Majistrate K here. If you were wondering why there hasn't been any news on Killer Syndicate 3, it is because I am going to be taking a break from animating videos for a while for several reasons. So if you were wondering why there haven't been any updates on Killer Syndicate 3 it's because I'm not working on it. I've been training and working on improving my art at entervoid.com and I'm not going to come back and work on Killer Syndicate 3 or any other League related thing until I've improved by a certain margin.
In the meantime, enjoy A Bad Idea's project "The Valoran Cases" while I'm gone.
Showing posts with label Killer Syndicate. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Killer Syndicate. Show all posts
Saturday, August 4, 2012
Sunday, June 24, 2012
Wednesday, April 4, 2012
Killer Syndicate 2 is live!
And here's part two of the three-part project Killer Syndicate. Part Three is going to be the finale, so it may take longer than a month to finish it this time. Look forward to it!
-Majistrate K
Sunday, April 1, 2012
New Killer Syndicate Video!
The next part of our Killer Syndicate series is online! Go check it out now!
- A Bad Idea
- A Bad Idea
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Killer Syndicate 2 is in Full Production
All the assets are finished, all the legal stuff is taken care of, and now all there is to do now is animate. See you in a week.
-Majistrate K
-Majistrate K
Thursday, March 8, 2012
Stressful Events
Lots of things bothering me lately and all of it is putting a lot of pressure on me. So here's a list of things to come:
- Finish a commission for Wondercon.
I am not going to be attending Wondercon in San Francisco, but my artwork will. The owner of Gamerave has been commissioning me to make League of Legends Pins for him to sell at his store and conventions. This next shipment is about ready so I can mail it to him and you can maybe buy a pin or two from the Gamerave booth at Wondercon if you are attending.
- Contract with MachinimaRealm
MachinimaRealm contacted me last week and asked if I wanted to join their director's program which would let me upload my videos on their channel. As much as i would love to sign up for it, there's one problem. The contract states that I cannot monetize my videos as long as they use licensed music, which means I need to find a musician or use royalty free music before I can upload anything on MachinimaRealm. *sigh*
-Finish Killer Syndicate 2
Sorry for the delay on this video, but the commission and the contract have really been pushing this project back longer than I'd like it. KS has been going on the whole Metal Slug theme and even uses the Metal Slug Victory chime at the end of the video which is essential to the parody/nostalgia...which I can't use if I want to upload it on Machinimarealm. And so my dilemma: Use royalty free music so I can accept the contract but lose the charm of the videos, or use the licensed music to keep the charm of the video but miss an opportunity to get paid for my hard work.
-Make a non-League of Legends Video
I know people enjoy the LoL videos, but I kinda want to branch out and introduce everyone to my original characters so that I'm not constrained to doing League stuff all the time. Once I finish Killer Syndicate 3, I'm going to start working on a project with nothing but original characters for fun. Hopefully by that time a Bad Idea will finally have finished working on his solo project that I told him to start working on last year.
Lots of work for not much reward. It's kinda of tiring, but hopefully I wont have some kind of stress explosion by the time this all passes over.
-Majistrate K
- Finish a commission for Wondercon.
I am not going to be attending Wondercon in San Francisco, but my artwork will. The owner of Gamerave has been commissioning me to make League of Legends Pins for him to sell at his store and conventions. This next shipment is about ready so I can mail it to him and you can maybe buy a pin or two from the Gamerave booth at Wondercon if you are attending.
- Contract with MachinimaRealm
MachinimaRealm contacted me last week and asked if I wanted to join their director's program which would let me upload my videos on their channel. As much as i would love to sign up for it, there's one problem. The contract states that I cannot monetize my videos as long as they use licensed music, which means I need to find a musician or use royalty free music before I can upload anything on MachinimaRealm. *sigh*
-Finish Killer Syndicate 2
Sorry for the delay on this video, but the commission and the contract have really been pushing this project back longer than I'd like it. KS has been going on the whole Metal Slug theme and even uses the Metal Slug Victory chime at the end of the video which is essential to the parody/nostalgia...which I can't use if I want to upload it on Machinimarealm. And so my dilemma: Use royalty free music so I can accept the contract but lose the charm of the videos, or use the licensed music to keep the charm of the video but miss an opportunity to get paid for my hard work.
-Make a non-League of Legends Video
I know people enjoy the LoL videos, but I kinda want to branch out and introduce everyone to my original characters so that I'm not constrained to doing League stuff all the time. Once I finish Killer Syndicate 3, I'm going to start working on a project with nothing but original characters for fun. Hopefully by that time a Bad Idea will finally have finished working on his solo project that I told him to start working on last year.
Lots of work for not much reward. It's kinda of tiring, but hopefully I wont have some kind of stress explosion by the time this all passes over.
-Majistrate K
Saturday, February 25, 2012
Frequently Asked Questions
Ever since the Dreamhack video I've been getting a lot of the same questions over and over again, so in this blog post I'm going to answer a bunch of them that keep popping up in nearly all the videos.
What program do you use for your videos?
Everyone sees an animated video and assumes "Flash Video". That is a terrible assumption, as I have never once opened any version of flash ever. All the videos were constructed in Adobe Aftereffects.
Where's Yorick!? He's a pentakill member too!
Copy and Pasted from the Youtube channel:
Laser Guided Affection was written before Yorick was even released. So even though he was released during the process of making the video, there was no bassline in the song so having Yorick in the video would be kinda....odd. All the shots were constructed already without Yorick so adding Yorick would compromise timing and the structure of each shot. Unlike "Your Epic Dreamhack Comes True" (where timing the garen scene was just a miraculous coincidence) timing animation to music is REALLY HARD and has to be precise on every frame and second.
