Re-Release: Pixelation is back!

 

Pixelation is back! It's been six months since its disappearance, but it's back: bigger, bolder and better than before. Pixelation and DEPTHMAP were the only two films that have not been re-uploaded over the course of spring because of their respective original soundtracks. Now I am just wondering: Is this a re-edit of a re-edit? Wow. Anyway. The original Pixelation was released in 2020 and served as a experimental short consisting of shots taken from three old machinima's I produced in 2010 and 2011 called APPOV, APPOV Trailer and Hero. The film shifted from a frag movie/skill-based approach towards a more experimental and mysterious mood-like short film in the process. 

For the 2023 re(re?)-release,  I expanded upon everything a bit in both the audio and video department. The visuals are (at least in my opinion) a bit more appealing and now truly capture the experimental essence and tempo of what Pixelation should entail, and the soundtrack has been expanded from a single track to a mix consisting of five separate tracks. The edit itself has remained unchanged.

At the moment, the only film that still needs to have its soundtrack revised is the original DEPTHMAP. Since the film's visuals and sound have basically intertwined during editing back in 2019, it would be near-right impossible for me to find a suitable Creative Commons music track that would allow me to re-release DEPTHMAP without having to do any form of tweaking in the edit itself. That poses a problem as I do not want to re-edit DEPTHMAP. It has been highly well-received as it is, and still, four years later, I love every single frame of it and I wouldn't want to change a single thing. That only leaves one other option, and that is to create a custom soundtrack from scratch. Therefore, at this moment, the re-release of DEPTHMAP will commence somewhere in 2024. I will share more info on the blog by then. Current project-load, work-load and personal matters prevent me from starting its re-inception any earlier than early 2024. Please bear with me on this. In the meantime, enjoy PIXELATION, version two!

PIXELATION will release Thursday, August 31st at 12:30PM CEST on YouTube!

PIXELATION (2020)

 

Based on APPOV (2010), APPOV Trailer (2010) and Hero (2011)

A Film made by Jordy Veenstra

Produced by A Pixelated Point of View

Runtime: 2"20'

Resolution: 1920x816 (2:35)

Color/BW: Why not both?

Mods/Software:

Quake III Arena (1999) by id Software

OSP, by Orange Smoothie

CPMA, by PlayMoreProMode

Q3MME 1.8, by HMage, CaNaBiS, ent and auri

Music:

MUSIC: “Phoenix 1909” 

Composed by OKAM 

Obtained with a CC-BY-NC-SA License from FreeMusicArchive.org “

 

Sleaves of Black” 

Composed by OKAM 

Obtained with a CC-BY-NC-SA License from FreeMusicArchive.org 

 

 “Dystopia Projected” 

Composed by OKAM 

Obtained with a CC-BY-NC-SA License from FreeMusicArchive.org 

 

“IDRush”

 Composed by OKAM 

Obtained with a CC-BY-NC-SA License from FreeMusicArchive.org 

 

“The Paradigm Shift, in Accordance to Plan 

Composed by OKAM vs ps 

Obtained with a CC-BY-NC-SA License from FreeMusicArchive.org