Exodus from US'Kelthuzad is, besides SK-gaming, the only guild in the world that has taken down the 5th boss in Sunwell plateau! On the scoreboard this captured kill is a World Second/US First and staying true to our "Sunwell Rush Contest" the first legit movie with a WCM promo of the last 3 bosses wins premium accounts to their whole guild!

The movie you are about to see is really fresh and uploaded just a few hours after the kill:

Congratulations on an impressive kill and enjoy the Premium upgrades!

The voting period has begun for the Bitfilm Machinima award 2008! No less than three Authors were selected from our community! -

BaronSoosdon with his - I'm So Sick:

Dopefish with his - Among Fables and Men:

And Olibith with his - The Ballad of the Sex Junkie:

 

Go to the bitfilm homepage under the "Machinima" tag and vote for your favorite and the Machinimators know you are supporting them. There are prizes to be won for anyone that takes part in the voting!

There have been a few domains registered with a similar name to our real domain "warcraftmovies.com" that are used for spreading harmful content.

Our site should only be accessed via warcraftmovies.com and no other domain.

Keep your anti-virus software updated to avoid these kind of problems.

Due to popular demands we have implemented "leet speak" to our homepage. We pulled some strings and recruited one of our top PvP Author to translate our site! Why do we go through all this trouble? This written argot will prevent our parents and others that do not play the game from understanding what we are doing here, before the summer no one outside this community will ever know we excised!

We thank you for your patience while implementing the "leet speak" on our servers, this is just the BETA phase and when everything is working leet will be default language. In the final stage of this renewal titles and voice over on movies will be manually changed to fit the new standard. Below are a few examples on how the system has improved our Authors summary:

I'm So Sick

Tales of the past III

Eviscerate 7 - World PvP, Daggers

Nihilum EU-BG3 Grand Final

For now you will have to click the new official flag in the top right corner to get the desired effect.

Hope you are as excited about this as we are, reply to this thread if you want to help us translate all the movies and we will get in contact with you.

Thank you all for participating in this Ingame Streaming, were we showed a glimpse of Drakedogs finesse Live!

Based on the current viewing cap, or the massive overload on our servers, some of you might have missed this "Reel" session, we are working to solve this but the project is still in its BETA phase. Also for a short period of time only Premium members had access to the stream, server capacity had reached its limit and we were forced to cut down or crash.

Soon we will have this streamlined, the viewing cap can be lifted and everyone can enjoy this new technology. Thanks for your patience and understanding.

Stay updated on our Reel page for future sessions >> 

 

Some of you might have problems watching Filefront streams and not even Blizzard is untouched by the ISP dispute between Telia/Cognet Customers.

Blizzard Support explains this further:

"Cogent has decided not to exchange traffic directly with TeliaSonera’s AS 1299 or indirectly with AS 1299 through a third-party provider. As a result, Cogent has partitioned the Internet and disrupted the flow of traffic between Cogent and TeliaSonera customers. While this has a negative impact on some users of the Internet, this effect is the result of Cogent’s decision and is unfortunately beyond TeliaSonera’s control."

Please note that this is an issue with Filefronts ISP and it has nothing to with WarcraftMovies's servers.

After Mondays success with the streaming of Drakedogs ingame play we have arranged a new "WCMreel" session:

24/3 2008 (on Monday)
6PM 18:00 CET (Central European Time)
It will last approximately 1 hour

Just like last time, there will still be a limit on how many we can show the Live Stream to but it has been doubled. Invitations has gone out to our most active members. If not enough people from the list show up we will open it to everyone in a "first come, first served" fashion!

About the session: Drakedog playing from the Korean Arenas.

Visit our new event page to stay updated >>

Watch Drakedog Live ingame Streaming!

Tonight 6PM C.E.T, WarcraftMovies.com is proud to present a whole new technology to our community - Live ingame Streaming, "WCMreel"!

For this first big test we have invited our most hardcore WCM-members; based on Fame, Premium Membership and Skill you will be able to access, watch and chat in our shout box during the event. Even if you do not meet the qualifications above you can still view our shout box and every minute we will release a frech picture form the event.

