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Machinima Festival UK Winners - SL takes 3!

With the award ceremony taking place yesterday at around 10am PDT, you would think that the award winners would have been announced shortly thereafter. Instead, I've been pacing the floor and scouring the internet searching for a sign. I finally found the winners on a blog, called Free Pixel, and I must say, 3 out of 9 total nominations for SL aren't bad.

At last year's Machinima Festival, in New York, SLers received 7 nominations over 4 people, and only one person won. That was Eric Call, for his Linden Lab hype machinima, Silver Bells and Golden Spurs. I'm excited to see that our numbers have grown. For the complete list of winners, check out Free Pixel's blog. Congrats to the nominees and winners!

Here is a list of the Second Life winners:
  • Best Commercial - When the Postman Spits Twice - SL-Inworld Productions
  • Best Technical - Machinima Island - la.interactiva
  • Best Series - The Grid Review - ILL Clan

Machinima Festival UK - Reallusion presentation

Not all of the speakers are recording their presentations for immediate playback, but one speaker, John Martin of Reallusion, had the foresight to do just that! He couldn't make it to the Festival, so he streamed live, using his webcam and desktop, to a website, Operator 11. It allows you to upload webcam media and play it in real time. You can find the high quality version of his iClone demo here.

One of the most common questions that I'm asked about making machinima in SL is how I make my avatar's lips move. Reallusion just so happens to make this wonderful software, CrazyTalk, that is my companion in filmmaking. John demonstrates both CrazyTalk, using our very own SL resident Aren Mandala's work as an example, and their other program, iClone. That software is a 3d engine for filmmaking, but can ALSO be used in conjunction with Second Life through chroma keying. It's nice to see Second Life being recognized!

Machinima Festival UK - I was going to tell you ...

I was going to tell you that the UK Machinima Festival is being streamed right now from 2:30am-9am PDT/SLT on both Saturday and Sunday. I was going to tell you that SLers account for a whopping 8 nominations! I was going to tell you that we're all gathered at Hathead II island to watch the stream. I was ALSO going to tell you that you could watch it online from Quicktime.

Then I found out that the actual awards ceremony won't be streamed. I discovered when I got here that it would be recorded and aired online on the 20th. This is extremely disappointing as us Americans were planning to stay up to watch the content all morning, and now we don't even get a payoff. If you are attending the awards ceremony, PLEASE email us and let us know if we won anything!

If you are still interested in watching, you can find the program here.

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