Here are the awards:
best directing Oblivious Films – Crueler Heads Prevail
best writing Oblivious Films – Crueler Heads Prevail
best voice acting Oblivious Films – Crueler Heads Prevail
best editing tie: Cinemart Cake Team + Oblivious Films
best cinematography Jewell Theatre – Know Evil
best sound design Machinimatrix – Free Your Mind
best use of character tie: Halls of Cort (HoC) + Oblivious Films
best use of prop Halls of Cort (HoC) – Used Cars
best use of line Cinimart Cake Team – A Tale of Fate / Cake
best music Tie: IdeaJuice Studios + Jewell Theater
best special effects Zardoz Carwash – Imperative
Winner Australian Prize of 1,000 dollar: Zardoz Carwash – Imperative
3rd Runner Up 48HFP: Machinimart – Semper Fidelis
2nd Runner Up 48HFP: Shady Character Productions – Finding Casey
Winner 48HFP 2012, Project2012 machinima - and winner of the 3,000 dollar cash prize:
Oblivious Films – Crueler Heads Prevail
Here you can see all the films: http://aviewtv.com/category/48-hr.film-project-2012
I want to thank:
Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Liverpool City Councel, JMC Academy, Scissores, Bendigo Bank, Filmmakers.com.au, Web Video Production, Linden Lab, LEA,
Lapiscean Liberty, Phaylen Fairchild, Tom Papas, Roberto Giunta, Project48machinima, the 48HFPmachinima (special word of thank you to Laura Schlecht), Tony Dyson, Chris Howlett, Dan Graf, Paul Nunes, Sean Callinan, Trace Sanderson, Ginette Pinazzo, and all the teams and their crews.
Together, we shook the machinima world!
All the teams and their films:
Machidreams – Ta 2
Genre: Period Piece
Prop: a STAR
Character: Casey Cooper, Car Dealer
Line: I'll be back
48Avatars – Giant Impact
Genre: Mockumentory
Prop: a STAR
Character: Casey Cooper, Car Dealer
Line: I'll be back
(rl producer 48HFP)
Grey Matter Films – Mind Zone
Genre: Fantasy
Prop: a STAR
Character: Casey Cooper, Car Dealer
Line: I'll be back
Squee – Who’s Your Alien
Genre: Sci-Fi
Prop: a STAR
Character: Casey Cooper, Car Dealer
Line: I'll be back
Cinimart Cake Team – A Tale of Fate / Cake
Genre: Film de Femme
Prop: a STAR
Character: Dana Dandeo, a Dietician
Line: I’ll have what she is having
CrazyChickens – Bessies Summer
Genre: Musical or Western
Prop: a STAR
Character: Morgan Magoo, Magician
Line: Go ahead, make my day
(screening only)
Zardoz Carwash – Imperative
Genre: Film de Femme
Prop: a STAR
Character: Morgan Magoo, Magician
Line: Go ahead, make my day
Lovell Videography – Chance Met
Genre: Romance
Prop: a STAR
Character: Dana Dandeo, a Dietician
Line: I’ll have what she is having
(screen only)
Machinimart – Semper Fidelis
Genre: Romance
Prop: a STAR
Character: Casey Cooper, Car Dealer
Line: I'll be back
IdeaJuice Studios – A Car Is Torn
Genre: Musical or Western
Prop: a STAR
Character: Casey Cooper, Car Dealer
Line: I'll be back
Jewell Theatre – Know Evil
Genre: Film de Femme
Prop: a STAR
Character: Casey Cooper, Car Dealer
Line: I'll be back
Halls of Cort (HoC) – Used Cars
Genre: Horror
Prop: a STAR
Character: Casey Cooper, Car Dealer
Line: I'll be back
Mills Entertainment System – Hot Swap
Genre: Buddy Film
Prop: a STAR
Character: Casey Cooper, Car Dealer
Line: I'll be back
Shady Character Productions – Finding Casey
Genre: Detective/Cop
Prop: a STAR
Character: Casey Cooper, Car Dealer
Line: I'll be back
Machinimatrix – Free Your Mind
Genre: Horror
Prop: a STAR
Character: Casey Cooper, Car Dealer
Line: I'll be back
The Math Magicians – Prosopagnosia
Genre: Romance
Prop: a STAR
Character: Casey Cooper, Car Dealer
Line: I'll be back
T.B.A. (Team Boorer & Associates) – Impractical Magic
Genre: Comedy
Prop: a STAR
Character: Morgan Magoo, Magician
Line: Go ahead, make my day
I+H Productions – Used
Genre: Drama
Prop: a STAR
Character: Casey Cooper, Car Dealer
Line: I'll be back
Oblivious Films – Crueler Heads Prevail
Genre: Dark Comedy
Prop: a STAR
Character: Casey Cooper, Car Dealer
Line: I'll be back
Somos Tres – Slick
Genre: Thriller/Suspence
Prop: a STAR
Character: Casey Cooper, Car Dealer
Line: I'll be back
A special word of support and thanks to:
PSTALENT.COM and Running Gun Productions.
Our jury:
Tony Dyson - motivation speech
Trace Sanderson
Phaylen Fairchild
Chris Howlett
Dan Graf
Paul Nunes
Sean Callinan
May the force be with us!
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Sunday, April 15, 2012
Thursday, April 12, 2012
Screening and Awards event - 48HFPmachinima 2012
Linden Endowment of the Arts Hosts Project 48 Machinima Premiere Screening in Second Life APR 14.
USA PDT (San Francisco): 11 pm, April 14 === pacific time
Due to timezones, this corresponds with:
Australia (Sydney): 4 pm, April 15
Europe (CET) : 8 am, April 15
The global sensation that is the 48 Hour Film Project comes to the virtual world of Second Life on with an exclusive inworld screening of all entries from the 2012 Machinima 48 Hour Film Project, accompanied by film crew interviews and a presentation by Emmy nominated Film SFX supervisor Tony Dyson.
22 teams have entered the world famous 48 Hour Film Project Machinima, where crews must create a movie within exactly 48 hours: write, shoot, edit and score it. With 3 required elements (prop, character and line of dialogue) and a randomly-assigned genre, filmmakers must work fast to create high-speed cinematic history. In the Project 48 Machinima edition, films are created within games and online platforms.
The Linden Endowment of the Arts (LEA) is a resident-managed agency within the world of Second Life, tasked with nurturing and promoting the arts community within the virtual world. LEA's new Media Arts Center specifically works with awareness, education and development of virtual world-generated video (machinima) and will be hosting this screening within its new LEA Theater, a high-tech facility designed for cutting-edge media events.
The program will also feature the head of jury, noted Emmy-nominated special effects supervisor Tony Dyson (Moonraker, Dragon Slayer, Star Wars, Altered States) delivering his jury keynote speech before the official awards ceremony. This event will be streamed live to the Casula Powerhouse Theater in Sydney, Australia.
Other judges; Sean Callinan, Paul Nunes, Chris Howlett, Dan Graf, Trace Sanderson (aka Lainy Voom) and event host Phaylen Fairchild.
The winning film will represent the 48HFPmachinima at the Filmapalooza Filmfestival 2012, in Los Angeles, and take away a grande first prize of 3,000 australian dollars.
WHEN: APR 14 at 11PM SLT/PDT
WHERE: LEA Theater in Second Life
SITE: http://www.48hourfilm.com/machinima/
and: http://48machinima.project48.com.au/
Producers:
Chantal Harvey and Tom Papas.
USA PDT (San Francisco): 11 pm, April 14 === pacific time
Due to timezones, this corresponds with:
Australia (Sydney): 4 pm, April 15
Europe (CET) : 8 am, April 15
The global sensation that is the 48 Hour Film Project comes to the virtual world of Second Life on with an exclusive inworld screening of all entries from the 2012 Machinima 48 Hour Film Project, accompanied by film crew interviews and a presentation by Emmy nominated Film SFX supervisor Tony Dyson.
22 teams have entered the world famous 48 Hour Film Project Machinima, where crews must create a movie within exactly 48 hours: write, shoot, edit and score it. With 3 required elements (prop, character and line of dialogue) and a randomly-assigned genre, filmmakers must work fast to create high-speed cinematic history. In the Project 48 Machinima edition, films are created within games and online platforms.
The Linden Endowment of the Arts (LEA) is a resident-managed agency within the world of Second Life, tasked with nurturing and promoting the arts community within the virtual world. LEA's new Media Arts Center specifically works with awareness, education and development of virtual world-generated video (machinima) and will be hosting this screening within its new LEA Theater, a high-tech facility designed for cutting-edge media events.
The program will also feature the head of jury, noted Emmy-nominated special effects supervisor Tony Dyson (Moonraker, Dragon Slayer, Star Wars, Altered States) delivering his jury keynote speech before the official awards ceremony. This event will be streamed live to the Casula Powerhouse Theater in Sydney, Australia.
Other judges; Sean Callinan, Paul Nunes, Chris Howlett, Dan Graf, Trace Sanderson (aka Lainy Voom) and event host Phaylen Fairchild.
The winning film will represent the 48HFPmachinima at the Filmapalooza Filmfestival 2012, in Los Angeles, and take away a grande first prize of 3,000 australian dollars.
WHEN: APR 14 at 11PM SLT/PDT
WHERE: LEA Theater in Second Life
SITE: http://www.48hourfilm.com/machinima/
and: http://48machinima.project48.com.au/
Producers:
Chantal Harvey and Tom Papas.
Saturday, March 31, 2012
elements for the 48HFPmachinima 2012
The Project48machinima has started now in all 3 regions!
The prop, character and line have to be included in the movies, and the filmmakers have 48 hours to make that movie and upload it to our 48HFPservers....
The prop for all regions is: a STAR
Australia has the following character and line:
Morgan Magoo, Magician
"Go ahead, make my day."
