Muvimayking: Our heritage

This material is not about championships on Dota 2, League of Legends And Counter-Strike 1.6. He is about the emergence, gradual development and attenuation of domestic muvimayking. But before starting the narrative, we decipher the term itself.

Phrase Movie Making approximately translated as "production of films". But this is not about the film industry at all, but about the really unique direction – to create game videos. Not trailers, as you might think, but videos with the best moments from certain e -sports games. And this does not have to be a colorful selection of game murders for dynamic music. This includes videos telling about the history of a particular team, and much more.

[Bullet]] The Movienates community logo – it was with it that the viewing of many muviks on a wide variety of games began.

The first such videos appeared in our country in the late nineties, and this was directly related to the wild growth of the popularity of the series Quake. Brainchild ID Software It became number one game in Russia – in Kvaku, everyone was not lazy, entire generations grew on it.

The beginning of the two thousandth was marked by the coming to us the first copies Counter-STRIKE. A year or two of the command and tactical shooter from Valve made Quake to move, and both games remained the most popular among our players for many years.

[[Bullet]] Project Movienations – Strenx 2010, one of the best works on Quake Live in the entire history of the game

Around the same time, the first serious Russian -speaking community was born to create game videos: Movienations. The idea belonged to Mikhail Razumovsky ( Deanar ) and Ilya Bolognin ( Roachru ). The first one was responsible in a creative duet for creating a video, and the second was a rather famous e -sports journalist and wrote to the leading portal of those years – Cyberfight.ru.

Opening of the portal Movienations.COM took place on November 7, 2005. Soon he became one of the best thematic sites around the world. Mostly he was visited by talented guys who constantly honed skill, not forgetting and competing with each other.

All these “catch -ups” gradually led to the fact that a bunch of training videos on work in the site appeared on the site Sony Vegas , Adobe Premiere , Adobe after Effects , Fraps and other video editing programs. These lessons were the disposition of hundreds of beginners – many studied the basics precisely on Movienations.

[[Bullet]] Counter-Strike is the most popular game on movienations. The site stores over a thousand cs 1 video.6 and CS: Source.

The site also had its own team of muvimakeors, whose best works totaled hundreds of thousands of downloads – and this is when the quick Internet was a dream. Remember the times when people rocked the desired video for weeks and shared it with friends … Now, most of the house has a high -speed fiber -optic network of several, or even a hundred megabit, and we watch everything online or at YouTube In HD 1080p mode.

On the one hand, we are glad to progress, on the other, we miss a little about those years when a certain magic was felt in all this. Previously, many were ready to sit at the computer to be at the computer to be worried about the real work of art, and now the bulk of the creations is more like a stamped product, which is not very much to hit the viewer.

[Bullet]] Over the past ten years, there are almost no ideas left not beaten in Counter-Strike rollers. Sometimes they even turned to cartoons.

The rapid development of computer technology and the change of generations contributed to the fact that now muvimaking in the CIS is almost dead. All those on whom the portal lasted seven years went to work in other projects, and they never found replacements. Wanting to find out more about this unique phenomenon, we asked several questions to the leading muvimakers of the CIS involved in Movienations.

[Gambling.Ru] Hello! Please introduce yourself to our readers. Who are you and what are you doing?

[AND. Zotov] Hi, my name is Igor, I'm 23 years old. Born in Bryansk, now I live in Moscow. I work in the company STS-Media Senior Brodkast designer on the channel " Pepper ". In addition, I'm trying to engage in business in the field of design.

[IN. Thinness] Hello, my name is Vadim Khudobets, in the world of Muvimeyking is known under the nickname Vadoskin. I live in Belarus in the city of Grodno. Now I make trailers to Russian films, but once I was engaged only in muviks in Counter-STRIKE.

[G. Glau] Hi, my name is George Glau, I'm 23 years old. I live in Moscow, I am engaged in muvimeyking and I am still commenting on games on Counter-Strike: Global Offensive On the project Virtus.Pro.

[Gambling.RU] as far as we understand, before the hobby of muvimayking you were ordinary players. What they cut into? There may be special achievements?

[AND. Zotov] So for sure. He played everything from childhood. Nes , Megadrive , Dreamcast , PlayStation (precisely in this order). Most loved Japanese RPG – adored the series Final Fantasy, Shining Force, Grandia And old console games. Sometimes I play Mk 3. When the arcade version in Steam , I got into the top 10 players, took a screenshot and did not play anymore. Since 2002 he began to play CS and study badly. In 2009, he quit playing and left the team. We went a lot with the guys to different championships, I visited sixty or seventy.

