Blahbalicious is a
machinimaMachinima is the use of real-time 3D computer graphics rendering engines to create a cinematic production. Most often, video games are used to generate the computer animation...
film made using the
Quake game engine. It was recorded by Mackey 'Avatar' McCandlish and Brian 'Wendigo' Hess and released at 11pm
ETThe Eastern Time Zone of the United States and Canada is a time zone that falls mostly along the east coast of North America. Its UTC time offset is −5 hrs during standard time and −4 hrs during daylight saving time...
on Monday 8 December 1997. The film's unconventional style,
Monty PythonMonty Python was a British surreal comedy group who created their influential Monty Python's Flying Circus, a British television comedy sketch show that first aired on the BBC on 5 October 1969. Forty-five episodes were made over four series...
-esque humour, and extensive use of new models and maps earned it an amount of attention unprecedented in the
Quake movie community at the time. At the inaugural Quake Movie Awards, organised by the Quake Movie Library, it won seven awards, plus an Honorary Oscar to recognise director Wendigo's contribution to the Quake movie community, indicating how it was at the peak of the movement at the time.
There is no real plot to speak of, the film instead depicting a series of loosely-linked sketches, nearly all of which involve a large rotund figure originally created for other purposes by the authors. The character is used to represent many different people in the film, all of which say little other than 'blah blah blah' (hence the title). The concept was designed to be, in the words of Wendigo, "these two fat guys would be watching TV And flipping through channels".
Sketches
| Blahbalicious |
| Editing |
Avatar |
| Camera |
Avatar |
| Voices |
| Billy & Bubba |
Wendigo |
| 0 For 2 On Tuesday Afternoon |
| Editing |
Wendigo |
| Actor Control |
| FBI Agent |
LordTrans |
| Jumper |
Avatar |
| Camera |
Wendigo |
| Voices |
| FBI Agent |
Avatar |
| Big Blahs |
Avatar |
| Background Blahs |
Wendigo |
| Woah |
LordTrans |
| Bad Day For Jim |
| Editing |
Avatar |
| Camera |
Avatar |
| Voices |
| Jim |
Avatar |
| Randall Serves The Afternoon Shift Without Incident |
| Editing |
Avatar |
| Actor Control |
| Left Guard |
Avatar |
| Right Guard |
LordTrans |
| Camera |
Avatar |
| Voices |
| Falling Blah |
Avatar |
| Mel Gibson Would Be Proud |
| Editing |
Avatar |
| Actor Control |
| Scottsmen |
LordTrans |
| Knights |
Wendigo |
| Camera |
Avatar |
| Voices |
| Freedom |
Avatar, Wendigo & LordTrans |
| Battle Cry |
Avatar, Wendigo & LordTrans |
| The End Of A Successful Campaign |
| Editing |
Avatar |
| Camera |
Avatar |
| Voices |
| SoTrue |
Avatar |
| WhatHell |
Wendigo |
| GetIt? |
Avatar |
| You Put Your Right Foot In |
| Editing |
Wendigo |
| Camera |
Wendigo |
| A Suitable Alternative To Polishing Squad Cars |
| Editing |
Wendigo |
| Actor Control |
| Three FBI |
LordTrans |
| One FBI |
Avatar |
| Camera |
Wendigo |
| Voices |
| FBI1 |
Avatar |
| FBI2 |
Wendigo |
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