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[Tawmis]

So back in 2004 (November) - my friend and I began a trek of creating a Neverwinter Nights machinima series called Neverending Nights - and much to our surprise, found folks who enjoyed the madness we had created. The series concluded after 65 episodes (ending in Jan 2013).

I have bounced back and forth with returning to the series and beginning a new adventure - but a lot of the original actors have long since moved out of San Diego. (And I dislike recording over Skype or other means; when it's not a controlled environment where it's very quiet), because several episodes suffered because of it (in terms of audio).

Well, the other day - someone had mentioned that the series is still pretty fun - but pretty rough at 800x600 resolution when they expand it to full screen (it blurs horrible and pixelates).

So then I thought - why don't I re-film the entire series and do what I can to "fix" the audio (as much as possible; in some cases, there's just going to be no helping it, for example when some lines were recorded by someone who lived on the other side of the US and recorded their lines on an iPhone).

Here is the original Episode 01:

And here is the re-filmed 1080p (true HD) version:


I plan on re-releasing each episode every Saturday (for the next 65 Saturdays, as time permits).

If you enjoyed the new HD version; please share it and help get the word out. I'd GREATLY appreciate it.

 

[Tarot Redhand]

Good to see you back for a little while.

 

TR

[Tawmis]

Good to see you back for a little while.

 

TR

Thank you! I have repeatedly gone back and forth with continuing it (as I said before) - but then it dawned on me that it would be great to put this in actual HD (1080p) - and since I am working with existing audio (touching it up where I can) - it's essentially just re-filming it. I have already finished the first three episodes in two days! So I can probably knock these out pretty quick - and just have them to be released every Saturday (that's the game plan, but as we know, real life can tend to step in the way).

Feels good to be... home... again.

[werelynx]

Superb! There are subtitles, which help me tremendously! Thanks!

[Tawmis]

Superb! There are subtitles, which help me tremendously! Thanks!

Oh! I just realized Youtube has an auto "Closed Caption" - I just watched it - and some of it is "off" as to what's actually being said. I have dug up all the scripts for the purpose of re-filming it - I wonder if there's a way to embed various languages for Closed Captioned (I would essentially be relying on Google Translate to translate the scripts).

[Zwerkules]

Oh! I just realized Youtube has an auto "Closed Caption" - I just watched it - and some of it is "off" as to what's actually being said. I have dug up all the scripts for the purpose of re-filming it - I wonder if there's a way to embed various languages for Closed Captioned (I would essentially be relying on Google Translate to translate the scripts).

Google translate is getting better, but still not very good. There's probably someone willing to translate it to Russian, someone to translate it to German and maybe someone for Polish and possibly some other people who can translate to other languages as well.

[Tawmis]

Google translate is getting better, but still not very good. There's probably someone willing to translate it to Russian, someone to translate it to German and maybe someone for Polish and possibly some other people who can translate to other languages as well.

Are you telling me google doesn't know everything?

It's true - I could get someone to translate it. However, all three seasons combined is 325 pages (font size 10). That's a lot of pages for someone to translate - all for free. I would feel bad asking someone to put that much work into something.

I would rather go with translating it with google, and if someone spots errors - then let me know - so at least it's not the entire document.

[Tawmis]

As promised, the second episode, re-filmed in 1080p HD has now been released:

[Tawmis]

Episode 03 HD is available for your viewing pleasure:

As always, if you enjoy them - please share them and help get the word out. It's encouraging when a video gets more views, comments, etc!

[Tawmis]

Neverending Nights - Episode 04 (HD) is out!

[Tawmis]

Episode 05 HD is now released. Remember, when you watch it on Youtube to click the GEAR icon and select 1080p for the best results. I don't think Youtube selects that by default.

[Tawmis]

Google translate is getting better, but still not very good. There's probably someone willing to translate it to Russian, someone to translate it to German and maybe someone for Polish and possibly some other people who can translate to other languages as well.