Europe has the following character and line:
Dana Dandeo, Dietician
"I'll have what she's having."
USA has the following character and line:
Casey Cooper, Car dealer
"I'll be back."
Wishing the teams good luck,
Chantal Harvey and Tom Papas
producers 48machinima 2012.
The prop, character and line have to be included in the movies, and the filmmakers have 48 hours to make that movie and upload it to our 48HFPservers....
The prop for all regions is: a STAR
Australia has the following character and line:
Morgan Magoo, Magician
"Go ahead, make my day."
Europe has the following character and line:
Dana Dandeo, Dietician
"I'll have what she's having."
USA has the following character and line:
Casey Cooper, Car dealer
"I'll be back."
Wishing the teams good luck,
Chantal Harvey and Tom Papas
producers 48machinima 2012.
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
3,000 dollar machinima contest
MACHINIMA LOGS ONTO THE INTERNATIONAL SCENE
Digital filmmakers chase big money today as Tom Papas and Chantal Harvey, producers of 48machinima, announce the largest cash prize for a Machinima competition.
International filmmakers will be united with the single purpose of completing a short Machinima film in just 48 hours.
Through the manipulation of computer based technology Machinima forms a film medium that combines animation and game development, allowing filmmakers to create animated films in a virtual 3D environment. Unlike other forms of film Machinima is widely accessed by the online, international gaming community.
This March, Machinima enthusiasts around the world will work furiously from 7pm on Friday the 30th of March until 7pm on Sunday the 1st of April. Each team will write, edit and shoot a short film, assisted only by a designated character, prop, and line of dialogue.
As the project can be accessed globally online, expectations are set high with a $3000 first place cash prize raising the stakes. 48machinima will be hosted in Australia in partnership with the Casula Powerhouse which will sponsor both cash prizes. The local prize of $1000, however, will be open exclusively to the South Western Sydney Region Machinima market. However, regardless of the cash prize incentives, all participants work towards the production of a successful film that will be screened at the International Filmapalooza held in L.A. 2013, which will mark the opportunity for screening at the Cannes Film Festival.
For those eager filmmakers who are interested in participating, the 48machinima team registration fee is $48. Participants can register at http://48hourfilm.com/machinima/
With a hope to inspire international talent the 48 Hour Festival established 48machinima as an international film competition that will take place in over 100 cities around the world.
Resembling film within the new medium of a computer game, 48machinima will exhaust both artistic and cultural talent within a 48 hour time frame. The genre’s convergence of filmmaking, animation and game development should allow room for a broad range of results, uniting international participants with its singular 48 hour time constraint.
Digital filmmakers chase big money today as Tom Papas and Chantal Harvey, producers of 48machinima, announce the largest cash prize for a Machinima competition.
International filmmakers will be united with the single purpose of completing a short Machinima film in just 48 hours.
Through the manipulation of computer based technology Machinima forms a film medium that combines animation and game development, allowing filmmakers to create animated films in a virtual 3D environment. Unlike other forms of film Machinima is widely accessed by the online, international gaming community.
This March, Machinima enthusiasts around the world will work furiously from 7pm on Friday the 30th of March until 7pm on Sunday the 1st of April. Each team will write, edit and shoot a short film, assisted only by a designated character, prop, and line of dialogue.
As the project can be accessed globally online, expectations are set high with a $3000 first place cash prize raising the stakes. 48machinima will be hosted in Australia in partnership with the Casula Powerhouse which will sponsor both cash prizes. The local prize of $1000, however, will be open exclusively to the South Western Sydney Region Machinima market. However, regardless of the cash prize incentives, all participants work towards the production of a successful film that will be screened at the International Filmapalooza held in L.A. 2013, which will mark the opportunity for screening at the Cannes Film Festival.
For those eager filmmakers who are interested in participating, the 48machinima team registration fee is $48. Participants can register at http://48hourfilm.com/machinima/
With a hope to inspire international talent the 48 Hour Festival established 48machinima as an international film competition that will take place in over 100 cities around the world.
Resembling film within the new medium of a computer game, 48machinima will exhaust both artistic and cultural talent within a 48 hour time frame. The genre’s convergence of filmmaking, animation and game development should allow room for a broad range of results, uniting international participants with its singular 48 hour time constraint.
Tuesday, December 20, 2011
chatlog MachinimaMondays December 19, 2011
Tpoic: making a wishlist for a machinima viewer/dropdown menu for excisting viewers.
MachinimaMondays whispers: Checking inventory items...
MachinimaMondays: Type a message you want to send to your subscribers on channel 95 (eg. /95 my message)
MachinimaMondays: Virtual Montmartre (154,169,31)
MachinimaMondays meeting at 1 pm - needs your input!! we are hosting machinima and trying to make wishes come true! Discussing a machinima menu in Second Life viewers; what would be your ultimate application or option? What would make your machinima life better? Come on over and discuss it with us!
NikoKito Aries: hello good night
Chantal Harvey: hello
NikoKito Aries: hi Chantal
Chantal Harvey: heyas!
Chantal Harvey: welcome
NikoKito Aries: welcome Bubblepop
Bubblepop Unplugged: hello!
Chantal Harvey: hi bubble!
Chantal Harvey: welcome
Bubblepop Unplugged: chantal im close to being able to broadcast and do audio video soundeffects anounce all at once, one take.
Chantal Harvey: ho
Bubblepop Unplugged: very close
Bubblepop Unplugged: hope to talk to you about that and other stuff someday
Chantal Harvey: ok, there is room for that today, plenty
NikoKito Aries: welcome Pixie
Pixie Rain: thank you
Bubblepop Unplugged: i do have a quick question though
Bubblepop Unplugged: you ever try or hear of controling audio with foot pedals?
Chantal Harvey: sure, shoot
Bubblepop Unplugged: the volume
Chantal Harvey: woo no i havent
Bubblepop Unplugged: if im controlling sound effects with one hand, cam with the other, wich i almost mastered....
Chantal Harvey: hi gabe, welcome
Bubblepop Unplugged: ... i was thinking maybe footpedals to control volume. 1 for each soundcard/player
Gᵃᵇᵉ 게이브루니: Heeeeey!
핕리: omg gabe i didnt know u meant now
Gᵃᵇᵉ 게이브루니: LAWLLLLLLL
Chantal Harvey: welcome, MinDBlinD, grab a seat
Chantal Harvey: I was wondering, can all hear voice?
Bubblepop Unplugged: i like both voice AND text, makes it more exciting
At this point, in voice, Chantal Harvey announces sponsorship for the 2012 contest 48 Hour Film Project Machinima; 4000 dollars prize money and a big chance of the winning film going to not only Filmapalooza, but also to Cannes.
Pixie Rain: That should excite Tutsy enough to enter! I'll tell him tomorrow!
Chantal and Michelle then talked about viewer 1 and viewer 2, and why it now really is time for machinima people to move to the new viewers. Soon the 1-viewers will not be supported anymore, so we best prepare ourselves and get on with it.
A huge advantage is the better framerate and the light settings, amongst many other improved things. - so apart from having to move over soon anyway, this should be a good reason to do it now. Machinima will improve, we need to move on.
After initially resenting viewer 2, I found that it took me 2 days to get used to the new viewer, and to my own surprise do not want to go back to my beloved old viewer 1. It is a learning curve, but well worth it. Now, who would not wish for better framerates...?
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We then moved on to todays topic: a machinima wishlist.
Today, sadly, Kirstens viewer was abandoned - the crowdfunder halted at 28%, Lee starts a rl job, and our beloved machinima viewer is gone. :-(
Several coders/viewers have now come to me and talked about implementing a machinima menu, or even developing a new machinima viewer. And you know? MachinimaMondays is an excellent platform for collecting ideas. We agreed to collect these and make a wish list.
Mary Wickentower wish list: machinimatographewrs windlight bundle - expansive set of windlights and special effects including but not limited to Torly's windlights
Gᵃᵇᵉ 게이브루니: yus
Pixie Rain: the new "Tex Refresh" option in FS 3 is fabulous
Ambrosia Lanley: one viewer for machinima
MinDBlinD Setsuko: a machinima dedicated viewer will be very useful
Ambrosia Lanley: stop all the applications that are not needed to reduce lag and smoother filming
Bubblepop Unplugged: saving every single setting so i jumop right back into filming after a crash
Ambrosia Lanley: derender is good
Pixie Rain: derender is essential for me
Gᵃᵇᵉ 게이브루니: it's possible to make a viewer where all settings persist between logins
Gᵃᵇᵉ 게이브루니: that's very easy
Gᵃᵇᵉ 게이브루니: every setting has "persist" yes or no, we can just set 'em all to persist
Bubblepop Unplugged: well... would a higher quality voice audio possible? would save lots of time in some cases. Adjustible audio would be useful, even high tones, noise reduction, bass sliders?
Ambrosia Lanley: for filming we dont need an external browers cookies java scripts plugins web proxy
MinDBlinD Setsuko: i don't know how.. but could be nice have a function to record a camera movement track
LaPiscean Liberty: yes macro settings
Bubblepop Unplugged: a search engine that links me to props and animations with a slurl with 100% accuracy.
Mary Wickentower: as that controls/HUDS visable to us but not on film to the list chant - a coder migth be able to figure out a way
Fuschia Nightfire: yes , that would be very helpful
Chantal Harvey: having text and huds outside the window-option would be more than useful, it was suggested over a year ago by Toxic Menges. Or just a way to operate huds without them showing in the film.
Gᵃᵇᵉ 게이브루니: two views? one with UI, one without UI
Gᵃᵇᵉ 게이브루니: in theory it's possible, but i don't know if you would want to... it's the equivalent of running two viewers, you take a loss in framerateGᵃᵇᵉ 게이브루니: but there might be a creative way around it
Gᵃᵇᵉ 게이브루니: how does fraps handle dual monitors?
