Neverending Nights

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?

That’s right – it’s now 2:34am… and I just finished off writing Season 2… it will bring us up to 42 episodes worth of NeN goodness! One moment please – I am replacing the toothpicks holding open my eyelids… Ah! Yes! There we go! Anyway – the reason I am saying it’s 99.99% done – is because I like to comb it over and see now that it’s all done and written – if there’s anywhere I need to add or subtract anything – to make a joke or remove a lame joke. (Well, no – most of the lame jokes stay in the script, who am I kidding…)

Looking it over (just glancing it over at the moment, want to be more conscious and awake when I do the real comb over) – I actually like how this Season has turned out! Lots of cool little things, references, and even some plot twists! (Well, okay – not really plot twists per se – but some cool things with the characters!) Want to know some clues – you might want to check out the thread called ‘Best Ever Theory For Andrea’s Mother.’

With the script completed (minus the final comb over) – all things considered, side projects and all – I am hoping that we can get all the actors (who are local, which is just about EVERY single one of them – save for one or two!) – down for the day to record the lines for Season 2! This way, we won’t suffer any audio differences (again, other than the one or two who won’t be recording with us here locally, for whatever reason!) And as soon as we begin recording audio, Adam can begin filming the actual episodes! The ‘Module/Map’ we use – I am almost done with as well. There’s only a few places I need to put in and add, and that will be ready to go!

So – all that said – I am hoping no later than Mid-October for us to begin recording everything and getting the ball rolling for Neverending Nights – Season 2! Want to comment about this update? Head right over here into our forum!

PS: Kroze just brought this to my attention – Bryy Miller was on “The Movies: On Air” again – with Mission Radio – and Neverending Nights got a brief mention during the interview. You can download the complete versions right over here (Neverending Nights is in the first half, around the 43:00 minute mark). Or if you’re just interested in what got said about Neverending Nights – I went ahead and cropped and cut the audio and am making it available for download – right here at a mere 328KB!

First, if you have not heard – you should definitely Pre-Order Neverwinter Nights 2. If you’re asking yourself why – well, why not head into our forum and read this little bit of news!

Also – for Neverwinter Nights 1, a new Premium Module has been released – and this one has some AMAZING content! Don’t believe me? Take a look…

Head into our forum and read more about it here!

Here’s hoping that eventually this content will be available for general toolset use…