[IN. Thinness] Yes, CS 1.6 took a considerable part of my life. He began to play with bots at home in the era of 56k Internet, then clubs, championships … During the game in CS, I simultaneously made trial muses and intuitively sorry for the buttons in Sony Vegas. Then there was still very little information about muvimayking, not to mention training materials. That is why to study the capabilities of Sony Vegas, Adobe After Effects and other programs were very interesting – each created effect made him proud of himself!

[G. Glau] Yes, you can say so. He played everything in a row, mainly in the fact that classmates allowed to play on disks (I did not have the Internet then). I loved most of all Diablo 2 And Silent Hill 2. Once my friends called me to a computer club and introduced me to CS. Probably this is the first time that predetermined my future.

[[Bullet]] video about Mortal Kombat, called Total Annihilation. Author – Dmitry Lomonosov (MMD)

[Gambling.Ru] which Movik was the first in your life? Which still remains the most beloved and occupies a couple of hundred megabytes on the hard drive?

[AND. Zotov] The first, probably, was Status: Owned , He was on a pirate disk with CS 1.5. There are many favorite videos. Of those that immediately come to mind, I will call Hush , Die Hard , Clutch5 Pistol Movie And French Connection 2.

[IN. Thinness] The first was called BJGW , I saw him in one of the computer clubs. Around then, I opened the hunt for MUVIKs in CS and Quake, since the Internet was still unrealistically slow. He took out new videos through friends who already had a home network.

[G. Glau] The first two muviks are some kind of video about the team Mibr And CPL1337. I got them by chance. Looking at them, I got all this. Thank God, soon we had an unlimited Internet (20 KB \ s), I pumped several pieces a day and looked, looked at and watched ..

I can't explain what I found in them then, I just wanted more and more. There are many favorite videos, it is difficult to highlight one one, however, I can name Eve And Hush. At one time, these two works were something impossible ..

[[Bullet]] Eve-once this video was considered a reference, and many were equal to it

[Gambling.Ru] When you first caught yourself thinking that you want to make high -quality videos about the most popular games?

[AND. Zotov] I have drawn a lot since childhood, I really wanted to create cartoons. And he made the first videos on CS only to boast of his game to friends. There was no talk of any beauty, only later I realized that these two things can be combined.

[IN. Thinness] After the first Counter-Strike videos viewed, this thought has always been in my head.

[G. Glau] When access to the network appeared, I began to be interested in how all this is done at all. Realizing the principle of work, I made my first video cutting with a game against bots. Well, and went, went ..

[[Bullet]] Windows Movie Maker – many started with it.

[Gambling.Ru] The author of the article many years ago made his first video in Videomach, and Intro and Outro in MS Paint. And from what programs you started? What you use now?

[AND. Zotov] Also began with Paint plus Windows Moviemaker , And in 2003 a friend brought me a disc with Sony Vegas. I began to try to collect something in it and sat there until 2009. Now the standard set is package Adobe + Cinema 4D. I rarely use Vegas today, mainly for working with sound.

[IN. Thinness] I was more fortunate – I bought a disk with software software, from reviews on the network I learned that Adobe Premiere Best of all. True, his interface seemed wild to me, and, having tried all the programs on the disk, I stopped at Sony Vegas 2. On it and hanging, sometimes, however, updated the versions. About existence Adobe after Effects , 3D Max and Cinema 4D found out later.

[G. Glau] I remember opened Windows Moviemaker, and there I got something absurd. Horrified by what I saw, I did not open this program anymore. Then I found somewhere Ulead Video Studio , she was much clearer. With her help, I made my first three videos with incredible fragments of publics (laughs).

Later I found on the Web forums dedicated to muvimayking, and learned about Sony Vegas. I work in it to this day. The main installation programs are Sony Vegas and Adobe Premiere, well Final Cut For Mac OS. There is no big difference between them, each has its own pros and cons of.

[[Bullet]] Sony Vegas is one of the most popular video editing programs.

[Gambling.ru] How long have you studied the capabilities and chips of the necessary programs? Watching video tutorials or learning everything by poke?

[AND. Zotov] I had no access to the lessons before, and there were very few of them themselves. I had to figure it out myself. Well, from 2008-2009. I began to watch and read everything that I could find by profession. It is regrettable that schoolchildren are now very lazy, ask the same questions, instead of teaching on their own.

[IN. Thinness] He began to study everything himself, without lessons, and it was much more effective than delving into training materials. After all, if you do not repeat the actions gleaned from the lessons, later most of the information is forgotten.

[G. Glau] To master the basic things of Sony Vegas and learn more, I once read forums and text lessons with pictures. Now for beginners there are hundreds of video tutorials for every taste and in all languages ​​of the world, so you can comprehend something if you wish can be easily and quickly.