LaPiscean Liberty: not possible to take outside the portal
Gᵃᵇᵉ 게이브루니: that's possible yus
Gᵃᵇᵉ 게이브루니: yeah, that's definitely possible
Gᵃᵇᵉ 게이브루니: UI on one monitor, world view on the other
Gᵃᵇᵉ 게이브루니: that would be pimp
Mary Wickentower: fraps records the ACTIVE window
Mary Wickentower: there is a clunky workaround for that
LaPiscean Liberty: if they did, it would be like Gabe said
LaPiscean Liberty: same as 2 viewers
Ambrosia Lanley: two avatars - two viewers
Gᵃᵇᵉ 게이브루니: but if you have world view on one screen, UI on the other, that's good
LaPiscean Liberty: but perhaps you could log twice and have your avatar control the other avatars functions
Bubblepop Unplugged: i never tried it, its why i was asking if its been done
Gᵃᵇᵉ 게이브루니: scripted camera tracking seems like the most obvious feature it would have
Gᵃᵇᵉ 게이브루니: set your path and timing between points
Bubblepop Unplugged: i do a dual monitor, livestream/procaster, rhapsody to play music, VLC to play sound effects, recording/sound/voice all at once
LaPiscean Liberty: or perhaps a better text client like metabolt, that has more function for your avatar
Bubblepop Unplugged: im also using that cam hud that guy had here. i need to find out where to get more
Gᵃᵇᵉ 게이브루니: it's possible - i can show you my scripted camera work
Gᵃᵇᵉ 게이브루니: want to see a video i did using that
[13:28] Gᵃᵇᵉ 게이브루니: all motion is scripted
http://www.olpglobalkids.org/2011/12/lts_food_justice_show_full_vid.html
only the first 30 seconds -- the rest is not by me
Pixie Rain: very good
Mary Wickentower: workaround to using huds and settings in fraps that do not appear in film- Some huds and settings will still work, even tho they are not visable , so it you track where they are on the screen, before you click F1, you can click on those buttons, even thos they are not visable - they are still THERE
Gᵃᵇᵉ 게이브루니: all the SL camera movement there is scripted
Gᵃᵇᵉ 게이브루니: but if there was camera tracking interface in the viewer, that would be awesome
Gᵃᵇᵉ 게이브루니: i have my own scripted gadget for doing that
Gᵃᵇᵉ 게이브루니: but i'd love to see it part of the UI
Gᵃᵇᵉ 게이브루니: Kinnect
Gᵃᵇᵉ 게이브루니: it's Kinnect
Ambrosia Lanley: its open source so alot of hacks are being made for sl
Bubblepop Unplugged: where can i find that one hud someone had here? the StatiCam v1.1 PRO ?
Ambrosia Lanley: it will but limited only by the hacks made so far with body movement so far
Mary Wickentower: you can combine some expressions in the free adorkable HUD
Gᵃᵇᵉ 게이브루니: i have something called BijoCam, it's pretty good, but still clunky
Bubblepop Unplugged: he had it here and was working on it, sold them for whatever we wanted. i think you got one didnt you chantal? Paramparam Papp!
Bubblepop Unplugged: i just have that one. and for this live broadcasing, im controling cam angles with left hand on keyboard.
Ambrosia Lanley: yea all pretty much the same
Mary Wickentower: you can also switch back and forth between hair bases to get eyebrow expressions
Ambrosia Lanley: smile frown ect. a drop down menu with basic emotions/animations would be good
Ambrosia Lanley: needs to be a smooth transition from one emotion to another
Mary Wickentower: I collect hair bases just so I can get different eyebrow raises frowns etc moving from one to the other
Ambrosia Lanley: crazy talk - it uses the mouse to make the face move
Arm Strom: dont look at me :-/
Ambrosia Lanley: called puppetiteir
Gᵃᵇᵉ 게이브루니: also easy to do
Arm Strom: :-)
Ambrosia Lanley: crazy talk 6
Gᵃᵇᵉ 게이브루니: but crazytalk can only be used on static images
Gᵃᵇᵉ 게이브루니: i wish it could be used on captured footage
Mary Wickentower: what would the software DREAM package(s) be to have to machinima if money was no problem ?
Michelle Leckrone: https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/aDORKable-Poses-Emoter-HUD/1081190
Mary Wickentower: exterior software
Mary Wickentower: for productions
Mary Wickentower: and fine tuning
Mary Wickentower: like premiere etc
Ambrosia Lanley: ctrl alt left mous ebutton will control the eyes
Mary Wickentower: we need a difinitive list of all this good info
Michelle Leckrone: https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/AnyPose-Expression/2613652
darx Taurus: people talks before about Kinect, have you seen this experimental video: http://www.nsl.tuis.ac.jp/xoops/modules/x_movie/x_movie_view.php?cid=2&lid=33
Gᵃᵇᵉ 게이브루니: framerate is way better in the 2 based viewers! framerate should be the number one priority for machinima artists
Mary Wickentower: grumbles about bloody "new" viewer
Mary Wickentower: Im miss dyslexic and monofixator eyes - new viewer makes me crazy
Michelle Leckrone: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9ujnzMPBoc&feature=channel_video_title
Chantal Harvey: I will copy paste this chat for references in my blog, tonight.
Gᵃᵇᵉ 게이브루니: can i say the f word just to spice things up?
Fuschia Nightfire: lol
Gᵃᵇᵉ 게이브루니: gotferdommen
Gᵃᵇᵉ 게이브루니: i'm sure i spelled that wrong
Gᵃᵇᵉ 게이브루니: LAWLLLLLLL
Mary Wickentower: rofl
Bubblepop Unplugged: awsom, please. how do i say 'you love donkeys" in dutch? - and i'll start using it in the usa
Gᵃᵇᵉ 게이브루니: ijk how van donkeys
Chantal Harvey: ik hou van ezels
Gᵃᵇᵉ 게이브루니: i was close
Mary Wickentower: there is a funny funny film where a prim & proper librian looking Dutch woman swears in dutch and translates it - it is funnay as
LaPiscean Liberty: As my Grandma would say, It;s all Dutch to me
Gᵃᵇᵉ 게이브루니: As my grandma would say, "pass the dutchie on the left hand side"
Chantal Harvey: http://www.nsl.tuis.ac.jp/xoops/modules/x_movie/x_movie_view.php?cid=2&lid=33
Gᵃᵇᵉ 게이브루니: that video is amazing
Pixie Rain: very interesting, yes
Gᵃᵇᵉ 게이브루니: a kinect costs about $150
Gᵃᵇᵉ 게이브루니: but worth it
LaPiscean Liberty: Ive had GOM player for yrs, but didnt know they offered a encoder now
Chantal Harvey: def, if i knew i could use it
Gᵃᵇᵉ 게이브루니: would Glyph Graves share the code?
darx Taurus: it's open source, but you can move avatar only in your screen, because there is no LL server support
Gᵃᵇᵉ 게이브루니: well you could host the kinect support on your own server
Gᵃᵇᵉ 게이브루니: use HTTP to transmit the data
LaPiscean Liberty: that would require some pretty good bandwith to http the movement to LL
Gᵃᵇᵉ 게이브루니: you could bypass LL
Gᵃᵇᵉ 게이브루니: the avatars have an attachment to send the data to your server, and the machinimatographer picks up the data through their viewer
Gᵃᵇᵉ 게이브루니: that would take a long time to make tho
Mary Wickentower: does ENCODER work with SL?
Gᵃᵇᵉ 게이브루니: aside from better facial animations, that is the most difficult thign that has been mentioned today
Bubblepop Unplugged: wich type of media streams into SL again? i forgot
LaPiscean Liberty: Mpeg, MP4, MOV, MP3, SDP
LaPiscean Liberty: VOB is low enough resolution
LaPiscean Liberty: MP2
Gᵃᵇᵉ 게이브루니: synching cameras in the next FS viewer? View angle numbers
Mary Wickentower: is ther a definative list anywhere of what you should have externeral to SL (software) & internal to SL to produce kicking films (if money was no object) ?
Pixie Rain: I like the idea of "preferences profile settings" ....1) High lag sims 2) Ultra 2) Depth of Field etc
Pixie Rain: so I call up the profile, not have to re-do it each time
Pixie Rain: 10 options, create your own presets, and an option to save them, like windlight settings now
darx Taurus: i have looked that DOF flickering strange way..maybe its just my viewer fault..have somebody experience?
Gᵃᵇᵉ 게이브루니: definitely can customize all menus
Gᵃᵇᵉ 게이브루니: definitely
Pixie Rain: and it automatically sets preferences to pre-defined graphics
Gᵃᵇᵉ 게이브루니: yeah you can create new presets
Pixie Rain: exactly
Gᵃᵇᵉ 게이브루니: right now it's only minimal --> ultra
Gᵃᵇᵉ 게이브루니: those four
Gᵃᵇᵉ 게이브루니: but you could make new ones
Gᵃᵇᵉ 게이브루니: yus
Pixie Rain: yes....but I mean user defined.....different AA, for example...different Draw, or shadows etc etc
Pixie Rain: * at the mo, we have to reset all the time..I change 5 to 10 times a day
Pixie Rain: if I go to a club...I want Impostors ON.....but if I go to an art sim, I want it OFF
Mary Wickentower: very productive meeting
Pixie Rain: Bye all, thank you
Chantal Harvey: second meeting at 7 pm, and I will collect your ideas all week long.
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MachinimaMondays meeting at 1 pm - needs your input!! we are hosting machinima and trying to make wishes come true! Discussing a machinima menu in Second Life viewers; what would be your ultimate application or option? What would make your machinima life better? Come on over and discuss it with us!
