SENTiNEL (A Sci-Fi Short Film) 

Hear me out: There was never any tension build-up because the ship always missed every shot which didn't really give any emotional connection to him running. If he got shot which paralyzed or hurt him and the enemy ship was really close to killing him then the escape would have a far better payoff. If the weapon was found near the skeleton/dead body of a former victim with like the number 000 on his bone/skin the end scene would also have a better build up. Otherwise great visuals especially the ship and effects. The cinematography and lighting were fantastic. Sound design was 👌. Anyways I hope you guys give some feedback to this comment.

Ryan (Or Andrew Kramer), don't even think about not showing how you made that end title sequence. A great short film, as always!

Andrew Kramer and Film Riot, perfect combo! Great short!

Whoa!! This was awesome! Visual effects were 👌🏼

Who do I have to bribe to find out the connection between Sentinel and Ballistic?

Darious is totally correct... great film.... I wanted more! loved the graphics at the end.... Bravo!

Cool VFX, but the story didn't really grab me (minus points for deus ex machina) and the acting was pretty obvious. Hoping for a glitchy credits tutorial

More! Creates so many questions. What? Who was he? Why the time? why was he being hunted?....I'd like to see more of this! Brownie points Justin

Damn that gun was awesome, Punished Props Academy did an amazing job!

My favorite thing about this short is how you made us feel concern for Justin. Since we're used to his comedic and neat-constant injury and death, that's a significant accomplishment for actor and director. Great work all around. Someone else speculated this might be the same world as "PROXiMITY." I'm inclined to agree. It would work.

PROXiMITY also had a i there wasn't in capital letters. Maybe there's a connection between those two short films?

How have I not seen this before! Looks awesome! Great 3D and comping. Loved it.

If that's the intro.. I'm hooked!!

I knew I liked this video because when it finished and I wanted to watch MORE. MORRRRE. MOOOOAAAARRRR

Man, that drone looks stunning! The design is really really amazing, flawless job as always!

This is pretty good for what it is. It could easily fit in with the Resistance in Half Life 2.

Freaking sweet!! Loved it! The special effects rival most blockbuster movies. Where do you get your prop weapons??? Do you build them yourself?

When he pulled out the gun and the scanner thing I immediately thought this better not be sponsored by Recoil lol 😂 but great job guys I can’t wait for the behind the scenes

zero story. just a cinematic scene of a guy finding a deus ex machina and blowing up a sci fi drone....really fkn cool

The best sci-fi Short film i have ever seen.😍

Very nice, good thing we can skip ahead a bit, a little dry in spots. Seems like the manufacturer of the sentinel would have fixed the "Charging main weapon" design flaw but cool short

It is a shame that you didnt call these short by numbers so people could understand it better. Proximity 1, Sentinel 2, Ballistic 3. Very much looking forward to part 4.

Holy shit, check if Marvel is looking to hire!

Now let's turn it into a feature.

Cool short. May have wanted to grade the ground hits to appear more like they are coming from the soil. Love the show

This was a fun 5 minute diversion. Not to disparage the guys that think story is supreme -- it is! -- but, sometimes I want to watch something that is short and sweet. This was just as satisfying as a bag of salty potato chips, not very nutritious but still very tasty! So what if the sentinel was the worst shot in history, maybe it was programmed to tease the quarry a little bit before shoving the BIG gun up his a**! Who cares if the count down timer was superfluous? It added a bit of backstory intentionally left incomplete and presupposes that there's more to come. I don't care that the guy found the weapons so quickly, he's got a gadget that provides that information. He's in a life and death situation -- he survived! That's all that counts!

Really good work, I've always found your projects pretty fucking well achieved in a cinematographic point of view. You learned and inspired me so much since more than 4 years now! And I am myself making short movies today. Even though being entertained by your fictions, I have never really found an enough-captivating story in you films, which is absolutely not to worry about, and this is of course under an absolute personal point of view. I am not going to say that you have brought this passion of mine for filmmaking into my life, but you have definitely learned me so much about what I really, really wanted and needed to know about making movies, and I must admit: it gave me hope. Andrew Kramer has been quiet the same teacher and inspirer for me into the VFX domain, and watching a Film-Riot/Video Copilot production is just AMAZING! I hope, I really hope that one day you will see MY big project, which is a short-movie, that I care and prepare for almost 3 years now, simply because I remember me developing my first bigger projects while learning from Film-Riot, and at the time it felt like such an excellence and privilege to have kind of your lessons at my disposition. I am developing my filmmaking skills by doing films, and here is my 3rd short-film ( ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-BlG7yOB2hLg.html ), completed 2 months ago, a sci-fi story (SENTiNEL made me thought of it) that I define as my bigger(completed)-project of my life. I am an amateur and I make a lot of mistakes (that’s why it’s so good), and I don’t have a good English, which is not my birth-language, so forgive me if I cannot be well understood. I want to thank you, and go watch my short-film if this message has developed an interesting thought about me, or if you are simply curious to see what a 18 years old boy like me with a camera, a micro and some friends can do for putting his imagination to the screen! In all sincerity - Diogo Consolado

