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== Allen Kerensky ==
== Allen Kerensky ==
[http://world.secondlife.com/resident/aa4fa268-fb05-45a5-8d9d-dc77a1ab9437 Allen Kerensky] is a machinimist(? machinimator? machinimatographer? just plain animator?) working in collaboration with [http://lunadude.com/ Moebius Overdrive] since October 2005, and as a founding contributor to [[Alt-Zoom Studios]].
[http://world.secondlife.com/resident/aa4fa268-fb05-45a5-8d9d-dc77a1ab9437 Allen Kerensky] is a machinimist(? machinimator? machinimatographer? just plain animator?) working in collaboration with [http://lunadude.com/ Moebius Overdrive] since October 2005, and as a founding contributor to [[Alt-Zoom Studios]].
=== Filmography ===
* [http://lunadude.blip.tv/file/514585 '''Scream In The Dark of the Night''' (2005)]
** Winner: Worst Acting and Worst Story, 1st Annual Ed Wood Film Festival, 2005.
** Featured on the SecondLife homepage for more than a year afterwards.
* [http://lunadude.blip.tv/file/636770 '''START''' (2006)]
** Critically acclaimed steampunk compared to Isaac Asimov at machinima.com.
* [http://lunadude.blip.tv/file/860797/ '''SekretMenuz''' (2006)]
** SL Community Gathering 2006 introduction film.
** Best story award for Take5 Festival, August 2006.
* [http://lunadude.blip.tv/file/514577 '''A Zombie Stole My Heart''' (2006)]
** Winner: Worst Film, 2nd Annual Ed Wood Film Festival, 2006.
* [http://lunadude.blip.tv/file/514563 '''It Came From The Origin of Where Bad Things Come From''' (2007)]
** Winner, 2nd place at 3rd Annual Ed Wood Film Festival, 2007.


=== Crew Credits ===
=== Crew Credits ===
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* Final editing
* Final editing


=== Filmography ===
=== Affiliations ===
* [http://lunadude.blip.tv/file/514585 '''Scream In The Dark of the Night''' (2005)]
* Alt-Zoom Studios, Lukanida
** Winner: Worst Acting and Worst Story, 1st Annual Ed Wood Film Festival, 2005.
* MachiniMafia, Old Town
** Featured on the SecondLife homepage for more than a year afterwards.
 
* [http://lunadude.blip.tv/file/636770 '''START''' (2006)]
=== Tips ===
** critically acclaimed steampunk compared to Isaac Asimov at machinima.com.
* Set your SL Viewer to NTSC or PAL before recording, using the File Menu -> Switch Window Size submenu.
* '''SekretMenuz''' (2006)
* Enable Advanced Menu with CTRL-ALT-SHIFT-D
** SL Community Gathering intro film.
* Use Advanced Menu -> Debug Settings -> Play Typing Anim -> FALSE to stop people from adding typing sounds to your captures
** Best story award for Take5 Festival, August 2006.
* Linux users can use xmodmap -e "keycode 67 = F1 F1" to stop Linux from switching to text console when pressing CTRL-ALT-F1.  
* [http://lunadude.blip.tv/file/514577 '''A Zombie Stole My Heart''' (2006)]
** xmodmap -e "keycode 67 = F1 XF86_Switch_VT_1" to restore normal Linux behavior
** Winner: Worst Film, 2nd Annual Ed Wood Film Festival, 2006.
* Parcel Owners can build huge video walls to use as easily selectable backdrops without requiring you to pay to upload tons of textures.
* [http://lunadude.blip.tv/file/514563 '''It Came From The Origin of Where Bad Things Come From''' (2007)]
** Project quicktime on the media texture as a form of animated rear-projection.
** 3rd Annual Ed Wood Film Festival, 2007.
** Quicktime shows MANY media types as its stream, including still or animated images such as GIF.
 
=== Platform ===
* Hardware
** Athlon X2 64 4000+ (2.1GHz dual-proc) with 4GB RAM and 320GB storage
** nVidia GeForce 8600GT, PCIE, 256MB
** nVidia High-Definiton Audio
** Logitech USB headset microphone
* Software
** Fedora Linux 8, 64-bit operating system
** nVidia unified driver and OpenGL
** Pulse Audio networked sound engine over ALSA
** SL Viewer for rendering
** Motor Mouth for realtime facial animation
** Istanbul for video capture
** Pitivi for video editing
** Audacity for audio editing
** MPlayer for audio stream capture
** IceCast for audio streaming into SL
** GIMP for building titles and credits
 


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Revision as of 16:47, 11 May 2008

Allen Kerensky

Allen Kerensky is a machinimist(? machinimator? machinimatographer? just plain animator?) working in collaboration with Moebius Overdrive since October 2005, and as a founding contributor to Alt-Zoom Studios.

Filmography

Crew Credits

  • Story developer
  • Screenwriter
  • Voice actor
  • Avatar actor
  • Music and sound FX coordination
  • LSL scripting
  • Final editing

Affiliations

  • Alt-Zoom Studios, Lukanida
  • MachiniMafia, Old Town

Tips

  • Set your SL Viewer to NTSC or PAL before recording, using the File Menu -> Switch Window Size submenu.
  • Enable Advanced Menu with CTRL-ALT-SHIFT-D
  • Use Advanced Menu -> Debug Settings -> Play Typing Anim -> FALSE to stop people from adding typing sounds to your captures
  • Linux users can use xmodmap -e "keycode 67 = F1 F1" to stop Linux from switching to text console when pressing CTRL-ALT-F1.
    • xmodmap -e "keycode 67 = F1 XF86_Switch_VT_1" to restore normal Linux behavior
  • Parcel Owners can build huge video walls to use as easily selectable backdrops without requiring you to pay to upload tons of textures.
    • Project quicktime on the media texture as a form of animated rear-projection.
    • Quicktime shows MANY media types as its stream, including still or animated images such as GIF.

Platform

  • Hardware
    • Athlon X2 64 4000+ (2.1GHz dual-proc) with 4GB RAM and 320GB storage
    • nVidia GeForce 8600GT, PCIE, 256MB
    • nVidia High-Definiton Audio
    • Logitech USB headset microphone
  • Software
    • Fedora Linux 8, 64-bit operating system
    • nVidia unified driver and OpenGL
    • Pulse Audio networked sound engine over ALSA
    • SL Viewer for rendering
    • Motor Mouth for realtime facial animation
    • Istanbul for video capture
    • Pitivi for video editing
    • Audacity for audio editing
    • MPlayer for audio stream capture
    • IceCast for audio streaming into SL
    • GIMP for building titles and credits
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