Machinima at 2009 DragonCon Film Festival!

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

The 2009 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 (September 4-September 7, 2009).

See the website for submission guidelines, a link to machinima screened in the prior two years and more!

See you at DragonCon!

Romily
Posted by Romily on Monday 01 June 2009 - 03:27:34| Read/Add Comments: 0| 

Atopic Festival 2009

Hi fellow machinimakers !

We are working on setting up the first machinima film festival in France, to take place in Paris, Thursday October 29 - Wednesday November 4, 2009, during the Atopic Festival.

The Atopic festival is an art festival dedicated to virtual worlds : International - Multidisciplinary – Transverse. We want to show machinima as both a new cinematographic genre and as a medium for todays digital artists.

For this first edition, we plan to have several different screenings :


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On Character and Motion

"This post is more like an essay I always wanted to write for the machinima magazine, but felt like I don’t really have the time to get a new issue out the door, so it would never see the light of day…" [link]

Ivy Film Festival 2009 [link]

Let the Ending Begin [link]

Sony Adds Machinima Studio To Playstation 3’s Home (Editor Not Included) [link]

How To Make Machinima Without Getting Sued Blind [link]

Highly recommended: Gone Fishing Seminar [link]

Machinima used for Climate Change ad - Drained of Life [link]
Posted by admin on Monday 11 May 2009 - 15:08:35| Read/Add Comments: 0| 

OMFF 2009 Winners!

The Judges have spoken and their decision is final!  Head on over to the OMFF site to see what it was.  Congratulations to all the finalists! [link]
Posted by admin on Friday 01 May 2009 - 22:46:08| Read/Add Comments: 0| 

New Series from Bathtub Productions

A new series from Damien Valentine has launched this week. Set in the 24th century, this machinima created with The Sims 2 and Nexus: The Jupiter Incident tells the story of a mining accident on the moon of Titan and the events that follow as the miners demand safer work conditions from an uncaring government. And that's only the beginning...

The first season is made up of 10 episodes, to be released weekly and there are an additional two seasons worth of story to be told.

The first episode, series trailer and a bonus video are already available on the website.

Look for a special guest star in episode one, she'll be back later on in the season too
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Posted by admin on Friday 01 May 2009 - 22:36:38| Read/Add Comments: 0| 

Play Machinima Law

Not a festival but possibly an even more important machinima event held at the Stanford Law School from April 24-25. Here is the official announcement:

Machinima.
…It has been hailed as the art form of the 21st century.
…It is redefining music videos.
…And reinventing the videogame.
…It might be the future of cinema.

But there’s a catch: if you make machinima, you might be breaking the law.

Or are you? Find out at the Stanford University “Play Machinima Law” event from April 24-25, 2009. [link]

Machinima Info Barf #22 [link]
Posted by admin on Thursday 09 April 2009 - 13:51:29| Read/Add Comments: 0| 

Women Who Have Changed Machinima

"Now, various people have in the past claimed that Machinima is a male-dominated artform, so I thought it was worth talking about some of the women who have shaped the artform to what it is today…" [link]

All Good Things [link]

So, Who Are You Calling an Amateur? [link]

Can Machinima Save Conan? [link]

London cops reach new heights of anti-terror poster stupidity [link]

Posted by admin on Tuesday 24 March 2009 - 21:03:32| Read/Add Comments: 0| 

Trendy dollars

"It is not a completely new phenomenon: the way that TV commercials pick up game “looks” to sell stuff. Whether it is Coca Cola or the pre-Superbowl ad for Two and a Half Men done in Second Life or the original Game On that won even a Mackie award." [link]

Interview With David Purchase, Co-creator of Escape From City 17 [link]

Epic hands out prizes for best UT3 mods [link]

Machinima Info Barf #21 [link]

overcast #048 [link]

MMIF Was A MaMarvelous Succes! [link]

GTA IV Funky Cold Machinima [link]
Posted by admin on Thursday 05 March 2009 - 17:31:09| Read/Add Comments: 0| 

OMFF Finalists 2009!

The short-lists of finalists for the 2009 festival, as chosen by the OMFF members, is now available for viewing at the site. Over the next two months these short-lists will be put into their order of first, second and third place by the festival judges and the results will be published in early May. Well done to all who have made it this far and good luck with the final placings! [link]
Posted by admin on Sunday 01 March 2009 - 22:53:17| Read/Add Comments: 1| 

OMFF Short-Lists 2009!

A quick reminder there is only about one week left in which to submit your short-lists for the OMFF 2009 awards.  Please visit the OMFF site for more details! [link]
Posted by admin on Thursday 19 February 2009 - 14:29:06| Read/Add Comments: 0| 

‘Escape From City-17′ Is Game-Changing Live Action Machinima

"Hardcore action storytelling has finally made it’s way into web content. Episode one of Escape From City 17 by the Purchase Brothers hit the web last week and already scored up a million views in three days, crashing the Brothers web site, not once but twice. With it’s shocking violence and spectacular blend of live action and in game footage, the short delivers what could be the start of a potentially revolutionary series and career for the Purchase Brothers." [link]

MaMachinima International Festival 2009 [link]

Machinimods - useful nascent site [link]

Machinima Info Barf #19 [link]

Life On Line TV [link]


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