[Archive for August, 2009]
Verion premiere tonight
Posted by fiezi
A small plug that the live-animation/theatre production I was working on for the last 4 months – VERION – is premiering tonight in Trondheim, Norway. It’s a 75 minute show.
As it is in norwegian, it’s a bit tough for me to explain what exactly is going on – but it’s a sci-fi piece about breaking [...]
Posted: August 27th, 2009 under virtual performance.
Comments: 4
Machinima Academia Aug 26th
Posted by Michael
It seem the top-notch Dartmouth College is warming up to machinima:
I do not yet know what to think of it. In my humble opinion, some names and films should be added to their first outline. But what I found really funny is that is seems they use Italo Calvino’s ‘Invisible Cities‘ as a reference for [...]
Posted: August 24th, 2009 under site News.
Comments: 1
Limitations of the engine
Posted by Michael
Henry Lowood pointed me to this collaboration, 6 Days, of Diltz and DeLappe. As you can imagine, it is not your everyday machinima film but more of an experiment in machinima. I have to state upfront that I really like DeLappe’s work. He seems to really work very effectively on the task to bring the [...]
Posted: August 16th, 2009 under site News.
Comments: 3
Some notes on SIGGRAPH
Posted by Michael
Coming back from New Orleans and my first SIGGRAPH conference… Of course, I missed probably all the amazing sessions (e.g. I did not make it to the “Making a Feature-Length Animated Movie With a Game Engine” one).
But then again: Ricky grove attended a ton of sessions and it seems that that particular one was not [...]
Posted: August 10th, 2009 under site News.
Comments: 5