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[Archive for April, 2008]

Fly it. Film it. Edit it

Posted by Michael

These days the game engines seem to become more a nuisance then an empowerment to machinima artists. Once upon a time there were discussions whether any postproduction should be allowed in machinima and the ILL clan forced even their title sequence to Hardly Workin’ into Quake. Today there is rarely any machinima film on the [...]

Urban Screen 08 call for posters (& movies?)

Posted by Erik

Just imagine your machinima here..
Urban Screens Melbourne 08 is the third, ground-breaking international conference and multimedia exhibition in a series of worldwide Urban Screens events. It will mark the official launch of the International Urban Screens Association and will take place 3.-8. October at Federation Square, Melbourne.
Conference: Mobile Publics 3-5 October 2008
Outdoor Multimedia Program: [...]

Matt Dominianni at GDX

Posted by Michael

The Atlanta branch of the Savannah College of Art and Design is holding its Game Developer’s Exchange and among a range of the usual suspects (Zimmerman, Fullerton, Crawford, Costikyan – half of the Georgia Tech  Digital Media faculty) Matt Dominianni of ILL Clan fame will be there. Matt and I are on a round table [...]

Make Something Unreal – Again

Posted by Michael

I assume this has been all over the boards but I only now stumbled over the new Make Something Unreal contest. Given that the last one did produce some outstanding results, I am very much looking forward to see what the new one brings. It might be a good measure to see whether machinima is [...]