X-Cross Pictures

Oh hai blog, sorry for letting you dust

2010-11-03T15:43:00.000-07:00

Long time since I did any update here. Well, today I've been focusing on X-Cross Pictures since lately I've been a lazy ass just sittin' at home playing League of Legends 24/7 (BTW, add me, Xcrosspictures on EU servers). But now I've had enough with doing nothing so I started to upload some pictures on to my deviantART account, drawed a new picture, started thinking of a new project and made a new blog post. I really wanna get back into production because I enjoy it and hopefully you do as well.

Yet I have done a few things during my "very-long-and-lazy-period". Most of them are done in school though but I hope to photo them and upload them to deviantART. ALSO I got a project in school that must be done by this summer. I'm ofcourse making a movie, with real actors this time and real footage. It's going to be drama and it's going to be awesome... Hopefully..

So now i'm just going back to work with the project I came up with. Oh and also, gratz to all the amazing blizzcon winners this year! You all did an awesome job. So did my friend Calle with his entry, even though he didn't win anything :(..

Take care and have fun! :D

Hai gaaiiis

2010-06-25T07:45:00.001-07:00

Hai thar :)

2010-04-22T14:53:00.000-07:00

Hey! I don't really know why I post this. I don't really got any big news more than that I got interviewed by wow.com a few days ago. Else I haven't been very productive lately, or what ever you call it. I've been busy with real life stuff mainly, hopefully I'll get back in to editing soon again... Else, The Grind 3 comes tomorrow and i'm too deamn excited about it! Else there's nothing else that's really going on. Mostly real life things, so take care and thanks for reading my blooooowwwwgg!

Only YouTube from now on.

2010-04-02T04:30:00.000-07:00

So, I've come to a decision. I've decided only to upload my videos to YouTube from now on. It feels like the machinima community is way too split up and I rather have ONE site ONLY for WoW Machinima. But since there is no decent so far, I'll wait until there comes one.. If there ever will that is. Anyhow, I figured, it might also be confusing for viewers if I post my videos at different sites. It would be way much easier if I just posted my videos at one site all the time, both for me and my "fans" or viewers. Then they know where they can find all my videos in one place. This will aswell give me alot more "attention" at YouTube as well. Because then people have to go there if they want to watch my videos, and that will bring me more views at one site so that I'll be even more known, and it will be easier for people to find my aswell. I hope you understand and respect my decision! Also, I recently reached a 1000 subscribers at YouTube and so I decided to make a video about it!

Thanks a bunch to all my subscribers out there! ^^
And for you who don't subscribe... KILL THEM! KILL THEM WITH FIRE!

Also, I've got some other news. I'm making a recruitment video for our RP guild on "Argent Dawn - EU" called "The Branded". Now, I know alot of people hate RP but I found it deamn fun so don't you dare to flame me about it!

Click the banner to find out more about the guild!

Thanks alot for visiting my blog!

And now all the other crap!

2010-03-15T06:59:00.000-07:00

Sooo, let's start by mentioning that I've never gotten such great feedback before than after releasing Welcome to the Deadmines. Ofc i've got bad comments like "Omg childish! [insert name here] should have won!" or "Oh no, I hate DM 1/5", but appart from things like that I've gotten really great feedback and I really gotta thank all of you people out there! And remember alot of the creds should go out to the ones helping on the project. I think the key to success is really by team working, but that I will get to soon!

A drawing I made right after I got done with the machinima.

The making of Welcome to the Deadmines
(Prepare for alot of text)

When they annouced the Rise to Power contest I was not sure if I was going to join because I had no clue what to do really. After a while I figured I could make something about VanCleef or maybe another boss inside the Deadmines but could not figure out a great story. When there was about 3 weeks left on the contest me and my friend made some brain storming and thought "Why not make a song about VanCleef?", and so we did.

When we had a basic idea I contacted Calle and asked if he would like to help out with lyrics and music. Since I really have no experience with music it ended up with him writing the bigger part of the lyrics but we were a few other people helping on it as well. Calle composed the music and then we sent out the script to the voice actors to make them do thier parts. Now this is where we got alot of trouble. We took a closer look at the contest rules and found out that it had to show the rise to power of an individual character, hero or villain, lore wise. So Jesse Cox changed alot of the script by throwing in some lore in to a few parts, removing old things and adding new things to make it match the rules alot better. Luckily, the script came out just as good, or maybe even better at some parts :).

When I had all the voices from the different voice actor it was time for editing and I had about 2 weeks to finish the machinima. I was spening all my free time on editing to get it done, when I got home from school, editing. When woke up, editing. When I ate, editing. When I took a walk with my dog, editing.. Okay maybe not, but still! In the beginning it was a hell putting in all those goblins and miners in to the frame but then I learned a new technique that made it ago ALOT faster and without it I would never have finished it in time with the equal results.

When the contest came to an end I did not have much time to submit it. And sadly when I finished rendering the video, the file size was too big and it was only about 20 mins left on the contest. I hurried and re-rendered it inside movie maker but the outcome was HORRIBLE, both audio and video. It was about 5 minutes left so I decided to post it anyway. Yet I decided to attempt submitting after the deadline. I sent my video to FDK and he re-rendered it in a better quality inside movie maker because I couldn't find the right settings myself. He sent it to me and I submitted it a few minutes after the contest was over, luckily Blizz took the one with better quality even though I crossed the deadline. Now, I know what you are thinking "WTF?! You should get disqualified faggot!". No, because remember I still had the crappy quality version submitted in time, so instead they should have posted the crappy one.. Which they didn't, and I understand why. I got the mail about a week after, saying that I won, yet it took Blizz a month to actually make it official. I really wonder why it took so long but I don't really mind it anymore.

Also, I gotta say that special credits goes out to both Jesse Cox and Irdeen! During the whole project Jesse helped me with ideas and inspiration for the editing. And if I was out of them I knew I could turn to Jesse who always seemd to be full of them. And if I was not sure if a clip was good enough, I sent it to him and he said straight out what he thought which I really appriciated. Ofcourse he also voice acted alot of the characters, wrote a big part of the script and helped to correcrt the music a bit. So big thanks to him, he deserves alot of cred! Then Calle/Irdeen who composed the entire song, wrote most of the lyrics, helped out when I couldn't figure how to make some sort of advanced editing, and helped with ideas as well! A bunch of creds should go to him as well! Then ofcurse everyone else helping on the projects! ^^

So, what about future projects? I still gotta finish FI5VE, still gotta make that video for Fatty but then also I am going to make something short for a recent started RP guild at Argent Dawn. And yes I am a RP'er, the geek within the geek community. But it's deamn fun when you get in to it I must tell you. Even though it might not seem like it. When i've finished Fatty's video I'm thinking about accepting requests as well. But that I wouldn't talk too much about right now.

Thanks a bunch for being awesome, all of you! (Except the people making PvP videos.)

3 times in a row! I seriously gotta move to China.

2010-03-12T15:43:00.000-08:00

First the Blizzcon Contest, then the Waterfilm Contest and now the Rise to Power contest! Deamn, I should stop entering contests already xD. So, one month ago I got a mail from Blizz saying that I won the Rise to Power contest. Today they actually made it official for the community, took them some time atleast it's up now. I shared the place with 3 other amazing winners. Olibith, Baron Soosdon and Erunno! I'm happy to see a contest where it's not just one winner, since I couldn't really choose a favorite of the three. Now for you have haven't seen it, here is my entry!

