Erunno’s Thoughts…

PS: The WCM blog is currently having some strange issues. I’m aware of the strange errors and stuff.

Ah yes, I got myself a new PC. And whats better than starting to play with your new toy and just enjoying the hobby you’ve been doing for a while already…

The White Drake is a direct result of that and since the short film was just playing around with stuff the quality of it is also more “meh”. Yes, I read your comments and I know that the plot is not comletely understandable and that there is no voice acting and that the movie would be way more kick-ass with voices. And I don’t give a damn about those comments. And why? Because I freakin’ wrote that in the descripion of the movie.

“This was actually ment as a test film to try out the power of my new PC. Like in Von’zul, I decided to do the whole movie without voice actors again because I didn’t intend to do something big out of this.”

If you’re too stupid to even read the intention of the movie then you’re insisting that I ignore your comment. Some people seem to like it though, so I guess I’m going towards the right direction.

Alright, besides testing out my new hardware, I used the movie to try out a new concept and to reinforce a new one. Dragons. Yes, the loot pînatas that everyone loves to kill will get more attention from me. Way more. The whole idea is to implement some more dragons to machinima. We had Scourge, Alliance vs Horde, the Burning Legion, raid boses etc. but not that much about dragons. We had them shows as über creatures or passive characters but I never saw a machinima with a dragon as a main character (if you do know a movie with a dragons as a lead role, please let me know…). The White Drake was just a prelude, the real thing is in it’s planing phase. The other aspect I mentioned were silent movies. I am aware that Mr. Imsol33t says “Movies with voices are so awesome, loololol”, but voice acting is the easiest medium to send emotions to the watcher. Don’t get me wrong, I really respect voice actors and their contribution (hell, working with some of them was the most satisfying thing I did in this hobby) but having the skill to create heavy emotions only by using characters, from a game, thats’ skill. And that’s what my true goal is. I will keep on trying till I make even the most annoying douchebag commenters and watchers cry. I mean, think of the deaf people. What would they take out of a machinima with awesome voice acting? Nothing is my guess. But the question is if deaf people even watch machinima.

But before I waste my whole summer holiday for this, I need to take care of a few other projects first.

I promissed that I’ll give you a more “fair” ending to Stratholme. Now, I wasn’t lying and was just slacking the past few months, I have the movie finished. Only problem is that I am not satisfied with it’s video quality at all. Let me explain… The “second” part of Stratholme was made as a project from one of my final exams. It was my first (and possibly my last) use of custom 3D animation and it’s main purpose was showing my 3D animation skill. Because of that and the fact that that project was still done on my old PC is the quality complete crap. I mean, a 800×600 resolution, awful fps rate and bad coloring of the objects? I’m sorry, but such crap is not approved even by me.
So I’m keeping the original quality as a warning to never do machinima on a single core processor again, and I’ll try and release a completely fresh version in high-def as soon as possible.

And yes, this movie will have voice actors. “Famous” ones even. Damn WCM community and their wannabe critics…