Aug 10, 2008
festivals and burning alone
My partner madcaow pointed me in the direction of this post on Kotaku which talks about the upcoming Machinima Festival held by the Academy of Machinima Arts and Sciences.
The festival feature panels of prominent machinima filmmakers discussing this new form of cinema, and there is a range of categories you can enter your machinima into, including (interestingly) a ‘Long Format’, which has been introduced in response to the increasing amount of feature length submissions. Feature length machinima, huh? I’ll be keen to check some of these out when the awards are announced.
Meanwhile, through this I also discovered Ignis Solus, an excellent short machinima using the game Team Fortress 2 as its platform. While the video is simple, it still manages to be pretty deep and highly entertaining. Its production quality and direction are impressive, and give a little more inspiration and meaning to what we are trying to do in second life. While I don’t think we will be able to get anywhere near this (shame) it shows how you can use the sets, props and characters to create meaningful stories… and all with an entire crew of about 6 people. I dig it.