You need atleast 1 of the things listed below to participate:

• Premium
• 50 Fame points
• 25 Skill points

Important: Please note that there is a cap for this session on how many that can watch at the same time. We will however restart the program a few times during the event so keep refreshing and you might get in.

Today we will feature DRAKEDOG - Our most famous Warlock with over 2million views on his movies, broadcasting live from the Korean Arenas. So strap on your headsets, turn up the base and enjoy 1 full hour of Destruction carnage!:

As the week progresses expect more live events here on WCM, stay tuned for updates!

As the topic reads - Stage6 is shutting down on February 28. They have been struggling with the massive usage of bandwidth for quite some time. That they have been trying to keep the cost down has been very clear for us when many Authors here on WCM have had their movies removed from Stage6 based on too high bandwidth usage. Nevertheless, Stage6 has been an obvious choice for many of our users since the launch in 2006 and the high quality streaming service has been perfect for this community.

Read the announcement on stage6.com

With that being said WCM will remove all Stage6 Mirrors and focus on finding new sources to provide this community with high quality streaming.

We've added more rss feeds in the viewcategory, viewauthor and movieview pages.

You now have a feed with new movies by a specific author and/or category,

these feeds are shown if you click on the RSS button in your browser.

Who do you think is the most skilled player with released content in our database during 2007? The time has come to write that in stone!

We have selected more than 60 players to compete against each other with already released material. Some of the variables used to complete this list has been: downloads, rating, popularity and skill points.

Now its up to YOU to VOTE on who you think is best here on WCM. During 3 rounds, 1 week each, we will go from 65 to 15 to 5 to finally crown the Top Skilled '07!

Visit this thread on our forum to discuss the contest and share your votes!

 

 

We have added a new link in the movieviews,

Click this link to be able to talk live with other users and authors in our community.
Perhaps you would like to discuss the movie you just watched, or try to find help in your next movie project. You can also find administrators here to help with bugs and issues you may have.

 

Been approving blog requests for little more than a day and already we have a dozen of fresh Posts out there! This News will serve as the portal out to active bloggers until we get a working portal and proper exposure on the front page:

http://moomoney.warcraftmovies.com/ Moo Money is currently writing for WoW Insider, the daily Moviewatch and already posted several Posts from her newly started blog.

http://thelegacy.warcraftmovies.com/ Writing currently about character lore, hopefully stuff people can use for their future Machinima?

http://chrille.warcraftmovies.com/ - Chrille is the person behind The Fat Cow series and will keep us updated on druids and PvP (two of my favorite things when playing WoW)

Will keep updating with news until we get a system for this.

Our ever so popular Author BaronSoosdon just hit spotlighted on wow-europe.com! He is asked about why he first started making movies, the growing European machinima scene and what project lies ahead:

Read the whole interview at: Community Spotlight: Baron Soosdon

 

Cherekee and Beasteh just released their first Arena movie, World #1 2v2 Druid/Hunter in the world (Rude BoyZ), showing us several fights and what tactics they use against popular setups in the top 2v2 bracket!:

 

 World #1 2v2 Druid/Hunter

- Hope to see more movies from these two in the near future, thanks for sharing guys!

Since 2000 it shows films that use digital technology in a creative and
innovative way. Bitfilm 2008 will start with an opening event in
Stuttgart, Germany, from May 1 to 8, which will be embedded into the
International Festival for Animated Film and the FMX Conference.

The Internet audience will decide on the Bitfilm Awards and 10 000 Euro
prize money in an online voting from May 1 to July 1.

The winner films will be disclosed at the Bitfilm Festival Hamburg from
July 10 to 12.

