Ciderhelm
06-07-2007, 07:30 AM
Raiding was not the original intent of the guild. When it was founded, it was based on making Warcraft storyline movies (which coincidentally were the reason we put out so many encounter movies while raiding). It was also the foundation for successful raiding, as our movie production required a large amount of coordination.
At one time, the guild had 7 of the 10 top storyline movies on Warcraftmovies.com. When we shifted focus to raiding, movies which used Warcraft Model Viewer had not been created (because the Model Viewer had not been programmed); though we were ahead of our time at the time, many far more successful and far better productions have since been developed. :)
When all was said and done, though, our main project was never completed. Twilight had the potential to be -- in my opinion -- the best storyline movie created for Warcraft. To this day I have not seen one I feel would have compared to Twilight, had we completed it.
A small group of us have always regretted not finishing the project. Unfortunately, in the position we were in as a raid guild -- eight months behind everyone else and determined to catch up to the very best -- there just wasn't time to spare to work on it. Worse, at two times while raiding my secondary Hard Drives became corrupted, losing nearly all video storage. While we eventually killed Kel'Thuzad, conquered every boss created in the game (including the rarer kills such as Viscidus and Eranikus), and completed all content Blizzard created, we still never completed Twilight.
For what we do have left, it's not much, and it's certainly not complete, but it's a good watch. These are filmed in Widescreen with very high resolution and the quality makes them worth downloading.
Here's some streaming video. You may need to turn your volume up a bit:
211523
Twilight Preview Release (Ciderhelm, Warrior)
http://files.filefront.com/twilightpreviewwmv/;7712068;;/fileinfo.html
211519
Twilight Prologue Draft 3, No Voice (Ciderhelm, Warrior)
http://files.filefront.com/LordaeronMusicwmv/;7712015;;/fileinfo.html
211563
Twilight Drafting* (Ciderhelm, Warrior)
http://files.filefront.com/twiclips3wmv/;7712217;;/fileinfo.html
*Some chunks are left empty in the middle.
At one time, the guild had 7 of the 10 top storyline movies on Warcraftmovies.com. When we shifted focus to raiding, movies which used Warcraft Model Viewer had not been created (because the Model Viewer had not been programmed); though we were ahead of our time at the time, many far more successful and far better productions have since been developed. :)
When all was said and done, though, our main project was never completed. Twilight had the potential to be -- in my opinion -- the best storyline movie created for Warcraft. To this day I have not seen one I feel would have compared to Twilight, had we completed it.
A small group of us have always regretted not finishing the project. Unfortunately, in the position we were in as a raid guild -- eight months behind everyone else and determined to catch up to the very best -- there just wasn't time to spare to work on it. Worse, at two times while raiding my secondary Hard Drives became corrupted, losing nearly all video storage. While we eventually killed Kel'Thuzad, conquered every boss created in the game (including the rarer kills such as Viscidus and Eranikus), and completed all content Blizzard created, we still never completed Twilight.
For what we do have left, it's not much, and it's certainly not complete, but it's a good watch. These are filmed in Widescreen with very high resolution and the quality makes them worth downloading.
Here's some streaming video. You may need to turn your volume up a bit:
211523
Twilight Preview Release (Ciderhelm, Warrior)
http://files.filefront.com/twilightpreviewwmv/;7712068;;/fileinfo.html
211519
Twilight Prologue Draft 3, No Voice (Ciderhelm, Warrior)
http://files.filefront.com/LordaeronMusicwmv/;7712015;;/fileinfo.html
211563
Twilight Drafting* (Ciderhelm, Warrior)
http://files.filefront.com/twiclips3wmv/;7712217;;/fileinfo.html
*Some chunks are left empty in the middle.