'They're Shelling Us'

A test video for an upcoming Machinima of mine.

The idea was to have the main character of the machinima walk directly into a shell blast, a shell blast is from Half Life 2, when the Combine fire "Shells" of headcrabs into an area.

I also made the camera distort and get messed up when the Shell hits the ground, as well as the debris hitting the camera. As well as adding natural looking camera movements, so it wasn't static.

This Machinima follows the story of a Rebel who films his way through City 17, so I wanted it to look like was filming with one hand and shooting with the other, having a camera in one hand wouldn't be fantastically still, so I added some motion.

Thanks to Andrew Kramer from Video Copilot for his fantastic tutorials and resources.