Caitlyn's ult can't miss! Why is this so inaccurate!?
Creative licensing. Killer Syndicate follows the rules for a side scrolling platform game with elements of League of Legends in it. If tried animating the game exactly how it should be, Miss Fortune would spend 5 minutes getting to Tristana, because she has to kill EVERY minion to get gold...gold that's not even used in the setting of Killer Syndicate. I always imagined that if Caitlyn were the boss of a level, she would be attacking you before you even got to the boss zone so that part was designed with Caitlyn targeting Miss Fortune with her ult every time she was out of brush. Then I realized that she's going to have to shoot sometimes, because having the targeting reticule there and never fire is boring to watch. To make a more dynamic video of a fake game I needed to put Miss Fortune in as much danger as possible so little things like cooldowns shouldn't stop her from doing it multiple times.
Poppy can't kill Nocturne!
Poppy kills Nocturne because I hate Nocturne, and he deserves every Goldion Hammer parody I'm going to throw at him. Maybe next time, I'll have Poppy do Goldion Crusher to whoever I feel deserves it whenever we decide to do another Super Robot Wars parody.
Miss Fortune uses two guns! Why does she only use one in Killer Syndicate?
Killer Syndicate is based around Secret Agent Miss Fortune's spy theme. Have you ever seen a James Bond poster where he is dual wielding pistols? Does the Team Fortress 2 Spy dual wield revolvers? Brandishing only a single pistol is excellently spy-like and that's why Miss Fortune uses one gun.
...well that's half the reason anyways. The other half is that having her dual wield pistols would mess up pretty much all the timing on gunshots. With two guns, she'd either have to shoot two bullets at the same time, or I'd have to increase the rate of fire. Having two bullets out at the same time looked really bad when I animated it and it didn't portray itself very well. On the other hand, if I increased her firing speed that means Impure Shots requires her to shoot EVEN FASTER and it would have created a terrible sounding rapid fire.
If you want to see her use two guns so badly wait for Killer Syndicate 2.
I'm a programmer and I want to make Killer Syndicate a real game! Can I have your sprites?
No. I have no intention of making Killer Syndicate into a real game. There are all sorts of technical reason why I don't want to give people my sprites and assets, but the reason I'll give here is this:
My wife is a programmer. If anyone is going to make a Killer Syndicate game, it's her.
-Majistrate K
What program do you use for your videos?
Everyone sees an animated video and assumes "Flash Video". That is a terrible assumption, as I have never once opened any version of flash ever. All the videos were constructed in Adobe Aftereffects.
Where's Yorick!? He's a pentakill member too!
Copy and Pasted from the Youtube channel:
Laser Guided Affection was written before Yorick was even released. So even though he was released during the process of making the video, there was no bassline in the song so having Yorick in the video would be kinda....odd. All the shots were constructed already without Yorick so adding Yorick would compromise timing and the structure of each shot. Unlike "Your Epic Dreamhack Comes True" (where timing the garen scene was just a miraculous coincidence) timing animation to music is REALLY HARD and has to be precise on every frame and second.
Caitlyn's ult can't miss! Why is this so inaccurate!?
Creative licensing. Killer Syndicate follows the rules for a side scrolling platform game with elements of League of Legends in it. If tried animating the game exactly how it should be, Miss Fortune would spend 5 minutes getting to Tristana, because she has to kill EVERY minion to get gold...gold that's not even used in the setting of Killer Syndicate. I always imagined that if Caitlyn were the boss of a level, she would be attacking you before you even got to the boss zone so that part was designed with Caitlyn targeting Miss Fortune with her ult every time she was out of brush. Then I realized that she's going to have to shoot sometimes, because having the targeting reticule there and never fire is boring to watch. To make a more dynamic video of a fake game I needed to put Miss Fortune in as much danger as possible so little things like cooldowns shouldn't stop her from doing it multiple times.
Poppy can't kill Nocturne!
Poppy kills Nocturne because I hate Nocturne, and he deserves every Goldion Hammer parody I'm going to throw at him. Maybe next time, I'll have Poppy do Goldion Crusher to whoever I feel deserves it whenever we decide to do another Super Robot Wars parody.
Miss Fortune uses two guns! Why does she only use one in Killer Syndicate?
Killer Syndicate is based around Secret Agent Miss Fortune's spy theme. Have you ever seen a James Bond poster where he is dual wielding pistols? Does the Team Fortress 2 Spy dual wield revolvers? Brandishing only a single pistol is excellently spy-like and that's why Miss Fortune uses one gun.
...well that's half the reason anyways. The other half is that having her dual wield pistols would mess up pretty much all the timing on gunshots. With two guns, she'd either have to shoot two bullets at the same time, or I'd have to increase the rate of fire. Having two bullets out at the same time looked really bad when I animated it and it didn't portray itself very well. On the other hand, if I increased her firing speed that means Impure Shots requires her to shoot EVEN FASTER and it would have created a terrible sounding rapid fire.
If you want to see her use two guns so badly wait for Killer Syndicate 2.
I'm a programmer and I want to make Killer Syndicate a real game! Can I have your sprites?
No. I have no intention of making Killer Syndicate into a real game. There are all sorts of technical reason why I don't want to give people my sprites and assets, but the reason I'll give here is this:
My wife is a programmer. If anyone is going to make a Killer Syndicate game, it's her.
-Majistrate K
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