The VG Resource

I speak, of course, of Garry's Mod videos, non-serious Source Filmmaker projects, and anything else relating to the strange collection of Source Engine based madness, especially on YouTube.

My personal take on it is that it surprises me how much it works, like, you think it would stop being funny after a while, but then someone finds a new animation technique, or makes an obscure game or film reference, or otherwise replenishes the randomness pool, and it somehow works again. To be honest, I rather wish more non-machinima films were like this, not so much like silly Flash animations, but more like true Stop-Motion and Pixilation works with that sort of oddball humor.

If you absolutely hate Gmod videos, that's fine -- it's not everyone's cuppa -- but I'd like to see whether anyone agrees that the sort of surrealism in 3D could go elsewhere, or even if it has already. I've seen Terry Gilliam's surrealistic animations, and a few experimental films as goofy as some of the tamer Gmod works, but I could always see more.

Lt. Eddy's game grumps animations are pretty hilarious. nearly every other SFM/Gmod video is in the context of games that i know nothing about, so i don't really watch them otherwise.

I used to really like GMod Idiot Box. Does that count?

Dude, this is my kind of stuff. I follow STBlackST, CrazyScoutFin, an0nymooose, SuperToasterRus, Eltorro64Rus, and theTig3r42. Ever since I discovered the original RubberFruit gems I've loved watching these things. SFM stuff is pretty good but the GMod ones are really top-tier. There's a certain charm to stop-motion stuff with random clipping. The amount of time and effort put into them is also insane.

A couple of random favourites off the top of my head:

I wanted to give a try at making these, but it appears to be a lot harder than it looks. SFM would be better for me anyway.

(11-02-2016, 07:40 PM)psychospacecow Wrote: [ -> ]I used to really like GMod Idiot Box. Does that count?

I would dare say DasBoSchitt's works are the Ur Example of goofy Gmod animation, and has remained one of the best examples of it.

(11-03-2016, 03:04 AM)Dolphman Wrote: [ -> ]I wanted to give a try at making these, but it appears to be a lot harder than it looks. SFM would be better for me anyway.

I've tried Gmod animation a few times, and I agree that it's a bit tougher to get what you want out of it; it's more like stop-motion than CGI animation, but it's well worth the effort from what I can see.