Words fail

Contest results are in... And words fail me.

WeGame August Machinima Contest - Contest Winners!

Big thanks to WeGame and Oxhorn, and big congratulations to Sedrin, Martin, and Johan as well as the honorable mentions! And thanks to everyone who cheered me on and helped.

Unfortunately, the video review of the winners has been delayed due to technical troubles.

The prize:

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More words when coherent and fully conscious.

Robber Baron in High Definition

You can now watch the movie in high definition! If you like it, be sure to leave a nice comment on the WeGame page!


(Click to play movie, doubleclick for full screen)

Click to play

Also, huge thanks once again to the Spoon god, for once again featuring me on Spooncraft! His support is much appreciated!

Robber Baron is almost here...

I am uploading to WeGame as I type this, for the August machinima contest! Given the competition this time, I doubt something as silly as Robber Baron will really come out on top, but I definitely hope to at least place this time around.

Baron B. Z. Caddington, rogue

Soapdrop, the paladin

Remember this?

After a bit of a hard drive disaster that wiped out a bunch of stuff(specifically the stuff I was transferring between drives when my power went out), I'm not totally sure about going through with the WeGame thing. But..



...Who knows?

YouTube likes it ^_^

Synergy!

I have so much to say that I find it hard to start. The Synergy Contest is over, and Baron and I managed to, after days of deadlock, squeak out a three vote victory! We all knew it was a small margin, but I don't think anyone realized just how close it was...

Martin Falch took a well deserved second place, and Daniel Nordh had an even closer race for third place with Ramzinator, getting in with one vote!

All I can say is thanks a ton to everyone who helped, everyone who voted, and everyone who put up with me. There will be a bunch of postmortem on this, I'm sure, but for now I'm catching my breath and preparing video streams and promotional artwork for Gametv-fr and Warcraftmovies- when the WCM movie page goes up for busted, we're getting the nice full page layout.

Bonus art and wallpaper

Given the vast amount of art and footage that went into Busted, it's not surprising we have some extra stuff, like this little picture:

Also, by request from someone with a big monitor, a nice large wallpaper featuring one of my favorite scenes...

Olibith Wallpaper

A ginormous thank you to everyone supporting us with votes and feedback! Several times, we nearly quit early, but you people are making me so glad we held together. And also glad that our intrepid sound guy didn't walk out on us, like we might have deserved!

Another wallpaper, for Caruu

First review

It's very exciting to have your movie reviewed by someone who makes great movies themself- and Olibith sure makes damn fine movies!

Olibith's Blog

As usual, the crazy French gnome is a bit overblown in his praise, but I certainly appreciate it, and of course his giving permission for this madness...

Trivia: Olibith's voice was actually recorded over half a year ago for a scene in my Christmas machinima, 'A Warsong Carol'. It was a scene set in Warsong Gulch, too- but it was him saying "Sacre Bleu, they've got Tim!" when Tiny Tim was captured- and we all know what happened to him...

The contest has begun!

It's OUT! "Busted by Baron Soosdon and Pinkhair" on Warcraftmovies! (See rest of post for details or if you need help.)

Go vote for us! Well, vote for who you think is best. But I think that's pretty much just saying the same thing.

I marked which one ours is, since there are two other movies with the same title:

WarcraftMovies.com - World of Warcraft Movies

If you cannot see the stream, you will need the latest version of Flash Player(9.0.115 or 9.0.124)

It's finished...

Of course, I can't show you the movie yet until the voting period begins, then I'll see about getting a link to it up here!

The Synergy contest is an interesting idea, where everyone uses one of two prewritten scripts and the results are compared. Given that the main purpose seems to be finding a producer for a project they have in mind, this isn't a bad idea- however, the scripts that were offered show some of the potential issues with the system. I'll be talking more about this later, but I'm interested to see what other interpretations besides ours people might have had.

I am looking forward to the people on WCM who don't read the contest rules and post comments like "Didn't someone else already make this?" given that, I imagine, most people who are serious will use the same script.

Much thanks to everyone who helped, especially Caruu, our voice actors, and Titanhoof for being a good sport.

And another one...

Interestingly enough, Drewbie's voice actor does not do the voice of the Drewbie character in Busted, but he does play an entirely different part.

More Busted pictures...

A few new pictures from the upcoming contest entry, Busted, which I am working on with Baron Soosdon. Caruu is tightening up his impressive sound design as we speak, and Baron's gonna crank up that Magic Bullet and get rendering with plenty of time to spare it seems.

We have some stiff competition, but I think we'll be making a good showing. If we do win, expect to see a behind the scenes featurette on the creation of this 8 minute lump of action, romance, and... well, more action and romance.

(Snacky used with permission)

Fluffy

A Warsong Carol, Revised

Warsong Carol(contest version) published, extended version nearly complete

After much travail, and someone fooling around with my WCM account after I left it logged in, the contest version of Warsong Carol is released!

http://www.warcraftmovies.com/movieview.php?id=55624

I was planning on spending a bit more time on the revision, but since apparently whatever is up by tomorrow is going to be posted on WoW Moviewatch, I decided I'd best put up what I have.

For some bizarre reason, the sound errors are still coming up, despite everything I try- I even tried rendering out an MP3 of the audio track and then recombining them... anyone know what could cause such a thing?

Also, I am looking for voice talent for my future work- if interested, contact me on #machinima, send a pm through warcraftmovies, or send an email to aogcomic AT hotmail.com to let me know.

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas!

I got some nice new shoes, new slippers, a very nice chunk of anime, and a shot at knocking down Anzu to get my swift flight form(despite being woefully undergeared for heroic dungeons)


A Warsong Carol is still not finished publishing on Stage6 and WCM, but I did upload to YouTube in the meantime. When it goes up, there's also a nice little MP3 of the undead chorus. It ended up taking #4 in the chrstmas contest. Not bad for a first try^_^

Name change

More stills

A couple more stills...