the Rockstar Editor: Check Out the First Video “Running, Man” By 8 Bit Bastard
We’ve been admirers of the work of the 8 Bit Bastard GTA movie-making troupe on YouTube for quite a while now – including such memorable and creative vids over the past year as “Into the Deep”, “Toy Soldiers”, “Bird Stunts”, “A Whole New (Gen) World” and their clever GTAV re-enactments and parodies of Boardwalk Empire and more. So when we recently discovered that one of the members of the four-man team (Shoalts) lived here in our hometown of NYC, we jumped at the chance to invite him to Rockstar NY to test out the Rockstar Editor and commission a cool little demo video from them. Shoalts, in collaboration with us and with his 8 Bit Bastard brethren Chaney, Gordy and Sonny, created this fun piece you can watch above entitled “Running, Man” – depicting the loneliness of the long-distance Trevor set to the tune “K.Y.S.A.” by Phantogram featuring Bass Drum of Death (from the new GTAV PC radio station The Lab and the forthcoming LP Alchemist and Oh No Present: Welcome to Los Santos).Read on for a bit more on how the video was made and some insight direct from Shoalts of 8 Bit Bastard that may help inspire your own directorial efforts as you begin creating with the Rockstar Editor move-making tool.On favorite features of the Rockstar Editor:“The ability to vary depth of field during a shot is amazing. There's nothing more satisfying than balancing the depth of field and tuning the new filters to get the perfect shot.The filters are totally customizable and can completely change the feel of a scene.”On the creative possibilities that the Editor now provides for:“Before the Rockstar Editor, we were pretty restricted in what we could create because we could only record what was on screen.Now you can take the camera anywhere you want, I think we're going to see some awesome machinima that just wasn't possible before.The new Director Mode is a huge deal for the creative community.The freedom to change weather, time of day and turn off cops is really useful. It also lets you choose from a huge list of playable characters, including animals, so I can't wait to see the kind of videos that'll start surfacing.”On his experiences making movies ‘on location’ in Los Santos & Blaine County:“What it comes down to is the ability to stage things that simply aren't possible in other games, or even in the real world.GTAV's map is huge, diverse and alive, so there really is no limit as to what you can pull off. Now that we can take the camera off the rails in the Rockstar Editor, the sky's the limit.”For much more detail on the Rockstar Editor, check out the full user guide at the Social Club website and feel free to share links and info on your own debut Rockstar Editor creations here in Newswire comments below.
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