Click to download the song! (mp3)

You can view the rest of the entries here! I'll write more about the other entries and about Welcome to the Deadmines in the next post if you wonder.
Though, for all you fans out there, I've got Wallpapers!.. Hello?... Anyone??... Doh!

1920 x 1200 (Widescreen)
1380 x 1124

1920 x 1200 (Widescreen)
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1920 x 1200 (Widescreen)
1380 x 1124

Thanks alot for reading! Will make a new post on sunday about the making of the machinima and my thoughts and opinions about the other entries as well! (No bad ones ofc, cuz seriously they were all just amazing).

Just in time!

2010-01-31T14:10:00.000-08:00

Oi there! I just finished my Rise to Power entry! :D I've been working on it straigh for two weeks now and deamn it was a hell! Today when I got it done it was 106mb large and the limit was 100 according to the rules. So I tried to re-render it but the quality got HORRIBLE! And when I had uploaded it the contest was over... Or not, because luckily Blizz didn't close down the submission page so I sent it to Wittney who had been helping Erunno with the same problem. In the end I got my entry in 1 houer later than the actual deadline. Funny that they didn't close it down, I guess it's my lucky day ^^. As it have been a hell working on it, at the same time it have been quite fun to try out alot of new stuff. Oh and also Irdeen and Jesse deserves some massive credits for this one, but i'll tell you about that in my next post. I can't wait to share it with you guys. I'll tell more about the project when i've released the video but for now, all you'll get is this single screenshot.

"FINALLY DONE!"

Throwing in an old interview!

2010-01-21T12:04:00.001-08:00

Hey! I had forgotten to post this interview a while back ago. But recently I got a little reminder and have decided to post it now instead. If you rather read it in german then you could head over to that german machinima blog of Varath's!

Interview with X-Cross (Blizz Contest Winner) The Blizzcon is finished for a few weeks now and in the last years there was one thing that became something like a recurring institution: The Blizzard Machinima Contest. So this time Blizzard as usually invited ambitioned machinimators to subscribe to the contest. One of this machinimators is Adrian Drott, aka X-Cross, a 17 year old Swedish guy, who, in his own words, won surprisingly the contests’ Grand Prize. With his short-film “A day in the Life” he prevailed against well known artists like Cranius, Legs, Ian Beckmann or Oblivious Films and convinced the jury and the audience with his machinima. And withal the competition was not less creative than Adrian was, which you can compare by watching the other winning subscriptions like Don’t make me get my main from Cranius & Legs, Cruel Moon from Mike Spiff or Warrior’s Dream from Samuel Pierce. We were watching Adrian’s work since his first releases and were excited about it. So we took the winning of the Grand Prize as reason for an interview with him. In this interview he is talking about the way he was told about winning the prize, what he’s doing when not machinimating and his plans for the future. Additionally you’ll learn about what exactly was the prize, which new projects he’s planning and what kind of tips he can give Machinima-newbies. So did these topics tease you? Don’t miss the following interview article. Have fun with reading and in the meanwhile we are looking forward to upcoming releases of Adrian “X-Cross” Drott.

Varath: Hello X-Cross

Adrian: Hey

Varath: First of all. Could you please introduce yourself?

Adrian: Well, alright. My name is Adrian Drott, but I guess i'm more known as X-Cross. I live in Sweden and I'm 16 years old (17 within 2 weeks). I'm a machinima artists and I've done machinima for over a year now.

Varath: What are you doing when you're not machinimating? Do you have further hobbies?

Adrian: Of course. I also draw alot, I'm going in an art school also. Then I'm of course a gamer which I guess many machinima artists are. But also I use to hang out with friends and such things.

Varath: You go to an arts school? Are planning to do arts as a professional when you've finished school?

Adrian: Actually, that would be a bit hard. Many artists don't earn that much money. It all depends on how much the people like it. But I just want to improve my art skills. I can still get the same kind of job as anyone else (almost). I would really want to work within the film industry but it's also quite hard to get a good job for that too I suppose.

Varath: So you're planning to study something that stand stands in relation to media, film and arts?

Adrian: Yeah, since I started making machinima I felt like this is something I really want to do. It's very funny and you can use your imagination to almost create what ever you want. Of course art is also fun. But I feel like this is something that i'm good at for my age and it's really something I want to continue doing.

Varath: Let us com to your machinima artworks. You've won the Blizzard Machinima contest the other day. What was the feeling when you heard about this first?

Adrian: Well, I got the a mail from one of the voice actors the day after Blizzcon and I had no clue who won but I did not expect to win anything since I didn't recive any mail. My reaction was like.. I don't know, I didn't really understand that it was true. I mean there were so many other great machinima makers and I totally didn't expect myself to receive the grand prize.

Varath: Some of our readers might not know what the prize/reward was. Could you tell them please?

Adrian: Well, the reward was an Alienware laptop and Adobe After Effects CS4, Adobe Premier Pro CS4 and then also Adobe Photoshop CS4. But in my opinion the prize was just as great as getting the honor to have your own machinima shown amongst 20 thousand people live.

Varath: Yes that is really a great honor. Unfortunately you were not there right?

Adrian: No, I actually had the livestream to veiw at my computer. But they had to cut off the broadcast before they showed my machinima. So I have no idea how the reaction of the crowd was.

Varath: Well ok that's annonying. But back to your work. When you look the machinimas you released e.g. on warcraftmovies there one thing everyone could see. You have a constant and very fast improvement in you're movies. Above you said you are making machinima for about one year. Did you really improve your skills that much in only one year? How did you manage that?

Adrian: Well, yeah. I knew nothing at all about editing videos before I started. But I viewed alot of tutorials and as I got better it got more fun. And probably I decided to continue since alot of people liked my work. Even my first machinimas which were just horrible in my opinion.

Varath: You are also skilled as 3D artist. That's something not really wide spread in the machinima scene. Some people say that 3D editing is not machinima anymore. What's your opinion about this topic?

Adrian: Well, I’ve heard many opinions about what's machinima and what's not. I'm not really sure myself. I mean I don't really want to say anything about it before I'm 100% sure of the right answer. But of what I've heard, machinima is when you use a game engine to make a movie but when you use 3D it becomes hybrid machinima. I'm not sure what it is if you mix them but that's what I do most often. I think it's hard to put a limit to either if it's a machinima or not.

Varath: At the moment you can look back to an respectable number of machinima films. And you've worked together with some of the best known names in the scene. For example in your award winning machinima "A day in the Life" the voice acting was made by Jesse Cox who's e.g. known for his great performance in Tales of the Past III. How did you make him to do the voice acting for your contest entry? You've just send an email and said "Hey there I'm Adrian and I need your voice?

Adrian: Well, yeah. I got him voice acting for the a half year back ago for a Christmas machinima that I made. He said yes and since then I've been asking him for voice acting a few times, and he is always up for it.

Varath: You're a planning a new project for a few months right now? Could you tell our readers something about this project?

Adrian: Well, I've more like been working on a project for a few months. Sadly my working speed hasn’t been the greatest. However, it's going to be a machinima series about 5 gnomes who meet up as the story moves on. Also, all the gnomes will have "unique" classes or such classes gnomes actually can't be. It will be a action/comedy series and the first episode will probably be released quite soon.

Varath: Could you tell us who's doing the voice acting for your Gnomes?

Adrian: Well, Jesse Cox, Genna Bain, Robert Richard, Demachic and me as the main role. I didn't really want to voice act for him but since i've done it earlier it would be stupid to just change his voice. Varath: Some of our readers might be interested in doing machinimas for their own. As an exprienced artist do you have any tips for machinima starters?

