BloodSpell Press
We've been lucky enough to garner quite a bit of press attention over the past few years - here are all the articles and comments we know of!
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Press Articles
- The Making Of Machinima (The Guardian)
- BloodSpell on Wikipedia
- BloodSpell on Boingboing.net and More BoingBoing.net
- BoingBoing on our MPAA/FACT pisstake.
- Profile of BloodSpell on Bioware.com - interview with Hugh on the release.
- WIP report on BloodSpell at Bioware.com
- The Making of BloodSpell part 1, part 2, part 3 at Bioware.com - interviews with the crew.
- Des Machinima-Filmepos erster Teil zum freien Download on Gulli.com
- BloodSpell: Abend füllender Fantasy-Film in Spielegrafik on Netzwelt.de
- BloodSpell on SuicideGirls (boy, were we pleased about this one!)
- BloodSpell on URLWire
- Great big group project - BloodSpell on USAToday's TechSpace blog
- BloodSpell Spotlight on NWVault
- Numerous articles on BloodSpell over at 3dFilmmaker
- BloodSpell on OpenBusiness.cc
- Propping Up Some Successes on Paul Marino's blog
- BloodSpell: Machinima-Animationsfilm unter CC on Netzpolitik.de
- Indie fantasy movie 'Bloodspell' released on Regional Film and Video
- BloodSpell Machinima Goth Funks It Up on GameSetWatch
- Profile of Hugh and BloodSpell writeup
- Making Machinima on Filmmaker Magazine's blog
- Review of BloodSpell over at RPG.net
- BloodSpell reviews on Episodes 8 and 9 of Machinima Live.
- Review of BloodSpell Episode 1 on SciFi UK.
- Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3 of ArsGeek's HOW-TO on burning BloodSpell to DVD.
- BloodSpell - The Machinima You Wish You Could Make on GayGamer.net
- BloodSpell on the Forbidden Planet blog
- Author Alan Campbell on BloodSpell.
- Review of BloodSpell Ep 1-6 on The English Assassin and follow-up review of Ep 7 and 8.
- BloodSpell: Bigger Than Jesus, according to The Overcast.
- The Leipzig Controversy: BoingBoing, Greg Costikyan, Blue's News, 3D Filmmaker, Yigg.de, Xirdalium, Digg, Machinima Premiere (oddly, Machinima.com didn't report), Sorcerer's Place, and more.
- The Daily Telegraph on BloodSpell
- Animation World Network on BloodSpell's release
- BloodSpell Episode 8 reviewed on, er, The Machinima Review.
- Hugh and BloodSpell are quoted and referenced, respectively, in The Escapist
- We were featured on Creativecommons.org, although I seem to have lost the link.
- Ricky Grove writes a retrospective on the work of Phil Rice, BloodSpell sound designer and Machinima genius, including quite a bit on BloodSpell.
- 3D Filmmaker on Episodes 12 and 13.
- iCommons talked about us in their round-up of Creative Commons feature films.
- We got Dugg.
- Regarde.org also said some very nice things that I can nearly understand.
- Belligerati described us as Machinima Worth Watching
- Gulli wrote up a piece on us, which has been very popular.
- Cory at BoingBoing wrote up our final episode, describing now as "the perfect time" to watch BloodSpell. Thanks, Cory!
- SimonC over at GameSetWatch reported that BloodSpell has splattered to an end.
- Joe Gordon at Forbidden Planet reported on our final ep - and I'll get round to that interview soon, Joe, I promise!
- And the final episode is reviewed (and very nice things said) in the latest episode of The Machinima Review.
- BloodSpell on the Neverwinter Nights Podcast
- French blogger Pickiboon raved about BloodSpell.
- Matt "Swarm of Angels" Hanson said some very nice things about us over at Eternal Gaze.
- BloodSpell on Italian site Cinetma.org.
- Ben King, writer for More Four, introduces Machinima with BloodSpell as his top example.
- Channel 4's More Four features BloodSpell.
- Free Pixel talks about cultural influences in Machinima, citing BloodSpell.
- Hrej.cz on BloodSpell.
- The infamous drunken Overcast podcast, this being Part 1 discussing BloodSpell.
- WowInsider interview with Johnnie and Hugh talking about BloodSpell, Machinima for Dummies and more.
- BBC.co.uk article on Machinima for the Machinima Europe festival including a pretty extensive mention of BloodSpell
- Digital Planet Podcast including an interview with Hugh and Johnnie.
Other Offline Press
- CNN Europe, September 2005
- The List Edinburgh, September 2005
- Radio Cafe, BBC Radio, May 2005
- SFX Magazine, June 2006
- Hi-Tech Scotland, August 2006
- PC Plus Magazine, September 2006
- Imagine Magazine, September 2006
- The Daily Telegraph, September 2006
- Digital Planet, BBC World Service, October 2007
Shows and Appearances
- Cameo Edinburgh, October 2005
- Bradford Animation Festival, November 2005
- Machinima Film Festival, November 2005
- FMX, May 2006 (Audioblog)
- Edinburgh Interactive Entertainment Festival, August 2006
- RvBTO, Toronto, August 2006
- Leipzig Games Conference, August 2006
- Medienwoche Berlin, August 2006
- Spectrum Festival, Edinburgh, October 2006
- Savannah Film Festival, November 2006
- Bitfilm Festival, Hamburg, November 2006
- Machinima Film Festival, New York, November 2006
- Brazilian International Free Software Forum, April 2007
- Art In Games at Abertay University, May 2007
- Pompidou Center, Paris, May 2007
- Annecy International Animated Film Festival, June 2007
- SiliCon San Jose, October 2007
- Machinima Europe Festival, Leicester, October 2007
- Arcadia, Montreal,November 2007
- Glasgow Games Society Convention, February 2008
Awards and nominations
- Nomination: Best Machinima Movie - GameShadow Innovation In Games Awards
- Nominations: Best Series, Best Technical Achievement - Machinima Film Festival 2006
- Best Machinima July 2006 - Sims 99
- Movie of the Month, July 2006 - Machinima Premiere
- Movie of the Month, August 2006 - Machinima Premiere
- Movie of the Month, October 2006 - Machinima Premiere
- Movie of the Month, December 2006 - Machinima Premiere
- Movie of the Season, Q4 2006 - Machinima Premiere
- Movie of the Year (Bronze), 2006-2007 - Machinima Premiere
- Nominations: Best Series, Best Technical Achievement - Machinima Europe
- Gold Medal Winner, Best Technical Achievement, Online Machinima Film Festival 2007.
- Gold Medal Winner, Best Custom Content, Online Machinima Film Festival 2007.
- Silver Medal Winner, Best Series, Online Machinima Film Festival 2007.