Blahbalicious

Blahbalicious
A mayor makes a speech in Blahbalicious.
Game(s)	Quake
Genre(s)	Comedy
Running time	8 minutes, 21 seconds
Created by	Mackey 'Avatar' McCandlish Brian 'Wendigo' Hess LordTrans
Release(s)	1997
Format(s)	Quake demo recording

Blahbalicious is a machinima film made using the Quake game engine. It was recorded by Mackey 'Avatar' McCandlish and Brian 'Wendigo' Hess and released at 11pm ET on Monday 8 December 1997. The film's unconventional style, Monty Python-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".^[1]

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

References

1. www.machinima.com interview Archived March 3, 2006, at the Wayback Machine.