April 20, 2008

Hello there. Thought I better update the blog (partially since Kevin & Kyle have been nagging me to). Well, the new maps for Halo 3 have hit and seem to be very popular, especially the two remakes Blackout and Avalanche. Anyway, I made two quick videos about the maps. I started and completed both of them within about 2 hours on Tuesday morning. For the little amount of time I spent on them, they are chalk fill of laughs. The best one (in my opinion) is called "OMG NEW MAPS!". Please go check it out. The other video, which is called "Downloading...", is also worth checking out. Now time for some movie updates.

Since I've been very busy the past few weeks, I have been unable to work on any capturing/editing/any movie making. However, I have been coming up with some new plot ideas in my mind. This upcoming week is not nearly as busy for me, so hopefully we can get some stuff done, like capturing footage from the fan episode. And speaking of that...

How did the fan episode go? If you weren't there, you're probably asking this question. Let me tell you, it was a little (how should I put it)... hectic. There were some confused players as well as some disruptive one's. But with me and my soft heart, I didn't boot one person. Among all the players though, there were a few who were incredibly nice and who were big fans of the MTE series. I played a few custom games with them and they showed me some recreations they made of MTE maps. I was quite impressed. If I ever need any additional help, they will defiantly be high on my list. So will I do another fan episode? Maybe. I think though, I might hand select most of the players who behaved in the last fan episode, with 1 or 2 new people, and maybe a few fellows from Team Timeout. So if you want to be in a future fan episode, just remember not to beg and plead and annoy us. We're incredibly happy that you like our machinima, but hounding us just makes us want to avoid you, and we don't want that. Unlike some other machinima makers, we want to involve the fans and make them feel as though we're not some higher being. So behave accordingly, and who knows!

We hope to have the fan episode completed before the month is out, and then we really want to step up production on the MTE series (it's already almost May and we're not even half way through our season 2 schedule!). As for the new series, we'll work on it casually in-between Marlins, and then kick it into a higher gear during the summer. Like you may have heard, we want to get a couple episodes completed before we release the first one. So roughly around late summer/early fall. We want to do a good job on the series and make absolutely everything to our liking.

Well I hope you enjoyed reading this unusually long blog post (I hope you're happy Kevin & Kyle). Remember to submit you votes for the TPMAs before the April 26th deadline, and stay tuned for info on a possible live podcast episode to announce the winners!