Movie of the Year!

Movie of the Year OCT 2007 - SEP 2008:  Congratulations to The_Nomad, Zarathustra Studios and animatechnica!

Movie of the Season JUL-SEP:  Congratulations to Iain, Bigmanrob and animatechnica!

See Hall of Fame and Movie Charts for details.
Posted by admin on Wednesday 01 October 2008 - 16:37:28| Read/Add Comments: 0| 

Montreal Expo Cancelled - Becoming a Virtual Event

"Last year, organizers Ingrid and Damien enjoyed a rich, exciting, and well-attended Machinima Roadshow event at Festival Arcadia in Montreal. So when the organizer invited us back, and expressed his desire to make the machinima component a bigger and more extensive part of his show, promoting it to us as a turn-key event and possibly including prize money for top films, Ingrid and Damien enlisted the help of Ricky and Phil and created the First Annual International Machinima Expo." [link]

"Apology" on the BBC Film Network [link]

BioWare Duo Dish On 'Cinematic Design' For Mass Effect [link]

Siggraph 2008 - Papers of interest for Machinima creators [link]

Jeff Morris "Make Something Unreal" Phase 1 Interview [link]

overcast #037 [link]

Posted by admin on Wednesday 24 September 2008 - 14:34:26| Read/Add Comments: 0| 

Normal Service is Resumed!

Had some problems with the servers the past couple of weeks but it seems to be fixed now, fingers crossed!
Posted by admin on Wednesday 24 September 2008 - 13:19:37| Read/Add Comments: 0| 

Rustlers and Machinima.com/uk announce competition winner

After a long and exciting campaign, Maverick Media is proud to announce the winner of it's Jonathan Coulton Machinima video competition.

The final winner was Kerrin Hardy, who manipulated a vast collection of orcs, dwarves and slimy things to create a fantastic World of Warcraft Machinima video for Coulton's sample-tastic 'Bacteria'.

His video shows an Orc's first day working at 'Barleybeak's Chicken and Beer' restaurant, and it charmingly depicts Warcraft characters suffering from advanced dysentery - surely a WoW first. 

You can see the rather excellent (and very funny) video here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRPpXh2ycU4

We'd love it if you could post the video on your blog/website, as we think your readers would enjoy checking it out.

The competition was run as part of the launch of Machinima.com's UK portal launch, in association with Rustler's snack foods. If you have any questions, would like more info or have any interview requests, we'd be more than happy to help you out.

My email is jon.hamblin©maverickmedia.co.uk

or

joncybernet@gmail.com

Thanks!

Jon
Maverick Media
Submitted by Jon_Maverick
Posted by Michelle on Saturday 06 September 2008 - 23:32:14| Read/Add Comments: 0| 

"the overcast" #036: Ricky's Sonic SIGGRAPH Sojourn

In this most unique of episodes, Ricky takes us on a sonic journey through SIGGRAPH 2008 in L.A. If you're a fan of Ricky's "Wonderful World of Sound" series, you'll find this episode to be a treasure trove of field recording goodness. Serving as punctuation between the recordings are some short bits of experimental music, improvised and performed "live" by Phil, specifically for this episode. So kick back, don your best pair of headphones, close your eyes, and enjoy. For even more of the experience, check out the links to Ricky's Renderosity.com SIGGRAPH journal.

We're going to be trying something a little different. Right now we've been shooting for bi-weekly shows, every other Friday. In October, we're going to try augmenting that schedule by adding what we're calling "Sideshows." Basically, the idea is that we want to try to provide content Monday, Wednesday, and Friday... every week. We'll continue to do the longer, produced podcasts every other Friday, but in between those episodes you'll start seeing some other material, generally of shorter duration and more focused in nature. Interviews, spotlights, and so on. We'll kick off the overcast "sideshows" starting October 6th, 2008.

http://theovercast.com/overcast-036/

Thank you for listening! What do you think of what we're doing? We want to know.
Posted by Overman on Friday 05 September 2008 - 20:17:50| Read/Add Comments: 0| 

The Demise Premiere: A Director's Message

"We had a very enjoyable Premiere for Surgee's (Daniel Wasiluk) film "The Demise" yesterday at Hathead's Island in the virtual world Second Life. Approximately 15 people showed up for a screening of the film and a short audio message from the director." [link]

Siggraph 2008:  A Most Extraordinary Conference [link]

Grand Theft Auto IV For PC Eyes-On [link]

GTA IV Machinima Tools [link]

Adding To Antics [link]

Machinima is not Cinema [link]
Posted by admin on Tuesday 26 August 2008 - 12:23:43| Read/Add Comments: 0| 

Machinima at SIGGRAPH 2009

ACM Sandbox 2008 is barely over, but the 2009 edition is already appearing on the horizon. There are at least two notable changes from the current format: [link]

Machinima Expo - opportunity for older films (and Canadians!) [link]

Entry level version of iClone now free [link]

Certified Training in iClone and CrazyTalk [link]

Online animation tools:  GoAnimate and Animasher
Posted by admin on Tuesday 19 August 2008 - 15:31:21| Read/Add Comments: 0| 

The Edinburgh Interactive Festival

"For the last eight or so years the Edinburgh Interactive Entertainment Festival has joined the other hoards of arts based festivals over the month of August, normally playing host to an industry conference and a few videos of upcoming games. This year's fest aims to have an expanded presence and is taking a step away from the mainly industry focused nature of previous years." [link]

Halo 3 Wins Edge Award For Innovation, Online Integration [link]

2008 IL2 Flight Sim Movie Competition Winners Announced [link]

Squashing Robots [link]

Cinema Inspiration in Machinima Technique [link]

Facial Motion Capture for $99? [link]

OverByte #10 [link]

overcast #035 [link]

Apocalypsis Ex Machina (UT3) [link]


Posted by admin on Tuesday 12 August 2008 - 21:52:24| Read/Add Comments: 0| 

2008 Machinima Fest now accepting submissions!

This year's Machinima Festival (taking place at Eyebeam in NYC, November 1st), has begun accepting submissions for this year's Mackies! If you havent submitted your Machinima work to this fest before, then by all means, hop to it and submit! You only have until September 12th!  Good luck to all the entrants!!! [link]

Moviestorm 1.1 Released [link]

Confirmed Guests for the Expo [link]

Vimeo Alternatives [link]

overcast #034 [link]

Machiniplex Premiere: "Demise" by Surgee [link]

Progriss Riport [link]

Does Doctor Horrible offer a way for Machinima creators to make money? [link]
Posted by admin on Thursday 07 August 2008 - 13:57:02| Read/Add Comments: 0|