The Lists - Quicky Film
It was great to fire up Moviestorm after a long break (expo, expo, expo, expo!)I'm loving the rental agreements on packs, makes it possible to pick up content casually and try it out. In my spare time...
View ArticleBig Bang Willy and the Demented Potatoes
Many of you who follow this blog will know that it is much quicker to write than to turn that writing into Machinima. As a consequence, scripts and ideas languish in forgotten folders.The following is...
View ArticleNew Year Thoughts
I'm writing this blog on an ancient pc which missed going to the tip before Christmas. It's a Frankenstein's monster of a machine, with electronic guts hanging out of the side, and mismatched...
View ArticleUp Yours Miss Hawaii, and Machinima.com
I hope she doesn't take it personally, but when Miss Ashley Layfield fluttered down from the top of the wardrobe and accused me of not following through on my 2010 goal of 'learning the ukulele' she...
View ArticleHave Ipad Will Travel - the large and the small
Mike is gearing up for his long trip around the states, and plans to test many gadgets and ways of communicating as he goes. We've been testing, and his Ipad has proved very capable of holding video...
View ArticleWant Some Advice & Inspiration From Experienced Machinimators?
What do you need to get you going with a moviestorm project? Check out Moviestorm CoPilot and post your requests on their Facebook Wall. This new project was created by the multi-talented duo of Phil...
View ArticleA Movie Studio in your Backpack
After a long period of downsizing and reconsidering lifestyles, I am once again attempting to return to Machinima in a more simple form. My wife and I are also preparing for a lengthy road trip (at...
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Curling up with Moviestorm, and Reading a few Blogs
After the mind expanding intense experience of co-organising the Expo last year, I've found it refreshing to curl back into a single engine ball, and focus on one thing at a time..well movie makers...
View ArticleLego Vs Combine
Strange and wonderful, changes of focus really interesting, tilt-shift head mangling, made me smile.
View ArticleThe Hawk
Nobody could accuse me of being a Halo fan, and my eyelids start to droop the moment a machinima chracter draws a gun..so a 14min Halo film with gunz, and I got to the end?I liked the script writing, I...
View ArticleDo we need normals? The Eyes Have It, Frankenstein visits Shanghai and Mike...
There are days when I wonder about the future of Machinima, or is it that I worry about my future in Machinima and then project that on everyone else, whether they like it or not?I have, yet again,...
View ArticleDear Fairy by Tom Jantol
Dear Fairy from Tom Jantol on Vimeo.Just in case you missed this.
View ArticleMachinima, Opensim, Second Life – Oh My?
For the past several months I have been working on an idea that if all “my stuff” could be downsized into a backpack and a computer bag, can life become a little less complicated. With the advances of...
View ArticleMoviestorm Featured Movie Criteria
Matt Kelland, one of Moviestorm's founders, was asked what criteria the team uses to choose the movies which are featured, both on site and in various other locations online, and within the program...
View ArticleJournal of Visual Culture Machinima Edition - free for a month
http://vcu.sagepub.com/content/currentI was very pleased to be asked to contribute to this edition.Reading Henry Lowood's introduction I was surprised to realise that this year's machinima expo shares...
View ArticleThe empty net....
I had a funny thought yesterday.What if there are a lot less people actively using the internet than is generally assumed?You are a geek right? Or married to a geek or at least hunkering down on the...
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Syberia - a story within a game
I'm just about coming to the end of this game. A puzzle adventure with an intriguing story.I'm not sure why it took me so long to realise that games existed which I not only like, but find...
View ArticleRenpy and the Fairies in Peril
My first forays in things 'machinima' were slideshow stories made using the Sims, like this example. Just your general everyday transexual detective captures fairy kidnappers tale. (what was I...
View ArticleIt's been 2 years, 4 months, 20 days since my last post...
This is probably the length of time since my Dad's diagnosis of asbestosis. He passed away last December. In my free time, I found myself wanting to escape into other things, and of course the...
View ArticleThe Great TMUnderground Revivial - Machinima Community Site
Having left the Expo Exec, and looking for ways to reconnect with the community I revisited TMUnderground The core of this community first met through the Lionhead *The Movies* community, and went on...
View ArticleTMU Video Archive Choice - Infiltration 1 by Throwaxe
Made using the Movies and added to TMU in 2008, Infiltration Part 1 is one of those machinima films where you can kick back and just get lost in the story. Some great choices of camera angles, and I...
View ArticleComedy Video Choice - The Plague by Homemadeeye
I know it's supposed to be spooky video week, but this superbly written comedy really took my fancy. The number of expectation switchbacks are breathtaking. You might be offended if you live in...
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Gorgeous Western Film in Production by TMU member direx1974
Direx saysI just want to introduce my new project "The Journey". It is a classic western about a man who revenges the murder of his indian wife. The movie will be about 25 minutes long and I will...
View ArticleFun horror by TehPoptartKid "Night of the Living Mannequins"
Wonderful use of the Movies engine, which goes to show that program users can keep products going to great effect when software sellers have long ago lost interest. Amazing how many great movies still...
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