Posts Tagged ‘ machinima ’

D-Briefs: Ogoglio Demo, IBM, CBS, Playboy

These are busy days in the metaverse! Get your B-Town 3D on tonight with the latest metaverse meetup, which features Ogoglio’s Trevor Smith demo’ing his open-source 3D spaces project. The evening starts at everyone’s favorite Williamsburg retro video game bar, Barcade, before proceeding into the night — or into Jerry’s apartment. Also, check out machinima [ READ MORE ]

D-Briefs: Second Life, Little Big Planet, Politics

Two SL videos, an interview with Little Big Planet, and the first presidential campaign to have an official SL presence. I suspect headline-writing is going to be the hardest thing about these D-Briefs I’ve started doing. By the way, does anyone have a “briefs” icon I can use for these? Feel free to send it [ READ MORE ]

Paul Verhoeven to Hold Auditions in Second Life

It seems Dutch director Paul Verhoeven (of such classics as Robocop and Showgirls, but also Soldier of Orange) will use the virtual world of Second Life to audition actors for an upcoming film. According to a press release, radio and television spots are advertising an open call for all those interested in auditioning for Black [ READ MORE ]

At Home With Cruxy: Multi-Platform Media

Just took a nice stroll over to Park Slope from the 3pointCrib to have a chat with Nathan Freitas and Jon Oakes, two of the co-founders of Cruxy, the new(-ish) Web site for independent musicians, filmmakers and other artists to promote and sell their work. (The third co-founder is Web services wizard Will Meyer, who’s [ READ MORE ]

New Episodes From SecondCast, Grid Review

Episode #53 of SecondCast is up on the SecondCast site (or can be listened to in the sidebar here, or downloaded from iTunes), and it’s fairly hilarious right off the bat. Like really hilarious, as in the first three minutes will have you on the floor. And the bleeps! Hear Lordfly file an abuse report [ READ MORE ]

Machinima Picking Up Steam?

The Guardian Gamesblog has a post today about a machinima contest held recently by EA that awarded the best short film made in The Sims 2. The winning entry is actually being screened at cinemas in the UK. (It looks like the contest was UK-centric. Was there an earlier one in the US?) What with [ READ MORE ]

Fox Atomic Holds SL Machinima, Photo Contests

Interactive online community site Fox Atomic is launching a machinima and photography contest in the virtual world of Second Life, with an eight-day trip to Costa Rica for two as the grand prize. Yes, that’s the real Costa Rica, not the virtual version. The news comes from a blog entry from Millions of Us, which [ READ MORE ]

CBS Airs Machinima Spot Ahead of SuperBowl

I missed it, unfortunately, but I’m told CBS just aired a promo spot for its Monday-night comedy Two And A Half Men during the SuperBowl pre-game show. What’s special about that? The spot was a machinima promo, shot in the virtual world of Second Life (as far as I know), and produced by the Electric [ READ MORE ]

James Cameron’s Virtual World Film Greenlit

Filmmaker James Cameron of Titanic fame (and, probably more importantly to readers of this blog, The Terminator), has just gotten the go-ahead on his next film. What interests 3pointD about this is the fact that it will be filmed in a moviemaking version of a virtual world, and new details of the process have emerged [ READ MORE ]

Four-Eyed Monsters to Screen in Second Life

Four Eyed Monsters, the movie I’ve been blogging about periodically here, is finally getting its screening in the virtual world of Second Life, tomorrow at 5pm SL time (8pm Eastern). The screening will take place at the Sundance Channel‘s Second Life »screening room«, as part of Sundance’s entry into SL. (Sundance is a client of [ READ MORE ]

Grid Review Launches SL Machinima Newscasts

Check out the Grid Review, the new project from the Electric Sheep Company (3pointD sponsor, etc.) and PR agency Edelman. Launched to bring news of the grid via short machinima pieces, the service premieres with, among other things, a hilarious interview with the “avatar” everyone loves to hate, CopyBot. Talented machinimists Nylon Pinkney and moo [ READ MORE ]

Sundance Stalks SL With Four Eyed Monsters

The Sundance Channel is coming to the virtual world of Second Life in January, with a virtual premiere of 3pointD’s favorite movie of recent weeks, Four Eyed Monsters, according to a press release. “Sundance Channel’s SL screening room will be used to showcase films, documentaries, shorts and original series and to host unique interactive events [ READ MORE ]

Wild Griefer Wins There.com

Well, the There Film Festival, anyway. Check out “Wild Griefer,” the winning entry, by There.com resident Francis_7. The film is a five-minute music video based on a song by the same name, written by Thereians Banshee_Kate and Stungthumbz. And it’s all about griefing! (Of course, as There.com’s press release points out, “The lyrics and dialogue [ READ MORE ]