NikoKito Aries: hello good night
Chantal Harvey: hello
NikoKito Aries: hi Chantal
Chantal Harvey: heyas!
Chantal Harvey: welcome
NikoKito Aries: welcome Bubblepop
Bubblepop Unplugged: hello!
Chantal Harvey: hi bubble!
Chantal Harvey: welcome
Bubblepop Unplugged: chantal im close to being able to broadcast and do audio video soundeffects anounce all at once, one take.
Chantal Harvey: ho
Bubblepop Unplugged: very close
Bubblepop Unplugged: hope to talk to you about that and other stuff someday
Chantal Harvey: ok, there is room for that today, plenty
NikoKito Aries: welcome Pixie
Pixie Rain: thank you
Bubblepop Unplugged: i do have a quick question though
Bubblepop Unplugged: you ever try or hear of controling audio with foot pedals?
Chantal Harvey: sure, shoot
Bubblepop Unplugged: the volume
Chantal Harvey: woo no i havent
Bubblepop Unplugged: if im controlling sound effects with one hand, cam with the other, wich i almost mastered....
Chantal Harvey: hi gabe, welcome
Bubblepop Unplugged: ... i was thinking maybe footpedals to control volume. 1 for each soundcard/player
Gᵃᵇᵉ 게이브루니: Heeeeey!
핕리: omg gabe i didnt know u meant now
Gᵃᵇᵉ 게이브루니: LAWLLLLLLL
Chantal Harvey: welcome, MinDBlinD, grab a seat
Chantal Harvey: I was wondering, can all hear voice?
Bubblepop Unplugged: i like both voice AND text, makes it more exciting
At this point, in voice, Chantal Harvey announces sponsorship for the 2012 contest 48 Hour Film Project Machinima; 4000 dollars prize money and a big chance of the winning film going to not only Filmapalooza, but also to Cannes.
Pixie Rain: That should excite Tutsy enough to enter! I'll tell him tomorrow!
Chantal and Michelle then talked about viewer 1 and viewer 2, and why it now really is time for machinima people to move to the new viewers. Soon the 1-viewers will not be supported anymore, so we best prepare ourselves and get on with it.
A huge advantage is the better framerate and the light settings, amongst many other improved things. - so apart from having to move over soon anyway, this should be a good reason to do it now. Machinima will improve, we need to move on.
After initially resenting viewer 2, I found that it took me 2 days to get used to the new viewer, and to my own surprise do not want to go back to my beloved old viewer 1. It is a learning curve, but well worth it. Now, who would not wish for better framerates...?
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We then moved on to todays topic: a machinima wishlist.
Today, sadly, Kirstens viewer was abandoned - the crowdfunder halted at 28%, Lee starts a rl job, and our beloved machinima viewer is gone. :-(
Several coders/viewers have now come to me and talked about implementing a machinima menu, or even developing a new machinima viewer. And you know? MachinimaMondays is an excellent platform for collecting ideas. We agreed to collect these and make a wish list.
Mary Wickentower wish list: machinimatographewrs windlight bundle - expansive set of windlights and special effects including but not limited to Torly's windlights
Gᵃᵇᵉ 게이브루니: yus
Pixie Rain: the new "Tex Refresh" option in FS 3 is fabulous
Ambrosia Lanley: one viewer for machinima
MinDBlinD Setsuko: a machinima dedicated viewer will be very useful
Ambrosia Lanley: stop all the applications that are not needed to reduce lag and smoother filming
Bubblepop Unplugged: saving every single setting so i jumop right back into filming after a crash
Ambrosia Lanley: derender is good
Pixie Rain: derender is essential for me
Gᵃᵇᵉ 게이브루니: it's possible to make a viewer where all settings persist between logins
Gᵃᵇᵉ 게이브루니: that's very easy
Gᵃᵇᵉ 게이브루니: every setting has "persist" yes or no, we can just set 'em all to persist
Bubblepop Unplugged: well... would a higher quality voice audio possible? would save lots of time in some cases. Adjustible audio would be useful, even high tones, noise reduction, bass sliders?
Ambrosia Lanley: for filming we dont need an external browers cookies java scripts plugins web proxy
MinDBlinD Setsuko: i don't know how.. but could be nice have a function to record a camera movement track
LaPiscean Liberty: yes macro settings
Bubblepop Unplugged: a search engine that links me to props and animations with a slurl with 100% accuracy.
Mary Wickentower: as that controls/HUDS visable to us but not on film to the list chant - a coder migth be able to figure out a way
Fuschia Nightfire: yes , that would be very helpful
Chantal Harvey: having text and huds outside the window-option would be more than useful, it was suggested over a year ago by Toxic Menges. Or just a way to operate huds without them showing in the film.
Gᵃᵇᵉ 게이브루니: two views? one with UI, one without UI
Gᵃᵇᵉ 게이브루니: in theory it's possible, but i don't know if you would want to... it's the equivalent of running two viewers, you take a loss in framerateGᵃᵇᵉ 게이브루니: but there might be a creative way around it
Gᵃᵇᵉ 게이브루니: how does fraps handle dual monitors?
LaPiscean Liberty: not possible to take outside the portal
Gᵃᵇᵉ 게이브루니: that's possible yus
Gᵃᵇᵉ 게이브루니: yeah, that's definitely possible
Gᵃᵇᵉ 게이브루니: UI on one monitor, world view on the other
Gᵃᵇᵉ 게이브루니: that would be pimp
Mary Wickentower: fraps records the ACTIVE window
Mary Wickentower: there is a clunky workaround for that
LaPiscean Liberty: if they did, it would be like Gabe said
LaPiscean Liberty: same as 2 viewers
Ambrosia Lanley: two avatars - two viewers
Gᵃᵇᵉ 게이브루니: but if you have world view on one screen, UI on the other, that's good
LaPiscean Liberty: but perhaps you could log twice and have your avatar control the other avatars functions
Bubblepop Unplugged: i never tried it, its why i was asking if its been done
Gᵃᵇᵉ 게이브루니: scripted camera tracking seems like the most obvious feature it would have
Gᵃᵇᵉ 게이브루니: set your path and timing between points
Bubblepop Unplugged: i do a dual monitor, livestream/procaster, rhapsody to play music, VLC to play sound effects, recording/sound/voice all at once
LaPiscean Liberty: or perhaps a better text client like metabolt, that has more function for your avatar
Bubblepop Unplugged: im also using that cam hud that guy had here. i need to find out where to get more
Gᵃᵇᵉ 게이브루니: it's possible - i can show you my scripted camera work
Gᵃᵇᵉ 게이브루니: want to see a video i did using that
[13:28] Gᵃᵇᵉ 게이브루니: all motion is scripted
http://www.olpglobalkids.org/2011/12/lts_food_justice_show_full_vid.html
only the first 30 seconds -- the rest is not by me
Pixie Rain: very good
Mary Wickentower: workaround to using huds and settings in fraps that do not appear in film- Some huds and settings will still work, even tho they are not visable , so it you track where they are on the screen, before you click F1, you can click on those buttons, even thos they are not visable - they are still THERE
Gᵃᵇᵉ 게이브루니: all the SL camera movement there is scripted
Gᵃᵇᵉ 게이브루니: but if there was camera tracking interface in the viewer, that would be awesome
Gᵃᵇᵉ 게이브루니: i have my own scripted gadget for doing that
Gᵃᵇᵉ 게이브루니: but i'd love to see it part of the UI
Gᵃᵇᵉ 게이브루니: Kinnect
Gᵃᵇᵉ 게이브루니: it's Kinnect
Ambrosia Lanley: its open source so alot of hacks are being made for sl
Bubblepop Unplugged: where can i find that one hud someone had here? the StatiCam v1.1 PRO ?
Ambrosia Lanley: it will but limited only by the hacks made so far with body movement so far
Mary Wickentower: you can combine some expressions in the free adorkable HUD
Gᵃᵇᵉ 게이브루니: i have something called BijoCam, it's pretty good, but still clunky
Bubblepop Unplugged: he had it here and was working on it, sold them for whatever we wanted. i think you got one didnt you chantal? Paramparam Papp!
Bubblepop Unplugged: i just have that one. and for this live broadcasing, im controling cam angles with left hand on keyboard.
Ambrosia Lanley: yea all pretty much the same
Mary Wickentower: you can also switch back and forth between hair bases to get eyebrow expressions
Ambrosia Lanley: smile frown ect. a drop down menu with basic emotions/animations would be good
Ambrosia Lanley: needs to be a smooth transition from one emotion to another
Mary Wickentower: I collect hair bases just so I can get different eyebrow raises frowns etc moving from one to the other
Ambrosia Lanley: crazy talk - it uses the mouse to make the face move
Arm Strom: dont look at me :-/
Ambrosia Lanley: called puppetiteir
Gᵃᵇᵉ 게이브루니: also easy to do
Arm Strom: :-)
Ambrosia Lanley: crazy talk 6
Gᵃᵇᵉ 게이브루니: but crazytalk can only be used on static images
Gᵃᵇᵉ 게이브루니: i wish it could be used on captured footage
Mary Wickentower: what would the software DREAM package(s) be to have to machinima if money was no problem ?
Michelle Leckrone: https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/aDORKable-Poses-Emoter-HUD/1081190
Mary Wickentower: exterior software
Mary Wickentower: for productions
Mary Wickentower: and fine tuning
Mary Wickentower: like premiere etc
Ambrosia Lanley: ctrl alt left mous ebutton will control the eyes
Mary Wickentower: we need a difinitive list of all this good info
Michelle Leckrone: https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/AnyPose-Expression/2613652
darx Taurus: people talks before about Kinect, have you seen this experimental video: http://www.nsl.tuis.ac.jp/xoops/modules/x_movie/x_movie_view.php?cid=2&lid=33
Gᵃᵇᵉ 게이브루니: framerate is way better in the 2 based viewers! framerate should be the number one priority for machinima artists
Mary Wickentower: grumbles about bloody "new" viewer
Mary Wickentower: Im miss dyslexic and monofixator eyes - new viewer makes me crazy
Michelle Leckrone: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9ujnzMPBoc&feature=channel_video_title
Chantal Harvey: I will copy paste this chat for references in my blog, tonight.
