So WTF Vimeo?

So this whole thing with vimeo has really annoyed me a bit.  I decided to do a little investigative work as to what the HELL! they are doing on this site.   I thought maybe since they had the no gameplay video rule; that maybe they were saying no to all machinima as well.

NOPE!

My hypothesis was proven wrong by one of the Vimeo admins Blake Whitman, who on July 21st, 2008 made a written statement regarding the no gameplay rule.

He ends his blog post by addressing the plan for machinima videos.

Which reads:

2) I make Machinima films! It’s not the same thing! Am I banned?

We currently do not feel that Machinima films fall under the category of gaming videos described above and, therefore, assuming compliance with our site�s general terms & conditions, we will continue to accept such videos on Vimeo. We are not, at this time, banning films that fall into the Machinima genre.

So again I ask the question…..WTF Vimeo?

you can read Blake’s entire blog post at this address:
Vimeo Blog

As for now, I’ll just continue to wait and see what happens and if they’ll ever respond to my emails.

In case anyone was wondering…..

………….where’s my vimeo page or why the embeded videos on my blog are missing?

Today I received an email which read:

Dear Joga Kidd:

Your account has been removed by the Vimeo Staff for violating the Rules of Vimeo.com

Reason: Uploading game walk-throughs, game strategy videos, depictions of player vs player battles, raids, or other videos that simply depict individuals playing a video game.

We hope you find a video host more suited to your needs. If you believe this was an error, please reply to this email in a civil manner with your reasoning (“I see other people do it” is not a valid reason).

Regards,
Vimeo

Excuse me while i go sort this out….or hunt for another place to showcase my vids…….. oh fuck it
I am going to go lay down and get some rest. I’ll deal with this crap later.

Cheers.

Brave New World

So over the last few weeks, I’ve taken a break from Second Life a bit.  To clear my head, and think of new ideas.  Lately, the best way for me to do that has been quest grinding in WoW (World of Warcraft) for hours, while listening to music.  I decided a couple of nights ago to attempt to film something in WoW again.  I think my first time shooting in WoW I was all over the place, it was a hot mess!

Anyway this time around I decided to produce something a little bit more simple, yet I still think I was able to showcase some of the beauty in the locations of the Azeroth and Outland.  So I basically recorded all my flight paths and cut them together lol.  When I first started playing WoW I think what made me fall in love with the game the most was the beautiful locations in the game, and the vastness of the world itself, and that’s what i wanted to showcase in this film.

After cutting everything together and watching numerous times I think my only complaint was some of the camera movements were a bit jerky as i was flying around.

What I feature in this film is only a thumbnail of all the other places that can be found and explored in WoW.  (I didn’t even film Northrend lol)

For the music I chose Joga which I’ve used before in past films. It’s one of my favorite songs ever and for me it worked really well with the images.

Don’t look for this video on youtube it can only be found on my vimeo page.

Now this is where I head back to work before my co-workers catch me blogging lol.