Adrian: Well, my main advice is to start by planning a script. And if you're no good at writing you could ask someone else. Working as a team is always better. Then ofcourse, a good thing is not to start with your "dream project" because you might get disapointed with the results. Just mess around, watch many tutorials because they are often helpful.

Varath: Great. Thanks a lot for spending time on this interview. I'm sure our community will keep an eye on your past and future works. And good luck with your next projects of course. I'll give you a vote ;)

Adrian: Alright, thanks a lot for the interview! :)

While reading this interview, I noticed how much I said "Well" in the beginning of each sentence. Hah, anyway. I'd like to thank Varath for the interview once again, but now i'm gonna continue working on my machinimaa! :D

Better hurry

2010-01-16T08:59:00.000-08:00

Haai everyone! I have recently decided to join the WoW Machinima contest at www.wow-europe.com, the script is done and i'm just waiting to recive the different voices from the voice actors. This time i'm trying out something that i've never really done before but hopefully it's going to be fun. The machinima must be done within 3 weeks though, and since alot is going on in school at the same time this might be hard. But i'll have to do my best to get it done in time and not fail too much in school. The theme for the contest is to make a machinima about a villain, hero or your own character and the only hint i'll give you about mine is villain + this picture below. See yah, soo.

Oh we all know him..

Merry X-Mas!

2009-12-24T18:22:00.000-08:00

Hey ho all readers out there! Today, or like.. Yestureday kinda, it was christmas! I just wanted to make a quick post to update you guys about some things. First of all, there is a new contest that I might join at WoW-Europe. I know i've already got an Alienware laptop but I wouldn't say no to a stationary one also xD. Nhaa, but it's also for the honor and to get noticed, I guess it would also be great to be able to mention winning a few contests if I would ever look for a job related to movies in any way in the future. Also, it's not even sure i'll win because I know alot of awesome machinima makers will join the contest already but as I said, I might give it a try.

I recently got my holiday so finally i'll have some time to make machinima! Hopefully I can get something done soon, but yet again I won't promise ANYTHING, because you know i'm bad when it comes to promises. Also, I just found a picture of when I won my first prize which was a wegame t-shirt and some wegame stickers. Now, I haven't seen that t-shirt in almost a year and I wonder where the hell it might be? It was like, one of my favorite t-shirts but it's all gone :(.

R.I.P. WeGame T-Shirt

Two times in a row!

2009-12-11T09:16:00.000-08:00

Hello everyone! Here I am with yet another exciting blog post!

This thursday me and Isak were invited to Stockholm (the Swedish capital city), because of being finalists in the Vattenfilm Tävling 2009 (Waterfilm Contest 2009). We also invited out good friend Gabriel to join us. We had the opportunity to watch our movie at this huge cinema screen which was amazing. We were also watching all the other finalist movies ofcourse and they were all really awesome. After watching all the movies it was time for the big moment... Yes, it was time to show the lucky winners. After watching the honorable mention winning video, third place video and also second place. We all sat in eager expectation of if we would win, or not. Before the contest I thought I had a chance to win but when we sat there it all felt som unreal and we didn't expect to win at all. But when they said: "Och det vinnande bidraget är..... Ta chansen! Av Adrian Drott och Isak Johansson!" (Yeah, that kinda means that they said our video won). We got pretty god deamn happy since 30 000kr is alot of money (1$ = 7kr). Another thing that was quite cool was that we had the opportunity to meet Musse Hasselvall who is kinda a Swedish celebrtiy. The reason why was because he was the host of the event. So right now i'm quite happy, probably the best x-mas present this year! :D

Long time no update

2009-12-01T13:37:00.000-08:00

Guess who's back with a new post?! :D

Greetings ladies and gents! I know I haven't updated my blog in a very, very long time. But I got a good excuse this time (like always *cough*). I've had alot going on in school and such (like always *cough*). But now I finally feel like posting another update!

Now to what's going on... Aaaaand what's not going on.. First of all, let's talk about the projects i've been "working on" for some time now, yeah FI5VE. I must admit that I haven't been working on FI5VE at all since I got my laptop.. Now, I don't blame my laptop since I wouldn't work on FI5VE even if I wouldn't win it. I more like, blame real life, homework and different contests.. Also new games ofcourse. Anyway, I will try to continue working on FI5VE as soon as possible, but i'm afriad it might still take some time. I know I promised alot of different release dates for it a LOONG time ago, but i'm very sorry for that and I will never promise a release date again.

Also, I got to make a music video for Fatty since she won the WoW Idol contest. I know this is something I should have done a long time ago, but I blame the same things that I blamed earlier (Sorry Fatty, I promise to make it up to you. I feel really bad for taking so long :/). Not only Fatty do I have to make a music video for but I promised Jesse one also since he made voices for A Day in the Life, so instead of money, he wanted a music video. I don't know when i'll get time to work on this project though.

Here is a list of things to do!

Finish the first episode of FI5VE
Make a music video for Fatty
Make a music video for Jesse
Finish my hardcore hero music video
Make an Allods machinima
Make a last episode of my horrible pokémon parodies since alot of people has been asking for it.

Now let's leave the old stuff behind for a second and let's mention the news aka the things that made me put my old projects on hold. First of all, I forgot to post about my Alienware Laptop that I got the day after my birthday which was awesome! To be honest, the computer is not that special. Sure it has an awesome design and it runs games and such like no other laptop that i've seen. But it's heavy for being a laptop and also big for being a laptop. Sure the design is awesome and that's kinda what makes it so special.

I know you waaaant it!

Also, i've got some other great news! I was recently invited to the beta of a new MMORPG game named Allods Online because of being a machinima artist. The game is awesome for being both free and in beta phase. Sure it got som glitches but it's still a great game. Maybe not as good as wow, but for being free and beta I don't know if WoW will be worth playing when Allods comes to its real release. The only thing that I see ruining Allods is the item shop. You can buy items, gold and xp potions for real money. Else the game is awesome so I really think you should give it a try when it comes out or even get your hands on a beta key if you are eager to try it out early.

Looks interesting dosn't it?

If you are already playing or get your hands on a beta key you could add Zinky on the League side

Except from getting a new computer, getting invited to a new mmorpg game and doing alot of other random things, i'm actually in the final of yet another contest (I know you must hate me for caring more about contests then working on FI5VE). Well, this time it's a Swedish contest about water. Not a machinima contests though, but a film making contest using any kind of technique that you'd like. I myself chose to make a animated movie. Not a 3D one though, but a drawn one that I made using Photoshop and After Effects. This was the first time I tried this technique out but it turned out pretty nice. Aaand, if you wonder what the price is, it's 30000kr which in dollars is 4285$, so yeah, ofcourse I hope we'll win. Anyhow, as I said it's a Swedish contest so ofcourse I made my film in Swedish still you might be able to enjoy it if you come from another country. Anyway, here it is: Ta Chansen (NOTE: There are no sound effects since those had to be removed because of different copyright laws.)

Well, I guess that's all from me. I'll try to update the blog more often from now on.

Real Life WoW (test)

2009-09-05T09:34:00.001-07:00

I made a test today with a program called Boujou. It's a 3D tracking program which is quite awesome even though I kinda failed here at my first try. (You can see that the pink gnome slides slightly on the ground). Anyway, i'm still pretty happy with the results.

Real Life WoW (test) from X-Cross on Vimeo.

I have quite alot of things to tell but i'll wait a while with that because I know i'll soon have even more. So prepare for a long, blog post next time :P.

