Merry Christmas Everyone!

Have a happy holiday now while it lasts! I'm off to celebrate with my family and just have a chill and merry christmas eve :) Because you know we Swedes celebrate the 24 of December (don't ask me why).

Enjoy this little Christmas Short as well :)

Here's a few screenshots from the sled contraption. Took a while to finish and broke several times :P
Enjoy!

2 New Videos - Engineer Techno Extras!

On MysticMild i uploaded two projects i did but forgot. Simple experiments i did with Engineer Techno after i uploaded the original.
Though it was time for them to see the light of day on my secondary channel!

KritzKast Interviews MisterMild

The all so famous Team Fortress 2 podcast "KritzKast" has recently uploaded an interview with me.

One of the hosts "Agro" the pyro and i have a talk about how my channel and how my interest for TF2 & Gmod grew. Also i lay a comment about my videos Cheeseburger Apocalypse: The Movie, Diglett, Engineer Techno and my trailer remakes. I talk about how this channel as affected my personal life and will in the future. And i kinda give a hint of possible future projects ;)
Read more on the Episode Page

This was my first ever interview on English so i was a bit stuttering with the words and i just got out of a cold so i was coughing a bit. But from time to time i think i make some sense and i talk okay :)

Hope you enjoy this 38 minutes long clip of me forcing out English words to make some interesting sentences. And a big thanks to Agro and the rest of the hosts who make an awesome job with this podcast!
I'll be here if you ever need help with anything!

"KritzKast interviews MisterMild"

And when you're done and if you're not already following them i think you should give them a chance and listen to a few episodes!

Engineer Techno Behind The Scenes! Part 3 - The video

My first idea was to make a DJ Hero inspired music video for the song, there began the preparations.

I found the perfect map...

gm_rave_final
by Kainy
(If you're downloading it, don't forget the Sound Fix Download)








Turntable:

My first task on the map was to make a turntable with spinning vinyls.

For the vinyls i used a CD model (Download) and re skinned it myself to make it black.

I thought my plan for spinning vinyls was great and easy but it was proven very hard.
My plan was to set the vinyls on a spinning axis on the base, then place the Engys hand also on a spinning axis on the vinyl. Though i found out the placing an axis on a rag-doll hand was hard, also if you accidentally dropped the hand from it's freeze it would break the whole contraption. Another problem was generally to make the vinyl spin good when moving Engys hand, you needed to be exactly right with the movement to not break the physics of the vinyl.
Enough Gmod talk :P

I left that idea and decided that just having them there would be good enough, giving me a plus that i now could resize them too without breaking them.

The rest of the turntable is created by various "wire" buttons and machinery. If you look closely on the video you can see that all the buttons were acting weird during the whole recording. They started floating in nowhere and spinning and turning, something i also could not do anything about :(

Buttons and such were more lined up when i began recording,
After recording it kinda looked like this.

Lighting, props and people:
The lights and the dancing combines is what made this recording laggy, it also messed up a lot of ideas since it was so laggy. Movements were not as smooth and easy handed as I've wanted them to be.

Sexy Alyx is teasing you.

Female Pyro says hi!

I first planned of Female Pyro and Alyx to dance a lot more and more sexy, but the lights made any physgun movement kinda laggy and slow. It ended up with a few clips that i could use.


Then, in true club style, i added the Heavy Bouncer. Of course Heavy became the bouncer, who else? :P

Heavy is Bouncer!

Dark Shades (Download),

One Mac Headphone (It's the headphone model with "nocolide" and turned inside Heavy so that only one is visible)

A Gun (On his hip, you could not see it in the movie)

and A Stunstick was good enough to make me giggle at my creation :) in a good way.

More like a bodyguard with the ear piece but it looked cool.

The dancing combines and zombies...

PARTY!!!

Yes, as many have commented they are looping the "i'm on fire" animation. Though i did not do much to make them to that. I actually used one of the first swep weapons i ever downloaded to Gmod,
the Raveball by Killburn! (Download)

The "Raveball" is the light source on the top left.
Just throw it and NPC combines and zombies start to
dance like in the movie.

