Olibith Tribute

Khandy released her second installment of "What Else Is On?" this week, a tribute to our favorite pervy gnome, Olibith. Originally, I was feeling crappy for a week and passed on the opportunity to do a short for it, then went "*bonk* what the hell where you thinking?"

My tribute for Olibith had to include fangirls, a gnome, and nudity... how else could you even start to make one?? I mean really! It's Olibith we are talking about here!



It has it's flaws, but considering I threw it together in one evening, I think it came out alright. =) I'd also like to thank Justin Miller, who did the voice acting for the troll. The samples he's sent me for just about everything are pretty damn awesome.



In any case, I hope you enjoy mine and all the other machinimists who contributed. The last four clips are from myself, Silet, Legs and Mark Gilbert, respectively. Much love to Khandy for putting the whole project together.

And as for Olibith... love the gnome. Be one with the gnome... especially if you love hent- err... love machinima.

(Oh, and Matt for googling pictures of cameras for me. He demanded to be credited! Short Circuit porn for all! Wait, that's not it... oh and Matt. You. Voice files. Now. You shouldn't have told me Carol got you a new microphone.)

Mmm Voice Actors.

I finally bit the bullet and posted up a request for my lead voice actor. I suppose it's not surprise that someone who plays WoW and spends most of my time on the internet is shy, but it never ceases to surprise me. I haven't had this many butterflies in a long time, and it's just from getting the courage to post looking for voice actors! It's silly, but hey, I prefer to keep my little experiments close to my chest and in my comfort zone. Oh noes, I'm being forced to socialize. ^^

I've been lucky so far; I have a few supportive friends willing to lend voices for short parts, and as I've found out, a guildie who I've known for a long time ended up being an amazing voice actor. I'm hoping to find someone who will work with me who believes in the project. So far I'm working on Scene 2 of 5 for Part One. I keep distracting myself with side projects... and Alpha Centauri.

And seriously, what is with this Burger King commercial with what I swear is the music from the first Final Fantasy game in it??

Like Riding a Bicycle...

I'm rendering out the first scene of IFAP: Part 1 as I type this. Of course, the first part will be 4ish scenes, so that's a small victory I guess. I finally got back into the saddle on making this project, which feels really good. I got stuck in the habit of logging into WoW and doing dailies on a million toons all day and really got pretty little accomplished machinima-wise.

But now I'm back, from outer space...


If you haven't checked it out, catch the Prologue to Khandy's "The Order". I can't wait to see more of it!

Kitten with String

A couple weeks ago I asked a friend from a very long time ago if he would be interested in helping me with the script for "In For A Penny." We went over the first five I'd done then he wanted some alone time with it. Seventeen pages later, he's gone a little crazy with it. That makes for a rather long work, and may force IFAP to become episodic instead of a short piece.

Length isn't the most daunting thing though... it's Voice Acting. I didn't originally envision this with that many characters, simply because I have no one I know that is a Voice Actor per se, but I'm currently looking at at least 13 parts - small ones mostly, but still needing people willing to help. I put out the call to friends, and received a moderate amount of interest, and everyone that responded was sent test lines so I could see how their mic and voice sounded while reading lines...

Three weeks later I have four, yes four, people that have sent me back just the couple test lines. I feel in an awkward position. Somehow this little project I wanted to create just to create and share has expanded to something I cannot accomplish without finding people I don't know to aid me, and it puts me in a position I wasn't expecting. I can't imagine asking a stranger to read lines for me, for a project that is simply a monetarily free project created in the spirit of, well, creating. So really, I don't know what to do... I really think this project could swim or sink based simply on who I find for the lead parts, and I've really started to wonder what I've gotten myself into... and whether it's worth continuing.

Maybe I should have all the voices chat like Charlie Brown's mom and just use dialogue... in fact, I think Hollywood should do a remake of Casablanca just like that. We can call it... CasaWawa.

Compounding this is the idea that Machinima always seemed to me as a great refuge of the amateur is becoming a competition of special effects and cinematic programs, where Machinimators are looking to move into Hollywood-level production. It seems Machinima is being looked at as a vehicle to success; I've noticed an increase in Machinima related hosting sites recently, many being created and launched with some new movie in the hope to jetison their site to success. It makes me wonder if expectations for films to be professional grade will kill Machinima for 'kittens with string' like myself. I certainly hope not.

<3 A Kitten with String

Last Fire Will Rise

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The above image was inspired by a machinima I saw today on WCM. If you haven't seen it, check out Black Angel. Like many good machinima these days, it's in danger of being bumped off the page by the plethora of PvP movie spam. If you enjoy it, please give it and other machinima a spotlight vote when you check it out. Nothing vexes me more than seeing good stuff disappear with 300 views because someone had to show how awesome their Warrior/Druid 2v2 1600 arena skills are.

Thayle Wallpaper

So it's not that catchy of a post title, but as requested by atomicspacekitty, here is a wallpaper available of Thayle, who has appeared in one version or another in two of my films so far. I hope you enjoy! I'm always open for requests. Thank you to everyone who has taken an interest in my work.



Download at 1280x1024 resolution available here.

Yes, I like blood elves.

Defining productivity: I can usually never be sure if I've been productive or not. This week has been one of those where I haven't done a damn thing. I've ground 50k honor on a level 66 toon... but not much of anything else WoW or Machinima-wise. I'm in a slump creatively: I know exactly what I want to do, but I cannot bring myself to, so instead of creating something I will hate, I've put my efforts into things less productive machinima-wise and more productive game-wise. Hopefully, I'll totally burn myself out on the game so I can get back to more important things!

Go figure.

I did, though, enjoy pretending Adobe Photoshop Elements 2.0 was CS3. Pretending being the key word there. I enjoy making pictures of peoples characters for friends. This one is Illfey and my pally, doing what they do best (aside from dancing on mailboxes.) I call it "Motivation To Honor Grind."