The Anxiety of Waiting

Hello everybody! Just yesterday I resurrected all of my social networking sites like Twitter and Youtube-channel! This was done to mark the official release of "The Achiever 3 - Going down?" which apparently happens tomorrow or day after tomorrow. First on Wegame, then youtube and finaly on WCM!

When I finaly finished the actual editing in AAE last sunday my excitement level raised from 25% 200% with a loud bang! The feeling of finishing something you have worked long on is unbeliviable! Same time it produced alot of stress one me. What if the Achiever 3 was doomed to be an utter fail? What if I worked 20 hours on it per week during last 3-4 months for nothing? Those ideas keep circulating in my head faster and faster as the release date draws nearer.

Fortunately good reviews from my composer and kind words from Farinar have helped this feeling a bit, but something still remains. I am still boiling ><. The more and more I watch it (the beginning!) the more I think it will fail! Tough, it is propably too harsh self-criticism. Afterall, it is a question about LIFE AND DEATH and I can't take it lightly!

On to the more happier feelings! I just attended "Day of the Dead" event on EU-Sargeras yesterday! Lenwe from #machinima channel was organizing it all and it was one of the best events I have been in. Imagine this, 40-50 lvl 1 undeads start charging to Dalaran from the empty sewer pipe, throwing pumpkins at everybody and screaming "Pour le Réprouve!" Fun? Alot! Thanks Lenwe!

The picture you see above is the official promoting image of "The Achiever 3 - Going Down?" and is made by great artist, Konnestra! (http://konnestra.deviantart.com/) Thank you for all the pics you have done for me = )

Origano over and out!

Programs made of pure Evil

*Poke! Guess what guys? If I had all the time and no projects in this damn world I would create a song called "Adobe After Effects has Crashed" That sentence is seriously burned to my view since it happens atleast thrice per usage! It is unstabile piece of c...well actually it is not crap, not crap at all. You can do alot of great things with it as you will soon see when I release my intro for The Inevatible Cataclysm: Fatality. Still the crashing is very, very irritaiting!

On to the subject. Or actually there is no subject. I will just go on and on and you HAVE to read it! Ok, so. For last few weeks me + Farinar have been organizing and writing different kind of guides and events on Wegame's Machinima forums. It has been great fun and soon our final coal V1 is complete! And guess what is it? No more endless waves of topics about tech support questions + program help. Instead they would be all covered up in One thread! Yeah, sounds cool doesn't it?

I am somewhat depressed pf Wegame's recent choices about gold. First the cap thingy, it could have been a bit higher really, 750 000 perhaps? Also the token thing is just RIDICILOUS. Hvae you guys ever tried those stupid offers? They are all SCAMS. If you don't read 'em carefully you will end up having to pay 20 e per month for "Original Truck Ringtone" Beware those. Do not use!

I am leaving for another vacation tomorrow. Yeppii! And this time I have web access so I can tease you with these funny Blogposts I come up with! Onward to the today's Picture! This is one of the cool Northrend pics I took when I was leveling my druid. Oh, good times.

The power of Wegame Resurrect

ORIGANO CAN NOW BE FOUND ON

TWITTER



Here I am ! Once again to poke around with my nose and writing smething that is too hard to understand by normal means! I will go on and on until you will take on with me personally! Anyway! Wegame has became my true home website now as I have been nmoderator there for a month. It has great community and especially Machinima section is great and full of helpful people! Me (or is it I?) and Farinar have designed this special newsletter "The Weekly Spotlight" which covers all kinds of Machinima teqhniques + Interviews! (Oxhorn incoming!). Our 3rd newsletter was released today, or actually the second thanks to Zorlac666 and Weclock : (. Anyway check it out!

Then to the interesting world of "FlyingCow Studios". "Breaking news: Nothing happened today, yesterday nor week before that" But that's so last WEEK! Today I have progressed alot. I have all voicelines now thanks to Ben "Kroums" Danby, peace on his soul! Also I want to thank Tamzin for her endless helpfulity in the matter of soundediting. I will be releasing Intro in few weeks so you get something to drool on (hopefully) but ...everything depends on my RL and that's what's coming up next

Origano's RL affairs

With big bold letters because it is so interesting debate. It is summer. Bird's are singing, water is flopping and my moped isn't broke, yet atleast. I was in crash a few weeks back btw. Went down a steepy hill too quickly and when I came into the turning...WHADAM! I almost crushed my right feet but it is kinda ok now, Luck be my name!. However it IS summer and I have to get my nose out of this house too so in few days I will propably spend a week on cottage and after that go straight to a resort nearby (500 km's!) here you can see some footage from last years visit
No doubt I crash with moped. Anyway that means I am 2 weeks off at max : ( Sigh! Atleast the resort has internet access so I can tease you with pics!

