Dragon Age: Wardens Fall is an original Machinima series that chronicles the final mission of a Grey Warden. This is Episode 5!

Brian tries to stay focused after dealing with a problem.

The story is based on an extract from the my novel “Memories of Eternity”, which is still a work in progress.

Remember when I stated that the new longer time limits for YouTube would allow more ambitious and, in many instances, better quality films to be presented? This is one of those films I was thinking of. It was done with iClone v3.2. I found myself viewing this several times just to pick up on little details that many filmmakers might have overlooked or simply left out. Even if you’re not into this genre of film, it is well worth watching to see what can be done with iClone and to understand what goes into the visual composition of a scene.

Dragon Age: Wardens Fall is an original Machinima series that chronicles the final mission of a Grey Warden.

An Odyssey shuttle crew, on their way back to the ship after delivering medical aid to a distant colony, is forced down on an unexplored world. There, matters are complicated by their need to work with some unexpected “visitors”; a situation which is not made easy by the feelings of the Aid Team’s commander, Lieutenant Commander M’raal…

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Original animated movie set in the Star Trek universe. This movie focuses on the exploits of civilian merchanters, rather than Starfleet officers.

~Storyline~

Aperture Corporation has won an election over the Combine forces in City 17. In order to expand their business to a larger scale, they chose to take over different sections of the city, evacuating all citizens of the section to build their headquarters. All citizens who resist shall be either apprehended or killed.

Jacknife seeks revenge on this corporation. He saw his wife get brutally beaten and arrested by a secret agency under the Aperture Corporation because she resisted to evacuate with all the others. It is now his mission, his life, and his goal, to save his wife under the clutches of Aperture, and put an end to the one who’s responsible for all of this.

Part action, part free running, part thriller, comes a unique storytelling adventure told without any real dialogue.

~Some minor notes~

- Jacknife is a character based off the looks and name of a character from the game Mirror’s Edge.
- The effects seen when Jacknife was brushing alongside the wall in the introduction was made by a good friend of mine, Deremixproductions. He used Adobe After Effects to achieve this unique effect.
- Most of the running is complete player control. Only rarely I used NPC’s.
- The shaky cam effect was achieved with SharpYe, an addon for Garry’s Mod.
- I am well aware of the small visual glitches that may be hard to spot at first. But if you do see any, just be aware that I know of it, so you don’t need to point it out. And if you’re wondering why I didn’t correct those mistakes, it’s because I’m lazy.
- The monochrome effect in the introduction represents conformity in this film. In the beginning, we see Jacknife sitting on a bench, and he is the only object that is color, hinting at why he did not evacuate the area like the other citizens, because he believes that the only means of saving his wife is to break the laws of the Aperture Corporation.

I was going to put an FAQ here, but Youtube won’t allow me to put my long, descriptive answers. fffffff

But now it’s finally here, and it was well worth the time and effort that I have incorporated into this film. I hope you all enjoy this production!

The title of this post pretty much sums up my opinion of this film… a helluva job. I will not even go into all the tools the film maker used because the most important tool he used came at the beginning… imagination. This machinima is different, yet somehow eerily familiar to those of us who have watched hours, days or weeks of various Halo, Half-Life, Fallout, etc. machinimas. There is, of course, the first person angle of the story. The chase. The violence. The blood. There is also anger, confusion, fear and pain. All done with virtually no dialogue. All done very well. As I stated… a helluva machinima. Good job, kitty0706.

Note: I wish I could say I discovered this machinima on my own through some psychic ability, but I must give a tip of the hat to Nick de Bruyne at lazygamer. I picked it up while passing by mindlessly traveling the ‘verse.

A stranger walks into a place he shouldn’t be and may have some useful information for someone.

I do so love stories with a twist. This has more than one.

Is the chase over? Who is the good guy, anyway?

The Odyssey is called to the frontier station of Argus, where they face a challenge and Harper comes face to face with a ghost from the past.

Note: There are a couple of small gfx glitches near the beginning and the sound didn’t come out very well (please note that at around 35 minutes, the volume leaps up considerably for some reason, so please be aware).