Gᵃᵇᵉ 게이브루니: can i say the f word just to spice things up?
Fuschia Nightfire: lol
Gᵃᵇᵉ 게이브루니: gotferdommen
Gᵃᵇᵉ 게이브루니: i'm sure i spelled that wrong
Gᵃᵇᵉ 게이브루니: LAWLLLLLLL
Mary Wickentower: rofl
Bubblepop Unplugged: awsom, please. how do i say 'you love donkeys" in dutch? - and i'll start using it in the usa
Gᵃᵇᵉ 게이브루니: ijk how van donkeys
Chantal Harvey: ik hou van ezels
Gᵃᵇᵉ 게이브루니: i was close
Mary Wickentower: there is a funny funny film where a prim & proper librian looking Dutch woman swears in dutch and translates it - it is funnay as
LaPiscean Liberty: As my Grandma would say, It;s all Dutch to me
Gᵃᵇᵉ 게이브루니: As my grandma would say, "pass the dutchie on the left hand side"
Chantal Harvey: http://www.nsl.tuis.ac.jp/xoops/modules/x_movie/x_movie_view.php?cid=2&lid=33
Gᵃᵇᵉ 게이브루니: that video is amazing
Pixie Rain: very interesting, yes
Gᵃᵇᵉ 게이브루니: a kinect costs about $150
Gᵃᵇᵉ 게이브루니: but worth it
LaPiscean Liberty: Ive had GOM player for yrs, but didnt know they offered a encoder now
Chantal Harvey: def, if i knew i could use it
Gᵃᵇᵉ 게이브루니: would Glyph Graves share the code?
darx Taurus: it's open source, but you can move avatar only in your screen, because there is no LL server support
Gᵃᵇᵉ 게이브루니: well you could host the kinect support on your own server
Gᵃᵇᵉ 게이브루니: use HTTP to transmit the data
LaPiscean Liberty: that would require some pretty good bandwith to http the movement to LL
Gᵃᵇᵉ 게이브루니: you could bypass LL
Gᵃᵇᵉ 게이브루니: the avatars have an attachment to send the data to your server, and the machinimatographer picks up the data through their viewer
Gᵃᵇᵉ 게이브루니: that would take a long time to make tho
Mary Wickentower: does ENCODER work with SL?
Gᵃᵇᵉ 게이브루니: aside from better facial animations, that is the most difficult thign that has been mentioned today
Bubblepop Unplugged: wich type of media streams into SL again? i forgot
LaPiscean Liberty: Mpeg, MP4, MOV, MP3, SDP
LaPiscean Liberty: VOB is low enough resolution
LaPiscean Liberty: MP2
Gᵃᵇᵉ 게이브루니: synching cameras in the next FS viewer? View angle numbers
Mary Wickentower: is ther a definative list anywhere of what you should have externeral to SL (software) & internal to SL to produce kicking films (if money was no object) ?
Pixie Rain: I like the idea of "preferences profile settings" ....1) High lag sims 2) Ultra 2) Depth of Field etc
Pixie Rain: so I call up the profile, not have to re-do it each time
Pixie Rain: 10 options, create your own presets, and an option to save them, like windlight settings now
darx Taurus: i have looked that DOF flickering strange way..maybe its just my viewer fault..have somebody experience?
Gᵃᵇᵉ 게이브루니: definitely can customize all menus
Gᵃᵇᵉ 게이브루니: definitely
Pixie Rain: and it automatically sets preferences to pre-defined graphics
Gᵃᵇᵉ 게이브루니: yeah you can create new presets
Pixie Rain: exactly
Gᵃᵇᵉ 게이브루니: right now it's only minimal --> ultra
Gᵃᵇᵉ 게이브루니: those four
Gᵃᵇᵉ 게이브루니: but you could make new ones
Gᵃᵇᵉ 게이브루니: yus
Pixie Rain: yes....but I mean user defined.....different AA, for example...different Draw, or shadows etc etc
Pixie Rain: * at the mo, we have to reset all the time..I change 5 to 10 times a day
Pixie Rain: if I go to a club...I want Impostors ON.....but if I go to an art sim, I want it OFF
Mary Wickentower: very productive meeting
Pixie Rain: Bye all, thank you
Chantal Harvey: second meeting at 7 pm, and I will collect your ideas all week long.
Thursday, December 1, 2011
Chatlog MachinimaMondays on Coded Movies with Ataro Asbrink
On monday November 28, MachinimaMondays group in Second Life had a fieldtrip!Ataro Asbrink had contacted me and invited the group to come over.
Before posting the chatlog, I want to pass on what Ataro told me: if people have questions, tell them to contact me inworld.
http://scissores.com/super-blog/machinima/coded-movies-at-machinimamondays-group/
Chat at MaMo:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwaORD-R8IY
Welcome to LEA4, everyone. This is the art exhibition InterACT!
Chantal Harvey: welcome everybody
Pamila Tiponi: ty laura
Ataro Asbrink: i dont have sound atm
Friday Siamendes: every so often i hear a voice briefly
L1Aura Loire: If you make machinima of any installation here, or set here, I'll put it on a cool machinima viewer as part of the exhibition.
Chantal Harvey: geo, can you record it while streaming?
Pamila Tiponi: tyy
Geo Meek: if we got voice working
Geo Meek: yes
Friday Siamendes: how do i shut off Rock 6? it keeps asking me for permission to control my camera
Friday Siamendes: ok thanks
Reseting script...
Ataro Asbrink: i think we should all have seen the movie samples
Geo Meek: stream is here http://www.livestream.com/SecondLifeNews
Ataro Asbrink: then we can talk
Ze Moo: great music here
Ambrosia Lanley: is there a link for teh samples
Ze Moo: is that part of the show?
Friday Siamendes: phone commercial playing now . . .
Ze Moo: Cool Geo: i will put that fulls screen on my second screen
Matthew Kidomen: I have a computer commercial playing
LEA InterAct! Coded Movie Examples: Reseting script...
Friday Siamendes: what should happen when i sit on the rock?
Matthew Kidomen: can more than one person sit on a rock?
Matthew Kidomen: pose ball? dancing?
Friday Siamendes: i got a menu, what should happen? I get a message from the rock every second, i have received probably 200 so far
Sculpted Rock 6: Reseting script...
Ataro Asbrink: has anyone seen the movies yet?
Friday Siamendes: someone else please sit on Rock 6, maybe it will leave me alone LOL
Friday Siamendes: maybe the rock likes you better Ambrosia
Jackie Lefko: no
Matthew Kidomen: I am watching us on LiveStream, watch each other, watch Live Stream
Ambrosia Lanley: gave me a menu and have no idea what to click chose overview
Ataro Asbrink: i think we should use this one rock in front of the cineama, after the other, i am sorry
Ataro Asbrink: this works here
Gridjumper: does someone need a rock?
Gridjumper: if someone wants a turn
Ataro Asbrink: leave the script with EXIT pls
Ataro Asbrink: not just standing up
Pamila Tiponi: is nice...
Matthew Kidomen: Hey!
Ataro Asbrink: why not chat?
Matthew Kidomen: haha, I watched my self wave to myself. haha
Ze Moo: what draw distance is needed?
Matthew Kidomen: slow mirror
Ataro Asbrink: draw distance 160 m
Ataro Asbrink: its in the menu
Ze Moo: ok
Ataro Asbrink: pls read it, lol
Ambrosia Lanley: ok I hit escape got a nice white secreen
Ataro Asbrink: i dont hear voices
Ataro Asbrink: are you all watching? lol
Jackie Lefko: yes
Ambrosia Lanley: do you have a link to see this maybe ill try that
Jnix Fallon: no menu for me
Matthew Kidomen: the pictures are in my mind.
Ze Moo: its great Ataro! Awesome!
Ambrosia Lanley: matt has crayons he could draw us a picture
Ataro Asbrink: thx moo!
Ze Moo Ze Moo impressed!
L1Aura Loire: It's very cool, and has so many possibilities.
Ataro Asbrink: we should have tried this before with some people, so much scripts at the same time seems to be a problem
Gridjumper: ok so how do you do it?
Matthew Kidomen: who is controling the LiveStream camera?
L1Aura Loire: which viewer are you on?
Ze Moo: Geo
Ze Moo: Matthew: Geo Meek = livestream
Ambrosia Lanley: someone try rock 6
Ambrosia Lanley: I got zip
Matthew Kidomen: did you say, "Zim, Zim, Zola, Bim?"
Matthew Kidomen: special magic code
Jackie Lefko: we hear you
Ze Moo: it is Simulatorsalabim
Ze Moo: ,0
L1Aura Loire: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwaORD-R8IY
Ze Moo: Macodema
Ataro Asbrink: lets make it in chat
L1Aura Loire: good
Ataro Asbrink: has anybody questions?
Chantal Harvey: yes, how do you do it
Chantal Harvey: is it with computer scripted language
Chantal Harvey: could we learn how to do that
Ataro Asbrink: yes with LSL
[Chantal Harvey: what is lsl
Pamila Tiponi: what scrips are use
Pamila Tiponi: for this
Ataro Asbrink: i can stop the running script, but i dont know who is watching, who needs help?
Pamila Tiponi: what language
Ze Moo: What is for you the main reasons you developed this Ataro? What does it gain for you from traditional video?