So... Travis made me aware of this...
http://neverwinterva...icecube-monster

I assume it's you (same name on the Vault as you have here) - and if it's you - I am beyond floored and so freaking honored that you referenced us and talked about the "Ice Cube Monster" - just gave you a shout out of how floored and honored I was on our Facebook page. Seriously. This made my night. When I made this series, I always hoped that others would enjoy it - maybe laugh. But when I see something I did with the series get referenced elsewhere - sound like a sissy here - but seriously it fill my heart with all kinds of pride!

[Tawmis]

Episode 06 "He's A Magic Man" in 1080p HD is now available!

[Tawmis]

Episode 07 - Things That Make You Go... Boom? - HD

[Zwerkules]

About a year ago I made an icecube monster inspired by this episode.

[Tawmis]

About a year ago I made an icecube monster inspired by this episode.

 

Yes! That's what I was mentioning in Post #12 in this thread! Travis pointed that out to me just recently and I was so absolutely floored and honored! You should have told me back then! I would have pimped this out so hard to everyone! I absolutely _love_ that you did this. I wish I would have known for when I re-filmed Episode 07, I would have totally used it. But I had already finished filming it by the time I was made aware!

[Tawmis]

Episode 08 HD is released.

This is one of the episodes that had audio issues when we first recorded it. I tried to clean up when I re-filmed, but there was only so much I could do, sadly.

[Tawmis]

Episode 09 in 1080p HD is now available! Peter and Grayson now have flashy armor - will they be able to find some flashy weapons?

[Tawmis]

Episode 10 in 1080p HD is now available!

Peter and Grayson meet up with their friend Pawl the Dorf who wants their help exploring a cave. What could go wrong?

[Tawmis]

When we originally released this episode "back in the day" - it was a fan favorite. So much so that we would eventually implement the three goblins into the story much more...

Episode 11 - HD - Deep, Dark, Revenge

[Tawmis]

Episode 12 - Where There's Smoke... in 1080p HD is now available!

Peter, Grayson and Pawl begin discussing the pros and cons of lighting a campfire in an enclosed cavern... What could go wrong?


 

[Seraphim24]

Whoa! Had no idea this was a thing, looks quite a project.

[Tawmis]

Whoa! Had no idea this was a thing, looks quite a project.

 

Hah! This is a revisiting of my series and re-filming it into 1080p HD! It was originally released back in 2004. I'm just giving it a make over! It's been fun returning to the series. I can't tell you how much I loved doing this back in the day - and putting on these adventuring boots to revisit it has been a wonderful experience.

[Seraphim24]

Hah! This is a revisiting of my series and re-filming it into 1080p HD! It was originally released back in 2004. I'm just giving it a make over! It's been fun returning to the series. I can't tell you how much I loved doing this back in the day - and putting on these adventuring boots to revisit it has been a wonderful experience.

 

You know thinking about it the NWN community was so active back in 2004 I remember it being kind of an explosion of modding and commentary on forums and such. Ah good ole NWNvault and all that haha! I mean I went on to play other games and do other things but it naturally it continued in some form or another.

 

I played a few of them myself back in the day and it's impressive how much effort people put into it. I shouldn't be shocked this eventually led to series like this. Anyway I watched a piece of one it seems pretty fun.

[Tawmis]

You know thinking about it the NWN community was so active back in 2004 I remember it being kind of an explosion of modding and commentary on forums and such. Ah good ole NWNvault and all that haha! I mean I went on to play other games and do other things but it naturally it continued in some form or another.

 

I played a few of them myself back in the day and it's impressive how much effort people put into it. I shouldn't be shocked this eventually led to series like this. Anyway I watched a piece of one it seems pretty fun.

 

The NWN Community was so awesome back then!

I'd recommend watching it from the start if you're going to watch it (and just watch the HD versions I have been making - forget the original release!) So that way you're not far behind! And each episode averages about 3 to 5 minutes (made that way intentionally - so folks could watch it easily without committing time to sitting down and watching it) and it weaves an ongoing story of these two would be heroes (and their companions they pick up along the way!) in a comedic mess.