The Escapist Film Festival 2009: Learn 2 Play: The Mage - Portals

[BobOfTheGlen]

Learn 2 Play: The Mage - Portals

A mage discusses his favourite perk.

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[Mr. Blond]

i will vote at least once just for the jimi song...and once more for the queen song...i promise

 

[Torque669]

That was really quite funny, has some potential but only if it veers off to other games then WOW. I very highly doubt it however and so wont be voting. One of my favourite Wow short movies though. Keep doing what ye be doing Champ.

 

[TwistedEllipses]

That's a pretty decent machinima you got there. The use of the songs really made it for me. I'm interested in where you would take this series - would it be purely wow, because I'd like to see other games, but I'm not sure how much some would lend themselves to machinima...

 

[Distorted Stu]

I actully enjoyed that. I wish it was longer and had a bit of a faster pace, but good! Voting potential from me!

 

[Swaki]

i like your voice, the rest could use a little work, but the unpolished comedy mixed whit that voice is definitely voting potential.

 

[Vimbert]

Not bad; the sheep joke was quite funny.

 

[wfpdk]

i wouldn't mind if it was just in WoW, but it would be cool to see other games. for the most part i felt the writing, machinima and audio was all very well done. you got my vote.

 

[BobOfTheGlen]

Thanks, guys. To be honest, this was a pretty rushed project that I did last year. I tried to get a different, better one in on time for this, but was just too busy. At the moment, WoW is the only thing I have installed on my PC that lends itself to machinimation, and the initial idea was basically just WoW, although I really want to do a "Learn 2 Play: Sam Fisher" and "Learn 2 Play: Batman", complete with gruff Dark Knight voice...

 

[Angrypudding]

I like WoW and played it to death. But WoW is unfortunately dead... And there's plenty of WoW short videos just like this. It just seems silly.

 

[Imper1um]

Yet another WoW Machinima Video. This was made for Youtube, not made for a consistent Weekly thing. One player will run out of ideas fast in the route this is going within 2 weeks.

Also, I would love to see some kind of Generic Machinima where they actually synchronize the words with the Machinima well.

Nice try.

 

[reese522]

Reminds me of the Team Fortress 2 character trailers. I like the idea but I couldn't see this a series.

Good luck to ya.

 

[chickenlord]

ahh just another machinima i could just go to youtube to watch one of these...no...i want one thats extremely well done

 

[BobOfTheGlen]

Also, I would love to see some kind of Generic Machinima where they actually synchronize the words with the Machinima well.

The point of Machinima is to allow basic consumers, who have neither the resources nor the expertise, to make something approximating "animated films". Machinima is limited by its inability to lip-sync perfectly, but 'limited' isn't the same as 'made worse' - all you have to do is find a way to use what you've got to make it look Not Shit. Red vs Blue is probably the best example of this. Perfectly lip-synced Machinima would be "animation", or, more to the point, "cut-scenes".