I am happy to announce that I will be working with Strange Company on their upcoming film, “BloodSpell.” I will be producing all foley / sound effects for the film, and will be overseeing production of the musical score, which will include the work of other artists as well as my own. Pretty exciting opportunity. I’ll keep you posted by way of this blog, though the meat of the production blogging will occur on the BloodSpell production journal some time after I begin work on Monday. (more…)
April 11, 1994 - February 22, 2006
R.I.P.
Virtual Stage 3 by Dakine Wave is certainly one of the EASIEST ways to get started with machinima. While the interface is of a unique paradigm, it is built around the production flow of the program and is easy to learn. (more…)
There has been a lot of talk about The Sims 2 as well as Lionhead’s The Movies amongst what I’d term more “traditional” machinima makers (and I’m no exception here), referring to those platforms almost with disdain because of the ease with which one can turn out a film in those engines. It’s not a stance against ease itself as much as it is a response to the resultant quantity of what many consider to be “lower quality” films which are the by-product of this production ease.
I can still remember when loop-based music (i.e. Acid) really started to become popular. I distinctly remember myself and fellow musicians immediately dismissing the whole notion as somehow “cheating” the musical process. “Music for Morons” and other such epithets. To someone who had worked and slaved to compose music in traditional ways, the acid genre seemed like a slap in the face. (more…)
It’s been eerily quiet in the Machinima community this weekend… the kind of “too quiet” that really can play tricks on a paranoid mind. So I’ve been spending the weekend distracting myself from that as much as possible. Here are the highlights: (more…)
deserve
v.tr.
To be worthy of; merit.
We’ve been having quite a lively discussion on the Machinima.com forums about the nature of the review and rating process, the pros and cons and so on. During the course of that debate, a word got introduced into the discussion which I’ve seen used elsewhere in similar context: deserve. As in, this or that film (or filmmaker) is deserving of a more prominent place in the public eye. (more…)