[Gambling.ru] did you once equal the creations of recognized masters in your works? Did you have idols?

[AND. Zotov] Yes, sure. And do not believe the people who deny this! At one time, depending on some outstanding Muvik ( Jaegarn X , Ruination ), I was sure that they were made almost in Hollywood. Each video recorded by friends on a flash drive was perceived no worse than a movie blockbuster. Over time, of course, it became clear that ordinary guys were doing the videos, sitting at home. The idol was alone – Pray , Muvimaker from Germany. I watched his videos hundreds of times.

[IN. Thinness] Yes, especially those who had their own style, a highlight in the works. Imitated those who raised my question: “How did he make this effect or transition?"Since Muviki has not looked for several years, only one nickname comes to mind – Crzyfst.

[G. Glau] I’m not sure that I can call them my idols, but outstanding authors, whose work I watched a lot of times, was enough. Previously, Muvimayking was a kind of analogue of the film industry, of course, with his stars and idols.

In the movie, the film output of some cult director is a significant event. This was the same with Muviks; announced the premieres of outstanding videos, interviewed, there were even forums where the authors talked with simple mortals. All this was damn great.

[[Bullet]] Muvik about the fairly famous Swedish player Fredrick Anderson

[Gambling.ru] how much on average you occupy a high-quality video for seven to ten minutes? What are the main difficulties?

[AND. Zotov] The difficulty is that I no longer remember what and how … The last time Muvik himself completely did at the end of 2009. It was my part from the video Movienations rave on!. Now I sometimes producing other work. That is, I receive a budget from the customer, I am looking for installers and designers on it and follow the qualitative completion of the tasks. Of the last major projects – Virtus.Pro 2011 And Memoirs of 1.6.

[IN. Thinness] I was enough for a maximum of five minutes, because I do not always manage to withstand the style and, having come up with a bunch of interesting effects, do not make a “vinaigrette”. Yes, and fatigue after a thousandth viewing of her creation affected ..

[G. Glau] Depends on a lot: free time, motivation, type of video (Fragmovie are made faster than art work with many visual effects). I know examples when five -minute mugs were made for a year and when ten -minute created in just a month. Personally, I usually fit in one to two months.

[[Bullet]] Funny video Movienates Rave on!, made immediately by five eminent authors (Cheb, Cristo, Kab, Oui and Raven)

[Gambling.ru] as you know, a powerful computer is required to process the video. You can share the characteristics of your working machines?

[AND. Zotov] At work, a good computer, and a year and a half ago, it generally hit the imagination – 2 xson, 16 GB of memory and map Nvidia Quadro. Here I have a very old wheelbarrow at home, she is more than three years old. I have been going to update for a long time, but too lazy to transfer all projects to a new computer.

[IN. Thinness] Yes, this is the dream of any muvimaker, but I always had a car of medium characteristics or below. Now is Athlon X2 4400+, 4GB DDR2, GeForce 9600 256 MB, 1.5 TB, Dell 24.

[G. Glau] In principle, a powerful computer is optional, I know people who have made just great work on ancient cars. But, of course, the more powerful, the better: fewer lags, it is loading faster, shows and encoded. Comfort in our business is very important, and if everything hangs, you will only be nervous. My PC has the following characteristics: the six -core processor AMD Phenom II X6 1075T @ 3GHZ, RAM 8 GB, 3 TB of the hard drive and the GEFORCE GTX 285 graphics card card 285.

[[Bullet]] A powerful computer is not only a dream, but also a real necessity for any self -respecting muvimaker.

[Gambling.ru] what kind of work can you boast? What video turned you from an ordinary guy into a star of the CIS muvimayking?

[AND. Zotov] There is nothing to brag about now, in old work you constantly find a bunch of errors. Now I am collecting a new RIL of our studio ( Chaosform ), I hope to finish in the spring. I plan to show off them!

[[Bullet]] Shadows of the Past is one of the most beautiful works in the history of domestic muvimayking. Author – Igor Zotov (Cheb)

As for the non-profit work, the cs mukes probably turned out to be best Shadows of the Past and his trailer, who won along with the Mixer's video ( Single Gaming 3 Trailer ) In 2009, in the prestigious nomination "Best Trailer of the Year" on the Planet-Videos portal.Com. And Muvik himself took first place in the last large contest of Muvikov Illusion Pictures 2009 In the Czech Republic.

[IN. Thinness] I suppose that was my journey video "Through The Unknown".

[G. Glau] I think stardom and boasting are superfluous. Perhaps I will choose ASUS Spring 2011 and Dreamhack Summer 2012.

