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One Shots: Now with 100% more Adamastor
Today's One Shots features the Heroic battles of Massively's very own Jonathan Northwood! This screen full of flash, dazzle and derring-do was taken in one of CIty of Heroes instanced Banished Pantheon missions. (Easily one of this blogger's favorite zone maps.) Jonathan explains the picture:This is a grouping of high-level Banished Pantheon during a mission to destroy Adamastor ... and fighting Adamastor ... and in the graveyard, before fighting ... well, you get the idea.We certainly do. It's still a really cool map, even if the naming convention does seem a smidge on the redundant side. Do you have some great shots of combat, architecture, or anything else you'd like to share with us? If so, drop those into an email to oneshots AT massively DOT com. Worlds and adventures are more fun when shared! %Gallery-9798%
Cinemassively: Time to Start
I'm constantly amazed at the creativity of people that play games where it's not easy to make Machinima. They don't have custom animations, model viewers, chromakeying, or just about anything else. City of Heroes and City of Villains are two of those games.Samuraiko Productions has created an energetic, fist-pumping music video, set to Blue Man Group's "Time to Start." Our very own CoX lead, Jonathan Northwood, wrote about her talent just last month! Set in Pocket D, one of the most recognizable areas in the game, both heroes and villains were able to to contribute to the video. If you liked it, she also has a high quality version available.[Thanks, Jonathan!]
Cinemassively: Night Prayers
Massively's very own CoX lead, Jonathan Northwood, has a great eye for Machinima! Night Prayers is about good versus evil, from what I can tell, as it lacks a description. If I'm reading into it correctly, a man prays to go to the dark side, as the tale unfolds using only film and the occasional written word.Vertical Studio has found a way to make the City of Heroes and City of Villains platforms cinematic, and judging by other videos from the games, it's not easy. They are a small team whose goal is to make quality Machinima, using original music and elaborate shots. They even took home the Grand Prize award at the first French Machinima Festival in November 2006 for their first film, Dies Irae![Thanks, Jonathan!]
