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BONE US!

NeN Admin — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 23:25:20 +0000

Or… just Bonus. Which ever one gets your attention first. A ton of odd, random videos related to NeN have now become available for download on our Bonus Page. File sizes aren’t there yet, but will be in the near … Continue reading →

The Recording Sessions.

NeN Admin — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 18:16:11 +0000

So I have a bunch of video from when we recorded Season 3 (I camcorded most of it), and have been going through some of it – and getting a laugh out of some of it. I had previously made some of it available – but I am thinking I am going to cut some of these together, and offer it up as one video. One of the greatest things about this was how much fun we had while we were recording the voices. There was a lot of laughing, banter, questioning of why this or that was happening…

Here’s some examples…

Sausage WHAT?

Clearing up some rumors…

What Would Grayson Say?

- Tawmis

Machinima and Awards and Drinks, Oh My!

NeN Admin — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 22:42:56 +0000

As mentioned previously, after PC GAMER UK and our interview on Bioware’s website, we got nominated for Comedy in the 2005 Machinima Awards. We didn’t win, and I didn’t expect to – but it was still a very incredible night.

Especially having Paul thank Adam and I (among others) for making the trek out to New York in 2005….

When we submitted our final screening video, I wanted to make an intro to the Episodes (because we were going to show like Episodes 10 to 15 or something like that; something near the middle of the first season; so I wanted a way to warm the crowd up and catch them up with what to expect)… And here’s that video for the 2005 Machinima:

And here it is (recorded by me on my phone) as it was being screened:

I admit, when Adam mentioned it was open bar and they had Rum and Coke, I may have had a few (and couldn’t operate my camera later that night)…

And may have had some difficultly walking later…

- Tawmis

Neverending Nights – Season 1 – Recap.

NeN Admin — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 02:33:34 +0000

When we were making the Season 2 DVD for NEVERENDING NIGHTS, I made a “Recap” video that would have played at the beginning – to essentially recap 21 episodes worth down to 10 minutes (and cover all the important things, and character bits that give you a feel for the characters) – in case someone new was watching the DVD and hadn’t seen Season 1. It never made it onto the DVD, so here it is for you to check out:

- Tawmis

So why did we do machinima instead of live acting?

NeN Admin — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 16:57:41 +0000

So thousands – perhaps millions! – of people have told us, “Man! You guys are really funny! But why did you guys do Machinima instead of a live acting video of some kind?”

I pondered this for a moment. Then dug through the archives of videos we had done, for live action – and found my answer. Because, in front of the camera, we’re really horrible actors! (Hey! You! In the back! I heard that about we’re bad voice actors too!) At any rate, Adam and I had made a video back in 2004, while we were out camping – to essentially spoof ourselves! We made a video, as Peter as Grayson – in the modern world. (Pay attention to how we emote sometimes; you will see they’re references to how the characters emote in Neverwinter Nights). This videos dates all the way back to 2004. The story was fun (there’s some mistakes that we overlooked, “Hold on, let me get a note and a paper so I can write a note to my loved ones…”) – but the real fun happens at the out takes at the end (because that’s Adam and I at our best!)

Neverending Skewl Daze.

NeN Admin — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 07:56:50 +0000

If, at any point, while I was writing NEVERENDING NIGHTS, someone would have told me, “Hey! Peter and Grayson could be used for some kind of school project!” I would have laughed. If someone told me that they would to have Peter, Grayson and Neverending Nights be a part of their final paper in College – I would have scoffed (and warned them that doing so would doom them to failure). So when Poppy (our beloved Salt Vendor) came up to me with the idea of using Neverending Nights for her College class paper – I couldn’t help but chuckle. Since it was for her class, she wrote the script herself (with a little input here and there from Adam and I about how the characters would react) – but since a large part of it had to do with things that were way too intelligent for Adam and I to understand – we left the writing of the majority of the script to Poppy for this. The script was voiced by Poppy, Amiee, Adam and myself; who had experience recording for Neverending Nights. But the rest of the people on Poppy’s team had not done anything like this and had to be a part of the project – and thus voice characters. Some really got into it, some were really monotone, and some were VERY giggly (that may have been the wine). At any rate, this was exceptionally fun to do (even if we didn’t understand the subject matter at hand), to work with new people and see them in front of the mic, and see how they designed their own characters in the toolset and how they laughed when voice and character were combined to make them come alive.

The Outtakes are by far my favorite. Be advised there is CUSSING in the out takes and it is NOT child friendly.

- Tawmis

A New All Time ‘Lowe.’

NeN Admin — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 21:26:38 +0000

So when I wrote and did Episode 55, my goal was to have one of my idols (Al Lowe) do the voice of the character. The character was very much inspired (visually) by Larry Laffer of the Leisure Suit Larry series. I was floored when Al Lowe agreed to voice the part. I almost didn’t believe it until I got the files and heard Al Lowe’s voice. It was amazing. The man I had idolized for the years of entertainment he had given me through Leisure Suit Larry was actually doing a voice for my own little series. To say I was walking in Heaven would have been a serious understatement.

Well, it looks like it’s my time to spread the word of Al Lowe again! It would seem that the rights for Leisure Suit Larry have been acquired – and they’re rebooting / redoing / reloading Leisure Suit Larry 1: Land of the Lounge Lizards through a Kickstarter Campaign!

In an all too brief video, Al Lowe proves “he’s still got it”…

Consider donating and helping this come true for Al Lowe – and all of us who wish to don on those Leisure Suits at least ONE more time!

And for those who don’t recall the episode Al Lowe was in:

- Tawmis

Neverending Daze – Episode 05.

NeN Admin — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 16:59:04 +0000

The Neverwinter Nights Toolset had some amazing abilities that allowed anyone using it to create some very truly custom content – because everything in the game could be resized to the builder’s desire! This was the last one we did for Atari to promote the NWN2 game before it’s release. In this episode we wanted to show case how toolset builders could modify the size of ANYTHING in the game – from houses to cats! Even Thurg is modified by the toolset, if you hadn’t noticed.

Neverending Daze – Episode 04.

NeN Admin — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 18:27:08 +0000

This episode was meant to show off some of the undead. A lot of times, there were things we expected NWN2 to be able to do that NWN1 had – but, sadly, did not carry over in terms of being able to control the monsters as needed (DMJump is what it was most commonly called) – so sometimes we had to make adjustments as we played with NWN2 to make these videos.

Neverending Daze – Episode 01.

NeN Admin — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 20:33:18 +0000

When we got a deal with ATARI to do some NWN2 promotional videos before the game even came out, we jumped at the chase! We went up to Los Angeles, met up with the guys at Obsidian, got to get Alpha & Beta copies of the game (to make our videos with), even got Atari Sponsored E3 badges to meet with the Atari executives behind NWN2. It was an amazing experience. They wanted to hear our ideas and gave us free reign to do what we wanted. We wanted to use each episode to show case something about the game (whether it was emotes, or races, or structures, etc) – and well, here’s the first episode we made…