New Helmety Goodness!

I'm always looking for new sources of helmety goodness. To be honest, there is actually a lot of machinima to be found out in the wilds of cyberspace, but, as in any artform, there is more bad than good. Machinima should be considered like any animated or live-action short film: there's got to be good writing, good camera work, good production levels, and good editing. The ones I've shown you here have those qualities, but there have been a lot of series with good writing, but crappy sound engineering; good concepts, but bad story-telling. For a short film, attention spans are already short, so if you don't have the whole package from the very beginning, interest will be lost very rapidly. Which brings us to these two French guys flying F-15s. I don't know if it's funny because it's in French, or if it would matter if it was dubbed in English. All I know, the French aspect definitely adds to the humor. Oh, and these guys' second episode swept the machinima awards this year. Maybe you'll get a chance to see that one too. So, here you go, Une Aventure de Bill et John: Danger dedans le Ciel (A Bill and John Adventure: Danger in the Sky).

 

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