Uploaded September 2012 | Updated September 2026, 6 days ago
This was going to be the opening to a mini series I had the idea of creating but due to many MANY problems it never became possible. I already put loads of effort into recreating this intro from the old tv show Braniac and I really hate leaving it to waste.
Music is by Grant Buckerfield
This was actually going to be Gmod, TF2 and SFM combined. The concept was we were going to do experiments in real TF2 and replay to capture the footage.
The first problem was replay barely ever worked and we had to constantly re-do everything again and again.
I had to organize an entire team of people to do the experiments which was a lot harder than i thought it would be.
And eventually I had to make the decision that this was just not going to happen.
I real shame to be honest because lots of work was ready to go into this project.
This was going to be the opening to a mini series I had the idea of creating but due to many MANY problems it never became possible. I already put loads of effort into recreating this intro from the old tv show Braniac and I really hate leaving it to waste.
Music is by Grant Buckerfield
This was actually going to be Gmod, TF2 and SFM combined. The concept was we were going to do experiments in real TF2 and replay to capture the footage.
The first problem was replay barely ever worked and we had to constantly re-do everything again and again.
I had to organize an entire team of people to do the experiments which was a lot harder than i thought it would be.
And eventually I had to make the decision that this was just not going to happen.
I real shame to be honest because lots of work was ready to go into this project.


![Mann vs Martians
In his everlasting pursuit of victory, the Grey Mann has desisted hope in his robotic army and used his many billions of dollars to hire professionals to stand in.
Music Used:
MVM Gameplay Music
Extracts from the introduction of Horsell Common and the Heat Ray, Artilleryman And The Fighting Machine and The Red Weed-Jeff Waynes Musical Version of The War of The Worlds
The Calm/Robots Team Fortress 2 [Guitar Cover] by MetalFortress14
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWrfeLg1NyI
(I do not claim or own any of the above music)
Special Thanks To:
Rantis for creating the Ik rig for the Tripod model
1337gamer15 for help with lighting on the Tripod model
Original Jeff Wayne Tripod Model link:
http://www.garrysmod.org/downloads/?a=view&id=51333
Enhanced version with IK rig for SFM used in this video:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/v9494bqid6ygozp/JWTripodSFM.zip Mann vs Martians](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/wcDk_9PmGq0/mqdefault.jpg)


![Heavys Accident
The concept of Pose to pose animation got me interested in doing some SFM work. Dont ask where the idea came from...
Music: Crash Twinsanity OST - Classroom Chaos [Cut]
I also did a short test of pose to pose before this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EYNZmrm5nY Heavys Accident](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/xcWmemyr5s4/mqdefault.jpg)




