King Varian's Twilight Ride

A bit of silliness that popped into my head after finishing War Stories, thanks to Zimtower's constnat spamming of Kim Lukas, gnomes in clouds, and my little pony.

Blizzcon 2011 second contest progress

Blizz is having a second Blizzcon video contest this year, and this one isn't accepting webcam vlogs so more machinima folks are actually entering. I know Mushanga, Zimtower, and WowCrendor have horses in the race, so there will at least be honest competition.

Blizzard's 20th anniversary contest

So, I made a movie for Blizzard's 20th anniversary contest in 48 hours.

I really hadn't planned to enter, but Paus convinced me that I had to, at least, try if I actually came up with an idea. So I fooled around with some thoughts, but then gave it a rest, not really liking anything. Then I suddeny had a silly little idea and banged it out.

I learned that perhaps the most important thing is not to rush, though- I nearly killed my computer trying to multitask too much. I ended up losing more time with rebooting my computer and poking around inside it to see why it wasn't giving me a display than I did waiting for a render to finish to move to the next part.

Voice acting was done on extremely short notice, completely by amateur talent(including myself!), and thanks to Rob(the guy who plays the original Cad character) for wrangling some actors up for me while I was busy animating. Sadly, my usual suspects like TotalBiscuit wern't free on such short notice(can't blame them there, of course) which probably would have slammed th.

Given all the problems I had(including having to replace a video card during it) I'm pretty happy with the result, though I woulda liked to have had longer especially for dealing with the voice acting.

Assuming it gets into the voting round, I'm gonna need all the help I can with the votes!

Memories of days gone by...

Lordaeron Sewers

It wasn't always an arena...

Is that a hint of... OxGlow?!

Hrm. Could be...?

Vertex animation

Brain Chili: The Trailer!

My entry for Baron Soosdon's starcraft beta contest. I had to cut it down to a trailer due to length- I'd originally thought the rules were 'over one minute long' instead of 'exactly one minute long'. My bad.

Trailer #2

It's a piece of cake...

Much ado over Lordaeron

Progress marches on!

Soon our prune technicians will... wait, no.

Never Stay Tuned 4 is out!

That's right, Olibith's Never Stay Tuned 4 is out, featuring some work by me, not to mention Baron Soosdon, Goldskin, Ian Beckman, and the AFK Players!


Not sure if it'll be easy to pick out what I did for it... =P

Ensidia: The Trailer

Well, time to reveal that major project- A trailer for the raiding guild Ensidia, for some of their live appearances. An online version will follow soon enough, though.

They've gone into PLAID!

Roll out!

While the Ensidia project churns along, here's a bit of a sneak peek at what you can expect from Never Stay Tuned IV, Olibith's most ambitious collab yet! I worked heavily on two of the parts myself, and everything I've seen just makes me more excited to see the rest...

He's got the whole world in his hands...

Second life is more tentacular for my efforts.

My forays into second life have been pretty tentative, with my being dragged about by Moo and watching Caruu strut his stuff, but my first solo attempt saw me taking second place in a building contest with my little glowing, wobbling eyeball thingie. So now it looks like he'll get his own little place in the pond at Sweet Mariposa, very neat...
Second life is an incredible pain to make anything in compared to, say, any 3d software developed in the past 10 years, but it's fun to do model edits that other players can see.

Oh, yeah, and my name on there is Haye Abbott. Totally classy.

Rig

Made a new rig yesterday, decided to try for something a bit more all purpose than usual.

Failing at Handstands

Spindly arms, bit fat metal ass, you know how it is...