The Source Filmmaker: A Preview
Yesterday, Valve introduced the Source Filmmaker, a tool for creating movies using the Source engine as the set and studio. The tool allows digital directors to animate characters, set up camera angles, and realistically recreate dialogue using the program. As they put it, you get all of the “lights, camera, and action” except you can do the whole process in reverse, which they believe is actually more effective.
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List: Successful YouTube Channels
As I discussed in my last post about YouTube advertising resources, YouTube is definitely the big dog in online video. Soon, I’m going to elaborate on what the YouTube platform has planned for the future as well as my thoughts on the proposed shift in media consumption, but first I thought I’d share a list of the some of the most successful channels on YouTube as a quick way of starting the conversation. These are not organized in any particular way and don’t show every single large channel, just a selection of some of the top performers. For a more detailed list, you can check YouTube’s own channels page or this unofficial list from VidStatsX.
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