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[Archive for April, 2007]

Digital Media Demo day

Posted by Michael

The Digital Media section at Georgia Tech holds its demo day next week – if you are around, please come by. Among the many projects shown will be some hopefully neat tools for machinima. (More about them in an upcoming post)
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We have many exciting demos to show off at this [...]

Afterworld and Haloid questions

Posted by Michael

So there seem to be two big shows one has to have seen these days: Afterworld (start watching this now! It will go daily in May and will turn into a YouTube frenzy) and Haloid. The cinematic references for both are rather obvious: La Jetee versus The Matrix. Afterworld puts the focus on character and [...]

academichima

Posted by Michael

Profs – sitting in the ivory tower and looking at the strange world around them – including machinima. Not necessarily a bad thing, as I will try to explain.
Recently looked through Machinima – Fading away? (yeah, I know I am slow) and realized that none of those posting machinima artists mentions academia. Grumbling weirdos these [...]