Neverending Nights

THE ANNOUNCEMENT!

And actually those devil dogs made the announcement a WEEK AGO on Oct 20th, and just – ya know, figured we knew!

On April 29th, 2006 – Atari contacted me and Adam and wanted to meet up with us, regarding Neverwinter Nights 2. Through them, we were invited to E3 with ATARI passes (and got to see the cool stuff Atari has in the back – pictures will come now that the announcement has been made!) They wanted Adam and I to do some NWN2 Machinima to promote NWN2 before it’s release (and episodes after their release)! Well, after talking with them at E3 about the details – we were invited up to Obsidian’s office here in California. Needless to say, Adam and I were all over that! So after E3, Adam and I made our way to Obsidian (it was like a week later) – and got hands on experience with the toolset and the game play, allowing us the chance to see how we could make a NWN2 Machinima work (after all, there is no DMJump in NWN2… yet). After agreeing to all of this – we had to sign a nice little NDA (Non Disclosure Agreement) and keep our mouth shut until they made the official announcement!

The OFFICIAL Release News can be seen here! With the link leading you here.

You will need to register on ATARI’s website just under where it says “Login for more videos” – to see our videos (as well as other exclusive content).

If you have a Bioware Forum account – feel free to head to THEIR forum and reply to the threads there about it! The more people who comment (hopefully favorably!) the better it is for us!

The episodes feature music by Travis Richards (“SnafeDarkrold”).

You can head into the Neverending Daze section of our forum now!

I’d like to extend thanks to: Shane, Brandon, Ryan Rucinski, Darren Monahan, Stephen Baer, Feargus, Rick Mehler, Jon Galloway, and probably a handful of others who were extremely patient and wonderful to work with when we had a thousand questions!

Ok well that isisn’t the big announcement. But I bet you were like WTFOMFGLOLBBQ!

I know we promised you all a big announcement. Believe me when I say that tom and I are just as excited to tell you as you will be to hear it. We are just waiting on one little, itty-bitty, tiny, weensy, detail to happen and then we will announce the greatest thing ever.

Tom will add his own little comment to this post. Just pity him, It’s what I do.

Adam calls me “A Girl”… well, the below image isn’t the LEAST bit photo-editted in ANY manner… this is a real, legit picture… and I will let it speak for itself ….

Seriously. I rest my case.

Below is the full list of the Mackie Award categories and this year’s nominees. Links to the online works will be posted within the next few days…

Right here and now, I’d like to formerly announce that “Neverending Nights” has officially changed the series name to something clearly more successful – something like: The Adventures of Peter & Grayson: Dragons Attack at Dawn!

You can see who didn’t get the “Denied Message” by going here to visit the 2006 Machinima Festival Nominations.

The Academy of Machinima Arts & Sciences announces this years Mackie nominations!

Best Picture
* The Adventures of Bill & John: Danger Attacks at Dawn – KBS Productions
* Deviation – Jon Griggs
* Desolate – Blood Signature Films
* Edge of Remorse – Riot Films
* Stolen Life – Nanoflix Productions

Best Direction
* The Adventures of Bill & John: Danger Attacks at Dawn – Bertrand Le Cabec, Frederic Servant, Sébastien Savine
* An American Baby in Iraq – Paul Henderson
* Deviation – Hardlight Films – Jon Griggs
* Edge of Remorse – Riot Films – Jason I. Choi
* Illegal Danish: Super Snacks – Myndflame – Clint Hackleman

Best Virtual Performance: Puppeteering
* The Adventures of Bill & John: Danger Attacks at Dawn – KBS Productions
* An American Baby in Iraq – Paul Henderson
* The Brothers Tauren 2 – Red Sky Foundry
* Just a Game – Mu Productions
* Tra5hTa1k – The ILL Clan

Best Virtual Performance: Custom Animation
* Better Life – Rob Wright
* Company of Heroes – Relic Studios
* Game Over – Pierce Portocarrero
* Stolen Life – Nanoflix Productions
* Tra5hTa1k – The ILL Clan

Best Voice-Acting Performance
* The Adventures of Bill & John: Danger Attacks at Dawn – KBS Productions
* Deviation – Hardlight Films
* Red vs. Blue Season 4 – Rooster Teeth Productions
* Slightly Later Man – Machinima.com
* Stolen Life – Nanoflix Productions

Best Visual Design
* Edge of Remorse – Riot Films
* Game Over – Pierce Portocarrero
* Machinima Island (Trailer) – Ricard Gras
* Reich and Roll – Scintilla Films
* Stolen Life – Nanoflix Productions

Best Cinematography
* The Adventures of Bill & John: Danger Attacks at Dawn – Bertrand Le Cabec, Frederic Servant, Sébastien Savine
* An American Baby in Iraq – Paul Henderson
* The Days After – Apollo Productions – André Pesch
* Desolate – Blood Signature Films – James Dubose
* Official Armored Fury – Reliant Films – Joseph Falcione

