User:Allen Kerensky
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Allen Kerensky
Allen Kerensky writes science-fiction screenplays and creates machinima (machine cinema) in collaboration with Moebius Overdrive.
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 (founding contributor since its inception in September, 2005)
- MachiniMafia, Old Town (under construction)
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
- 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, 64-bit
- nVidia unified driver and OpenGL
- Pulse Audio networked sound engine over ALSA
- SL Viewer for rendering
- RecordMyDesktop for video capture (full quality Theora)
- Istanbul for video capture (quick and dirty, low quality Theora)
- byzanz-record for stillframe captures (animated GIF)
- 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
In-World Tools
- User:Buhbuhcuh Fairchild's Alt-Zoom Machinima Cam, StillCam, Blocking Block, and basic physics scripts
- User:Geuis Dassin's Filming Path HUD, CamTP HUD, and Motor Mouth for realtime facial animation
- User:CodeBastard Redgrave's MachinimaCam HUD
- User:Torley Linden's FollowCam
- User:RacerX Gullwing's rez-into-place
- USer:Aimee Weber's Storm
- User: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)