Check out www.childsplaycharity.org for more information.

And be sure to check out www.onesharedvision.com every Monday for the next few Mondays, where you’ll find new videos by other machinimators promoting this great cause!

Click through here to be able to watch this in HD if you can.

Tom Jantol put together this exquisite video, narrated by Frank L. Fox, as the header for the reel showing at his MachinExpo exhibit. Based on this text that Tom and I put together a few years ago now, it introduces the viewer to the philosophy of Anymation. You can find this text in virtual book form at his exhibit or in the vending machine near the Expo entrance. This, and other exhibits, are open for the remainder of this week, so if you didn’t get a chance to check out Tom’s work, grab some popcorn and a friend and head over to the MachinExpo site in Second Life while you still can.

SLURL: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Jamville/151/214/23

1. Event: NVision 08 / San Jose, CA; August 25-27, 2008 / Quite an interesting lineup this year, including a concentrated machinima emphasis.
2. Event: 2008 DragonCon Film Festival / Atlanta, GA; August 29 to September 1, 2008 / Currently looking for suggestions, panelist participants, and machinima video submissions.
3. Event: Revelation Perth International Film Festival / Perth, WA, Australia; July 3 to 13, 2008 / Leon Marvell is organizing an experimental machinima exhibition this year in memory of Peter Rasmussen.
4. SIGGRAPH Asia 2008 / Singapore; December 10 to 13, 2008 / They are explicitly calling for machinima submissions; I’m not sure they’ve always done that, have they?
5. Paper: What Counts as a View? - a study of various video-sharing sites to understand this unit of measurement we all use from time to time.
6. Exposition: Experiments in Machinima - A nice treatment of some experimental machinima work, presented by Harrison Heller (Nefarious Guy of Amorphous Blob Productions)
7. Notice: Brightcove Video Sharing Service is discontinuing its Pay Media model
8. Upgrade: Sims99 Expands User Profiles to include Blogs, more

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Watch it in HD at Vimeo - http://www.vimeo.com/1054468
(blow it up to full screen if you like)

Constructed for the AniBoom Radiohead Music Video Contest. Like what you see?
PLEASE VOTE for it there at:
http://www.aniboom.com/Player.aspx?v=225612

For more info and downloads in Hi Def, DivX or QuickTime, for your iPod, and so on, go to:
http://z-studios.com/films/bodysnatchers/

Nobody in machinima-based anymation is exploring the surreal, the symbolic, the strange… to the degree that Croatian filmmaker Tom Jantol is doing. This stuff is just awe-inspiring.