GRAND PRIZE?! o.O W00t?!

2009-08-23T10:10:00.000-07:00

Alright here I've got a story to tell yah :D!

It all started with that it was time for Blizzcon. I knew alot of people who were going and I was pretty deamn jealous (It sucks living in Sweden dosn't it?). Anyway, I decided to watch the live stream instead. It was quite cool to hear about the upcoming expansion and I tell yah that i'm soooo gonna make a goblin! Anyway, things went quite boring after that, until the contests came up. The annoying thing was that they showed a machinima between each contest and the comedian made it go ALOT slower. Still I had a great time chatting with RedEye at MSN at the same time. But anyway, when I had seen the third and second machinima winners it was time for the dance contest. It was 6 O'clock in the morning and I just wanned to see the grand prize winner and then go to bed. But NO they cutted the stream in the end of the dance contest and I got pissed and went to bed.

The other day when I woke up I decided to check out the winners but I couldn't find any information about any of them. But then when I went to check my mail I had gotten one from Jesse Cox who had been doing the voice for one of the characters in my entry.

"Jesse: Hahahahaah grats!!! You did a great job!
Proud to be part of it.

Me: What?!?! What?! o.O Did I win something? :O

Jesse: You won the movie grand prize.

Me: wdkajdöbadhka djkö,a omg!!! WTF! o.O Thanks! MAn! OMG! I can tell that you'll also get something for this. Thanks man! OMG, i'm so happy right now. They cutted the live stream in the middle of the dance contest so I couldn't see any more :(... Anyway, /care.. I WON!! xD Thanks man!"

I was so FREAKING happy. I called all my friends and all that jazz and well.. Yeah, I bet you could guess the feeling xD. I THINK I won this awesome alienware laptop. But i'm not really sure. But then also a adobe package filled with different adobe programs.

However, the machinima was based on a comic written by Keydar, the maker of the Dark Legacy Comics. So I wanna say BIG thanks to him. And then also a big thanks to Jesse Cox and Robert Richard for voice acting in it :D. And then the judges ofc xD. Anyway, here it is. Hope you like it :).

Thanks alot for reading!

(DON'T forget to read THIS which is written by RedEye.. Maaan, that guy is just too awesome and too nice. Red, you're the best :). )

How to be a good dad by Odyssey

2009-08-10T08:40:00.000-07:00

And so my cousin just released his very first machinima. Well, I myself must say it's awesome for being his first machinima and he improved alot as he was working on it. My first machinima was horrible compared to this one. Anyway, he got a private teacher(me) to learn the basics + he started with AE and not sony vegas. So that's my only excuse xD. Also, I had to voice act as the kid in it xD, I know, It's horrible. Anyway, I can say it's a machinima splitted up in 3 steps on how to become a "good" father. Enjoy!

Oh, and news about FI5VE? Well, it's going well. Hopefully we will release it quite soon :).

Whow, just whow...

2009-08-01T05:46:00.001-07:00

Alright, I know it's a bit too early for another post but Surgee, the maker of The Demise just released a unfinished project that is just amazing. I mean to me it's not a machinima anymore since he basicly remade everything in photoshop and 3D.. But that dosn't really matter because it's still epic! Right, what ever, here you go.

Canceled project intro and more(sfx and VA missing!) from Daniel on Vimeo.

It might take a while.. Or, maybe not.

2009-07-31T15:57:00.000-07:00

Helluuuuu! Recently i've been working alot on FI5VE, sadly we are having some problems with the first scence but I decided to take a break from that one and work on the other scenes. Hopefully I will get done within some weeks but I won't promise anything >.>. I hope I can get the second episode done faster though. I hope it will all be worth the time though.

Anyway, today I was messing around in AE a bit and made this!

Cursed City test from X-Cross on Vimeo.

Just for the lulz..

2009-07-24T06:08:00.000-07:00

Hi stalkers, bloggers, friends, subscribers, haters, trolls and random people! Today, the Blizzcon movie contest ended. I know alot of great machinima artists sent in thier submissions but some of the very best (in my opinion) did not make anything for the contest :(. Like Myndflame, Stonefalcon, Martin Falch, Olibith and I don't think Oxhorn did eaither.

A picture I made some time ago.

Now the other day I had some lulz, I was helping out RedEye a bit with his submission. I had to voice act a gnome aaand I wa supposed to mix a sound for him but it ended up not so well with that sound. But for me it kinda did. I kept on mixing with it and in the end it became a sound effect. Then I mixed even more with different sounds and actually make a crapy woosh package. I know it's not the best but i'm happy with it since I didn't even know what I was doing xD. Some of the sound effects are ok but some are horrible. If you would like you can download them HERE. If you'd like to use any of the crapy sound effects, don't forget to credit me :3. It was quite fun to make them actually, and some time I really wanna learn more about mixing sounds. Also to make my own music one day :).

Thanks for reading! :D

Blizzcon entry!

2009-07-22T19:04:00.000-07:00

Today I finished my Blizzcon entry! *cheers* finally! :D Aaaand well, I hope it goes well. I based it on a comic, which one I won't tell before it have been released. (I could get DQ'ed if I release it before the contest is over so I better not do that yet.) Still, base a machinima on a comic is no good choice IMO. It just DID NOT get as fun as the comic. And well I must admit this is seriously not one of my great machinimas but I hope it's watchable atleast.

From the beginning we were supposed to make a machinima about Garona assassinating King Lane. Genna was supposed to write the script for it but it would just be impossible to get down in 3 minutes so instead I did this machinima based on a comic.

So now it's time to get back to work with FI5VE which I just really wanna get done right now >.>.

Thanks for reading! Have fun or something...

Happy Birthday RedEye! :D

2009-07-11T05:22:00.000-07:00

Today it's RedEyes Birthday. And some guy made a video for him with someone rapping about Red. Go there and comment happy birthday and Red will get happy! :)

Mainly bad news

2009-07-03T05:55:00.001-07:00

Hellu! It was kind of a while since I last wrote something on my blog but now I think it's time to since i've atleast got some things to say. First of all, i've released a new.. Well, yeah "machinima". A short one though.

Herpi Derpi I was bored. from X-Cross on Vimeo.

Well, the reason I made it was becuase I was.. Bored..

Anyway, now to the bad news. As many of you know, Blizzcon have a machinima contest each year and it's soon time for the machinimas to be sent in. We were hoping to make the first episode of FI5VE but sadly they changed the rules. This year you may only make a 3 minute or shorter machinima o.O! Which is kinda crap, I mean. They could atleast have given us 5 minutes. Still we WILL release something and we got an idea and Genna is working on the script. We have no idea if we will be able to put it together in 3 minutes but if not we will probably have to come up with something else. What it will be about, will stay as a secret for now :P

Also, i'm changing my blog layout. As I improve I get tired of my old stuff and that's what I am right now. So i'll soon change it again.

Nooow, I also thought I could link you this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1F231_L5HVw&feature=channel_page
It's a machinima made by Mozq from Silverlined Productions and I must say i'm impressed. Totally his best work so far and I hope it won't take long before Nixx also will release something :).

Thanks for reading 'n stuff >.>

Some kinda boring news from a bored person..