[[Bullet]] Journey “Through The Unknown”-fifth place at the BDMC R2 contest and the best CS work of Vadim Vadobsin (Vadoskin)

[Gambling.ru] Recently, many have been talking about the dying of muvimayking in the CIS, is it so? How did this process begin, and whether it can be turned back?

[AND. Zotov] I don't think it's true. Now the Internet has been filled with short cuts and "highlights". Less attention is paid to the creative component, everything returned to the origins when people simply recorded their fragments and, so that it was not boring to watch, added music. Well, given the development YouTube and stream platforms, it seems to me that you can’t talk about any death.

[IN. Thinness] You are right, he is almost died. That generation of guys who created worthy work, lessons and everything that promoted Muvimayking, in an instant all this grew. Most tied their lives with creating videos, graphics. Some, however, are still fond of flyers, but there are those who only sometimes look through the videos and nostalgies at that time. As for me, I committed it to this.

[[Bullet]] Dreamhack Summer 2012. Author – George Glau (Nemesis)

[G. Glau] Depending on what is meant by muvimeyking. If you just create videos, then everything, as before, is a bunch of video of different quality on YouTube. But for me, muvimayking is primarily the Commonwealth of like -minded people, a certain feeling of community, which has been the last seven years on the site Movienations.Com.

And if you look from this side, then the patient is not so dead than alive, but already delivered from the morgue to the cemetery, buried and only occasionally someone brings him flowers to the grave. The majority has grown their hobby and changed the sphere of activity.

[Bullet]] The first Trailer Cut vadoskin’s was successful, as evidenced by half a million views on YouTube

[Gambling.RU] is it possible to exist comfortably, making a video to order, or if you need to work additionally?

[AND. Zotov] Now, as far as I know, some guys earn on YouTube with views. Yes, not millions, but with a regular salary, I think, is quite comparable. It is bad that there are such units. I know that a couple of guys work in Virtus.Pro , Na’vi and other teams where he receives an adequate salary.

The rest – no, you can’t even just exist, not that comfortable. Although each has its own level of comfort. The main thing is that a person likes what he is doing. Well, in general, it is from a commercial point of view, of course, it is better to move on.

[IN. Thinness] If this is official work with constant orders, why not?

[G. Glau] If we talk about the guys who make videos in the field of e -sports, I can say that this is more of money for pocket expenses than a salary, so that no comfortable existence and speech cannot go. And if we take into account those who have moved from the creation of rollers on CS And Quake to something more serious (video editing, creating graphics and design), then everything is already fine there, and their work is appropriately paid.

[[Bullet]] Another one more – this time from another famous Russian muvimaker Dmitry Lomonosov (MMD)

[Gambling.ru] Muvimayking is more like a hobby for you than work, right? Do you know examples of children from the CIS who went beyond the videos about Counter-Strike in their professional activities?

[IN. Thinness] Forgotten hobbies, and I myself am an example of this – I am the director of the installation of trailers, but most likely I would not have come to this if not for the muvimayking.

[G. Glau] Work can be anything if you get Lottomart Casino money for it. A hobby is something for the soul, and you usually invest in it yourself. For example, I am fond of photography.

[AND. Zotov] It is muvimayking – yes, rather a hobby. It seems to me that this is for life. But I work, one might say, by profession. I will name only a few names:

Pavel Mishchenko -Broadkast designer, one of the best in the CIS. Now operates in Gazprom-Media, on the TNT channel.

Alexey Kurochkin (3uma) – An excellent designer in the 1nstudio studio, collected some videos from the famous “scandalous truth” from MDV.

Alexey Brin (Ar lek Sey) -He teaches Moutish design at the SCREAMSCHOOL school, leads one of the best Blogs in Mushnu in Runet.

Alexander Lebedev (SMW) – Designer, founder of a successful studio in St. Petersburg.

Evgeny Voznyak (COLT) – He worked remotely in Electronic Arts , modeling objects for their games.

[[Bullet]] Thor: Into the Labyrinth-the official Re-Cut Trailer of the film "Thor"; Made specifically for paramount

[Gambling.RU] Imagine that any company is eager to get you in this area where you would send a resume?

[AND. Zotov] A year of this two thousand nine – tenth I would say just "Television in Moscow". A couple of years ago I would list several of the best Western design studios. And now I am confused – I don't know what I want. More precisely, there are a lot of ideas in my head. I hope I will decide on the next interview! (laughs)

[IN. Chelobets] ignition – Trailerhaus in the USA (trailers, commercials) are one of the best in their field.

[G. Glau] Mount Quentin Tarantino movies!