There was a collaboration machinima project going on in 2007. Eventually it faded out and was not continued. Seven parts were made though! Yesternight, Dopefish returned to the wonderful world of IRC and decided to put it all together.
The machinimakers included in this collaboration are (in order): Olibith, Nyhm, teh_taco, Telemora, Dopefish and me (each machinimakers name is shown on the top left corner when his clip starts)
If someone knows the name of the metal/industrial song which plays during my part, lemme know. I tried searching for it back then with no results :(
I'm very tempted to act like god and punish you all for your sins by making a BELF RAP VIDEO out of the Thunderfury event. To your luck, I'm not in such an evil mood at all!
Everything went well, there was one full and one half-full raid of people, either from the internets or from The Beastro.
Getting a TF has been a long-time dream of mine, now I finally got it!
While we were waiting for people to show up, an excursion to both AQ instances was in place! The silly bug thing in AQ20 wiped me and my crew of Too Many DK's, but AQ40 was more cake. Prophet Skeram and Bug Posse went down like a murloc baby to a grinder!
There was some dying, but that just happened because DK's are a weak class. Blizz needs to buff them imo!
The actual fight against Thunderaan was over so fast that I couldn't film it at all. I have liek two or three seconds of footage where the camera is pointing.. somewhere. But who cares, I got the sword and lots of pictures with DK's in them!
A we're no strangers to loveboat sailed to and from Booty Bay.
I heard there were some cookies and lesbian vampire roleplay in Alliance inns. That had to be checked out.
ZOMG THERE IS NO LESBIAN VAMPIRE ROLEPLAY AT ALLIANCE INNS! THE WARCHIEF MUST BE NOTIFIED OF THIS AT ONCE!
The actual video of the event will be ready when it's ready, it might have to wait till next year. I'll see what I got on tape and decide to what to do with the stuff, will I go for an epix "T for Thunderfury" or just simply sync it to some Backstreet Boys song.
All in all, thanks to everyone who participated! A tip to everyone ever thinking of arranging events and expecting lotsa people to whisper you: get the WoW Instant Messenger addon. It helps a bit with the spam.
RAIDERS - Ok, we are starting up a vanilla raid raiding guild. No rules in items. No (more) DK's we are already full on those (got one in the guild). Wanna join? Whisper me ingame (Soosisti, Whitelabel, Metaverse, Ilonjuhla) and ask moar. Maximum level 60, IRL age 18+ and plix know what to do. When I got the time and all that, I'll finish the webpage for the guild.
The guild is called , it's already been formed - we got a TABARD with a goat in it and a GUILD BANK full of all sorta oldskool items. Including the BoE T1 pieces for almost every class.
Recruitment is open on all classes, but the most wanted thing is a protard warrior.
p.s.
Sorry for all the gnomes that got killed! The DK's were just trying to tame you. It's a new thing among the upper class horde, to have a shiny and sparkly gnome pet.
Invitation: Thunderfury Summoning (now with video!)
And now.. details as I promised!
- The event will be held at Twilight's Hammer (EU), summoning itself will start around 19:00 realm time (GMT +1), Horde Side - Get yourself to Cenarion Hold aroud 18:00 server time - Whisper me (I'm logged in with Metaverse) for a raid invite - If you are someone I know from IRC, this blog or anywhere else in the interwebs - please do use a recognizeable name - I heard there might be a chance of rickrolls - WARNING! There are NO gnomes on horde. I repeat: there are no gnomes on Horde! - After I got my new, shiny legendary poking thing of legendariness - the party continues at Booty Bay. Where we go from there.. we'll just have to wait and see! - YOUR IDEA HERE! Any good and not-so-good idea is welcome, spit it out! - Olibith and Whowho.. if you find the time, please do join - I won't tell anyone that you accidentally rolled Horde :)
I've just completed gathering all the materials for Thunderfury.
The summoning of Thunderaan will happen on saturday 5th December @ Twilight's Hammer-EU, 19:00 realm time (GMT +1).
It's up to you if you want to roll a quick DK (doing the starter quests shouldn't take more than an hour) or level something else.
For anyone outside EU realms, things will get a lot trickier. You could get a trial account, but then I you cannot be summoned, invited to a raid/party or even whisper anyone.
The other way is to buy an EU classic account, but I think it'll be a lot cheaper for you if you'll just watch the video about the event :)
I will post just a bit more info about this once I get my invitation video done.
I love the smell of Thunderfury Bindings in the morning..
..it just happens so that a bit earlier today, Garr decided to stop holding on to the binding and gave it to me. Brutal force had to be used though.
Getting a TF has been a longtime dream for me and it's finally coming true :)
The next step is to get the Elementium, which may or may not be easy.
Once all the quest items are in Metaverse's inventory, it will be the time to summon Thunderaan and you all are invited to witness the event (and get rickrolled, all my characters are equipped with a macro for that).
This will be taking place at Twilight's Hammer-EU.
This is how we did it 3 years ago..
I've gotten a couple of requests from people who want to be in a movie by me. Here's your chance!
For the people playing on EU realms this will be quite easy - if you have a lv55 already, the least painful way is to create a Horde LolKnight and join the fight.
For all the others, this will be a bit trickier. You need to get an EU client + an EU account. Getting a trial account is easy. The downside of a trial account is that you can not whisper any other player and lv20 is the maximum you can reach. Coming to Silithus with an lv20 might be a bit painful.