And the laser of fly's attack, you probably need to change the transform mode or add a color correction to it, it's a little strange here..Anyway, that's a good film!

quality VFX and sound design.

Ok, this was awesome. Now I want to see the whole film. Anyone pick this up yet?

I don't get all the hate, Nice job, came here after watching the gun build on the Punished Props Academy channel. wasn't expecting much but it looked great. Loved the tension of waiting for the machine to charge and fire before it could be taken out.

Lucky guy find a rifle in the middle of nowhere

WOW !!! one of the best i watched recently. good job team. keep it up,.....

It's a mix of Cowboys & Aliens, In Time and some Neill Blomkamp movies... well done =)

The foam weapon didn't feel that weighty. Maybe you should've embedded some kind of metal in it.

What happens when the numbers run out on his arm?

Well, this was a cool short. But, I know I don’t have the skills or the years of practice that you guys have, I want to make a critic. Ryan, I am a huge fan of film riot a long time, but looks like after “Epic Summer” (a long time ago btw), your shorts are just that: something or someone chasing someone. After ES, the best short you made was with the osmo gimble. Feel like your shorts are becoming routine, that it is just to show what you can do. Don’t have film riot face anymore. I love the show, every thing you teach us (thank you very much), but your shorts seens some kind of obligation, is mandatory you made 1 short at least, and it isn’t. Take for example TELL. It was the best short you made until today. How long it took? 4 years? But man, that had context, a background history, something to hang on. I am not saying you are doing a bad job. I just saying you are losing the “Disney magic” kkkk, you touch are missing. Please, come back with the good and film riot style short film. Thank you for everything you done for us, all the lessons and God bless you all!

The credits are getting longer every film!

So what did the number signify? The amount of drones left?

Good thing someone left a high tech weapon in the barn.....

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Really awesome effects and action... not really engaged by the story (or lack of one?). Cool tech, which I think was the point.

Cool - simple plot line but with more to it e.g. what/why the timer on the wrist - nice 'taste'. Interested in the next project...

This is AWESOME

U reeled me in..!! Good one..!! 👌

Is the sentinel's secondary weapons not properly calibrated? Sentinel tracks target perfectly, however missed 8 shots at a target running mostly a straight line. All shot are rather high 50 degrees angle. Interestingly, sentinel flew not faster than a running man.

COLERA DO DRAGÃO

I sorry but like, where's the story here? It just looks like a yt video that says "look at my vfx" rather than a short. But I do admit i don't get the count down thing. Maybe I'm missing something?

Question: Tess must be defended by Humans or by Aliens ??? ... Problem !!!

Well done! Congrats!

Why can't aliens shoot straight? Otherwise excellent!!

I really enjoyed this.

Very entertaining! Great work!

What do you use for the titling and credits?

Cant filmmakers make fun shorts film!? You guys are asking for too much. It's really annoying hearing people/critics who never made a movie think it easy to come up with a story. Why don't you make a film and see how it goes. It obvious Ryan is just trying things out and learning from it.

I love it! Its becouse of you i want to be a filmmaker myself, but i’m realy bad at getting attantion on this platform, could anyone help me with that? I dont even realy care about the view counter i would just realy appreciete some constructive feetback on my content. When i found this channel i was still filming for fun with my friends on my phone, now i have a dslr, a jib a greenscreen and im getting a drone next week. Thanks for everything ryan, keep up the good work.

Just awesome

Cool plasma rifle 💪

How to create that vfx digital clock on his hand?

This was absolutely fantastic

[ eMurder Show esq. ] Video Collection

Ryan Great JOB MATE

so. damn. cool.

Nice loved it.

awesome!

I dig it. Fun short!

Super dope, can’t wait to see the behind the scenes/tutorials that came out of this one!