L1Aura Loire: Ataro has written these scripts himself.
Pamila Tiponi: what language javascript?
L1Aura Loire: LSL=Linden Scripting Language
Pamila Tiponi: ooh ok linden ones
Ataro Asbrink: I am just stopping the scripts in the rocks
L1Aura Loire: Ze's question is a good one--copying here so you can see it:
Ze Moo: What is for you the main reasons you developed this Ataro? What does it gain for you from traditional video?
Pamila Tiponi: smooth
Gridjumper: can you give an example of what the script looks like
Gridjumper: how many lines of code per minute of show?
Ataro Asbrink: just a moment...
L1Aura Loire: Here:
L1Aura Loire: It looks like this:
Cameraview(<70.915138, 76.942871, 20.937574>,<71.239334, 78.342018, 20.945393> ); //Regional coordinates
llSleep(6.0); //
L1Aura Loire: that is what I didn't want to read out loud!
Ze Moo: hey Pye! I cant see you but, please sit on a rock!
Ataro Asbrink: can you pls sit ion the stools, i delete thew rocks
Ze Moo: draw distance 160m
Gridjumper: ok so that line of code will give how mauch image and for how long?
Ze Moo: i am still in the Overview. how can i see myself?
Ataro Asbrink: yes
Ataro Asbrink: its really easy if you have understood it
L1Aura Loire: How about I return the rocks to you and you tell the people about your cool thing here?
Ataro Asbrink: just the coordinates of your camera and the direction
Ataro Asbrink: then you say llsleep etc in seconds and you see a scene
NicoleX Moonwall: that is a big IF for me
Geo Meek: seems i lost voice
Ataro Asbrink: first you have to have permission to use the camera, then you go
L1Aura Loire: no one is using voice right now--only text
Gridjumper: are there instructions for this posted someplace?
Ataro Asbrink: i leave only one rock with the script that will be better
Geo Meek: good thinking
Ataro Asbrink: instructions are in the menu after you sit on the rock
Friday Siamendes: this sounds really cool but after my traumatic experience with Rock 6 I have a Rock-sitting phobia
L1Aura Loire: I'll return the rest to you and you focus on the ideas behind what you're doing
Ataro Asbrink: haha
Geo Meek: i did post to
Geo Meek: http://www.livestream.com/secondlifenews
Ataro Asbrink: ok L1
L1Aura Loire: so if you're sitting on a rock, please rise
Ze Moo: And how is this different from the system Diabolus Carp uses for their live shows of The Wall and Metropolis?
Ze Moo: or would you call that coded movie' as well'
Geo Meek: i like it live but thats just me
Ataro Asbrink: the carp shows are performances, you can only see it at special times, this movies you can see everytime, when you want
Ze Moo: 'coded movie' hmm i wil try think of a better word maybe
Friday Siamendes: yes do NOT stand up
Geo Meek: may need to relog
Ze Moo: aha so Carp is 'coded theatre'? .)
Ataro Asbrink: now there is one rock left, problems are over i think
L1Aura Loire: It is a different way of thinking about "movie." Or camera-experience. It's exciting.
Ataro Asbrink: yes, carp is coded theatre
Ataro Asbrink: wonderful theatre
Ataro Asbrink: i like that
Ze Moo: yes i also like live performances a lot, because it has an interaction opening with the audience
Ataro Asbrink: but its not movie
Geo Meek: most of the AV's here are in this video http://www.livestream.com/secondlifenews
Ze Moo: what do you mean Ataro ? not movie??
Ataro Asbrink: movie is when you use the language of film used since griffith
Geo Meek: my work is just video capture
Ze Moo: weren't movies originally called moving pictures?
Ataro Asbrink: oh, thank you Geo, wonderful
Geo Meek: do visit me in Caleta there is a live link running on the ticker
Ze Moo: yes 'movie' is just abreviation of 'moving pictures' afaik
Ze Moo: the whole SL experience is kind of an individualized interactive 'movie' imho
L1Aura Loire: The menu gives choices, but they are limited, too, so for me it is a dance between what I can choose and what I cannot. And by taking out editing, making the experience of the movie -- yes--what Ze said--it takes that part of the SL and makes it more so, with a menu, specific camera views.
also i always said 'SL is the ultimate most real interactive live tele vision untill now'
Ze Moo: .)
L1Aura Loire: Maybe "virtual movie" is a better name than coded movie?
Ataro Asbrink: you can see the movies on the rock in front of the cinema
Ze Moo: no i dont like that Laura
Ze Moo: all movies are kind of 'virtual'
L1Aura Loire: then it is your turn to come up with a name!
Gridjumper: ok so the code works for a small set as you have here you move the camera within that set?
Pamila Tiponi: Code Directed movies
Ze Moo: yes i am thinkin
Ze Moo: good one Pam
Pamila Tiponi: ty
Ataro Asbrink: there are no frames anymore, you look right into sl-reality, thats virtual, dont you think zee?
Gridjumper: or can you have the camera move with the code to a very wide space?
Sorry late
Ataro Asbrink: somebody wrote that he could to the next sim with this
L1Aura Loire: could see into?
] Ataro Asbrink: but i think its not possible right now
Gridjumper: how long - how many lines of code per minute of movie?
Ze Moo: 
Ataro: sure it is virtual, but 'virtual\ is so much more, not really defined
Ataro Asbrink: sections?
Ze Moo: Geo: your stream of us looks awesome!
Chantal Harvey: yes geo
Ataro Asbrink: yes it looks great
Chantal Harvey: http://www.livestream.com/SecondLifeNews
Ataro Asbrink: has someone NOT seen a movie on the rock, lol
L1Aura Loire: "Movie on the Rock"
Chantal Harvey: hehe
Ataro Asbrink: there is one rock left, you can watch there
Ataro Asbrink: maybe thats the name, haha
L1Aura Loire: yes :) although it will only make sense to us
Pamila Tiponi: are these codes also used in rl sercurity cams?
Ataro Asbrink: yes, hear you
pamila: could be, lol
Hypatia Pickens: I just lost her voice
Hypatia Pickens: completely
Pamila Tiponi: but then in other scripting languages
Hypatia Pickens: when I closed out the livestream on line
Chantal Harvey: the stream has her voice
Ataro Asbrink: yes, not in LSL
Ze Moo: Yes! i need this for my SL security cams! to see who has been rezzing graffiti on my skybox ! L1Aura Loire: it was me, Ze ;) I confess
Saturday, September 17, 2011
The48HFPmachinima teams and their genres
The 48 Hour Film Project Machinima 2011 had it s kick off earlier today, September 16 2011.
REQUIRED ELEMENTS
Character: Morris or Maureen Middleton, Model
Prop: hat
Line of Dialogue: "Can I keep you?"
The teams drew the following genres:
48 Avatars - Film de Femme
Anklebiters – Romance
Grey Matter Film – Anniversary/Birthday
Ideajuice - Period Piece
Jewell Theater – Sci-Fi
Machidream – Western/Musical
Machinimart – Thriller/Suspence
Machinimatrix – Comedy
Rediculous Sandwich Studios – Superhero
The Stormers - Detective/Cop
War Technica – Fantasy
WeirWiredProductions – Mockumentory
REQUIRED ELEMENTS
Character: Morris or Maureen Middleton, Model
Prop: hat
Line of Dialogue: "Can I keep you?"
The teams drew the following genres:
48 Avatars - Film de Femme
Anklebiters – Romance
Grey Matter Film – Anniversary/Birthday
Ideajuice - Period Piece
Jewell Theater – Sci-Fi
Machidream – Western/Musical
Machinimart – Thriller/Suspence
Machinimatrix – Comedy
Rediculous Sandwich Studios – Superhero
The Stormers - Detective/Cop
War Technica – Fantasy
WeirWiredProductions – Mockumentory
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
MoM September 2011 opening event
You are invited to the event of the day! MoM – Month of Machinima welcomes the new films for September 2011.
When: September 7, 7 pm SL time
Where: LEA theater in Second Life – see SLurls below
Extra: This spectacular opening event will be filmed – so dress up! Be cool!
Extra Extra: Special announcement today!
You are welcome to bring your crew/friends/fans – and spread the news any way you can.
Lets fill the theater and celebrate this months films!
MoM has it s own YouTube account: http://www.youtube.com/user/MonthofMachinima
Soon after the openingsceremony the machinima’s will be included on the MoM YouTube playlist.
And, MoM's own promo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoWgUeJH7K4&
All films are featured on AviewTV.com, and Lapiscean Liberty will run the films for us!
Landing points for the LEA MoM Theater:
http://slurl.com/secondlife/LEA1/218/43/21
http://slurl.com/secondlife/LEA2/215/215/21
http://slurl.com/secondlife/LEA3/42/40/21
http://slurl.com/secondlife/LEA4/44/215/21
Thursday, August 4, 2011
The MoM films for August are.....
Here are the 11 films that are part of Month Of Machinima August 2011 (theme was architecture and design)
Theme for September is: Seasons. (be creative, think art...)
Submit your films here (deadline is the 10th)
Osprey Therian – Off the Wall
Hypatia Pickens – What Isn’t Underneath
JoseMaria Sunflower – Democratia Virtual Ya!
Draxtor Despres – The Kansas to Cairo Project Part#2
Penumbra Carter – Relevant Search
Bleu Oleander – The house That Self Built
Urban Steampunk – Copy Design
Hypatia Pickens – Two Ways of Looking at You
Natascha Randt – Alhambra – The last day of the Moorish rulership
Glasz DeCuir – Street Corner
Pyewacket Bellman – AM Radio
Thanks to Linden Lab for their support for machinima, and hosting Copy Design by Urban Steampunk on their website! YAY! (congrats, Urban!)
