And now all the other crap!

Sooo, let's start by mentioning that I've never gotten such great feedback before than after releasing Welcome to the Deadmines. Ofc i've got bad comments like "Omg childish! [insert name here] should have won!" or "Oh no, I hate DM 1/5", but appart from things like that I've gotten really great feedback and I really gotta thank all of you people out there! And remember alot of the creds should go out to the ones helping on the project. I think the key to success is really by team working, but that I will get to soon!

A drawing I made right after I got done with the machinima.

The making of Welcome to the Deadmines
(Prepare for alot of text)

When they annouced the Rise to Power contest I was not sure if I was going to join because I had no clue what to do really. After a while I figured I could make something about VanCleef or maybe another boss inside the Deadmines but could not figure out a great story. When there was about 3 weeks left on the contest me and my friend made some brain storming and thought "Why not make a song about VanCleef?", and so we did.

When we had a basic idea I contacted Calle and asked if he would like to help out with lyrics and music. Since I really have no experience with music it ended up with him writing the bigger part of the lyrics but we were a few other people helping on it as well. Calle composed the music and then we sent out the script to the voice actors to make them do thier parts. Now this is where we got alot of trouble. We took a closer look at the contest rules and found out that it had to show the rise to power of an individual character, hero or villain, lore wise. So Jesse Cox changed alot of the script by throwing in some lore in to a few parts, removing old things and adding new things to make it match the rules alot better. Luckily, the script came out just as good, or maybe even better at some parts :).

When I had all the voices from the different voice actor it was time for editing and I had about 2 weeks to finish the machinima. I was spening all my free time on editing to get it done, when I got home from school, editing. When woke up, editing. When I ate, editing. When I took a walk with my dog, editing.. Okay maybe not, but still! In the beginning it was a hell putting in all those goblins and miners in to the frame but then I learned a new technique that made it ago ALOT faster and without it I would never have finished it in time with the equal results.

When the contest came to an end I did not have much time to submit it. And sadly when I finished rendering the video, the file size was too big and it was only about 20 mins left on the contest. I hurried and re-rendered it inside movie maker but the outcome was HORRIBLE, both audio and video. It was about 5 minutes left so I decided to post it anyway. Yet I decided to attempt submitting after the deadline. I sent my video to FDK and he re-rendered it in a better quality inside movie maker because I couldn't find the right settings myself. He sent it to me and I submitted it a few minutes after the contest was over, luckily Blizz took the one with better quality even though I crossed the deadline. Now, I know what you are thinking "WTF?! You should get disqualified faggot!". No, because remember I still had the crappy quality version submitted in time, so instead they should have posted the crappy one.. Which they didn't, and I understand why. I got the mail about a week after, saying that I won, yet it took Blizz a month to actually make it official. I really wonder why it took so long but I don't really mind it anymore.

Also, I gotta say that special credits goes out to both Jesse Cox and Irdeen! During the whole project Jesse helped me with ideas and inspiration for the editing. And if I was out of them I knew I could turn to Jesse who always seemd to be full of them. And if I was not sure if a clip was good enough, I sent it to him and he said straight out what he thought which I really appriciated. Ofcourse he also voice acted alot of the characters, wrote a big part of the script and helped to correcrt the music a bit. So big thanks to him, he deserves alot of cred! Then Calle/Irdeen who composed the entire song, wrote most of the lyrics, helped out when I couldn't figure how to make some sort of advanced editing, and helped with ideas as well! A bunch of creds should go to him as well! Then ofcurse everyone else helping on the projects! ^^

So, what about future projects? I still gotta finish FI5VE, still gotta make that video for Fatty but then also I am going to make something short for a recent started RP guild at Argent Dawn. And yes I am a RP'er, the geek within the geek community. But it's deamn fun when you get in to it I must tell you. Even though it might not seem like it. When i've finished Fatty's video I'm thinking about accepting requests as well. But that I wouldn't talk too much about right now.

Thanks a bunch for being awesome, all of you! (Except the people making PvP videos.)