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Movie of the Season: Apr-Jun

Congratulations to Angel Dove, cheddarbob619 and Iain! See Movie Charts and Hall of Fame for details.

overcast #032: Ricky and Phil continue their discussion of Acting [link]

The Machinima Archive and the History of Digital Games [link]

To Game or Not To Game [link]

The tool that will change WoW machinima forever [link]

Ten machinima resources of which you may not be aware [link]

Next Gen Machinima Contest at NVision [link]

'Portal' Star Launches Machinima in the UK [link]
Posted by admin on Tuesday 01 July 2008 - 19:07:51 | Read/Add Comments: 0 | 

Why enter the Uncanny Valley?

"Over at ZS Forums kradproductions went on a rant after some frustration with Moviestorm. This is a slightly more general attempt to address some of the concerns. While general frustration with tools is something that does not really come as a great surprise he posted a good question when he compared character-driven live movie productions with character-driven machinima productions." [link]

Machinima Info Barf #12 [link]

Edinburgh Interactive Festival 2008 calls for submissions [link]

Red vs Blue Crew Starts Supreme Commander Show [link]

Antics induction webinar - Wednesday 25th June [link]

High School Students Produce Important New Film, Race to Equality [link]

Team Fortress 2 - Meet The Team! [link]

Epic Rube Goldberg [link]
Posted by admin on Monday 23 June 2008 - 16:56:56 | Read/Add Comments: 0 | 

Machinima and the Avant-Garde

"It was Jean Cocteau who suggested that the cinema as a pluralistic and egalitarian medium could never come into fruition “until the materials are as cheap as pencil and paper.” The string of technological advances in digital video technology and editing software for the personal computer have steadily brought the cost of filmmaking closer to Cocteau’s utopian vision and no group has adopted these new technologies with the enthusiasm and resourcefulness as avant-garde filmmakers and video artists." [link]

Machinima Festival 2008: Save the Date! [link]

overcast #031: Ricky and Phil discuss Acting [link]

Professional gamer offers Unreal lessons [link]
Posted by admin on Monday 16 June 2008 - 19:05:58 | Read/Add Comments: 0 | 

1st Annual "MachinExpo" Set to Inspire and Inform in Montreal

The 1st Annual International Machinima Expo is set to debut November 7-9, 2008, in Montreal, Quebec as part of Canada's largest game industry event, Festival Arcadia 2008. A combined effort from Machiniplex and the Machinima Roadshow, the "MachinExpo" is expecting to be the biggest exposition of machinima films, filmmakers, tools and techniques in the world with an expected audience of 20,000 in attendance at Festival Arcadia.

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Posted by CoyoteRepublic on Thursday 12 June 2008 - 17:37:59 | Read/Add Comments: 0 | 

OMFF 2009?

If you have any suggestions for next year's festival please post them in this forum thread.

(N.B. Some changes to mprem in this thread.)

The Last BloodSpell Production Post Ever [link]

Discussing Gaming in an Adult kinda way [link]

Professional Machinima Making [link]

A look at machinima legal from a “professional” [link]

Exclusive: Will Wright - Video Games Close To 'Cambrian Explosion' Of Possibilities [link]

LipSync in SecondLife [link]

Cettx 1.0 [link]

NVISION ’08 Raises Stakes for Gamers, Artists [link]

New artform lifts game [link]

Big Buck Bunny: Successor to "Elephants Dream". [link]


Posted by admin on Tuesday 10 June 2008 - 23:37:44 | Read/Add Comments: 0 | 

Machinima at 2008 DragonCon Film Festival!

I'm very excited to announce the second annual Machinima segment of this year's DragonCon Film Festival!

The 2008 DragonCon Film Festival will again be featuring an hour-long panel with machinima makers as well as several hours of the best machinima. To that end, I am looking for panelists/speakers as well as machinima video submissions. Machinima based on all game engines (Halo, WoW, Sims, NWN, etc.) as well as machinima created in the new breed of machinima engines (MovieStorm, etc.) are welcome and encouraged. DragonCon is held in Atlanta, GA the weekend of Labor Day (August 29-September 1, 2008).

See the website for submission guidelines, a link to machinima screened in the 2007 inaugural segment and more!

See you at DragonCon!

Romily
Posted by Romily on Monday 09 June 2008 - 00:24:12 | Read/Add Comments: 0 | 

Arcade Classics Meet Welles: F 4 FROGGER

Conceptual 8bits machinima series, revisiting Orson Welles´ ideas about art and life in F For Fake.

the videos:
1 GAMEBRAIN
2 THE ILLUSION
3 SO MORE THE BETTER
4 YOU ARE SWITZERLAND
5 GOD´S OWN GIFT TO THE FAKER
6 BUT IT IS ART
7 BROKE THE SILENCE WOULD IT BE
8 DON´T BE SPOOKED BY THE EXPERTS
9 IN MY PAST THERE ARE NOT PICASSOS
10 JAIL I WENT TO HOLLYWOOD
11 WHAT MAKES YOU TRAVEL
12 GO ON SINGING
13 NOT EVEN ROCKEFELLER
14 TEMPTED PERHAPS HE WAS INSPIRED
15 BEFORE I DIE
16 A HAPPY DEATH
17 RE-ENACTMENT ISN´T EASY
18 REALITY THE TOOTH-BRUSH WAITING
19 PROFESSIONAL LIAR

thanks for your attention, I hope you enjoy them.

playlist: http://es.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=ADEB2117D5AF7306
youtube channel: http://es.youtube.com/user/arcademayhem
Submitted by arcademayhem
Posted by admin on Friday 06 June 2008 - 11:25:45 | Read/Add Comments: 0 | 

"the overcast" #030 now available

Phil Rice (Overman) and his new cohost Ricky Grove take on the topic of Pro Machinima Part 1 - Game Company Employment. Who has gone pro in this way? What impact has it had on the community? And what can you do to put yourself on a path which might one day lead to a game developer’s doorstep?

http://theovercast.com/overcast-030/

Thank you for listening! As always, your feedback is welcome and appreciated.

overman
the overcast: a machinima podcast
http://theovercast.com/
Posted by Overman on Friday 30 May 2008 - 14:56:13 | Read/Add Comments: 0 | 

Machiniplex Premiere: "Monad"

"Machiniplex is proud to announce another Machinima Premiere this Sunday, May 25th at 12PM (Pacific Time). We will be presenting Sam Goldwater's film "Monad" at Hathead's Lounge in Second Life." [link]

Machinima Events Calendar [link]

Burnie Burns, Frank Dellario and Chris Burke Talk Machinima At Sydney Film Festival [link]

The Sims 3 preview. The beast is back... [link]

PlayStation 3 Gets YouTube Integration [link]
Posted by admin on Thursday 22 May 2008 - 13:45:22 | Read/Add Comments: 0 | 

What's in a Name?

Quite a lot it seems! Some interesting discussion this week on how the machinima community understands itself, or perhaps more accurately on how individual artists describe their work. It began in the comments at Shattered Keyboard and spilled over to Riot Films and The ZS Forum.

The "what is machinima?" question re-surfaces regularly and somehow I feel glad that it proves so elusive!

Bioware Hires Lit Fuse Duo [link]

Geeky goodness in all its glory [link]
Posted by admin on Sunday 18 May 2008 - 16:16:02 | Read/Add Comments: 0 |