Here is a collection of montages that I created in my spare time (mostly older projects) before working professionally in the games industry. These videos consist of projects where I personally captured the footage, used footage from friends, or worked on paid projects (yes, some people actually paid me :D). All videos were edited by me using Sony Vegas 7/13 and later the Adobe Suite and Blender.
EPILEPSY WARNING: These videos contain a lot of flashing images.
Conezone 2 - Gears of War 3 Montage
Roles: 3D Animation in Blender, Video Editing, Cinematics in UE3 (I reverse engineered using UE3 and wrote a lengthy guide for myself to work on the project - more info in the breakdown), Motion Graphics, Audio Mixing
Beware - this is my maximum insanity in a nutshell...
A behind the scenes/breakdown is here if you are really interested.
'Kantus' Scene - Gears of War 3 Test
Roles: Cinematics in UE3, Video Editing, Compositing in After Effects, Audio Mixing (beware of the ear rape at the end)
'I Regret To Inform' - Gears of War Judgment Montage
Roles: Games Capture, Video Editing (Sony Vegas days 🪦🪦)
'Golden' - Gears of War 1 Montage
Roles: Video Editing (Sony Vegas), Cinematics in Gears of War 1 Unreal Editor
'Blood Brothers' - Gears of War 4 Montage
Roles: Video Editing, Compositing in After Effects
Hmmm, I wish now I had added cinematics that I captured for this montage however the flycam controls in game were horrendous to operate, alas it's a pretty cool montage.
WARNING: Intense head ache inducing flashing in this one.
OSOK (One Shot One Kill) Gears of War 3 Minitage
Roles: Games Capture, Video Editing
Gears of War 1 Mini Edit
Roles: Video Editing (Sony Vegas)
My prime edgelord/Sin City inspired days
'Blitz' Gears of War 1 Montage
Roles: Video Editing (Sony Vegas)
Still edgelord
'BLOOD ON OUR HANDS' Gears of War Judgment Dualtage (Two Players = Dualtage, cool eh?)
Roles: Games Capture, Video Editing (Sony Vegas)
'Typical' Gears of War 3 Montage
Roles: Video Editing (Sony Vegas)
'Limit' Black Ops 1 Montage
Roles: Games Capture, Video Editing (Sony Vegas)
Avenge Dubz Gears of War 3 Montage
Roles: Video Editing (Sony Vegas)
FatalxBloodlust Gears of War 3 Montage
Roles: Video Editing (Sony Vegas)
Gears of War 1 Minitage
Roles: Games Capture, Video Editing (Sony Vegas)
Comic Book Inspired Gears of War 1 Minitage
Roles: Video Editing (Sony Vegas)
'Sabotage' Gears of War 1 Minitage
Roles: Video Editing (Sony Vegas)
Questing for Quickscopes Halo 2 Montage
If you have made it this far, firstly, well done and congratulations! You are about to witness one of my oldest videos, a Halo 2 montage I captured using my trusty Dazzle DVC 170 which was likely set up incorrectly due to the horrendous interlacing in the footage. I was around 13-14 years old at the time.
Prior to working in the games industry, I grew up editing and making montages of various games, mainly Halo 2 and the Gears of War franchise. These featured footage from friends or my own captured footage using a variety of capture cards and were edited using my trusty copy of Sony Vegas 7.0 (back in the day). Even though the majority of these videos are quite old (and mostly unfinished!), I look back fondly over these to see how I've changed over time and how it helped me in my future career. EPILEPSY WARNING! THERE IS A LOT OF FLASHING IMAGES IN THESE VIDEOS!