End of Origano's RL affairs

Oh boy WoW is evolving! Faction change! Mounted combat! Anub'Arak comeback! Lich king shattering floors and such and my Mage getting ganked by level 58 Belf DKs in STV. Such a great time but still whine on the forums is at maximum. I wonder why. Anyway I am really silent in WoW atm. Leveling mage every now and then!

Humm, pic then? Sec I am searching for cool one.

Found it! Kinda cool one actually isn't it? ^^

That's it for today, thanks Mushroom!

Long time no see and Promises

Greetings people! Long time no see, I have really been slacking with this. So much other things going around! Anyway I have lots and lots of updates coming in so stay tuned! I note that I will promise to update this alot more frequently now! I will keep it this time.

Let's start off with some Machinima news. I am happy to announce that our trailer was featured two weeks back in Wowinsider.com (Nowdays Wow.com). Here is the link http://www.wow.com/2009/05/13/wow-moviewatch-the-inevitable-cataclysm/
I liked the fact that it got positive response in the review, Gray particurarly liked the voiceover and the pvp + story composition. I didn't like the way he got the trailer tho. He tought it was sarcastic, ironic like Buddhist's work for example but that's not the way I meant the trailer nor the movie to be. This movie is meant to be taken seriously and the story is serious, I am kinda excited to see what happen's when we release the movie : )

Then to the actual production of the Inevitable Cataclysm. Unfortunately it has got alot of delays because of problems with finding good voices enough. We are still missing one main voice but got everything else done so soon we are good to go to continue editing. Still it proapbly gets delayed to the next autumn but then you will have 45 minutes of Machinima to watch so it's worth it : )'

On to the more fortunate news then. I have been given moderator priviligives on wegame's Machinima forums. I am refreshing that page most of time anyway so it really fits me. I am happy of the spot and give big thankses to Gordnt : ) (One of wegame's staff!) So don't troll around or I might...delete your post!

On the WoW related news then. I ditched up my Druid. Yes, I ditched him and stomped to ground : ( Was full of it, druids are boring! Instead I started a mage on Ragnaros, named as Origano. Surprise? : ) Planning to PvP with him when I reach 80, maybe start a guild with friends.

Tomorrow I am going to release some Screenshots of Inevitable Cataclysm: Fatality so stay tuned! Origano over and out.

The Second Coming

Sorry for the long silence. I have been working on many important things and completely forgot to update this Blog : ) Anyway I have alot of updates and news.

Firstly, as you propably know I have been working on a "secret" project called "The Inevitable Cataclysm: Fatality" , atleast it was a secret until we released a trailer approx two weeks back. Check it out here...http://www.warcraftmovies.com/movieview.php?id=107519. The production of TIC is going kinda rough atm tho. I have finished 9 minutes of editing but because of damned (and fun) Ulduar I haven't been working on it alot lately. Also I began Lotro which is Amazing game!

I am quite depressed because I haven't had time to edit, I mean I want to edit but I just have no time for it >< After today's raid I will proapbly keep a break for a week and try to finish the editing or atleast develop it farrer. Luckily we have the voice-actors and soundeditor (Thanks Tamzin!) + a music composer so it is okay

Next then, the Achiever, my first machinima and serie I have already developed a plot for about 10 episodes. When I started working on TIC I had almost finished the editing of the 3rd Achiever but since I liked TIC even more so I have been working on it. Anyway after I am done with TIC's first episode I am moving back to the Achiever so you shall see 3rd one quite soon : )

In the other new everything is going quite generally. School is over soon (21 days!) and I will have looooong summer vacation with my com...err friends! From now on I will keep the blog updated atleast twice a week so stay tuned :)

It all Began by "SECRET"

Howdy! I am sorry that I haven't wrote anything for some time, I have been kinda busy working on things like school and life : ). I have also been working on a new project that it taking my interest away from the Achiever atm sadly but still I should be able to finish Achiever in a week. I cannot reveal much about the new project yet but I can say that it will be serious and takes all my skills in video editing.

I also found new tool to use, ParticleIllusion. With it you can create nice effects with no effort. It is amazing little program and I will keep using it until I am done with Machinima. I have also learnt alot new techniques and my videos should look better now! I have also started using IRC, I am hanging in #machinima and #alonsus all the day now! onder why I hadn't used it before.

