Overman's Blog

Hosoi Ichiba Machinima Competition 2010

Submitted by Overman on Tue, 03/09/2010 - 11:36

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

Submitted by Overman on Fri, 03/05/2010 - 15:27

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?

Submitted by Overman on Tue, 03/02/2010 - 12:12

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

Submitted by Overman on Mon, 03/01/2010 - 11:37

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

Submitted by Overman on Thu, 02/25/2010 - 15:45

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

Submitted by Overman on Sat, 02/06/2010 - 09:42

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

Submitted by Overman on Thu, 02/04/2010 - 13:30

Directed by Andrew Huang.

Shifting Terms

Submitted by Overman on Wed, 02/03/2010 - 13:30

There's a degree to which one can get obsessed with the vocabulary of one's chosen profession / hobby, where it becomes an annoying distraction. I've been trying to consciously steer myself clear of that as a generally unproductive practice. But at the same time, language interests me, and how we choose to talk about things and the names we assign to those things do have meaning on some level.

Machinima Concert in France

Submitted by Overman on Tue, 02/02/2010 - 13:30

The latest film by Des Riches Douaniers, "Breathless: Excerpt from the Diary of a Madman," will be premiering at the Olympia Dijon, a French cinema house at 16 Avenue Marechal Foch in Dijon, which is about 200 km southeast of Paris. (See map below) The event takes place this Friday, February 5th, at 8:00 p.m.

Breech Galaxy

Submitted by Overman on Mon, 02/01/2010 - 13:30

This came through the DailyMotion Machinima Group the other day. Looks like fairly large scale sci-fi project, being produced in a highly modified The Movies.

Machinima