What was that Countdown all about? Why was that thing chasing him? What does the rest of the world look like? Is Skynet alive? Did he take the red or the blue pill? What the hell happened here? I demand Answers! Please tell me this was only a short Teaser for something bigger! Give us a Full-Length Feature Film! Make it a RU-vid series! At least give us a part 2! WE WANT MORE! !

AMAZING! Being a filmmaker/editor myself, I know this is really, really difficult to pull off, and you did it fantastically. Just explain to me - what is the tie-in between this, Ballistic, and Sentinel? There is one, but I can't get fully invested if I don't know the story fully. I know that's the point, and that we're supposed to be left asking questions as the audience, but you leave to many questions. Only leave a few, not a dozen. Please explain!

Left me wanting to see the whole movie! 💥

I mean, yeah it looked really cool but the plot was hard to follow and it was more just a showreel of your epic technical talents. Also why did he just wake up in the middle of nowhere?

Really kind of stupid that a high tech drone like that missed l 15 times.

Life lesson: when being shot at don't run in a straight line :,)

This looked incredible! I really enjoyed it!

I don't know what I was expecting, but it wasn't that... Great job guys! Now I want a sequel with more back story ;)

This was by far your best short yet in my opinion. And like all bad guys the spaceship had horrible aim. P.s. loved the sound design

FX were nice though the "story" didn't make sense. So the machine with tracking and a laser is unable to hit it's target running in a straight line stays still while the much slower target aims at it and destroys it.

I don't wanna be a downer but I hope this was for your reel, to showcase you fx skills because purely as a short film I was as bored as you can be. There was no character development, it felt like a TV commercial, so, if that was your intention... Good job.

This is very good , Good camera , great effects and great music. Keep it up .

Doesn't tell any story... great VFX Reel though! the sound design was awesome too, but in the end all of that doesn't matter if i don't care about the characters or anything happening, i'm not invested enough in this world :(

This short film was, technically speaking, great but it was very uninspired. The concept was boring, the storyline was illogical, the climax felt cheap, many shots were rip-offs, etc.

Only thing I didn't quite get was what was the countdown on the character's wrist, was it how long he has left to live ?

so im guessing Intercept is gone. Badass short though.

Color grading is on point 👌

I like this. I like this a lot. I was getting a bit tired of your short films always having that cheap "funny lulz xD" twist to them. This is much better and actually engrossed me into that world and what the heck was going down. Also what lens did you use to get that swirly bokeh? I don't imagine it was one of those CCTV lenses or a Helios lol

Great video as always! Of course everyone is going to make the argument that the writing is bland and shallow, but I don't think it was Ryan's intention for it to be otherwise. I think it's very well made, from a technical perspective, and leaves us wondering what the further universe is like.

BRUH WHAT. this was ridiculously good.... Why does he have a time stamp on his wrist? What happens to him? Who was trying to kill him ???? soon many questions

When the end titles started showing, I thought the movie has started. :D

SOUND DESIGN AND FX ON POINT

Story was very average. expected a better ending that makes people think or something. You guys are best in CGI and VFX but lack of good and strong script makes every tough VFX thing kind of not worth the time.

This was an EPIC short film guys! Please show how you guys did the titles and closing credits.

Great VFX, really well made. No story. Also those lens. For me, they look very bad. The ones you shot Ghost House - those were amazing, Kowas if I remember.

Glad to be back watching Film Riot. Just got my first ever camera, so I'm about to start making movies. Woo!

So wait. Does this have any connection to PROXiMITY?

Is this the same universe as PROXiMITY?

Yes...but...why? Whats the point of this? Whats the message you want to convey? You have the resources filmriot...use them wisely...produce meaningful shorts...

So many questions haha. Amazing vfx. 10/10 love it and the countdown on his arm gave the weirdest element to the film. Really dug the wide angles when running from the “ship”. Awesome job

Whoever made this: great job on CGI. Holy cow though, you don't know much history do you? In the late 1960's my dad worked at General Dynamics. He didn't work on the mini-gun that went into the Cobra helicopter but he knew guys who did. They had a field about the size of a football field. They fenced it off. So we're talking an open field 100 yds by 50 yds wide. They'd turn a rabbit loose in the field and he could run anywhere he wanted. They make one pass with the Cobra, coming in an 100 mph. It would blaze away with that mini-gun, with a 3 degree sweep. One pass. Kill the rabbit every time. That was back in the 1960's. Your Sentinel can't duplicate that 50 years later? How did it miss the human when he was running in the open field?!?

Wow, alien guns aren't very accurate are they??

Extremely exciting collision of visuals, action and effects. No wonder it has so many views - great work!