When I got all the items, I'll announce the exact date in here and YouTube.
In addition to the actual summoning event, I'm looking for good ideas on what to do with all the 2 people that show up.
Crashing Booty Bay + STV could be a nice tradition to uphold? :)
It's finally ready - my first and quite probably last Aion machinima. My gametime ran out last week and I have no plans of buying more for now.
I still have hope for Aion, it kept me playing the longest time of all 'new' MMO's I tried. The upcoming patches promise to bring easier leveling, but that's not enough to bring me back.
Free tip for MMO developers: to defeat WoW, create something new. Do not copypasta the classes as they are in their archetypes. I want to replace WoW with something that feels refreshing and has new ideas and innovations. Machinima functionality would be a huge plus, but that's not necessary.
I will still be following Aion on how it develops. I'll even make that Aion machinima tutorial, but now I just don't have the time for that.
As for this video, making it was fun! I leaned a couple of new After Effects and Photoshop tricks which is always a plus.
Spread the word about this machinima, I hope it inspires other people to try their machinimation skills on Aion!
I wish I'd have over 9000 doctors degrees and the intelligence of a protection warrior in a high-end raiding guild so I could have done all this in a SRS BSNS 3D modeling program. And if that's not enough, those damn things have too many moving buttons!
This will be a post about many things! The first thing in my list is..
A new home! I've been searching for a Vanilla raiding guild for a while. I had some requirements though: no silly limitations on talents, glyphs and spells. And to my luck, I found this bunch of vanillaists called Devolution on Al'Akir EU.
I transferred a lv60 priest of mine there. Skanna is the name, discipline is the game. My first time of all time.. OF ALL TIME playing a healbot in a raid environment! Can't say yet how much I like it or hate it. Pewpewing with Penance is sexeh though.
Upon joining I was immediately called to join on a journey to Molten Core! We cleared the place with 10 - 15 people. The range of gear varied a lot, but the bosses fell like baby murlocs to a pool of hot corrosive acid.
The only bosses that gave a bit of challenge were Baron G and Ragnaros. But the old tactics were quite unnecessary since everything died so fast! Hell, I did not get teleported to Shazzrah at all!
The only limitations to vanilla raiding they have are not allowing DK's nor Outland items (in raids). The downside is that Al'Akir is a very full server (it was locked a couple of days ago) so getting in might take some tries.
But the most important thing is that Devolution has a respectable amount of female c0wsies! /moo
And no, no, no, no, NO NO NO NO - I'm not leaving The Beastro. This'll be something for fun as I still suffer from a burnout towards WOTLK raiding.
Aion: The Tower of Eternal Grinding
The omens and internet truths are coming true.
The grindfest hit me. I got my Elyos sorcerer to level 18 and I hit a wall. The only way to advance are either by group quests or by, umm... yeah. That's it?
I'm not completely losing hope on Aion since the upcoming patch 1.5.1 promises some ease on the leveling process. I hate grinding as much as I hate murlocs and Linkin Park!
Vanilla WoW was not a perfect game, but I dont recall a single time when I had to forcefully grind world mobs just to get a level.
Well anyways, I'm going to finish the Aion machinima. Almost half of it is done and it's been real fun to do. I just gotta find some interest to play the game more, to level up and get to new areas for filming stuff.
Music No need to be afraid, zero rickrolls here!
Ok, I gotta make a machinima cover of this one (First there was the DUBSTEP SQUID.. next there will be the DUBSTEP MURLOC?!):
I'm not going to animate it yet, since I don't know where I'll place it in the actual machinima.
Also, I have discovered that dubstep kicks ass: (and also that gnomish low-frequency dubstep bass cannon must be created in order to destroy civilizations and cities)
Mixing WoW and Unreal Tournament totally was not merely a setback. Did you honestly think that I'd do a machinima without mixing up games?
Oh no no no NO NO NO NO NO, that was merely an instrument, a well-timed rickroll to a much larger plan! And this time, you will know the rules and so do I!
Still no model viewer, but who needs motion when you have still images!
I took a couple of the official Aion wallpapers, shamelessly did some pen tool cutting in Photoshop and voila.
Then I took the Photoshoppages for a little After Effects trip, added some this'n'that there and here they are.
This is how the project looks in Vegas:
Those orange things are markers for segments in the song - for example vocals, beats, certain types of sounds etc stuff I want to sync stuff with.
I've been filming the project "Aion Escapism" for a while.
I do want the movie to have footage from many different areas, so there is still a quite lot of leveling to do before I have enough varying footage.
Now that I've found the correct song for the machinima (there were twoother candidates), it's a lot easier to point and shoot.
The downside is that I don't have that many female toons for the lyrics so I gotta film some of the parts in low level areas.
This picture is intentionally cropped, but let's just say that the best TV show of all time.. OF ALL TIME airs on Atreia as well!
The final movie will not be called Aion Escapism, that's just something I'm using as a working title.
Filming in Aion is not as flexible as in WoW, the camera system is a bit stiff. But, as I do have lots of WoW filming experience it has helped me a lot doing this Aion video.
Last but not least, once I'm done with the video and released it - my plan is to create a video tutorial on how to create basic Aion machinima ingame.
(for some reason the Blogger software wants to resize my pictures, but the machinima will be released in 1080p Full HD resolution)
