Here's the closure announcement from Maltby's site, 3dmm.co.uk:
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Well, this is it. The site has been dormant for quite a while now and the reason for this is because I'm just tired of running it. I'm afraid to say that there will be no more updates to this site (least not proper movie updates). I find these days that updating this site has become well beyond a job and has become a pain. I've also lost alot of interest in the community mainly because the 'buzz' of movie making is simply gone. Also, a great many good people have left and what is left are mainly newbies and stubborn bastards who want nothing else but to annoy everyone else *cough* Andres *cough*.
When I first opened this site it was under the guise "Willsmovies" and just hosted my own movies. Back then I really loved making movies and having a website to showcase them was even better. As the site grew I discovered the community and the site become host to other people's movies. From this point on I kept the site regularly updated for nearly 2 years. By regular I mean updated EVERY week with a big batch of movies. At the beginning I was even updating twice a week. However, as time went on and the site got bigger and bigger, updating began to lose it's fun. Too many movies were sent in and too many were shit. Having to sift through all that crap became really tiresome.
At that point I started getting other people to help out. Jim Weatherby was the first and kept the site running by himself alone for a good 2 or 3 months. After that I took charge again but soon again felt the strain. I then got Harris to take over. Harris did an exceptional job handling the site at it's peak of movie intake. He even managed to put out his weekly "shit movie showcase" which despite it's cheapness, was a commendable effort considering the workload. After that I cam back again and that was really my final stretch. Updates got less and less frequent and it got to the point where I really just hated having to do anything with the site. One of the main things that kept me going was either tweaking the site design or working on a whole new look. Infact, for the last year or so, designing the site has become my main priority since it's the one last thing I still enjoy doing.
Well, more recently I made an effort to get the site on it's feet again with the help of Harris again and some fresh faces. Unfortunately I just haven't been motivated enough to get and keep the ball rolling and so the co-workers have lost interest equally. I don't blame them at all. So that's where the site is right now, and basically I've decided that I might as well let the horse die and be done with it. It'd be nice if someone could keep the site going, but I know it'd have to involve me too much and I just can't be bothered anymore.
I'll gladly be a front to whatever site is the current 'new movies hub' but that's all I will do.
I won't be taking anything down, however, since there's no reason to do so. The archives will remain open for as long as Travis is willing to host the movies.
As for me, well, I'm going to be taking leave from the community. I haven't been on the board for ages and for a long while I've hardly participated and kept up with what's been going on. I came back the other day and saw Andres's pathetic "manifesto" and just thought that this place is no longer somewhere I want to spend my time visiting. The bulletin board used to be a great place to visit. People would post original and interesting stuff and movies were often made and talked about. These days the community has no real purpose. Movie making is just a guise. The BB is nothing more than a chatting ground for crap. Don't get me wrong, there are still some great people in there, but not enough to make it interesting for me anymore.
As for my movie projects, well, I'm afraid they won't be finished either. It's no secret that my latest movie "CC" is blatantly far from finished. Infact, all I have done is half of the intro and half of the intro titles. That's it, and I did all that ages ago. I haven't made anything in 3dmm for ages. The CC preview has slowly (very slowly) been made but that isn't finished to a satisfactory fashion at the moment. I hope to at least finish that (even if I know CC won't come out).
So that's it really. I did have plans to turn this place into a big 3dmm history site, but really, for the same reasons I'm closing the site in the first place, I'm just not motivated enough.
I'll be in touch through email, but don't expect to see me on the BB and don't expect me to read stuff there because I simply am not visiting it at all right now. I know I've been saying for ages how people can't ever 'leave' the community and it's true. I can always come back at any day and I'll be 'back'. Unfortunately, unlike all the tryhard attention grabbing losers who massively publicise their leaving, I will probably make more of a 'leave' than they ever will.
One last thing; I apologise to everyone who's emailed me in the last month or two and had no reply. The reason for this is simply that since the site is dead I just haven't been bothered to answer any emails regarding it. In order to answer them I have to think about sorting the site out and since it's dead, well, I have nothing to say. Again I'm sorry. My inbox got filled up with 100 or so emails and I've just now marked them all as read. If I get anything from now on I will actually read them since I can rest in comfort that the site is closed.
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07-16-2021, 06:46 AM
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