MoM has it s own YouTube account and playlist.
Soon after the openingsceremony the machinima’s will be included on the MoM YouTube playlist, on AviewTV.com, - and the opening event was filmed and will be posted there too.
Watch all MoM films on aViewTV
Theme for September is: Seasons. (be creative, think art...)
Submit your films here (deadline is the 10th)
Osprey Therian – Off the Wall
Hypatia Pickens – What Isn’t Underneath
JoseMaria Sunflower – Democratia Virtual Ya!
Draxtor Despres – The Kansas to Cairo Project Part#2
Penumbra Carter – Relevant Search
Bleu Oleander – The house That Self Built
Urban Steampunk – Copy Design
Hypatia Pickens – Two Ways of Looking at You
Natascha Randt – Alhambra – The last day of the Moorish rulership
Glasz DeCuir – Street Corner
Pyewacket Bellman – AM Radio
Thanks to Linden Lab for their support for machinima, and hosting Copy Design by Urban Steampunk on their website! YAY! (congrats, Urban!)
MoM has it s own YouTube account and playlist.
Soon after the openingsceremony the machinima’s will be included on the MoM YouTube playlist, on AviewTV.com, - and the opening event was filmed and will be posted there too.
Watch all MoM films on aViewTV
Wednesday, August 3, 2011
MoM - Month of Machinima August 2011
You are invited to the machinima event of the day! MoM – Month of Machinima welcomes 11 films for August, right now.
When: August 3, 2011 at 7 pm SL time
Where: LEA theater in Second Life – see SLurls below
Soon after the openingsceremony the machinima’s will be included on the MoM YouTube playlist, also on AviewTV.com, --- and the opening event will be filmed and posted there too.
Breaking news!!!!! From now on, one MoM machinima will be promoted by SecondLife.com - and this will happen every month to one of the selected films. Curious? you should be... come on over and join us at 7 pm.
Watch the MoM promo.
You are welcome to bring your crew/friends – and spread the news any way you can.
Lets fill the theater and celebrate this months films!
Landing points for the LEA MoM Theater:
http://slurl.com/secondlife/LEA1/218/43/21
http://slurl.com/secondlife/LEA2/215/215/21
http://slurl.com/secondlife/LEA3/42/40/21
http://slurl.com/secondlife/LEA4/44/215/21
When: August 3, 2011 at 7 pm SL time
Where: LEA theater in Second Life – see SLurls below
Soon after the openingsceremony the machinima’s will be included on the MoM YouTube playlist, also on AviewTV.com, --- and the opening event will be filmed and posted there too.
Breaking news!!!!! From now on, one MoM machinima will be promoted by SecondLife.com - and this will happen every month to one of the selected films. Curious? you should be... come on over and join us at 7 pm.
Watch the MoM promo.
You are welcome to bring your crew/friends – and spread the news any way you can.
Lets fill the theater and celebrate this months films!
Landing points for the LEA MoM Theater:
http://slurl.com/secondlife/LEA1/218/43/21
http://slurl.com/secondlife/LEA2/215/215/21
http://slurl.com/secondlife/LEA3/42/40/21
http://slurl.com/secondlife/LEA4/44/215/21
Friday, July 8, 2011
The MoM films featuring in July 2011
MoM playlist on You Tube is here
The films featuring for the month of July (2011) are:
Pep Lemmon with Traveling
Dacob Paine with Dedication
Pia Klaar with The Red Shoes: A Second Life Fairy Tale
Osprey Therian with When Warriors Gather
Larkworthy Antfarm with bRaiNwasHer
Urban Steampunk with Arcade Boy
Dacob Paine with Someone Called
Aaron Ishelwood with Wavey Sea
Yani Jowisz with Second Life Moderator (en breve) Machinima
We as LEA want to congratulate the filmers, and call upon all SL machinimatographers to keep submitting your work.
The films featuring for the month of July (2011) are:
Pep Lemmon with Traveling
Dacob Paine with Dedication
Pia Klaar with The Red Shoes: A Second Life Fairy Tale
Osprey Therian with When Warriors Gather
Larkworthy Antfarm with bRaiNwasHer
Urban Steampunk with Arcade Boy
Dacob Paine with Someone Called
Aaron Ishelwood with Wavey Sea
Yani Jowisz with Second Life Moderator (en breve) Machinima
We as LEA want to congratulate the filmers, and call upon all SL machinimatographers to keep submitting your work.
Saturday, July 2, 2011
Themes for MoM - why?
Month of Machinima ---- MoM is set up to encourage and foster machinima-making by the Second Life community by providing a forum to screen excellent machinimas made - especially around the themes ---- new, fresh, short, art-focused machinima.
It aims to encourage filmmakers to make more machinima films, to try out new things, to experiment and play.
There are themes to give consistency to each month's group of machinima, so they are loosely grouped around something in common. Difference and diversity within themes is a must.
The idea of it being monthly was that it is ongoing; if this month's theme doesn't appeal, there will be another one next month.
Themes for 2011 are set, and we as LEA are working on creative themes for 2012 right now. If you see me inworld, send suggestions :-)
Theme for May 2011: None
Theme for June 2011: Mixed Reality (SL machinima has to be part of the mix)
Theme for July 2011: Games (games in SL, games people play, psychological games, etc.)
Theme for August 2011: Design and Architecture
Theme for September 2011: Seasons (in your life, the four seasons--get creative)
Theme for October 2011: Four elements
Theme for November 2011: SL Events
Theme for December 2011: Endings, conclusions
SL Art is your guideline in all submitted machinima. Be sure to http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifbe creative and take care of copyrights.
Deadline for submitting is the 10th of the month
Every first Wednesday of the month at 10 am PST/SL time: opening event in Secondlife, in the MoM theater.
* Submit here
Friday, July 1, 2011
MoM July 2011
Month of Machinima, that is MoM !!
On July 6, 10 am PST/SL time, new films will show. 6 Films were chosen from this months submissions, 3 come from earlier submissions.
Keep submitting your work, and be a part of the most lively showcase for machinima inworld!
You are all invited to come and celebrate machinima in the MoM theater, where the films will show all of July.
Opening event on wednesday July 6, 10 am PST/SL time.
These are the filmers:
Pep Lemmon, Dacob Paine (2 films!), Pia Klaar, Osprey Therian, Larkworthy Antfarm, Urban Steampunk, Aaron Ishelwood, Yani Jowisz.
The previous entries can be seen at the special MoM You Tube account and on this blog:
June 2011
May 2011
The following links will bring you to the venue in Secondlife.com:
http://slurl.com/secondlife/LEA1/218/43/21
http://slurl.com/secondlife/LEA2/215/215/21
http://slurl.com/secondlife/LEA3/42/40/21
http://slurl.com/secondlife/LEA4/44/215/21
So, mark your calendar and come on over.
On July 6, 10 am PST/SL time, new films will show. 6 Films were chosen from this months submissions, 3 come from earlier submissions.
Keep submitting your work, and be a part of the most lively showcase for machinima inworld!
You are all invited to come and celebrate machinima in the MoM theater, where the films will show all of July.
Opening event on wednesday July 6, 10 am PST/SL time.
These are the filmers:
Pep Lemmon, Dacob Paine (2 films!), Pia Klaar, Osprey Therian, Larkworthy Antfarm, Urban Steampunk, Aaron Ishelwood, Yani Jowisz.
The previous entries can be seen at the special MoM You Tube account and on this blog:
June 2011
May 2011
The following links will bring you to the venue in Secondlife.com:
http://slurl.com/secondlife/LEA1/218/43/21
http://slurl.com/secondlife/LEA2/215/215/21
http://slurl.com/secondlife/LEA3/42/40/21
http://slurl.com/secondlife/LEA4/44/215/21
So, mark your calendar and come on over.
Friday, June 10, 2011
Filmers that submitted their work for MMIF 2011
MMIF 2011 - 75 filmmakers submitted.
Together they made 69 machinima's. I am now revealing the names of the filmers, who's work is being reviewed by the MMIF screening committee right now - and will reveal more on monday June 13.
Next week all entrants will receive an email, with information about times when their films are screened, which playlist they will go on, and more.
I will reveal new information every day, on this blog and on MMIG.org
Al Perez, Anankhai Sodwind, Akanjee Yongho, Ambrosia Langly, Anima Technica, Bay Sweetwater, Draxtor Despres, Bryn Oh, Cecil Hirvi, Kate Zeminoba, Sergio Querilo, Cisko Vandeverre, Luca van Grinsven, Graham Fitzgerald, Rohan Fermi, Waresh Londen, Scout Kestrel, Dulci, Eddie Duggan, Eric Boccara, Liz Solo, Evie Fairchild, Almo Schumann, Rose Borchovsky, Faires Rivers, Fuschsia Nightfire, Miles Eleventhauer, Gypsy Quixote, NefariousGuy Mainline, Hypatia Pickens, Ice Axe, Ian Pahute, Iono Allen, Jakechief, Chaffro Schoonmaker, jjccc Art, Judy Lee, Kolor Fall, Lainy Voom, Larkworthy Antfarm, Lasopantomik Yao, Laurina Hawks, Lorris Rizzo, L1Aura Loire, Pia Klaar, Marx Catteneo, MSCybertar, Marianne McCahn, Arm Strom, Mary Wickentower, NicoleX Moonwall, Nitwacket, Oscar Wagenmans, Osprey Therian, Paradise Quixote, Kibishipaul, Phaylen Fairchild, Pooky Amsterdam, Russel Boyd, James Canton, Pyewacket Kazyanenko, rgr Ampan, Pine Martinek, Saveme oh, Arahan Claveau, Spiral Silverstar, Helen Fermate, Suzy Yue, Tikaf Viper, Tom Jantol, Toxic Menges, Tutsy Navarathna, Verissimus Seetan, Zachary Kaye, Chantal Harvey.
