User:Allen Kerensky

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

• 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.
• START (2006)
  • Critically acclaimed steampunk compared to Isaac Asimov at machinima.com.
• SekretMenuz (2006)
  • SL Community Gathering 2006 introduction film.
  • Best story award for Take5 Festival, August 2006.
• A Zombie Stole My Heart (2006)
  • Winner: Worst Film, 2nd Annual Ed Wood Film Festival, 2006.
• 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

• 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
• Linux Software
  • Fedora Linux 8, 64-bit operating system
  • nVidia unified driver and OpenGL
  • Pulse Audio networked sound engine over ALSA
  • SL Viewer for rendering
  • 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
• SecondLife In-World Tools
  • Buhbuhcuh Fairchild's Alt-Zoom Machinima Cam, StillCam, Blocking Block, Basic Physics Scripts
  • Geuis Dassin's Filming Path HUD, CamTP HUD, and Motor Mouth for realtime facial animation
  • CodeBastard Redgraves' MachinimaCam HUD
  • RacerX Gullwing's Rez-Into-Place
  • Aimee Weber's Storm
  • Andrew Linden's Particle System Tool
  • My own homebrew animation controllers and HUD overlays

Places To Go and Things To See

• "Bayjou Theater, SecondLife Machinima Showcase"
• "Orange Island Machinima Zone" (Under construction)