Okay so this Machinima is going to be a big war, Spartans vs Covenant. I am going to make a huge battle scene but i dont know how to do it. Here watch this video and go to 4:13 into the video and watch until the battle is over>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jx2-IqN8rc4 Notice how there were like 100 Elites and spartans on both sides. maybe more. I need someone to tell me how to do this. Please post how to do it here or PM me. Once i know how to do it, i will need 16 people to tell me that they will be in the machinima doing that kind of fight in the video that you just watched.
He edited the video. There was like a group of 16, but like 6 different clips of them running in different spots on the map and then he just stitched the videos together to make it look like there were 150+ people on each team. I highly doubt you have the will or the money to pull off such a machinima so sorry but I will not be joining.
Also generally machinima would look better if you can get a group of people and do local instead of live, but I do understand the complications there. Good luck to you.
Where'd the video go? I might be up for it, depends on the day. Normally I'd say no, but since I know you from the MLG forums, I'll give you a chance Click Here to add me if you want.
Master Chief: War is another example of the same effect and a good example of how you do not need to film machinima on XBL for it to look 'epic'. You basically record to same scene several times but each time you have a different group of characters. You'll notice in the Forgotten Spartans, sometimes the Elites are split in to groups with a little gap in between them. Each group was probably filmed on XBL to cut down on the number of shots required to create the large army but can be done on a single Xbox.
He never said he didn't know how to make machinima. He said he didn't know how to achieve the effect of more than 16 players in a single scene. That's quite different.