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FreePixel looks at video games as part of the moving image culture. Games are not movies. But games use moving image tradition in their presentation. That is why FreePixel offers a critical look at games and their expressive qualities that grow from the use of the moving image.

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[Archive for October, 2008]

horrific new conference call for papers

Posted by Erik

Not suggesting for a moment that  Free Pixel is a cart horse for academic conference calls, but this CFP is so atypical, so skin-peelingly fascinating, and so potentially related to machinima it was literally crying out to be posted.

The international conference “Thinking After Dark: Welcome to the World of Horror Video Games” unites [...]

Machinima Symposium, Singapore

Posted by Erik

I know nothing about this apart from what the website says, and that it is co-located with SIGGRAPH ASIA.
But please drop me a note if you are attending, or want to give us an update on the content (I am presenting at SIGGRAPH ASIA and will try to turn up here too).
UPDATE: Try http://machinima.eventbrite.com/ to [...]

Brian Henson on the future of digital puppeteering (talk)

Posted by Michael

Recently I had the chance to visit Brian Henson’s talk on the Henson approach to digital puppeteering held at the Center for Puppetry Arts here in Atlanta. He has given that talk before but there are not very many experts that have his kind of credentials and pedigree. So, this is the rough write up [...]