What a stellar lineup! Voting starts today at the Bitfilm Festival site.
Nominees:
This is a bit anticlimactic, after having just learned that Tom Jantol’s Wizard of OS: The Fish Incident is an official selection in the I’ve Seen Films International Short Film Festival (yes, that is Rutger Hauer, who is on the jury along with Ridley Scott!) — CONGRATULATIONS, TOM!! — … but I’ve got a bit of an announcement myself.
Male Restroom Etiquette has been selected to be part of the Animation WebJam ‘08, hosted by Jerry and Orrin Zucker (of the Emmy Award-Winning It’s Jerrytime). The internet animation festival will begin its tour of big screens at Coolidge Corner Theater in Brookline, MA. From there, the fest will be making stops in the hometowns of many of the creators of its films. I’m hoping it will work out to where that can include my own neighborhood. More info is available at animationwebjam.com.
Last night, while I was sifting through my Google Reader stack for the evening, a message came from a friend across a Gmail chat channel. “Microsoft has dropped the hammer.”
“Huh?”
“… just confirmed, Machinima.com is suspended from YouTube…”
Oh my. I needed to contact some people who are “in the know” and might be able to corroborate the rumor. Immediately, I powered up Skype to flag down Moo Money… no answer. Grrr, I fired up Twitter and sent an unintentionally overcryptic message to Johnnie Ingram, hoping he might be burning some midnight oil at the Short Fuze office… nothing. I emailed Hugh Hancock, “I think something big is going down…” He was probably in bed too.
Speculation was flying fast and furious about what circumstances had led to M.com’s legal troubles. We tried visiting their site, too, and found it unavailable. Holy crap, this is bigger than we thought. It must be some kind of all-encompassing Cease & Desist order! Is this the beginning of the end of game machinima?
(more…)
Morbid, if you’re sensitive. Hilarious, if you’re in the right mood.
Next Machinima Audio Conference
– Date/Time: Saturday, April 26, 2008 @ 2:00 p.m. Second Life Time (Pacific - PST)
– Verify for your time zone: World Time Server
– Location: Fleef Fimicoloud’s place in Second Life
– More info: Audio Conference Main Page
Next Machiniplex Premiere - Tom Jantol’s “The Fish Incident”
– Date/Time: Sunday, April 27, 2008 @ 12:00 p.m. Second Life Time (Pacific - PST)
– Verify for your time zone: World Time Server
– Location: HatHead’s Lounge in Second Life
– More Info: Machiniplex3 Blog Entry
Submission Deadline for The Overcast Machinima Contest
– Date/Time: Sunday, April 27, 2008 @ 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time
– Verify for your time zone: World Time Server
– More info: Overcast Contest Info Page
Hey there, friends and fiends! I need your help with something.
I’m entering a video in Aniboom’s Radiohead music video contest. It uses source footage from Moviestorm, Second Life, some “real life” chroma-keyed action, and more, wrapped up in a Photoshop type of motif. Sounds like a mouthful, I know… to sum up, it’s an Anymation video - a hybrid made from machinima and non-machinima tools alike to get the job done. Similar method to what you’ve seen in What I Love About Christmas, but taken to a whole different level. I’m really enthused about it (can’t you tell?).
Stage 1 of the competition is submission of storyboards; I’ve done so, prefaced with a sample of the style of animation to follow in the final. On Monday the 27th of April, a jury will be picking 10 finalists, based in part on the audience response to the submissions.
That’s where you come in. Would you lend me a little “audience response” to my 2-minute storyboard vid please? (Preferably before this Monday the 27th)
To do so, simply register at Aniboom (it’s free and appears to be hassle-free), then visit my video and rate it:
http://www.aniboom.com/Player.aspx?v=208584
Thank you so much!
