Author: Lagspike

I had a great time at the 2008 Machinima FIlmfest where I met lots of awesome machinima people. My film “World of Workcraft” took home two awards, best writing and best short film. Thanks to my friends Oxhorn and Andre for the great voice acting they provided. Thanks to the organizers of the event as well, they did a great job putting everything together. There seemed to be several hundred people there in total. I really hope they do it again next year!

World of Workcraft has been nominated for Best Short Format and Best Writing at the 2008 Machinima Filmfest.

The Winners for the individual categories will be announced on November 1st at the official Awards Ceremony at Eyebeam Center for Art and Technology in New York.

There’s a bunch of great films this year so be sure to check out the complete list of nominees.

I plan on attending this event in New York and look forward to meeting all the other machinima makers.

Well actually an old site. I’ve had this domain for a long time, so it’s really just a new design.

I am back from San Francisco where I had a great time. I finished two short machinima projects in August which can be found on Wegame.

Temp Fortress 2 was a big success, making the front page of a number of big sites and blogs.

This month I will most likely be working on a short WoW project.

My new movie “Temp Fortress 2″ has been released. Made in Team Fortress 2 and Garry’s Mod. This is my first TF2 film so it took a bit of work.

The reception to World of Workcraft has been great. With 170k views in the first week, the top spot on Digg in all catagories, and a mention on Kotaku and many other gaming blogs. It is already the #2 all time viewed video on Wegame.

I am currently hard at work on my next project, which will be done in Team Fortress 2 if all goes as planned. There are currently many challenges in producing a high quality TF2 movie, which explains why no one has done it before…

I’ve been very busy the last few weeks.

My latest movie “World of Workcraft” has been released.

In other news, I was also a first place winner of the Blizzard Level 70 Elite Tauren Chieftain machinima contest.

Next week I will be relocating to San Francisco on a temporary assignment.

This means I will have much more time to dedicate to machinima projects.

Expect two new releases in June!

Thrall’s Crib was very well received, with some 300k views in the first week.

I find it surprising how many people can’t come up with a single original idea when making machinima. I have a huge list of jokes I decided to cut from Thrall’s Crib since I wanted to keep the runtime under 5 minutes. It’s unlikely I’ll do another cribs (I ain’t no one trick pony), but I have been thinking of using the characters again.

Currently I am working on a few contests, so that’s taking up my time at the moment. I have a million more ideas for machinimas, so fear not…there is much more on the way.

P.S. Second Life people are all really creepy.

My newest video “Thrall’s Crib” is now finished. It was a lot of work, but I had a lot of fun making it.

I have been wanting to make a TF2 short ever since the game was announced. However, the TF2 face poser repeatedly crashes on startup. I have tried every possible solution known to man and it still refuses to work. From what I can tell, it may be related to having an old steam account that uses an email address for a login. I think the “@” might be breaking things.

Another huge problem with the SDK tools are the fact that they have forced updates. Sometimes these updates add bugs or make the tools not work at all.