Lablo, a Guild Wars Machinima by 4D

I don't like the post name, because with my luck that'll change the name of my movie. It's Lablo! Just Lablo.

This is my Lablo thread, I'm here to get some support and more viewers. Everyone has friends that they play Guild Wars with, well my Guild Wars friends have refused to help; think it detracts from gameplay, are PVE fanboys and refuse to do PVP, GVG, and even challenge missions unless they absolutely have to. Anything like puppeteering or shooting in game bores the heck out of them and my every attempt has been very painfull.

Very specifically, my buddy Steve helped cowrite the basic plot, it was going to be a comic strip, and was originally more of a comedy, and kind of flowered out from there to what it is now. We'd talk about Lablo because we talked about Guild Wars when we weren't playing it.

But the Machinima now is entirely my own work, I give him no credit except ownership of the original Rascha Litch. In the future he may help with some shooting, but I've had to go so far as to delete my own characters and make two characters that look like his so I could continue on with the plot. That's one reason Rascha isn't in Episode I.

I make no apolagies for that explanation. That predicament has turned Lablo into exactly what it is today and someday when Lablo gains more fame this will be the very introduction to how the process of making Lablo came to be.

Lablo, in this game universe means Blood Oath. It's the discovery of necrotic magics that require the cutting and the defacing of one's own body to produce magic. The ultimate form of this form of magic, of course is Litchdom and Vampirism, both of which will eventually be 'unearthed' as new forms of necromancy. That's the explaination of the title, anymore would be spoiling the storyline!

I will say though, that 'Lablo' was the word that my little sister used to use for Diablo, when she was too young to say the name of the game Steve and I would play all the time :P


So anyway, that's a long explaination, and actually, I'm very satisfied with it, some of that stuff is just too in depth for a Youtube video explanation, nobody reads those because they're busy watching the video. I

suppose I need to work on a title, and a poster for Lablo now that I'm here, and actually I have a question about that. Is there a way to take a snapshot from your project in Sony Vegas 7? Because I haven't figured out how to do that, and an in game snapshot won't cover what I have in mind.

So anyway, here are my vids, watch, critique, but don't be too hard because I didn't have Vegas when I made these. I will be working on a 'remastered' episode one and two, but that's a whole seperate project. That being said, keep in mind that all comments like "not good enough quality video" "I can't see what's happening" or "what happened to the sound" will be completely ignored, because Vegas records in high def, and power director, didn't.

Powerdirector also had big problems with adding a sound track, it only lets you add two tracks at a time, so by the time you reload and add another track and have done so 7 different times, the sound effects and music overlap the voice in ways you didn't really intend, and with power director there was no way to prevent that but to start over.

The new intro was done in Vegas to give you some idea of what episode III will look like.

The last problem, of course, is health bars and damage points flashing in the movies, and this is the final problem I've had with doing everything on my own so far, and that's why I'm recruiting help. I also need a solution to somebody else recording Ashira for me. If somebody else is the cameraman and uses fraps, how do they get the footage to me? It seems like the clips would be too big to go through email...

If anyone's come up with a solution to this problem please let me know. In episode three the interface system shows up far less than the first two episodes, but the final solution is to take away the problem completely by having the camera man target and attack nothing.

That question was mostly for the Kiti/Tidus or anyone else who has done this stuff before. They end up being 20-50 megabytes a file, so how do you guys deal with that?

The last thing is actors/voice acting. I need some commitment from anyone volunteering, at least two or three episodes, unless you just want to be an extra (there are a few scenes where I need to show like 10 people fighting a battle together) and for voice acting, atm I have my sister doing the voice of Ashira, and she's getting tired of it as she's not much of a budding actress and not into Guild Wars at all.

Though that would be a lot longer role than anyone wanting to do filming, it would be far easier to do, as I'd send you lines and you'd record them and send like two or three MGbyte files back to me via email. It may seem like a lot to take on, but if anyone's looking for a break as a voice actress, this could seriously be it. Anyone interested in filming, leave a comment on here and we'll schedule filming times on Guild Wars. Anyone interested in voice acting, we will need to exchange emails.

Lablo, the Official Trailer

Lablo, Episode I

Lablo, Episode II

Lablo, Episode III

Lablo, Episode IV

Lablo, Episode V


The Daily Fail, Episode 1 "Little Tortilla Boy"

The Daily Fail, Episode 2 "Nacho Nachos"


Die Katze, Full song version



And for those that don't want to scroll through that big post, here's the links.

edit: this has turned into a comprehensive list of all my (relevent) videos. You could just check here once in while and get updated