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[Archive for February, 2008]

Machinima at GDC 2008

Posted by Michael

GDC 2008 had some official sessions on machinima and some rather well hidden gems. In fact, very well hidden at times. The conference is simply too big to attend or even find every interesting talk so here are my impressions.
Oh, and I bumped into Paul Marino almost every step of the way – which was [...]

Ivyfilm looks for student machinima submission

Posted by Michael

The Ivyfilm festival opens up a machinima section for students this year. Deadline for submission March 16th. Harrison Heller or Amorphous Blob Production organizes this section in collaboration with machinima.com. Find more details here.
This woke up sleeping giants: namely the question what happened to the Machinima Film Festival in New York. I really miss it [...]

Machinima research: Second Life gets real

Posted by Michael

We have been working on a new machinima/ performance interface for some months and it is about time to post more info about it.
The basic idea of the AR Second Life project is to combine Augmented Reality with the MMO client of Second Life. Augmented Reality is the technology that attempts to blend virtual elements [...]