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The New ZS (continued)

All in all I'm very pleased with the new layout and functionality, both for you as visitors and myself as administrator. Feedback seems to suggest many of you feel the same way, which is so great to hear. Below is an overview of new features I don't think I've talked about yet, and a progress report on the features that are still getting wrapped up.

Internet Premiere of Tom Jantol's "The Remake"

Tom Jantol: The Remake


Starring Charlie Chaplin, and featuring musical score by Phil Rice.

Premieres March 28, 2010

4:00 PM PST / 7:00 P.M. EST / 11:59 P.M. GMT

At TMUTheater.com

Tom Jantol will be present at the premiere chat to observe and interact.

Stop, Rewind

Director Harrison Heller tells me this short was in part inspired by Intervention, which I found very flattering. It's not without imperfections, but being a huge fan of the whole Memento sub-genre, I found this very enjoyable.

Hosoi Ichiba Machinima Competition 2010

The owners of a Second Life sim named Hosoi Ichiba have announced a competition to create a machinima video that best captures the spirit of their virtual world location. According to their description, "Hosoi Ichiba is an asian-themed market surrounding a meditation garden located on a traditional asian-themed island called Japan Kanto." From the look of the pictures on their blog, it's a really beautiful location.

3D is (Very Nearly) Here

I had an entirely different post planned for today, but it can wait because this is huge.

Still got your 3d glasses from when you went to see Avatar? Go get them. Seriously.

Ninjai: Geniuses or Jerks?

Well the Ninjai Gang have put out an update suggesting a Little Ninja feature-length motion picture is imminent. This news is, on the surface, immensely exciting... but a good friend of mine recently greeted the news with a barrage of curses.

Because you've already taken all the good "eye" puns

One of the big additions to the new ZS website was the addition of an e-store / marketplace. As I mentioned Friday, there's currently only one item in that store, but it's already receiving some very positive attention thanks to some generous promotion efforts from Moviestorm.

Overman's Nap Time is Over

I am happy to announce that the new and improved Zarathustra Studios is back online and (crossing my fingers) ready for visitors. I will be blogging next week about the details, but in short the features are:

Going Dark, Do Not Worry

I wanted to let you know that there is going to be some significant downtime for the z-studios.com domain (including this blog, the forum, etc.) in the coming weeks. I am giving the entire domain a full structural overhaul as well as launching a new graphical design for the site (i.e. "Rebranding").

RIFT

Directed by Andrew Huang.

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Tom
03/12/2010 - 14:14
thebiz, here is a quick bio: in love with animation. :)...
 
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03/12/2010 - 13:35
I had to hunt for more info on Tom. Perhaps a quick bio?...
 
Overman
03/12/2010 - 13:09
I've got some ideas on how to approach this in the future,...