animations, I think the idea is great, and I haven’t seen anyone go this route with Halo before. That being said, it’s also kind of inbetween when it should be one of two extremes. I think you should either make it full-blown stop motion where the structure or whatever you’re trying to make move moves at 24 fps, or do kind of a blurred, much quicker time lapse, so the structure rises in maybe 6 or seven images.
If you are doing the CIM because you want to be different (I think it’s a good strategy), that’s great. But if you’re doing it because you don’t have a capture card and you would rather have actual clips and do a machinima, then I would go to halorenders.com
There’s a team of 3 people there who render Halo clips for people FOR FREE. You just have to sign up and submit a request. That’s where I get my clips from non-PC Halo’s, so if that’s what you’d rather do, then I’d go there.
Overall, the idea is pretty good, and I look forward to seeing the next one. Just keep improving, and who knows, you might have something very special on your hands. =)
Thank you ZnaZanZ that input/feedback is valuable, and thanks for watching. btw turned off private on YT also. Thanks again. 
> Thank you ZnaZanZ that input/feedback is valuable, and thanks for watching. btw turned off private on YT also. Thanks again.
Any time man, can’t wait for the next one!