Guild Wars 2

In case you missed it, this was created during the last Beta Weekend event.

For those of you who don’t know me, my name is Tristan Pope, former Machinimist of titles such as “Frostshock” and “Not Just another Love Story”, then turned Blizzard Entertainment cinematic-tist helping to direct such things as the South Park episode “Make Love not Warcraft”, then turned.. yeah still figuring that one out. ANYWHOOOO my personal journeys aside..

I decided to re-create my FIRST EVER machinima video as well as first story-lined machinima video from World of Warcraft sooo many years back called “I Surrender”.

Back then I created that video in the last 3 hours of the final beta weekend. I figured, hey, why not kick off Guild Wars 2, the first MMO since my Ultima Online days to make me all fuzzy inside again with an homage.

So with a little more time and some planning under my belt this time, 15 hours, 3 dedicated “actors”(loyal friends), a very understanding guild(Arcanix), and a hoarse voice from yelling at my monitor to get people to NOT resurrect our characters(as the game promoted) when dead…

You can read more and see some behind the scenes here:
http://alttabme.com/forum/index.php?threads/first-story-line-machinima-in-guild-wars-2-i-surrender.826/

I’ve enjoyed your past machinima! It’s great to see you doing GW2 ones now. Do moar

I had to laugh at the behind the scenes comments about people rezzing characters. Would you happen to have a blooper reel?

Thanks, there are bloopers in the behind the scenes videos. They literally are a recount of the entire filming event