Machinimatographers

Machinimatographers of Second Life

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• Allen Kerensky - SL Machinimist with Moebius Overdrive since Oct. 2005. Founding contributor to Alt-Zoom Studios. Story developer, Screenwriter, actor (voice-over, and mouselook), music coordinator, scripting, and editor for: Scream In The Dark of the Night (Winner: Worst Acting and Worst Story, 1st Annual Ed Wood Film Festival, 2005, featured on SL homepage for 18 months afterwards), START (critically acclaimed steampunk compared to Isaac Asimov at machinima.com), SekretMenuz (SL Community Gathering intro film and Best story award for Take5 Festival, August 2006), A Zombie Stole My Heart (Winner: Worst Film, 2nd Annual Ed Wood Film Festival, 2006), and It Came From The Origin of Where Bad Things Come From (3rd Annual Ed Wood Film Festival, 2007). Films available at Lunadude.com.
• AWM Mars - Founder and Co-Owner of WBA-Advertising in Second Life. Backed by MBO Productions, NEX-Core Model Management and EML-Entertainments our group can provide a full turnkey solution. With over 20 years of computer experience, Virtual Reality platforms and graphic design, we setup WBA-Advertising in Second Life September 2006. To date we have secured contracts with L'Oreal, First Meta Bank and many other RL Companies and Corporate clients, including a wide variety of clients that operate within Second Life. Offering a full dedicated team for your solutions. We utilise the power of iClone and CrazyTalk for animated voice overs in our contracts for greater realisim along with backing musical tracks.

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• CodeBastard Redgrave is an amateur machinima maker with a single success, Beauty is only skin deep. She is also the maker of MachinimaCam HUD, an avatar centric scripted camera to help with machinima making in SecondLife.

• CoyoteJack Dassin Co-Owner of SceneMaker Studios. Experienced Digital Cinematographer. SceneMaker Studios produces a series of Adult Graphic Novels {WARNING ADULT CONTENT} shot within SL and published in a HUD Viewer for enjoyment in world. SMS has developed a series of local lights designed to meet the unique needs of Film and TV production in world, as well as publishing a Guide to the Basics of Digital Cinematography using local lighting. SceneMaker Studios offers services in Set design, Set Decoration, Cinematography, and Production Consulting.

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• Fox Diller has been creating Machinima for years, starting with Duke Nukem 3D engine, and the title "Duke it out." Using many gaming engines from there, he's has build an expertise when it comes to using computer gaming engines to create stunning Machinima. He's now the CEO of Second Life's Magrathean Technologies and now does Machinima professionally for large corporations and small individuals.

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• Geuis Dassin created the popular Filming Path camera dolly system in conjunction with his friend and fellow scripter Nand Nerd. He has created a number of machinima pieces, including several music videos and commercials, such as "You Hypocrite You" for the band What the...? and a short clip for the DVD release of the Dutch movie, "The Black Book". "You Hypocrite You" was nominated at the European Machinima Festival 2007. Recently Geuis released the first voice-activated lip animator in Second Life called Motor Mouth, which has great promise for improving the realism of avatars in Second Life machinima. He is currently involved in producing several new machinima films which will be released soon.

• Silver Goodman, David Lang in real life, is Director of Photography for Machinima by Silver and Goldie. Now specializing in machinima, he is a highly skilled professional with decades of experience producing broadcast television series, documentaries, marketing and public information films. Machinima credits include the highly popular "Stephen Colbert's Dream" and the Second Life Movie Trailer contest winner, "Second Life: Get One."

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• Gary Hazlitt, multi-skilled SL resident, well known sim creator/builder (The Project Factory), educationalist and highly rated machinimatographer. He creates commercial, personal and experimental machinima and most are related to his own multi-sim developments in SL, many cover music, events, performance etc: A good non-confidential sample can be seen on his YouTube The Icarus Channel.

Gary trains media professionals in Machinima through AFTRS (The Australian Film TV and Radio School) including cinematographers, production designers, screen composers, sound designers and writers as well as broadcasters like ABC. As Director of LAMP (more in his profile) there are several projects currently creating episodic SL machinima and recent ones are working in AI, emotional AI to create combinations of generative and impro machinima.

• Cecil Hirvi, a former borg, now uses his technological distinctiveness to create unique, poetic and dynamic machinimas in-world and out. He has written, produced and photographed nearly 20 different machinima films since early 2007. His clients have included musical artists such as jazz singer Paisley Beebe and educational venues like EdTech Island for Boise State University.

