OverByte #3
- Text, Drugs & Rock ‘n’ Roll - An insightful analysis of interactive storytelling, how it is most in tune with who we are as beings and what we expect from life.
- Free Pixel - What makes a machinima film ‘good’? See the comments, too!
- mPATHx - I’ve been following development on this piece of hardware for a few years; I’m told it is now very close to hitting market. Could be tremendously valuable for anyone who deals with a lot of onboard gear for either music or even machinima and home entertainment setups.
- FILM: A GMan Story (Take 2) - It’s rough. It’s downright amateurish. And it’s a JOY to watch. (particularly for fans of the Half-Life series of games, like me)
- Paul Lewis’ iClone Character Creation Video Tutorials - A master iClone character designer, and a great teacher.
- iClone 2.5 Video Tutorials by James Martin - Ready your pause button, these tutorials are traveling at the Speed Of James. Phenomenal stuff.
- Video Tutorials on Google Sketchup from the author of Google SketchUp for Dummies
- Torley Linden’s Guide to High Quality Second Life Photography - Very useful info for those wanting to capture a good image in this virtual world.
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Re: mPATHx - seems like an awful lot of hype and time in development for what is basically a rackmount switching power supply/PDU, but maybe my EE background just makes me cynical.
Comment by Elf — December 1, 2007 @ 10:22 pm
Great collection of links, Phil. I love it when you do this. Please put these together more often. I think I’ll do the same for the machiniplex blog.
I like the Gman story film, too, despite the tech limitations. You know, IClone is being being overshadowed by Moviestorm quite a bit recently, but they’ve got some great new stuff coming in the new year. IClone 3.0 + new Crazy Talk. I was reading an article about IClone hooking up with a new, cheap mo-cap program coming out next year that sounds amazing. Where’s that link? ah..here:
http://digitalcontentproducer.com/dcc/revfeat/video_mark_in_0907/
Animazoo is the name of the company.
The advantage IClone has is that it’s been in development longer than Moviestorm. I dont’ think it’s as easy to use as MS, but it’s still quite a useful and interesting program for the machinima filmmaker. With the coming upgrades it will be even better.
-Ricky
Comment by Ricky Grove — December 2, 2007 @ 2:25 pm
PS I don’t seem to get updates at Free Pixel, so I didn’t realize the debate and comments had continued there. I’ve update my comments today. I hope others will read and respond to Michael’s excellent post on “what makes a machinima film good”? I think the debate is a good one and I think represents some of the current problems/solutions to contemporary machinima filmmaking.
Comment by Ricky Grove — December 2, 2007 @ 3:10 pm
Loving the art links Phil (unusual colour comb at HB etc.)
Comment by Kate — December 3, 2007 @ 8:11 am