Best Original Music
* The Anti-Elf Anthem – Brandon M. Dennis
* Armored Fury Gameplay (Trailer) – Reliant Films – Roger Hooper
* Edge of Remorse – Riot Films – Scott Buckley
* Code Monkey – The ILL Clan – Jonathan Coulton
* Stolen Life – Nanoflix Productions – Phillip Johnston

Best Sound Design
* The Adventures of Bill & John: Danger Attacks at Dawn – KBS Productions
* Company of Heroes – Relic Studios – Airwaves Studios
* Desolate – Blood Signature Films
* Deviation – Neil Fazzari, Tom Efinger, John Moros
* No Other Destiny – CCP Games

Best Writing
* The Adventures of Bill & John: Danger Attacks at Dawn – KBS Productions – Bertrand Le Cabec, Frederic Servant
* Deviation – Jon Griggs
* Male Restroom Etiquette – Z-Studios – Phil Rice
* Red vs. Blue – Season 4 – Rooster Teeth Productions – Burnie Burns, Matt Hullum
* Slightly Later Man – Machinima.com – Jon Colton Barry

Best Editing
* The Adventures of Bill & John: Danger Attacks at Dawn – KBS Productions – Bertrand Le Cabec, Frederic Servant
* An American Baby in Iraq – Paul Henderson
* Converse Commercial – Crafting Worlds – Tristan Pope
* Deviation – Hardlight Films – Jon Griggs
* No Other Destiny – CCP Games – Greg Kruk

Best Technical Achievement
* BloodSpell – Strange Company
* Company of Heroes – Relic Studios
* Game Over – Pierce Portocarrero
* Silver Bells and Golden Spurs – Eric Call
* Stolen Life – Nanoflix Productions

Best Commercial Machinima
* Company of Heroes – Relic Studios
* No Other Destiny – CCP Games
* Silver Bells and Golden Spurs – Eric Call
* Slightly Later Man – Machinima.com
* Soda Commercial Demo – Mu Productions

Best Independent Machinima
* The Adventures of Bill & John: Danger Attacks at Dawn – KBS Productions
* Desolate – Blood Signature Films
* Deviation – Jon Griggs
* Edge of Remorse – Riot Films
* Male Restroom Etiquette – Phil Rice

Best Off-the-Shelf Machinima
* Am Ende der Distanz – David Riedel
* Just a Game – Mu Productions
* Machinima! With Officer Dan – Amorphous Blob Productions
* Official Armored Fury (Trailer) – Reliant Films
* The Revenge of Dr. Mechanico – Stone Falcon Productions

Best Series
* BloodSpell – Strange Company
* The Fixer – TF Stallkamp
* Red vs. Blue Season 4 – Rooster Teeth Productions
* This Spartan Life – Chris Burke
* Tra5hTa1k – The ILL Clan

Congratulations to all nominees!

2006 Machinima Film Festival

So there you have it. Want to discuss it? If you have a RedvsBlue account, there’s a 7 page thread over there about it. Or you can voice your thoughts on our own forum, where we have a 5 page thread about it. Anna (over on Machinima.com) even noted that she thinks the nominations are stacked. Read what she had to say and add your own input if you want!

However, despite the disappointing news regarding us and the 2006 Machinima Film Festival – we still have “The Announcement” to make when we’re able which will balance out not making it into the Mackie Awards. (We’re probably going to be screened like we were last year… or I’d hope)!

… this still isn’t “The” Announcement.

But definitely some stuff worth mentioning. First of all, “TMRiddle” purchased the domain That Kicks Rocks.com! That site, no matter what – is simply going to kick the most rocks ever! (There’s rumblings of some plans on what he’s going to do with that site – so I’d keep it bookmarked and keep an eye out on anything springing up there!)

Next, remember The 2006 Machinima Film Festival – Well, originally they were going to make their selections Oct 4th, but after (over) 150 submissions – they delayed their final choice to October 10th. Well today is October 10th… so we’re eagerly watching The 2006 Machinima Film Festival website to see if they have any updated news…

And hopefully sometime today (it’d be nice), “The” Announcement can be made…

… but a big enough announcement, anyway. I just wanted to let everyone know that “SnafeDarkrold” is now an official staff member of FNBH Productions, as our resident Musical Artist. SnafeDarkrold has been providing us with incredible pieces of music specifically for Neverending Nights! Some of it can be heard if you have sponsored us, you will have already heard some of the music in the DVD (or if you have sponsored us – you got a sneak peek of the NeN 2006 Machinima Intro that was submitted, which also featured music from SnafeDarkrold). He has provided us with incredible music pieces that will be heard in Season 2 of Neverending Nights – and possibly on other projects. So feel free to drop him a private message and give him a congrats! Now he gets to work extra hard with no pay! Isn’t that an awesome benefit of being a part of the FNBH Productions Staff?