Show HN: My 5-year mocap Machinima project with Hollywood stars

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I'd love to know how you got reputable actors to star in WoW machinima!

Actually, they were very enthusiastic about the project from the word go - the fact that it's considerably different to the run of the mill short film was a significant draw, I think.

I think that hacker types like us underestimate just how novel the approaches we take can be for people in the outside world, as it were.

Joanna put it best, IMO:

"There's an old phrase in acting which is "stay in the boat." As things change, stay in the boat. Don't go 'oh, I would never dream of doing that' or 'oh we didn't do that, I haven't been trained'.

Just learn and stick with it and find out how it is going. Because you'll be able to find that a) you'll be able to contribute quite a lot more than you thought you would, but secondly you can't afford to be divorced from new methods of entertainment."

At some point I need to steal contact details from you - How awesome would it be to have the real Brian Blessed record a voice-mail greeting?

I just wanted to say that I really appreciate the way your plot is structured and "fitted in" within the larger World of Warcraft setting. The way you did that calls back to machinima's own origins within another media and was a delightful thought to have today.

Thank you very much! That's exactly what we were going for, and it's fantastic to hear that you appreciated it.

Points to a whole new way of making movies. I'd love to see some behind the scenes video or stories about making it - do you have anything like that?

I'm going to be posting some over the next few days, actually - plus a series over at Charlie Stross's blog talking about the past, present and future of Machinima.

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