Spriggs: a Halo 3 Machinima

Spriggs is a Halo 3 machinima comedy series created by Running Gun LLC.

August 21, 2008

Progress… let the good times roll!

Filed under: Uncategorized — JWolfJonas @ 11:22 pm

Hello, fans and folks just passing through!

This is Jordon, your charming Music Director/Sound Editor of Spriggs, temporarily taking the helm of this flagship called Running Gun Productions and putting out the new Episode 12: Blitzkrieg Ball, Part A to hold you guys over from your (almost) two month long Spriggs withdrawal.

Now that I have your attention and your glutes are glued back onto posturepedic computer chairs, I’d like to say that our machinima team is on a roll with the scripts, audio and video work. We’re ahead of the game in this stage of the production, and we’re definitely going to return to a tentative schedule for episode releases (or I swear I’ll have to sever heads and cut work benefits, whichever is deemed a worse fate…). Part B and C of Episode 12 should be displaying their existence for the masses between now and the next couple weeks.

Anyways, our fearless leader, Mike Reed, is currently on “vacation” to “take care of business” until later next week. I, thinking that to be the biggest oxymoron I have ever come into contact with, have been left with completing Episode 12a with the help of our video/animation gurus, Aaron, Rob, and Tom. I extremely appreciate all of their good advice and skill to be used to create an essentially flawless episode of great quality. To our glee of finishing the first part of Episode 12 and as a random act of shenanigans, we decided to doctor up one of Mike’s anime convention pictures and paste it at the end of Episode 12a. It’s completely random and not intended to harm Mike’s reputation (well…), but it’s all in fun. It kind of reminds me of the subliminal messages that Tyler Durden spliced into the film in the movie, Fight Club. One fortunate point for any fans that have seen that movie is that our splice in the episode is not porn. After all, we are the creative minds of machinima making, not the peddlers of psychological scarring. So, just catch this blip of insanity at the end of Episode 12a.

Alright, gang! Keep watching the show and we’ll keep updating! Like monkeys behind typewriters, we will diligently bring you the funny. Later!

-Jordon Jones

Music Director/Sound Editor

August 11, 2008

Otakon 2008

Filed under: Conventions — Aaron Clark @ 3:00 pm

The Otakon 2008 How to Machinima Panel
The fabulous panelists of the Otakon 2008 “How to Machinima” Panel

This weekend, the entire Running Gun crew descended on the Baltimore Convention Center in Maryland for Otakon 2008. If you’re not familiar with it, Otakon is a huge Japanese animation held in Baltimore each year. It features anime screenings, guests, cosplay, video games, a dealers hall, music videos, and a whole host of closely (or not so closely) related interests. Mike, Donny, Jordon, and Rob helped man the Anime Depot table in the dealers room, while others (Erin, Thomas, Abbi, Liz) actually got to enjoy the convention offerings. Meanwhile, I (Aaron) slaved in the Panels department for three years running, this time as a lieutenant.

Highs and lows of the convention included (but were not limited to) Mike, Donny, Jordon, and Rob slaving under two mute dealers, Rob cutting his thumb open, a friend (Mark) dressing up as Rick Astley and Rick-Rolling cute girls outside of Panel 1, the “How to Machinima” panel, Erin being a cosplay nut (see photos), Liz dressing up as Kool-Aid Man, and of course, good food at Tír na nÓg.

In all, the convention was plenty eventful, and fun was had by all, we’ll surely be there again next year.

Group photo after the Otakon 2008 How to Machinima panel
Someone in this photo doesn’t belong, can you guess who?