It is just three weeks to go until 3.1 hits live servers and my purse is still quite empty, should try to do some dailies! Meanwhile I have been raiding some and even did one Livestream raid in http://www.ustream.tv/need-login?ref=mybroadcasts.

I had a fun situtation in WSG some days ago when we for some reason got two Alliance flags same time. We didn't have time to test if they would have yelded us two points too because the flag carriers were killed soon afterwards.

Long road to Ruin

Soon it is time to say goodbye to Sony Vegas and move into Big Boy's playground - Adobe After Effects. Since I have absolutely no experience in Adobe's video editing software it is going to be rough for first few weeks but when I get handle of it I can produce much better quality Machinima and do things I couldn't but wanted to do.
Since AE is so hard I am planning to watch alot of tutorials next few days and explore it inside out! So, tough journey. Hopefully it won't be Long road to Ruin, I don't want to give up : )

I am planning to Livestream some raids again! I did it sometimes in pre-wotlk with www.mogulus.com but I like ustream more, it is more lightweisht also! Check out wegame's forums I will be informing there!

As the 3.1 is getting closer and closer I have started to do some dailies because I just have 600g now. I have been very, very lazy with them and not really happy about it :p the videos take so much time to do and I don't really have time for other things. Well, I guess I wouldn't be doing it if I didn't like it!

Sorry, no pic this time : / Don't have any on this comp

Back on Track

I am back from the trip and have had some very nice progression through the next Achiever already but I have to admit it is becoming kinda long again. Shouldn't really matter tough, atleast I hope so ^^. I also uploaded some of my first Wotlk raid videos, Anub'Rekhan, to wegame, check it out!

I haven't used WoW-Europes suggestion forum alot nor followed it but today I posted a thread over there egarding the WoWmodelViewer issue. As many of you know WMV isn't updated regurarly anymore, nor is mapviewer and this isn't very good for us Machinimists. So I decided to post the subject on suggestion forums. Guess it won't be very popular but I am going to bump it shamelessy :o Here is the link! http://forums.wow-europe.com/thread.html?topicId=8523163191&sid=1

My most favourite zone in the whole game is Night Elf starting zone, Teldrassil. I propably love it because it was the first zone I ever saw in WoW. I remember when I ran around with my nelf hunter, wondering what is behind the next hill and hoping to level quickly so I could wander over to the main continent : ) Golden memories...

Guess I got hit by something big and heavy on the trip because I feel like I could level my level 44 rogue again. He has got his levels by free with RaF, I haven't leveled him even for a day :p. That's it then folks, I am planning to release some of my old youtube videos after the next Achiever so stay tuned : )

Viewcount progression

Hoozah, today my viewcount on Wegame went over 6000, profile views over 40 and SS views over 110. The profile viewcount is kinda weird tho, it started to count just a week ago :p Maybe you have to be a member for sometime before it starts counting.

Today is the last day of my vacation and tomorrow is a traveling day, 12 hours in a car (big car fortunately) isn't very fun. Well, atleast I have time to do some school work :o.

DI have thought and thought the story of 3rd Achiever but as with the 2nd Achiever I keep thinking that it is worse than the first, hopefully I am just panicing again and all turns out happily! The biggest matter for me still is the voice acting! Some say that it makes the video worse, some say that it is very funny because I can't pronounce right, guess it would be watchable for everybody if all words would be pronounced right, I will try harder this time and use some external voice-actors.

I don't have any screenshots from WoW today, instead I uploaded a picture from the place I am atm. I love Lapland!

The new goals are Set

There is alot of interestng things coming in 3.1 like Ulduar, dual specs and Argent Tournament but maybe one of the most interesting ones is (in my opinion) what else than a Sea Turtle mount, obtainable from schools of Northrtend!

It looks excatly the same as the turtle in the Achiever (atm at least) so I must gain it. But first I have to level my fishing up, I guess I am stuck at 300 or something so it is not very long leveling progress.

Another thin that got my attention just recently was the Tabard of the Achiever. It is a reward from Achievement "Twenty-Five Tabards" and not too hard to get. I have only 8 atm tho so it can take a while but I have time!

So, I have to look up a fishing powerleveling guide and run some hundreds of HC instances and that's it. Same time Iave to complete Ulduar, make Machinimas and study, oh the amount of work I have ! But guess I will be happy in the end : )