Newsletter

Hello again! Welcome to the January 2016 BPS Newsletter.

Hope you all had a great Christmas! Sam here giving you the latest spill of info.

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Progress & Updates

Turbo Kart Racers (Minecraft Animation)

The next animation to be released, created by RoA Nitrox. This video is inspired by the gamemode on Hypixel, a minecraft server. He plans to have it finished towards the middle of January, so not long to wait!

PROJECT: Containment

I have completed all body acting, apart from any redos I might need later down the line. I’m currently working my way through capturing all of the footage. Still waiting on a few lines from people, but all sounds positive!

Medusa: Seven

Cordless is currently editing the video as we speak! It was previously delayed back in mid-2015 to allow Powers of Arcane to be released first. We should expect to see more of this over the next month or so.

Medusa: Battle of the Mark

Turnip’s main contribution to the channel. This is another Medusa installment telling a separate story. It is currently in the scripting stage, voice actors will be cast soon.

Spartan Arena (Halo 5 Machinima)

Spartan Arena Episode 1 is almost written and Set Design has begun. Thomas is creating a Voice Audition Video as well which should be out sometime in January. So be sure to look out for that!

GUNGNIR’s Pizza Shirt!

We recently added a few new shirts to our Spreadshirt store! One of which was the highly requested GUNGNIR’s Pizza shirt. We saw so many comments of videos asking on this design and it’s finally on sale.

Click here to check it out!

We also have Banana King shirts too!

Machinima Cone Competition

Recently, we announced our first machinima competition! You have to create a machinima…about cones.

We posted a video here and made a website post about it here.

All video submissions are posted to the thread here.

Any questions about the competition can be answered here.

It sounds weird saying the word “here” now…

Minecraft Animation Tutorials

For those of you loving our new minecraft animations and want to get involved, look no further! Arby just created a professional tutorial on how to get started in making minecraft animations in Blender. He talks about all stages of production, and even mentions what’s next for him in terms of cinematic content.

You can find them here.

BPS Streaming

Stream Highlights

Our talented member CJKIES has just released the second stream highlights video consisting of content made from October-December of 2015. We stream games like Minecraft, Halo, Just Cause 3, Fallout 4, GTA 5 and other fun stuff.

Be sure to check it out here.

Streaming Channels

A few members of the BPS team have started streaming on their own channels to produce content for CJ and his stream highlights videos. Their channels are linked below:

Arbiter 617          Sam Small          RoA Nitrox          CordlessJet          CJKIES

Community Spotlight

An enthusiastic fan created an excellent recreation of the BattleSim Lounge Room in Halo 5 forge! The sheer fact someone took the time to do this is remarkable. This guy is certainly talented and we feel he deserves a spotlight in this newsletter.

Be sure to check out the video below and subscribe to his Youtube channel!

Worthy Forum Mention

I’m pretty sure everyone here at BPS is a Star Wars fan, so why not check out The Force Awakens discussion in our forums! Tell us what you thought of the movie or share your theatre experiences.

Click here to check it out!

WARNING: Obviously there are spoilers.

Upcoming 2015 Look-Back Post

At some point over the next few days, we will either be posting a video or a website post about the year of 2015 and how it has looked for BPS, covering all of our content, events and achievements.

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Please be sure to leave feedback in the comments below on what else I could include in these Newsletters. We have a lot of great content in store for 2016.  A Happy New Year to you all and I leave you with a question:

What was your favourite BPS moment of 2015? 

Cheerio chaps,

– Sam