Finally, the interview with famous machinima maker: Shippiddge

[Blan21]

finally, the interview is ready and here:
Machinima making related questions

ME: Do you right all or most of your episodes?

shipp: I write all of my episodes.



Me: how do you come up with the ideas?
shipp: I don't know! They just come to me somehow... Sometime I laugh at myself while thinking of something. If I do, I know it's a good joke and put it in a script. I didn't do that too much for the first season of Smashtasm, and am trying to incorporate only good jokes into future machinima.



Me: If you get stuck in any part of making Machinima, what do you do to resolve it?

Shipp: If I get stuck on writing, I close the script and go back to it later. If I get stuck machinimating....I keep trying. I don't like going back to machinimation I'm stuck on, so keep trying for hours at a time until I get something to work. Have you seen that scene in Beans where Link jumps on Blue Link's head to get to Dan Green, and Blue Link jumps on Super64. That was in a created stage, so I had to do that whole thing myself. It took ENDLESS HOURS.


Me: When did you make your 1st Machinima? What was it?

Shipp: Smashtasm was my first machinima. =D


Me: Is making Machinima a hobby, career, or what?

shipp: It's a hobby, but it's (hopefully) turning into a career.


Me: Why did you choose Mario to be the main character of smashtasm instead of any other character?



Shipp: For the sole reason that it is cliche.


Me: How essential is using hacks like action replay to make Machinima?

Shipp: You don't need hacks to make a good machinima...but they sure do help...


Me: Is it difficult to match the voices with the character movement?

Shipp: You tell me. I haven't even tried matching them. The movement is machinimated before the voice is added. If they match for some reason, it's pure luck.

Personal questions

Me: Why name it smashtasm?

Shipp: The perfect title had to sound unique, yet familiar. I knew that if it had the word "Smash" in it, people would find it more easily. Having the game title in the machinima title makes it super-easy to find as a machinima. In fact, it was originally gong to be called "Super Smashtasm". The "-tasm" comes from "fantasm" or some other word....I honestly forget at this point. Either way, "Smashtasm" is supposed to be the name of the online servers of "Smash Bros". Originally, I was going to give it a definition: "When several players end up in a confusing flurry in which they cannot keep track of what is happening." But that might already be a word.


Me: A lot of members would like it if you joined wiispace, would you consider such a thing?

Shipp: Maybe. I'll consider it. I'm not much for Wii Forums, and more for Smash Forums... If I join, I'll probably end up never posting.

Me: Was it difficult making a collaboration with GMX7 and Dex?

Shipp: YES. Extremely. It took two months and a lot of work. So much so that it's rare that I'll ever do that again.


Me: Why did you choose youtube and not any other video-sharing site? (kinda a stupid question but, u never know)

Shipp: Ha ha. Very funny. What other site is there that could make videos so popular?




Final Question

Me: Why did you choose ssb and not say, halo or anything like most Machinima makers?

Shipp: Everyone makes Halo machinima. Doing that would make me blend in with everyone else. By doing a Smash Bros machinima, I'm standing out and doing something unique....well at least I was...now a bunch of people are trying to be like me.... Besides, Smash Bros is the best game to ever exist. So it deserves a machinima. That, and the fact that I don't have Halo...or any non-Nintendo console for that matter.....


ok well, I finally did it. I would like to ask that any mods sticky this or, as per request by shipp, either have a link or put the interview on the front page of wiispace. It would be a big help if you could do that.

[sparty]

That's a pretty cool interview man, Nice job.


I haven't actually seen the SSBB machinima yet but I'll go check them out. I like DigitalPh33rs Machinama the best.

[wiithief]

me and him have planned this out some time ago.

[wiifro]

Wow u actually got to interview him?
Good job blan his work is pretty good i have seen it

[wiithief]

yes the thief never gets some appreciation.

[Blan21]

lol theif, calm down. Yes wiitheif helped me but I made and sent the questions. He helped me remove a few stupid questions b4 I sent it and he was the one who came with the idea in the 1st place.

[wiifro]

oh well good job too witheif! i didnt even know u helped sorry about that

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[ZakAtak]

I would tell you to get Digitalph33r but he makes Halo Machinima, and is to awesome for wiispace.

[ZakAtak]

Id tell you to interview Guitarmasterx7 and Dexterboy124 (other Brawl Machinimers) but there interview would consist of to many swears and ***** jokes

Digitalph33r is the best Machinima maker of all time. Watch Arby n' the Chief if you havent yet.

[wiifro]

Originally Posted by ZakAtak

Id tell you to interview Guitarmasterx7 and Dexterboy124 (other Brawl Machinimers) but there interview would consist of to many swears and ***** jokes

Digitalph33r is the best Machinima maker of all time. Watch Arby n' the Chief if you havent yet.

Ya i have seen there stuff
wolfs retarded mission is some good stuff
digitalph33r is hilarious
brawlgasm is pretty entertaining as well