Livio's Favorite Minecraft Projects - July 2011 - Minecraft Video
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Making those server tour videos was getting boring, so I made this thing instead. It highlights the projects that I personally like the most. You might disagree with some of the things I added or wondered why I didn't add a certain project, but again, these are just my favorites.
So I started making this video around 11pm last night after getting inspired by listening to this song. I ended up going to sleep at around 2am, and I spent most of today finishing it because it was a ton of fun to make.
To get an idea of how much fun I was having: because most of these shots are time lapses that are played back at 1,000% speed, I had to sit around for about 10 minutes doing nothing while it was recording, but something would always come out and ruin it for me.
For instance, the first shot of the Beacon took me about 3 or 4 tries to get right. I got interrupted by rain, other players, and even a SeverSocketException! The Garden Dome was filmed from atop a glass platform, which I had forgetten to remove and it ended up ruining an otherwise-perfect shot of the Sunrise Bay Bridge. And it was for nothing, b/c I ended up redoing the Garden Dome shot to make it at night instead of at day.
This shot of Sprout Tower was pure gold. You have no idea how many days (minecraft days) I sat around in that frozen wasteland waiting for the clouds to get out of the way. And then on my first filming attempt I ended up hitting a block of dirt that ruined my movement and camera angle. However the second shot was so perfect, other than the fact that Hypercam recorded it at 10 frames per second and it looked choppy compared to everything else.
You see the sun setting behind Krotomo's Towers? That recording actually continues well into the night, but I had to cut it out because combined with the bad quality of hypercam (I didn't figure out how to get it to stop compressing vids until after I finished this hole thing), that I had to cut it all out. And besides, it looks more interesting this way. It's in the shot with the Theater where the quality really sticks out. It was hard figuring out how to get the theater on film the right way. Other attempts had me walking in from the from door, up the stairs, and then down the aisle, another had me running left and right on the horizontal walkways.
I was looking through Yug City and I couldn't find anything I really loved about it. Most of its works are unpolished, disorganized, and confusing. However, I couldn't but help notice that as a whole I really liked Yug City. It has an atmosphere of careless creativity, so I decided to put the whole thing in the video. I built this ridiculously long path of glass on the border of the city where I could have the snowman looking at me. While panning, I had to crouch the whole time because crouching keeps you from falling off a block, so that whole thing took forever to film. Then I went and filmed it again to see if the clouds would be more interesting this time. They were not.
Destroying that glass path was a huge pain b/c the server was getting supper laggy and the blocks that I destroyed kept coming back up, and that only ended up making every other block disappear. Argh!
It was tough trying to figure out how to get Lightown in the video. I couldn't think of any cool angles I could come at it from, so I just climbed up on one of the light poles and built a glass path out into the ocean and filmed myself doing that. I dunno, maybe it's because I've stared at Lightown so much while working on it, but I wasn't very impressed with that shot. The shot right after that of the Dojo was pretty awesome, but Hypercam quality really hurts it....
'I' said:
most of these shots are time lapses that are played back at 1,000% speed
hey do you think this qualifies for the speedrun comp?
EDIT: why is the video so huge? Blame Haily. He suggested it.
Ahem, When you said that you found nothing you liked in YugCity, is my snowman really that bad?
Apart from that outrageous statement, the video was good.
When you said that you found nothing you liked in YugCity, is my snowman really that bad?
'Livio' said:
I was looking through Yug City and I couldn't find anything I really loved about it
I said I didn't love it, not that I didn't like it. If I was to make a video of all the things I merely thought was cool, it would've been much longer than this. But this is just supposed to be the best of the best.
To be honest, that shot of Yug City started out as my attempt to add the snowman to the video, but then I figured that I liked Yug City as a whole more than I liked your snowman, and so I kept that shot.
well, as a guy who likes videogames and stuff, but doesn't know minecraft, this video is awsome. the shooting and music are fantastic. the way I see it, it looks like a wonderful game, full of potential. however, it looks like it's not really a game, but more of a simcity - just building a server and having it look good. so I understand this is a mmo? is there a goal or something, or do we just draw?
anyways. the vid, as a vid, looks perfect, and as jebby said, makes you proud of being part of the interguild. we've grown really good.
Okay shos, it's about time someone told you what Minecraft is.
In Minecraft, all you really have to do is survive. You can get hurt/killed by monsters that come out at night (or anywhere else that's dark, like in caves). The only other thing that can hurt you is falling from high ledges (and by "high" I mean anything higher than like 2 or 3 tiles). You can build stuff by punching blocks in the word which breaks them so that you may pick them up. You can then craft these materials into other materials. Eventually, you can craft tools that will help you break stronger blocks and do other cool stuff. Of course, after a while, surviving is easy, so you then begin to build stuff. Now the challenge becomes to build what you want without dying (or dying as little as possible).
Our server is much more of a sandbox in that we installed stuff that got rid of the need to mine for materials and not much can kill you now that we got rid of monsters that could kill you.