2009-06-16T19:15:00.000-07:00

'Lo! As many of you know (I guess :S) I was missing lines to continue working on FI5VE but not anymore! I just got some awesome lines from Matt Greenburg only a few days ago and i've already started working again. Yet I think I must cleen up folders and my desktop to get some speed on my working because everything is just kinda spread out and I guess many of you understand what I mean >.>. Anyway, I really hope we can release the first introduction episode within a month and I need to hurry as hell if we wanna release the actually real episode for Blizzcon. And if I won't make it in time we might just have to take a break and release a "special episode" or what ever. But I really hope we will and i'll work my ass of if that'll be needed. Well, boring reading yes indeed. So i'll just show you a picture that I recenltly drawed because I bet no one of you are reading this text anyway now are you? You are only here to veiw pictures! >:D
Well, it's 4 o'clock in the morning.. I'm bored and I guess I need some sleep. And so do you! So go to bed already!

Well, hi or something?

Also, forgot. Vote for the song you like most in the wow idol 2009 contest at WoW Radio! I myself voted at "Raid with me". Just because it made me lol so much >.>. And you better vote for a good one because i've promised to make a machinima for the winning song! :)

I probably made alot of typos but i'm ------>very<----- tired so don't whine kk? >.> (okay maybe not that tired but I am tired... And bored... )

Hardcore Hero!

2009-05-30T13:19:00.000-07:00

Helluuu people. I know I promised myself to NOT start working on yet another music video because I got so bored in the ending when working on Breaking but silly me I just broke my promise. Since i'm still waiting for some lines for the first episode of FI5VE I decided to make a music video of the song Hardcore Hero by Capslock Down since I instantly fell in love with it after hearing it the first time. I love blip music but not the greatest fan of techno if you might think it's the same. Well ofcourse FI5VE goes in first hand and as I get in the lines i'll contunie working. Hardcore Hero will just be second hand project that I can work on if I got nothing else to do. Still i've got alot of other projects in the line such as making a intro for WoWRadio, making the machinima for the winner of the WoWRadio WoW idol 2009 contest and maybe another thing that I maybe shouldn't tell you about.

Click here to hear the Hardcore Hero song.

This "style" will be used in Hardcore Hero
(And don't mind the gray ugly dot.. It was there ingame and it would take too long time for me to remove it in photoshop)

Thanks alot for reading my blog!

Sooo many things D:!

2009-05-27T07:53:00.000-07:00

Hello hello! You might think that episode one for FI5VE is soon done but I can tell you that it's not even close to be done. I have only made 2 scenes so far and can't do much more before I get the lines last lines from a voice actor. Also I've been very busy lately. First of all there is school, now in the end we've got ALOT of tests and such stupid crap so I haven't got much time for editing + we are making a film in school as a project and i'll have to edit it so that goes in first hand.

Well another thing is that i'm going to edit the winning video in the wow-idol contest at www.wcradio.com which is pretty awesome but let's not hope that the winning song is like 6 minutes long >.>.

Soooo, I guess that's it :/.

Scene 1 done and new forum name!

2009-05-13T14:33:00.001-07:00

Well hello there people! I just finished the first scene for FI5VE, or just afew things to be added tought but i've had much in school recently and other things IRL so been a bit busy. Well, now i'll start working more on the series again.

Aslo we have now changed the name of the forum. Didn't really like xcrosspictures forum now when the community is growing larger. Feels a bit selfish in some kind of way even tought it was made to make it easier to handle with questions but who cares, will just be as easy now. BTW, if you haven't joined yet then you're always free to sign up at the MachiniManiac forum to discuss the machinima subject.

Thanks alot for reading! :D

Looking for voice actor!

2009-05-02T17:34:00.000-07:00

Well here you find everything you need to know: http://voiceactingalliance.com/board/showthread.php?p=749762#post749762

Probably my shortest post >.>

Just opend a machinima forum!

2009-05-01T19:36:00.000-07:00

Hello people! I know you all might be wondering why i'm posting two posts in one day but I got a pretty good reason.

I just opend a machinima forum where you can discuss about machinima. You might wonder why I open this forum but it's because recently i've gotten ALOT of questions so to make it easier to handle with those questions I decided to make a forum. I also made it cuz I was bored ofc >.>.... So if you'd like to discuss machinima, show your stuff, ask questions or share tips & tricks then go ahead and join!

Click the picture to go to the forum!

Thanks alot for taking the time reading this stuff :)

My new opening is now completed!

2009-05-01T16:03:00.001-07:00

Hello stalkers, followers, friends, random people or what ever you now are. Right before I released my deleted FI5VE opening I had starded to work on a new one which I finished today. The new intro is way different from the old one. The new one is not filled with epic fighting battles but short parts for each character showing thier peronalities more then their actual classes even tought you might see something related to thier classes too. This intro is alot alot shorter then the old one. Including the FI5VE logo the intro is about 50 seconds long and the Deleted one was 1 minute long and I had not even finished it so the new one is short 'n sweet. Also called composed the FI5VE opening song and that's what makes it even better because it fits so good so alot of credits goes to Calle there. Sadly you won't see the intro before the release of the first episode but I hope you can wait.

(click the images to watch in full size and high quality :D)

Even wow players must have hard to see that it's Borean Tundra. :P

Like I said, we wanna show thier personalities a bit more in this one.

Peaceful indeed ^^

Well I guess that was all about FI5VE. Also Whowho asked me and Eriyanna for an interview about FI5VE so go ahead and read it if you'd like: Interview with X-cross and Eriyanna of FI5VE (I do know I was answering his questions in weird ways some times but I hope you understand most of the interview atleast.)

Thanks alot for giving me the honor to waste some time of your life!

FI5VE, Deleted intro.

2009-04-27T05:35:00.000-07:00

Hey people! As some of you might know I started to work on a project named FI5VE a while ago but then I took a break from it as Genna worked on the script for it and made Breaking. Before I made breaking I made a opening for FI5VE which I never finished since I didn't get too happy with it cuz it was not comedy looking at all, the song was too long for a opening in my opinion + didn't like it much. But for the new intro that i'm soon done with Calle have composed this AWESOME song + it looks more like comedy and it shows off thier personalities a bit more instead of thier classes like in this one. Sadly you won't see it before i'm done with the first episode/minisode or what ever to call it (gonna be one minisode for each character before the very first actual episode).

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Thanks alot for taking the time reading my blog! :)

Woho!!

2009-04-24T06:52:00.000-07:00

Hey people! Genna have now finished the script for the first FI5VE minisode (For you who don't know, there will be 5 minisodes before the first real episode). I'm just going to send it out to the voice actors that I need and then i'm ready to start working on it. I have no idea how long it will take but I hope to make it in atleast a month. Will try to keep you updated about the project.

Thanks for taking the time reading mah blog! :D

100 subscribers! :O

2009-04-16T07:50:00.000-07:00

Hey people! I just reached 100 subscribes at youtube which is actually not much at all but it's atleast something and it's like this "special" number. Guess i'll post something when I reach 500 or 1000 or something but it depends if I am bored or not because at the moment I am and that's why im posting this. Another thing, i'm also #14 - Most Viewed (This Week) - Sweden
#4 - Most Viewed (This Week) - Directors - Sweden
#50 - Most Viewed (This Month) - Directors - Sweden at youtube but neither that is so special since Sweden is such a small country. :/

Also to keep you updated with what i'm working on I tought I could tell you that I will actually redo the opening to FI5VE. Calle recently composed a AWESOME song for it and I want it to be less action and instead show off thier personalities more. Yet I have not decided if I will release it along with the first episode or just when it's done. But it will probably take some time, because i'm going to start working on kind of a "secret" project quite soon and i'm not sure if i'm allowed to tell anyone what it is so you'll just have to wait until the release. It will probably take about two weeks to finish or something but I can't promise any exact date yet. After that project is done I PROMISE you that i'll start working on FI5VE :P.

