Nefarious Guy (Harrison Heller) is an award-winning machinima director and co-founder of Amorphous Blob Productions. He recently graduated from Brown University with a BA in Modern Culture & Media.
5 Years of ABP: 2006
In 2006 we submitted Star Wars Gangsta Rap: JKA Edition to Machinimasia, the first machinima festival in Asia. Our machinima won 1st Runner Up Best Student Film, losing first place to Ross Scott’s Civil Protection. Although it was a second place win, it was ABP’s first machinima award and we were immensely excited. The win motivated us to continue to improve our work.
We then became a subdivision of Hyperdrive, a popular two-man Jedi Academy machinima group known for its high production values. Under the Hyperdrive name, ABP produced The Anger of the Guns, a WWII music video filmed online in Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory. Meanwhile, one of the Hyperdrive members created ABP’s current animated intro logo. However, the guy in charge of Hyperdrive didn’t like our film and was upset that we were not making Star Wars films, so he rudely kicked us out of the company without warning. ABP was independent once more.
5 Years of ABP: 2005
We’re entering our fifth year here at Amorphous Blob Productions and so we thought it might be fun to look all the way back to the beginning and do a retrospective on how far we’ve come. We’re going to be covering one year of ABP history every few days.
Pre-2005: Before Amorphous Blob
Before 2005, I ran a clan called {SITH} in the PC game Jedi Knight 3: Jedi Academy . The clan had a machinima production division called {SITH} Guild Productions which was originally geared at creating clan promos. Over time, as we became more interested in telling stories than promoting the clan, we began to make narrative films. It was around this time, during the making of a film called The Legend of Solaris, that drivel became my main conspirator and second hand man. He served as the main ingame actor and the principle creative advisor on the project. Soon, drivel’s brother, Pickle, joined the team as well.
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ABP Update 01-20-2010
I just got back from beautiful, sunny Costa Rica and thought I’d update everyone about what’s happening at ABP.
We are well into post-production on our sci-fi/crime project. Talented Moviestorm machinimator and voice actor Jorge Campos has joined the voice cast along with professional actor Joe Thomas. Tommy Kraft is also working on some visual effects for the film. Very soon we will be moving into the last stages of post-production which includes music scoring, sound design, and some tweaking of the visuals.
Here is another teaser image from the film. The man in the chair is the main character, Howard Grant:
Stop, Rewind: A Work in Progress
Here is a teaser image from our new machinima in development:
All we can say right now is that it will be a short sci-fi/crime film about 6 minutes in length. Production is complete and we are currently finishing up visual effects and casting. The movie will also have an original score written by ABP’s own Tommy Kraft. Check back for more updates!
Clockwork (2008)
Clockwork is a gangster film in the style of 1940′s film noir and the first story in a noir series.
Frank Sorelli joins the Marcheaza crime syndicate, run out of Paul Vasconti’s Italian restaurant. He partners with Vinnie “The Gun” Moretti, the mafia don’s favorite hitman. But when Frank decides to leave this life of murder, he learns that the mob isn’t willing to let him go without a fight.