Tales of the Past IIISince the death of Yimo and the shattering of the Orb of Visions,
the Horde and the Alliance have accepted an unstable peace agreement.
However, old hatreds stand in the way of cooperation and at the same
time, chaos erupts as the Lich King finally takes action.
In the meanwhile, Blazer travels to Northrend to hunt down Mograine,
the Death Knight, and retrieve the legendary blade that may decide the
fate of Azeroth – The Ashbringer…After 1,5 years of production, Tales of the Past III is finally
complete. Having spent an average of 3 hours every single day on the
movie, there have been times where this whole project was frustrating
rather than enjoyable. However, looking back on the whole project, I’m
glad that I started and I’m glad that I managed to get through it!
Also, having watched the entire movie, I’m really satisfied with the
outcome and I hope you feel the same way! Now, since the movie is huge,
I hope you’ll take your time to read through the block of text here!
About the downloadSome of you might be slightly put off by the huge size and the fact
that there is no stream available. Basically the size (2,4 GB) is due
to the length rather than bad encoding, so I hope you will understand
this - I am aware that the download may take a day or so for some of
you, but since the movie has been on its way for 1,5 years, I hope you
can wait another day
About the stream: it’s my experience that watching a movie on stream
will make you watch it once and not really bother to watch it again
(and since you’ve watched it once, you’d be reluctant to download it) –
Therefore I wanted to remove the temptation of streaming the movie for
the first months time. After that I’ll probably add a stream as well
The best way to download is through the torrent system, which is
heavily supported by Warcraftmovies in the first period. I can suggest
http://www.supersoftwaredirect.com/ if you don’t have any software for
downloading torrents. Other mirrors will be added quickly after
release, but throughout the first time here, it’d be great if you could
help seeding the movie!
When watching the movie I can definitely suggest plugging your computer
into your TV and watching it on that – it’s a great experience and the
quality goes extremely sharp on most TVs! Also, make sure you turn up
the volume
Before ratingFirst of all, when I made this movie, I made it entirely from my own
perception of how it should be. As a result of this I’m sure there will
be some people disagreeing with some of my choices and have their own
opinion on “how it should be” – All I can say is that I can’t make
everyone satisfied, but I hope you’ll put things into perspective.
Anyway, it seems most people liked the previous movie and I’m quite
sure you will like this one as well!
There are a few things I’d like to explain, though:
- Length: the movie is 1,5 hours long. Whether this will be seen as
positive or negative is up to the individual. Personally I found the
length quite fitting and even if some of you find it a bit too long,
it’s always possible to skip to your favourite parts when re-watching
- Anime: it seems that the taboo within machinima-making is the use of
anime-soundtracks or anime-inspired movie-styles etc. Therefore I might
as well reveal now that even though the main inspiration in regards to
style and music is the “epic storyline movie” kind of thing, there are
parts where I deliberately chose anime-inspired themes/styles since it
fit the movie. If you simply hate the use of anything that is
anime-related, then I suggest that you skip the movie
- Lore: I’ve chosen to dig deeper into the Warcraft-lore this time and
it has been quite interesting to work with. Basically I’ve made sure to
do my background work before doing this (reading pretty much all of
www.wowwiki.com, Lord of the Clans, Day of the Dragon etc), so I hope
no one feels I messed up with this – for the same reason I can suggest
checking out the following articles while waiting for the download,
since they’ll give you a basic insight into the relevant lore of the
movie, thus making it more enjoyable:
http://www.wowwiki.com/Ashbringerhttp://www.wowwiki.com/Highlord_Mograinehttp://www.wowwiki.com/Lich_King- Private server: yes, some parts of the movie couldn’t have been done
without a private server. If this is somehow a problem (which I’ve
never really understood), then I might as well warn you now. I can
safely say, though, that without the use of a private server, the movie
wouldn’t be out for another 3-4 months. Also, all of the fun stuff
(huge scenes etc) are still made on live servers, since I found this to
be the best (and only) way to do it
Also, when commenting, please make sure to mark your comment with a
spoiler warning if you're discussing the story in some way About myselfThere have been a lot of questions along the way regarding what I
actually do when I’m not making these movies, so I thought I’d answer
the basics:
My name is Martin Falch and I’m an average 20-year-old guy, living in
Denmark (Aarhus). I currently study economy at the university, play
guitar with my band and hang out with my friends and my girlfriend –
basically I’ve got no intention (so far) to study anything related to
movie-making, but I may enter the area in some later period if I still
have the interest
While at it, I might mention that I’m not sure if
I’ll continue making movies after this one, will have to see if I have
the time for it!
Anyhow, if you happen to have some questions/suggestions/discussions
etc, I can suggest that you visit
www.talesofthepast.com or the new
forum on
http://www.madx.dk/machinima/forum/viewforum.php?f=14,where I’ll be happy to answer whenever I have time!
If you feel like
making any kind of donations, then you are of course also welcome to do
so on
www.talesofthepast.com as well!
Finally, I want to say thanks to all the people that helped out on this
project – all the people on Dunemaul EU, all the voice actors and all
the other people that have supported the project in some way!
I hope that you’ll enjoy watching the movie as much as I enjoyed making it
- Martin Falch
Edit: Snoman wrote a nice little review of the movie already
If some
of you are considering whether to bother downloading it, go ahead and
read it:
http://snobaste.blogspot.com/2007/12/tales-of-past-iii.html - thanks for the support!
Edit3: By the way, Nick Shaw (Blazer) suggested people to "digg" the
movie here:
http://www.digg.com/pc_games/Tales_of_the_Past_III in order
to let more people know about it! Feel free to do so
Edit5: Filefront is now up - I suggest using the mirror for downloading
rather than streaming - if you wish to stream the movie, search for it
on Stage6
sub pro 20, 2008 12:42 am