WCM spolight!! Atleast this is special for me!

2009-04-13T15:56:00.000-07:00

Hello people! As you all know I recently uploaded Breaking. It appears to be a bit more liked then I tought it would and now it even got in the spotlight at warcraftmovies.com and whow.. That's something new to me. I'd like to say thanks to Genna Bain once again because she helped me getting it up there and also the ones who spotlight voted it.

Also a big gratz to my dear friend Demachic who got in to the spotlight at the same time as me with her new video [WoW] Britney Spears - Circus and I must say she have improved alot.

I just found out Myndflame have done a new video and as always it's hilarious! Specially love the ending and the blood elf part. But another thing I noticed was the skunk and that made the video even better! Take a look at it yourself and you will understand what I mean.

Theory of a Death Knight - Uploaded by Myndflame to Gameriot.com

Thanks alot for taking the time reading my blog. :)

"Breaking" news!

2009-04-11T14:09:00.000-07:00

Hello people! I just finished a music video and this the first time I actually make a music video, also the first time I make some kind of "serious" machinima. Another thing that I did was using blood elves for the video. I don't like elves in general so I tought this would make me like them a little more and so it did actually but still I don't like nelfs much to be honest. Actually the video should have been released last night but I had SOOOO many problems when it got to the rendering so it got out a bit late + it got a not so good quality. Also I'd like to thank Genna for posting my video at a several places to get my name out there, i'm really thankful for that :D. Well end of writing time for watching!

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Just a little picture I made for it :)

FI5VE trailer!

2009-04-01T09:15:00.000-07:00

Hey guys! I got some good news! I've finally finished a trailer for FI5VE and I can say myself that it does look kinda awesome. Took me about 2 weeks to make this trailer and I must say that I got really happy with it myself, specially with the effects ^^. Hope you enjoy watching it! (Note: this video will only be shown at my blog so if you want others to see it then tell them to go here and watch it :P)

What to do?

2009-03-30T08:29:00.000-07:00

Gha, I just decided to not do EPICAC for blizzcon. First of all it might be very boring to make since it's at the same place all the time, it's just about 2 persons and no other execpt for EPICAC himself if that counts. Also it might be very hard to make a movie out of and I bet Blizz wouldn't like it too much so now I got a very hard choice to make since I don't even know what genere to choose or what the story should be about. So I tought you readers could help me a bit. Atleast please vote for a genere and if you come up with any good idea for a plot then you're welcome to write it short as a comment or just contact me :).

Thanks alot for reading! And don't forget to vote. :D

EPICAC for Blizzcon 2009?

2009-03-19T15:17:00.000-07:00

Hi! I just found out that there will be a Blizzcon this year too located in California in august and I tought of making some kind of machinima for that that I think i'll start working on as the summer holiday begins. OFC i'll keep on working with FI5VE, right now i'm waiting for Genna to finish the script and i'm really excited to start working on it. Anyhow, I tought of doing a dramatic video for the contest about EPICAC which is a novel I once read in school which is soooo good. Anyway, I might make some changed on it and try to make it atleast 10 mintutes long. If you've never heard about EPICAC then here is a link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPICAC_(computer)

Also here is a trailer for a real movie (which I really want to see :O): http://epicacthemovie.com/thetrailor.html

And if you are interested then here is the actual story: http://astro.ocis.temple.edu/~tarantul/epicac.html

The thing is that I don't know if there are any special rights on this one but if so then i'll look it up :). This novel really got me and I suggest you to read it somewhere.

If you got any other suggestions then please mail me or comment about it.

Thanks for reading this post!

A few changes.

2009-03-13T09:11:00.000-07:00

Hello everyone! I've finally done a intro logo that I actually like and that I will keep for a long time I guess. I aslo designed a new X which you might see, the X is almost like a knot. Also I didn't get very happy with my script for FI5VE ep 1 because it was too long and too messed up but that's probably since I SUCK at writing scrips but I asked a girl named Charlotte or Genna, don't know her real name just says that at skype. And now I bet it will get alot better :). She will also voice act for Ellie and she is a very talanted voice actor. Also I've done like 30% of the opening which might be shown in the beginning of each episode so here you get a little little sneak preview.

A picture of Aldi fighting an Orc
(I know it might not be the best preview pic of all but I just took one :P)

Also here is the new X-Cross intro and I hope you like it! :D

Sound effects taken from wow, soundsnap.com, videocopilot Sound FX folder and, soundwizardry.com.
And then edited by Calle Nilsson/Irdeen

Thanks alot for reading this post!

Took some time but it was worth the time.

2009-03-07T14:58:00.000-08:00

Muhaha! Finally I've solved the big problem! Aldi got his totem back and i'm ready to do machinima again. Also i've been starting to send the script to the voice actors needed for the first episode! Very well, Tinkle is now lvl 80 and ofc I got the skunk and his full gear (except the goggles because only shamans can get them :( ) If you'd like to meet me ingame then go to Argent Dawn EU server and add Tìnkle but I don't think i'll be on much from now on because i'm very excited about getting FI5VE done.

Take care everyone! :D

Stupid post.. But I don't want my friend to move away.

2009-02-25T14:38:00.000-08:00

Hi people! Nothing new is happening really. My luck is just running out and I must say I hate it -.-. While i'm in to the subject luck I MUST mention that my friend Nico aint got the best luck, more like the worst. Some gay/fag/retarded/fucked up/ugly/numbfaced miners wants mine in the mountain where he lives and if they do that he will have to move away from his house. But YOU can do something about it by clicking this link: www.firda.no and vote NO! (With other words: Nej, since it's in Norweigian) It's very easy, no sign up or anything. Takes less then FI5VE seconds, so DO IT!

Sorry for my stupid post, but I don't want him to move if he don't want to! :(

Thanks!

Just not my luck...

2009-02-18T06:10:00.000-08:00

Hey people! Sorry for such a late update, have been trying to level Tinkle to 80 lately, just got Kippo Ingame. Very well, yestureday I felt for doing machinima soooooo much but when I started I had a big problem. There is no big totem weapon for Aldi in the new model viewer :O. In desperation to get him that weapon I decided to reinstall wow because that weapon is too awesome to just throw away. But too bad, the installation screwed up about 8 times and it seems like something is wrong with my third disc. Later I decided to download the installer from wow-europe.com but the thing that I feared most of all happend, after installing, it was automaticly patched up to 3.0.1 and I need the patch right before that one. Now i'm very upset because I don't know what to do. My question to you is: Is it worth trying to reinstall wow to get that awesome big totem for Aldi or should I try to find a new weapon for him? Make your answer in the vote panel, but if you want me to find a new weapon then please comment if you got any tip because I can tell you that i've tried to find a new one. (2-handed would be best)

Thank you for reading and don't forget to comment and vote!

Back to WoW

2009-01-24T12:51:00.000-08:00

So hello again! I'm finished with the script and Senriaa (the voice actor for Aldi) is checking the spelling and so does Grapesoda. Senriaa have also done the voice acting done for Aldi and I must say it's perfect, but he had a hard time making the battlecrys I think xD.

Well I just bought playtime yesturday (for WoW). And I must admit that the game is still pretty boring but I mainly play it for the RP. Well if you'd like to meet me in game then make sure you are at Argent Dawn EU realm and add Tìnkle at alliance side.

