Well this is farewell...

Well its been a long ride, and a fun one at that! However, I have no interest in continuing TTOA the cinematic project. I've requested TTOA be moved to the Completed Projects section in the Staff forum.

As such, I am leaving Wc3c. Not that I haven't pretty much been absent for the past month or so. I've been checking the TTOA forum almost every day, otherwise I haven't made hardly any posts. I will continue to stop by every once in a while, and let you guys know whats going on. When I finally purchase myself a web server and get my "ITH Productions" site online, I will post a link to it in the TTOA forum for those still interested in my work/TTOA the book.

I don't really know what I'm going to do now that I have lost interest in this cinematic. I've lost many an hour of sleep pondering over it. I will of course enjoy working with the folks at Reverie Entertainment, but I also like to pursue my own modding passions in my spare time. Perhaps I will mod Neverwinter Nights for a while, and move on to NWN 2 in 2006, as I love Dungeons & Dragons.

I'd like to thank everyone for their support for me throughout TTOA's development. Thanks to all the great folks on the team:
alpengeist - Whoo we've had some good times buddy. You're the employee of the year ^_^
Xaran - Hope to see an epic novel from you someday in the future, you are a very creative person.
Challis - Hope you continue modding, you're a good modeler.
Mock1 - Good luck with skinning in the future man, the Soldier of Dale skin kicked @$$!
acapulco - Thanks for putting forth the effort in TTOA's last moments.
Metropolis - Thanks for all the help with the TTOA background story back in early '04.

I'd also like to thank many people who weren't on the "official team": John_Drake for his support & modeling, Wolverine for his Archon skin, AmericanHoser for being fanboy #1 and an inspiration to me.
Kudos to Zurg, DaemonKillar, Bloodslaughter, Erati, all my competition - for bringing out the best in me, and inspiring me.
Can't forget crediting the ol' crew, way back in Spring '03 - Nuladion, Orzokiki, Insaniteus, and I all working on Gathering of Cinematic Developers together. I would have never gotten this far if it wasn't for that experience and COTN inspiring me.

Thanks to the whole community, every positive comment, every criticism, all helped to make me a better artist.
I hope to hear from all of you guys in the future, hopefully of great accomplishments in whatever fields you choose to delve into. ^_^

Love you all, and good luck with future endeavours,
- Ian Hedges

Bye bye Iron...Miss ya already....Nah i got you on somewhere else :P

You didn't propably know me and I didn't know you (only by reputation), but hell I liked your cinematics. May they live forever! And good luck with your book. If it'll ever come out, I'll surely buy it.

Yea, well im formally saying good-bye to Ian warcraft 3 linked like. And yea, im pretty much out of this now too, cept for a few projects i wanna see, im done with day to day action with this forum, though I wasn't really a generous contributor to the site, see you all on xbox live, for it shall bring you to its greatness and purify you, thus causing you to lose all rts-ness. Send an invite to AmericanHoser, im sure he wouldn't mind.....

Goodbye, Ian. It was nice doing cinematic work together.

Damn... you made the best cinematic i ever saw and then you quit you bastard! o_O

...Joking!!! ^_^ (or so he thinks!)

well, it was great, and its sad you quit but ohh well... :god_help_us:

too bad that you quit man... that was one awesome cinematic.... I was looking forward to nr 3 when I just read this :\ well, I hope that you change your mind, and if not... well, thanks for the cinematics, they rocked