Films may be submitted until March 1, 2008 as digital video files under:
http://www.bitfilm.com/festival

These are the award categories:

3D SPACE AWARD
computer generated 3D animations

FX MIX AWARD
digitally composed hybrid films

FLASH AWARD
vector animations made with Flash

MACHINIMA AWARD
films shot live in computer games

MOBILE AWARD
films and series designed for mobile devices

REALTIME AWARD
animations rendered in real time

More info at: http://www.bitfilm.com/festival/

We are very proud to announce that Tristan "The Godfather" Pope has trusted us with his Machinima101.com project. While Tristan is moving on to new challenges we will do our best to create a forum worthy of his visions and I am happy to say that he will still be lurking around as a member posting here and there.

Here is Tristan's statement which you can read in full in this post:

Hey everyone! So it is true WarcraftMovies has taken the reins of Machinima101.com.

For a long time Machinima101.com has been thriving with some of the oldest and newest Machinima creators on the web, talking and confiding in one another to help them take the next step in improving their craft. Machinima101 has always and will always be a place to come when you need the blunt truth about your work in order to improve or just get ideas. Many of the machinimists out there have been more than helpful with sharing techniques and guidance to new movie makers as well as people new to the scene helping out the older guys/girls.

Machinima101.com is not a place of rating movies via stars but formulating your words into semi coherent sentences to give constructive feedback. That will be maintained. Warcraft Movies and I have been working together for a little bit behind the scenes to maintain the "coffee shop" feel of Machinima101.com. What they do want to do though is add a more streamlined feel to the site as well as offer it to a wider audience of people. Considering the majority of people participating in the site currently are World of Warcraft Machinimators, WarcraftMovies in my opinion is the best place for it to reside. The staff there are very open to the members opinions and continue to mprove their own site.

So for those of you on the site already, this should only mean new and more exciting features to help organize information better as well as maintaining the feel of the site currently (aka no jerk faces!)

For those of you new to the site, WarcraftMovies will be taking steps to help you get information quickly as well as efficiently so that you may post without looking like a jerk face lol.

I will be here posting now and again but I will no longer be the owner or admin of this site.

See ya all on the forums!

Addendum: A jerk face is a person who is out to ruin the overall enjoyment of someone else on a site to allow the freedom to speak ones mind and share thoughts and ideas without the fear of jerk faces. Oh yeah and a person who doesn't run a search or read the forum prior to posting a question that has been answered 50 times lol.

Disclaimer: All the above is the personal statements of Tristan as an individual, and should not be taken as the views or opinions of anyone other than Tristan.

There you have it! We will rely heavily on the opinions of the current users of Machinima101 before deciding on which path to take. This will be the very next step. The fundamental idea is to have a shared user database between WCM and Machinima101 similar to what we have on mmorpgforum.com and perhaps move some parts of that forum to Machinima101.

You will be able to follow the latest development and take part in the discussion on Machinima101.com.

Uzbeki, Founder
WarcraftMovies.com

The results are in and the winners are crowned!

• 1st place: $300 Premium - FireShifT - A Big, Bad, Green Xmas!
• 2nd place: $200 Premium - FireboltPro - Ugly Goblin's Christmas
• 3rd place: $100 Premium - Lafawnduh - Ultimate Snowdown

Awesome quality from all our finalists and the runner ups in this years contest, hope it helped to powerlevel you all in to the Christmast Spirit of 2007! :)

Merry Christmas!

The new 'Skilled?' feature lets you decide on what movie that got the most skill each week. TOP 50 now also keeps track on 'Skilled?' and what movie that holds most points!

In addition to this, each server reset in "Latest Achievements" there will be an announcement, similar to top downloaded/top rated, on what movie that got most points to lift out and acknowledge this.

Top Skilled - Week: 50 - 423: 

SK|Neilyo - #10 HARP (Hemo AR Prep)

 

 

so..

The Trailer for 'Shadow Word: Dance 4' is out and the Author, called Dance, behind this well-designed PvP series just recently released a guide on his blog:

How 2 Maek A Moovie - Video in Vegas Part 1

By covering the basics this tutorial is something I believe every movie maker who hasn't tried out Sony Vegas, or just started, can make much use of. Also, you might want to start by reading Mr Dance guide on: How 2 Maek A Moovie - Frapsing - To get a clue on how best to capture material for your own PvP movie!