Well that was all! :D

My promise

2009-01-14T14:13:00.000-08:00

Hey hey hey and once again hey! I'm soon done with the script for FI5VE ep 1 and so far it's great imo, but this time i'll check with some other people to see what they think. But i've already started working on some small things but let's not take that up right now. How ever, I haven't been working as much as I should but I promise! I will do that from now on, been wasting my time playing surf in CSS where everyone are rude and german (no fence to you german people) but the thing with SOME german people is that they can't speak english. Some speak great english but some just can't. Now my question is, don't they get any good english education or are some of them just lazy geeks who skip school and play CSS because I tell you that they are awesome at that game :S?

BTW for you people who didn't know, there is a new model viewer out which I think you should try. Some bugs but it's worth using :P.

Thanks for reading, don't forget to vote at this weekly or montly or daily or what ever it is. Yeah don't forget to vote in this "weekly" question at the right side right there! ----->
Also, don't forget to comment and say how freaking bad this post was because you didn't get any kind of important information at all! But still you read it! Hah!

Now this picture I won't even tell you about, you'll have to "figure out" something yourself :)

Thank you! Thank you very much! For reading this blog! :D

What a wonderful christmas!

2009-01-02T10:32:00.001-08:00

A great christmas

So now the results for WeGame.com are out and I must say that there are loads of good submissions that you should check out. But i'm really happy right now I got at second place! Woho! I won 300$ :D! But that's not all.. I also came at 1st place shared with Firebolt at gameriot.com with the same video so we'll get 50$ each! But I most say congrats to everyone who got something but most of all to Firebolt who got the grand priceee! So thanks to both Gameriot and WeGame for launching these awesome contests!

Second place! Yaaay! ^^

No you don't..

Share and Care

If you think I did everything myself in Kippos X-Mas then you should read the credits. But the guy who I would like to thank most of all is Calle Nilssion aka Calixworld or Irdeen. He made ALL the music for the video exactly everything. He also made the awesome uber l33t personal Tinkle WeGame logo, but I cutted it down because in the beginning of it he was walking like a robot in to the room x). Well since calle lives in Sweden just as I do I will give him some of the money but then i'd also like to meet him since I guess we will do ALOT more teamwork in the future. I did the facial animations in his Go Turbo Go and the backgrounds when you see Kippo walking alone in the forest which you can also see in mine, so THANKS ALOT once again Calle, you made the video perfect with that epic music. (Specially the rocket part *droool*)

Tinkle handles over some money to Irdeen :)
(No it does not look like he takes them from Irdeen!)

I'd also like to thank all the great voice actors for doing such a great job and I hope you guys want to keep on voice acting for five. (If any other of you are interested you could send me a demo to my hotmail :) )

But what about the future?

So, getting at second place just makes me want to make even more machinima. It feels like i'm actually getting better, which I think I do :S. How ever, my next project will be FI5VE. Since Calle is working on a secret project I guess we'll have to wait with saviors of Gnomeregan. But I don't mind, I really want to do FI5VE and I have no idea how many episodes there will be but I have started with the script and also started to work a little bit on the intro/opening that will be in all episodes. FI5VE will be action/comedy and may get a little dramatic some times because I want to do something different :P. Each episode will be about 20 minutes I think and the main role will ofcourse be Tinkle! Ellie will also play a pretty big role for the series since she's Tinkles best friend. And then we also got Aldi, Xina and Bunty ofc. Also the beloved pet Kippo ^^.

Thanks alot for reading all this but don't be afriad of commenting! (Sorry for my english, don't even mention it xD)

This will prolly be the logo for FI5VE.

Don't forget to vote if you like it or not.
Else comment about what's good and what's not :).

Thanks you for reading my blog!

Kippos X-Mas finally here!

2008-12-24T04:51:00.000-08:00

So, now i've finished my submission for the WeGame.com machinima contest! All I got to say is watch :D. Hope you'll like it.

Watch more video games and play free games at WeGame.

News update about Kippos X-Mas!

2008-12-10T12:04:00.000-08:00

Hey! I have done a bit more then the hald on Kippos X-Mas and got the easy part left, I hope I will do about 15-25% more this weekend and thanks to Oxhorn I can make the clips look alot better because of extended deadline but that dosn't mean that I will slack :)

A few screenshots from the project.

The time is running out but I won't give up!

2008-12-05T18:16:00.000-08:00

Hello everyone! As I think you all know there are alot of crhistmas contests going on ATM. Well, i'm still working on mine which must be done before the 15th. I have made about 50% which I belive is the hardest part. I'm afriad I won't finish it in time but I won't give up! And if I do I can post it to warcraftmovies.com contest :)

And for people who wonder, this is how I look :)

Erhm, yeah..

X-Mas Contest!

2008-11-24T08:41:00.000-08:00

So the it's time for contest again! And this time christmas contest! *cheer* My favorite event of the year! Well i've reinstalled wow and patched it to 2.4.3 so I can use model viewer and map viewer and ofc i've started already! I can say that all members of FI5VE will be shown in it but the main role is Kippo! (The name of the machinima will be: Kippos X-Mas)

This is picture is only a small part of the movie, it's just a picture hanging on the wall in it.

But this is a part of the movie when Tinkle decorate the tree and there you can see that
painting hanging on the wall! :D

FI5VE will come! I hope..

2008-11-20T03:02:00.000-08:00

Hey people! Good news.. Or something, anyway I will make both FI5VE and Saviours of Gnomeregan. Some people really wanned me to make FI5VE so I decided to do it. I'll work on both saviours of gnomeregan and FI5VE at the same time but sadly the world or map viewer haven't come so it will porlly take some time. Well, you can contact me ingame at Argent Dawn a EU WoW server and add Tìnkle on alliance side ofcourse else you can just send me a mail. Take care!

Pacth 3.0.2 is not good for your belly!

2008-10-21T10:41:00.000-07:00

Hello everyone! I guess you know that the new patch is out! (yaay belf hairstyles for humans -.- pretty lame by bliss to not just make new hair styles) I think many of you like it because of harbor, talents, hair styles and then ofc the best of all in my opinion achivements! (lvling Tinkle on Argent Dawn atm because now you can get a kippo/stinker/shunk yaaay! Actually I had to name him Tìnkle since Tinkle was taken -.-) What ever, the worst thing of all is that the patch made map viewer and model viewer crash.. Perfect moment indeed, not! Specially not when you are working on a machinima. Well well, bet they'll release new versions soon. I actually wanted to make some kind of halloween special but failed since model and map viewer broke. Anywaysss, happy halloween everyone and take care!

New Burn!

2008-10-12T07:56:00.000-07:00

Had nothing to do.. So I made a burn for wegame.com

A picture of Oxhorn with Hats body.. I don't know why I did that since it just looks retard. Don't think that i'm this good at painting. I think i'm actually good at painting but not this good. I just took screenshot and then changed the colors and added some shadows and changed the shape on the things a bit.

Project FAIL!

2008-10-09T14:04:00.000-07:00

Hello everyone, here I come with both good and bad news. Let's start with the bad ones. i cancelled FI5VE.. Now the reason why I did it is the good news, I cancelled it because me and Calle also known as Irdeen and Calixworld have started on a new project together it will be a long movie comedy/action more I won't tell (Also becuase some of the files got deleted when I had a virus >.< ). Well sadly I will maybe not use the same voice actors if you are one of my old voice actors then I must say i'm really sorry for letting you down there will maybe be a spot for you in the movie if so i'll contact you.

