It's interesting to watch the diffusion of any technology. Watching the SL/Bottom-up VW snowball aggregate has certainly been a wicked good time. Machinima seems to be on a similar S-curve. To date, the most significant machinima "blips" I've noticed are: 1) Machinima at Sundance, 2) the info that Spielberg's son, Sam, is way into the budding genre, 3) the notion that MTV is FINALLY very aware of the power of Machinima, various sources (tangental note: Viacom has recently acquired Neopets and MTV is hotly in bed with Microsoft), and 4) the awesome Sims machinima commercials that have been airing. (Please respond with any other big blips I may have omitted.)
So here's Blip #5:It appears a Frenchman has used "The Movies" game, designed by the nototious Peter Molyneux, to articulate a political message about the recent riots, and it's getting broad attention. (Click here for original article.) Surely this is the first of many such projects.
Other thoughts: 1) SL is right now euipped to TOTALLY DESTROY The Movies as a machinima factory/business platform (due to bottom-up object creation -- SL users can outdevelop any top-down studio a thousand times over). It just requires a central, simple organizing business model to take advantage of the myriad micro-studios and college students just waiting to externalize their imagination in a better format... 2) Bye-bye storyboard classical storyboard artists and set designers. Get with the times. Word up.
even the london police are getting into the business!
http://www.itsnotagame.org/index.htm#
Posted by: glitchy | December 15, 2005 at 07:54 AM
You missed the Volvo commercial (think I blogged about that some time ago). Extremely influential.
You might have missed my post on "The French Democracy" (I discovered it on my own before all the press hit). Here's the link: http://blog.rebang.com/index.php?p=445
And you might want to keep an eye on what Paul Marino has been doing. His "[i]I'm Still Seeing Breen[/i]" music video has some excellent lip-synch using HL2's system (which I've been wanting to try since first reading about it over a year ago; prior to the game's release). Paul is an SL'er, iirc. I've been telling people about the machinima he's made, but not blogged about it. Perhaps I should...
Posted by: csven | December 15, 2005 at 09:22 AM
Taking into account the aforementioned machinima developments, here's an updated list of Machinima Diffusion Blips:
1. The Volvo Commercial
2. Paul Marino's Stuff @ http://blog.machinima.org/ and http://www.machinima.org
3. The London police http://www.itsnotagame.org/index.htm#
4. Machinima at Sundance (Paul Marino was involved in this, right?)
5. Sam Spielberg, son of the master moviemaker, into Machinima
6. MTV understands the potential comm/ent. power of Machinima (making appropriate mergers)
7. Sims Commercials
8. Can we come up with
9. three more Blips so that we
10. can call this a Top Ten List?
Posted by: alvisbrigis | December 15, 2005 at 12:55 PM
i'd take sam spielberg out of there. until he actually does anything with machima besides getting a sweet desk job (as he should with his connections) he doesn't deserve a spot.
1. french riots done with "the movies"
2. sims commericals/ the strangerhood episodes
3. volvo commerical
4. red vs. blue on MTV's TRL (http://rvb.roosterteeth.com/archive/episode.php?id=175)
5. "the movies: the game" is released and has tens of thousands of submissions within the first week
6. london police "knife city" video
7. news coverage of kuma reality games's john kerry/mekong delta simulation
8. mtv2 premieres "video mods"
9. tron
10. doom: the movie's usage of FPS camera angle
9-10 are debatable : )
Posted by: glitchy | December 15, 2005 at 01:42 PM
I'd simply add the Machinima.com site, since before they went live the machinima community was *very* small and fragmented.
I'd add Fountainhead Entertainment to this list as well. They've done a couple of relatively influential pieces. I'm not sure, but they might be the first real company established to use machinima for the purpose of making short films and the like.
There's also the new documentary using machinima that was recently covered on Wired. Good article. That'll make some waves I figure. Might be out in time to add to your list.
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