Together they made 69 machinima's. I am now revealing the names of the filmers, who's work is being reviewed by the MMIF screening committee right now - and will reveal more on monday June 13.
Next week all entrants will receive an email, with information about times when their films are screened, which playlist they will go on, and more.
I will reveal new information every day, on this blog and on MMIG.org
Al Perez, Anankhai Sodwind, Akanjee Yongho, Ambrosia Langly, Anima Technica, Bay Sweetwater, Draxtor Despres, Bryn Oh, Cecil Hirvi, Kate Zeminoba, Sergio Querilo, Cisko Vandeverre, Luca van Grinsven, Graham Fitzgerald, Rohan Fermi, Waresh Londen, Scout Kestrel, Dulci, Eddie Duggan, Eric Boccara, Liz Solo, Evie Fairchild, Almo Schumann, Rose Borchovsky, Faires Rivers, Fuschsia Nightfire, Miles Eleventhauer, Gypsy Quixote, NefariousGuy Mainline, Hypatia Pickens, Ice Axe, Ian Pahute, Iono Allen, Jakechief, Chaffro Schoonmaker, jjccc Art, Judy Lee, Kolor Fall, Lainy Voom, Larkworthy Antfarm, Lasopantomik Yao, Laurina Hawks, Lorris Rizzo, L1Aura Loire, Pia Klaar, Marx Catteneo, MSCybertar, Marianne McCahn, Arm Strom, Mary Wickentower, NicoleX Moonwall, Nitwacket, Oscar Wagenmans, Osprey Therian, Paradise Quixote, Kibishipaul, Phaylen Fairchild, Pooky Amsterdam, Russel Boyd, James Canton, Pyewacket Kazyanenko, rgr Ampan, Pine Martinek, Saveme oh, Arahan Claveau, Spiral Silverstar, Helen Fermate, Suzy Yue, Tikaf Viper, Tom Jantol, Toxic Menges, Tutsy Navarathna, Verissimus Seetan, Zachary Kaye, Chantal Harvey.
Wednesday, June 8, 2011
MMIF in TimeOut Magazine June 2011
With MaMachinima Int. Festival date approaching, I was interviewed by Marie-Charlotte Pezé, for Time Out Magazine Amsterdam.
MMIF producer Ze Moo made this happen, and I expect the venue - Club Karlsson - to be packed with people that wonder about machinima.
I am delighted to have our work in the limelights, one of my goals is to bring machinima to the world around us, to show this art to people and give it the platform it deserves.
******
MMIF RECTIFICATION: There are some errors in this article from TimeOut magazine. Peter Greenway is mistakenly mentioned as the director of 'Big Bang'. Saskia Boddeke (aka Rose Borchovski in SL) actually is the real director of 'Big Bang' and submitted this film to MMIF. Peter Greenaway apparently only did some contributions to this production. We apologize for any confusion and we sincerely regret this film being pulled out of the festival by Saskia Boddeke because of this TimeOut publication. *****
Club Karlsson Friday 17 & Saturday 18, 2011
If you’re tired of the same overpaid Botox victims trotting out all-too-familiar plot Lines, then prolific ‘machinimatographer’ Chantal Harvey may be your cinematic salvation.
The Dutch director’s third Ma Machinima International Film Festival promises 60 original, fun, touching, sometimes plain weird and, occasionally, mindblowing short films that defy the usual rules of storytelling.
Machinima, you see, is the art of making movies using 3D online virtual worlds and video games (such as Second Life, World of Warcraft or even Google Earth) where, unhampered by such pesky factors as reality, the laws of physics or an actor’s range, filmmakers can unleash their creativity with no bounds other than their own imaginations.
Harvey (after whose nickname in the community, ‘mama-chinima’, the festival is named) claims she refuses to limit herself to one genre of machinima ‘because the medium offers so much freedom to filmmakers’.
Clearly, most of them got the memo – including Lainy Voom, whose bird-headed characters drink coffee with a spoonfull of eyeballs, and Tom Jantol, whose rendering of Pinocchio as a disolated doll with lipstick and nipples curiously takes nothing away from the film’s grace and sensitivity.
Because it’s inherently inexpensive to produce but rich in possibilities, machinimatography appeals to experimental and emerging filmmakers in particular.
(I added a screenshot of above mentioned machinima's - Chantal Harvey):
That said, some open-minded old-timers have also jumped on the machinima bandwagon, such as Peter Greenaway (‘The Pillow Book’) who is presenting his ‘Big Bang’at the Festival. A poetic ode to all existence, parts of his film eschews human beings in favor of computer-generated avatars, some of whom boast such realistic facial expressions that Pixar’s best illustrators might want to watch their backs.
The event, which will happen in ‘real life’ at Club Karlsson, a private club and self-avowed ‘counter cultural’ space in the Western Canal Belt, will also be streamed live online and in Second Life, where hundreds more visitors and their avatars are expected at the lavish virtual theater ‘built’ especially for the occasion. Club Karlsson guests are welcome to bring their laptops to follow the online part of the event – WI FI and the requisite cables will be provided.
Both real life and virtual virtual parties reflect the important social aspect of Machinima: ‘The festival is not a competition; there are no awards, no contests; it’s just about sharing’, says Harvey.
In this spirit, newbies can try their hands at the ‘Machinima for Dummies’ workshop at Club Carlsson on June 17, creating a short film that will be screened at the opening of the festival.
With twice as many filmmakers and twice as many real life guests as last year, the trend is clearly growing. ‘We ‘ll have drinks, food, a lot of socialising and maybe even sex,’ says producer Ze Moo. No wonder machinima is gaining speed.
17 & 18 June, 20.00 – 01.00 at Club Karlsson (Keizersgracht 264).
FREE and online all night. See mmif.org for more information.
Marie-Charlotte Pezé, for Time Out Magazine Amsterdam.
~~~~~~~~~~~~
Revealing my own entry for the MMIF 2011 festival
Playlist MMIF 2009
Playlist MMIF 2010
MMIF producer Ze Moo made this happen, and I expect the venue - Club Karlsson - to be packed with people that wonder about machinima.
I am delighted to have our work in the limelights, one of my goals is to bring machinima to the world around us, to show this art to people and give it the platform it deserves.
******
MMIF RECTIFICATION: There are some errors in this article from TimeOut magazine. Peter Greenway is mistakenly mentioned as the director of 'Big Bang'. Saskia Boddeke (aka Rose Borchovski in SL) actually is the real director of 'Big Bang' and submitted this film to MMIF. Peter Greenaway apparently only did some contributions to this production. We apologize for any confusion and we sincerely regret this film being pulled out of the festival by Saskia Boddeke because of this TimeOut publication. *****
Club Karlsson Friday 17 & Saturday 18, 2011
If you’re tired of the same overpaid Botox victims trotting out all-too-familiar plot Lines, then prolific ‘machinimatographer’ Chantal Harvey may be your cinematic salvation.
The Dutch director’s third Ma Machinima International Film Festival promises 60 original, fun, touching, sometimes plain weird and, occasionally, mindblowing short films that defy the usual rules of storytelling.
Machinima, you see, is the art of making movies using 3D online virtual worlds and video games (such as Second Life, World of Warcraft or even Google Earth) where, unhampered by such pesky factors as reality, the laws of physics or an actor’s range, filmmakers can unleash their creativity with no bounds other than their own imaginations.
Harvey (after whose nickname in the community, ‘mama-chinima’, the festival is named) claims she refuses to limit herself to one genre of machinima ‘because the medium offers so much freedom to filmmakers’.
Clearly, most of them got the memo – including Lainy Voom, whose bird-headed characters drink coffee with a spoonfull of eyeballs, and Tom Jantol, whose rendering of Pinocchio as a disolated doll with lipstick and nipples curiously takes nothing away from the film’s grace and sensitivity.
Because it’s inherently inexpensive to produce but rich in possibilities, machinimatography appeals to experimental and emerging filmmakers in particular.
(I added a screenshot of above mentioned machinima's - Chantal Harvey):
That said, some open-minded old-timers have also jumped on the machinima bandwagon, such as Peter Greenaway (‘The Pillow Book’) who is presenting his ‘Big Bang’at the Festival. A poetic ode to all existence, parts of his film eschews human beings in favor of computer-generated avatars, some of whom boast such realistic facial expressions that Pixar’s best illustrators might want to watch their backs.
The event, which will happen in ‘real life’ at Club Karlsson, a private club and self-avowed ‘counter cultural’ space in the Western Canal Belt, will also be streamed live online and in Second Life, where hundreds more visitors and their avatars are expected at the lavish virtual theater ‘built’ especially for the occasion. Club Karlsson guests are welcome to bring their laptops to follow the online part of the event – WI FI and the requisite cables will be provided.
Both real life and virtual virtual parties reflect the important social aspect of Machinima: ‘The festival is not a competition; there are no awards, no contests; it’s just about sharing’, says Harvey.
In this spirit, newbies can try their hands at the ‘Machinima for Dummies’ workshop at Club Carlsson on June 17, creating a short film that will be screened at the opening of the festival.
With twice as many filmmakers and twice as many real life guests as last year, the trend is clearly growing. ‘We ‘ll have drinks, food, a lot of socialising and maybe even sex,’ says producer Ze Moo. No wonder machinima is gaining speed.
17 & 18 June, 20.00 – 01.00 at Club Karlsson (Keizersgracht 264).
FREE and online all night. See mmif.org for more information.
Marie-Charlotte Pezé, for Time Out Magazine Amsterdam.
~~~~~~~~~~~~
Revealing my own entry for the MMIF 2011 festival
Playlist MMIF 2009
Playlist MMIF 2010
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