His films push the boundaries of fictional story-telling mixed with new techniques including mash-ups, and utilizing other game engines and custom designed 3D animation to achieve the final work.

His machinima portfolio can be seen for free on Youtube here:[1]

Cecil is currently working on a new on-going SL series and another film involving digital actors from around the world shot entirely in SL. Recently, he has been invited by Boise State University to teach a course on Machinima Making for 2008.

He is available to shoot mostly anything EXCEPT in-world Weddings.

Resistance if Futile!

• HVX Silverstar, an SL and RL instruction librarian (University of California Davis), but hailing from Liverpool, UK. "HVX" is for Panasonic's HVX200, my good friend and companion in RL [2]. I am an amature machinimatographer and spend time working with the teens on the PLCM's Eye4YouAlliance Island and great teens led by Storm Basiat of the UK in the teen grid, Peggy Sheehy and crew on Suffern Middle School's wonderful Ramapo Islands [3] and the Second Life Library and partner islands in the main grid (Info Island, Machinima Institute, Renaissance Island, Eduisland 3 - total of 44 islands). Visit the Machinima Institute on ALA Arts Info Island in the Info Archipelago: http://slurl.com/secondlife/ALA%20Arts%20InfoIsland/182/171/29 Currently we have Wohl Enoch/Colyn Wohlmut's Machinima Bibliography (ThinC Book) on display; a service learning project at the Machinima Institute which was part of the SJSU Library Science Master's program. The web version is available at: [4] Some of my machinima on YouTube: [5]. Recently I spoke at the the World Library and Information Congress, 19-23 August 2007, Durban, South Africa[6]. The flight back was eventful: Timeless Prototype was in the row behind me and also headed to SLCC in Chicago. Yes, SL is making RL smaller. The new media creatives, educators, entrepreneurs from near and far, and the the coolest, machinimatographers and SL Royalty (Philip and other Lindens), made for a great conference. Now, everyone run out and by Hugh and Johnnie's new book on machinima. Yea, SL! My Blog: [7]

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• In Kenzo (Evonne) is a Los Angeles media producer who works with schools, nonprofits, the entertainment industry and social sector to create educational media. By day is is Creative Director of Amoration Studio, a nonprofit arts workshop and Toyshoppe Productions, a full-service production company with deep film, television and event connections. Inworld In Kenzo is known for capturing events in the nonprofit sector and providing both video and photo footage for other media. Email inkenzo@gmail.com or visit In Kenzo Machinima for the ManorMeta Mash channel of samples from the last two years. We work with many SL designers, developers and producers to create full service packages; broadcast quality and photorealism along with multi-platform machinima production available.

• Ina Centaur ;-)

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• Dimitrio Lewis

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• Donnagh McDonnagh works with students in higher ed to develop machinima and animation as of fall 2007.
• Moebius Overdrive - SL Machinimist with Allen Kerensky since Oct. 2005. Founding contributor to Alt-Zoom Studios. Story developer, director, camera operator, builder, actor (voice-over, and mouselook), and editor for: Scream In The Dark of the Night (Winner: Worst Acting and Worst Story, 1st Annual Ed Wood Film Festival, 2005, featured on SL homepage for 18 months afterwards), START (critically acclaimed steampunk compared to Isaac Asimov at machinima.com), Stylehive 2006 Fashion Expo (Winner: Best Editing Take5 Festival, March 2006), Bio of a Duo (biographical), SekretMenuz (SL Community Gathering intro film and Best story award for Take5 Festival, August 2006), A Zombie Stole My Heart (Winner: Worst Film, 2nd Annual Ed Wood Film Festival, 2006), and It Came From The Origin of Where Bad Things Come From (3rd Annual Ed Wood Film Festival, 2007). Films available at Lunadude.com.
• moo Money is a Second Life expert in Machinima. She has been teaching machinima (free to residents) on the main grid AND the teen grid for over 15 months, as well as making it for over a year.

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• Frankie Rockett is Senior Machinimatographer with Planet Video. Twenty five years experience in new media and digital video, and BBC trained as a camera operator and drama editor.

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• Skribe Forti offers full service machinima and video services in Second Life specialising in the provision of conceptualisation, writing, production, direction and post-production solutions.