It's a classic and that swep is what's causing the lazer beems too. Try it out yourself around some combine NPCs and you'll understand (Download)


Other Tricks and facts:

• Moving Camera: Download
• The Beginning of the movie uses a "tint" filter removing some colors and make the picture dirty.
• The Rest uses a simple green filter, some pictures have added overexposure.
• The camera bouncing to the beat is simply made by zooming and panning.
• The flashing lights are lamps with thrusters.
• The DJ Engineer Poster is one of these re skinned and some times resized by me.
• During the recording of the dancing NPCs my approx Frames per second was 3.
• I found out about Female Pyros extremely jiggly breasts in the middle of recoding her.
• You can see the turntable stop buttons turn as i move The Engy at 3:38.

Hope you enjoyed my three part behind the scene, you have been asking for it so long now.

I must give you credit if you have read all these parts now, i hope you've learned something.

Please leave a comment on what you found out reading this, i would really appreciate it :)

Engineer Techno Behind The Scenes! Part 2 - The music

Making the Engineer Techno music:
I can't force an idea out of my head, an idea can come to me at any time, anywhere!
This is a good example of exactly that... My friend CrimsonCombine introduced me to the song Ghost n Stuff a while ago and i loved it! I listened to it constantly and i had a CD in my car with Ghost n Stuff included. And suddenly one day, i just caught myself mumbling "En-gi-neer" to the baseline, and i almost drove into the ditch after shocking myself with that discovery! I listened to the song a few more times and later i upgraded the phrase to "En-gi-neer, tech-no" since me and my friends joked about Engineers "Heck no" response just a few days earlier, it just came to me.

That's the origin!
I found an instrumental version of the song and placed "En-gi-neer, tech-no" in the right position to the instrumental. And from that i began building the song around it. I started this project early this summer and worked with it from time to time parallel with my other projects (like Panic Sniper).
This is how a Vegas timeline can look like after a song like this done by me...
This is the first chorus, the first marker there is when the base kicks in after the Engineers mixed cheer.

Also there are a few rows more.

I actually finished it over a month ago, but i kept changing it until i did not want to change it anymore.

The scratching:
In my general quest to always try and make something cool that's not very common in Garry's Mod movies, i decided that i should make this song kind of like a DJ mix. Maybe there's someone out there that has made anything containing TF2, scratching and DJ-ing before but i could not find anything greater.

Some people think that's me personally scratching the engineers voice clips, but it's not.
I know a few things about mixing and such but not enough to do it live. So the key is that i used a big load of scratch samples and blended them with the Engis clips in Vegas in a kind of "Fake Scratch".
Sort of simulating the sound that scratching a vinyl back and forth does.

Extra "behind" stuff:
Some guys was wondering how the song sounded without the instrumental...
So here you get some examples without the instrumental.

Hope you enjoyed this second behind the scene segment,
Please leave a comment and tell me what you think.

Engineer Techno Behind The Scenes! Part 1 - The logo

Making the DJ Engineer logotype:
I know a few Photoshop tricks and now it was time to show it off!

I began with a good Engineer pose with Valves Model Viewer tool. This is a combination of the already existing cheering and pointing animation merged together with a happy Engy face. Green background (for easy extraction) and then Print Screen.

Then it was time to find a proper base image.
Went around on Google until i found this DJ Hero Screenshot.

Then took some time to insert the Engineer into this picture. It took some time but it ended up quite well.
I used layers, paint and the Clone tool to remove visible parts of the original DJ hero guy behind my inserted Engineer. Used the brushes to add some shining effects where it was needed, for example where the white shines behind him to the right. And good enough!

Then went to cooltext.com and got the DJ engineer text. Put it together with the TF2 logo.
And there we have it!

(If you look close on the TF2 logo you'll see and engineer face in the middle, that because that's the first skin idea for my vinyls in my Engineer Techno Music Video but i scratched that idea after i've seen it in Gmod and used it here instead)


Here you go, you can have these pictures and use them as you want:
Backgrounds, TF2 Sprays, blog posts etc.

Original Wide

Icon style

Spray Files:
Some have been asking for sprays for TF2, L4D etc.
So i saved you some work and did the files myself...

Original:
Download Here

Or use the one i'm using, one with a MisterMild logo and "Engineer Techno @ Youtube" text in the corners:
Download Here

Hope you enjoyed this Behind the Scene segment,
Please leave a comment, i'd appreciate that :)