Saviours of Gnomeregan (We should
give Raxerm the credits for that name
^^)

A few gnomes watching Baywatch (This is also my first time to use Adobe After effects in a machinima but I think it goes pretty well with Calle as teacher ^^)

So if you got any questions about this or something else you would like to ask then you can find my hotmail in the info about me on my blog. And you guys who haven't seen Calles videos should go and check them out. They are awsome! (Click here to get to his youtube account)

Happy Birthday!

2008-09-29T05:26:00.000-07:00

So today it's my birthday which means i'm now 16 years old! I'm also sick today but who cares? I mean, I get presents anywayssss ^^. Another cool thing is that I got my WeGame t-shirt and stickers today!

I know it's pretty large, they didn't have any medium left but it still fits so that's ok for me ^^
( Didn't expect any stickers to be honest :P )

Another cool thing is a sketchpad or maybe it's sketchbook? What do I know :S. Well, I got this from my sister so she made the book cover and it says: X-Cross. Which I think is awsome, so thanks alot Jamila! ^^

You have to agree that it looks awsome!

Now to some other news, I just learned some 3D stuff so i've made 2 animation tests with Tinkle and I used motion capture to the dance test.

Test 1

Test 2 (Agree with me that he pwns at dancing)

This I made before the animation test so this is actually my first 3D animation, I just made a X-Cross logo. Will maybe make a new one I just follow some tutorials and stuff to learn and when I get better i'll make one in my own style.

Burns

2008-09-13T13:38:00.000-07:00

Alright, I just made a WeGame burn for fun, never done it before so I tought I could make one. So here it is, Gorndt and Brandon as two goblings in The WeGameture Co! You've maybe heard of The Venture Co in wow, but The WeGameture Co is way much better!

Brandon! You are suppose to "pose" like Gorndt!

Here is another picture I made a few days after, maybe a bit brutal for being a burn but what ever. I was bored and I wasn't suppose to make a brutal picture like this from the beginning. Just happend x)

Brandon the night elf slayer! (Yes Brandon, we all know about your secrets)

Character info!

2008-09-09T12:21:00.000-07:00

Finally! My step brother helped me with my computer so now it's spyware free. Had a big and dangerous trojan but now it's gone for evah! So to you people who create virus and such crapy shit! Death to all of you! Mohahhaha!

Well, now over to something you maybe care of a bit more. News to my new project FI5VE

I'll just show you some characters and tell you a bit about them if you would like to voice act or so.

Aldi MCblond

So this is Aldi MCblond, a gnome shaman. He is very cocky and loves himself and his own look but also a very good fighter.

Age: 24

Ellie Lightspanner

Ellie which you also see in The Islanders - Happy Birthday is a verry cute and possitive gnomette and her class is priest!

Age: 22

Bunty Wolfeye

Bunty is a mystic and quiet gnome which spends most of the time for himself! With other words a loner or EMO like some people say and he is a gnome druid! Hell yeah! ^^

Age: 60

Xina Hammerhead

Xina is not so special. She can be very negative and also very bitchy. She often takes the leading role and not so much more. And she is a gnome paladin!

Age: 21

Tinkle

Tinkle which I think you know most of all about since he's in Udder Chaos and The Islanders he is very retard just like his pet Kippo which he always does something stupid to. He's just naiv, retard and crazy with other words :S. And ofc his class is hunter since he got his Kippo to "fight" on his side.

Age: 23

But hey! If you would like to voice act any of these characters or maybe someone that don't got such a big role then you can contact my via hotmail or msn and we will see where we go from there: xcrosspictures@hotmail.com

Well enough for the spoiling, feels like i've spoiled too much already. I hope you like the characters and I hope you'd like to voice act as any of them! ^^

HONORABLE MENTION!

2008-09-06T04:54:00.000-07:00

If you feel for watching all videos in the contest.

Yays, my first contest and I got a honorable mention for my video: The Islanders - Happy Birthday i'm really happy even tho it's not that cool. But this is my first contest and to share the 5th place with 7 others means something to me I guess. Well, I earned 25$ that I can use to buy something at http://www.thinkgeek.com/ and a WeGame T-shirt.

Well, now I have to say grats to everyone and specially to Pinkhair who won the grand price! So take a look at his fantastic new video The Robber Baron of Warsong Gulch it's a awsome video and you should totally check it out. I liked Devided Soul most of all wich was made by Martin Falch also the creator of Tales of the past 1, 2 and 3, but sadly he didn't win but third place is better then nothing so grats to Martin!

So grats once again to everyone who got something from the contest and good luck next time to you who didn't!

Oh great...

2008-09-05T10:15:00.000-07:00

Deamn, I just got a virus on my comp! I can only see the wallpaper image and nothing more. I i'll be able to fix it.. Else I don't know what to do, but don't think this will be the end of my machinima because of that!

Storyboard!

2008-09-02T11:35:00.000-07:00

I'm working on my storyboard to FI5VE right now. Pretty fun but it takes some time, but i'm not going to upload any picture because I don't want to spoil anything, but keep an eye on the blog because I will maybe show some screenies from it when I get it started. And I still need voice actors, specially females so if you are good or know anyone then please tell me!

Crazy Talk 5!

2008-09-01T11:18:00.000-07:00

Hey I just got this awsome program named CrazyTalk 5, I think you people who are doing machinima should try it out. You add a picture in to the program and the character moves the lips so it fits to the sound. It's very very good, so i'd like to thank Dragonpowerproductions for telling me about this program!

So here is a test I made, I just made this one pretty fast to try it out.

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You can actually do more stuff, just learnd a few seconds after that you can add teeth and other eyes so it looks really cool. Maybe they even used this in Illegal Danish escape from ogrimmar. Anyway, it's a good program and very very simple.

Next Project!

2008-08-31T10:45:00.000-07:00

So I tought of making a new project wich will be a action/comedy movie. Will spend alot of time on it and it will maybe be done by christmas or so. It will be named FI5VE but you can just say 5 or five. It will be about 5 gnomes and ofc the main character will be tinkle with his pet Kippo.
More I won't tell you more but I guess I will come up with a bit more information soon.

Here is a picture of it.

And ofcourse they are all gnomes, but I won't use Zelda terrain because it's hard and takes long time. Specially hard when you are making action.

(If you are a good voice actor and got a good microphone you are allways welcome to voice act in the movie because i'm in need of voice actors. So mail me if you would like to voice act and we'll see how it goes from there)

WeGame Machinima Contest!

2008-08-24T06:09:00.000-07:00

So, now when the machinima contest is almost over I tought I could put up the three videos I made for the contest here.

So first off was 'The Quest' it got the best story IMO, 10 minutes long, okay edited but sound effects are not too good since I only had TBC sounds. So here it is!

The Quest

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So that was it and I hope you enjoyed it!

So the second video I made was 'Udder Chaos' also made a trailer for it but it's not worth uploading. Well, I puted alot of work in to the editing. I almost photoshoped every background image. The intro is too long, not even worth having. The voices are okay and the audio part is great I think. Well here it is!

Udder Chaos

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And then we got the last one. Was about to make yet another one but didn't have time enough. Well this one is named 'The Islanders - Happy Birthday' I almost like this one most of all, just because I made something different. I took Zelda Wind Waker as terrain and used WoW characters it really fits together and think i'll make another episode soon. But sadly I had to make all the voices myself and I don't see myself as a "good female voice actor". But here you go, it's verry short but hope you enjoy it.

The Islanders - Happy Birthday

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So that was all for today and I hope you liked it. I guess more will come soon. I'm just a bit lazy..