Edelman, Sheep To Fund SL Business Plans

Absolutely love this idea: In an effort to foster entrepreneurialism within Second Life, Edelman and The Electric Sheep Company are teaming up to sponsor a Second Life Business Plan competition. . . . Over the next few months, we will be accepting business plan entries, and the winner of the contest can gain sole access [ READ MORE ]

Virtual Life TV Gets Channel 4, Sci-Fi Channel

The UK’s Guardian newspaper reports today that among the television channels being brought to Second Life by virtual-world services company Rivers Run Red are the UK’s Channel 4 and, appropriately enough, the Sci-Fi channel. The story also confirms that user-created content will be part of Virtual Life TV, which is due to launch at the [ READ MORE ]

SecondCast Goes to the Machinima Festival

Check out SecondCast, Episode #42, in which Johnny Ming roams the halls of the 2006 Machinima Festival of the Academy of Machinima Arts and Sciences. (I was there too, but would only sit still to be interviewed by Johnny about the New York City “Pay Walker’s Rent” Marathon.) There was some great machinima on display, [ READ MORE ]

A Double Dose of SecondCast, With Machinima

Two new episodes of SecondCast, Johnny Ming’s weekly podcast about the virtual world of Second Life, on which I’m a regular co-host, just hit the pipes. Episode 40 is one of our regular newscasts — though a particularly cogent and informative one, for a change. Episode 39, on the other hand, is a horse of [ READ MORE ]

Diary of a Mercenary Op in EVE Online

For a great picture of just how involved things can get in the massively multiplayer space opera EVE Online, read this epic forum post, which narrates a three-week long campaign on the part of one of the game’s better known mercenary corporations. Hired to take down a corp called Interstellar Alcohol Conglomerate, the mercs lay [ READ MORE ]

South Park Plays World of Warcraft

SLBoutique‘s FlipperPA Peregrine flags a Slashdot post about the fact that World of Warcraft will be featured in tonight’s season premiere of South Park, of all things. Check out the video clip. As Flip points out, this is probably the first mainstream appearance of machinima. Here’s Blizzard’s press release about the episode, which sees Cartman, [ READ MORE ]

New Pierce Portocarrero Machinima

Second Life resident Pierce Portocarrero, one of the virtual world’s most gifted creators of the in-world filmmaking art known as machinima, has been on hiatus of late. He returns this week with a new piece that’s even better than the ones I’ve seen before. Check out Game Over, which aired in-world as part of the [ READ MORE ]

SecondCast #34: And Now, The News

The latest episode of SecondCast, the only Second Life podcast that matters, is now available for your listening pleasure. We stick to the news in episode #34, covering Grid crashes, power outages at Linden Lab, and Hamlet’s recent video interview and wandering tongue, among other things. With special guest co-host, machinima queen Moo Money, for [ READ MORE ]

Machinima Festival On Again

The Academy of Machinima Arts and Sciences is once again holding its annual Machinima Festival and Machinima Awards (known as “the Mackies”), on November 4-5 at the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens, New York. In recent years the festival has had a bit of trouble finding a home, so it’s great to know [ READ MORE ]

A Virtual World Propaganda Machine?

Machinima-master Paul Marino sends along the news of a machinima piece that’s come under scrutiny by the U.S. House Intelligence Committee recently. “The machinima was held up by ‘experts’ as propaganda and recruiting material for terrorists,” Paul writes. (And there’s video here.) While that doesn’t seem to be what’s actually happening, it’s interesting to consider [ READ MORE ]

New Media Consortium’s SL Video

Finally had a chance to check out the video that was produced for the New Media Consoritum, showcasing their campus in Second Life. (Both campus and video were created by the Electric Sheep Company, 3pointD’s only sponsor at the moment.) The video, shot by talented SL machinima-maker Pierce Portocarrero, showcases what is a truly impressive [ READ MORE ]

More Machinima in Second Life

The Second Life Future Salon has found a new date for its machinima night after the last one had to be postponed due to a Grid-crashing attack on the virtual world. The event takes places this Thursday, May 25, at 5:00pm SL time, and features SL filmmaker Pierce Portocarrero and Paul Marino, who runs the [ READ MORE ]

SL Machinimist Pierce Portocarrero on the Web

Second Life resident Pierce Portocarrero is one of the virtual world’s premier machinima-makers. Part of the team working on the Ideal World documentary about SL fashion designer Nephilaine Protagonist (a film that will combine real-world and virtual-world footage), Pierce is also an enthusiastic SL resident, and seems to love digging up cool stuff and filming [ READ MORE ]

Securing a User-Created Metaverse

About two weeks ago, we asked the question, Will Second Life Ever Be Safe? That day may come, but it hasn’t yet arrived. As noted in the previous post here, the virtual world of Second Life was today hit by yet another attack that necessitated Linden Lab‘s closing its Grid, the third time in two [ READ MORE ]