Archive for the “art” Category

Fun Video: Pixels


Here’s a bit of fun for Friday. Not only is this a great idea but it’s superbly well done. Enjoy.

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Post Under Video, art April 23, 2010

How to Fix the Australian Film Industry

This is a great clip featuring George Miller talking about the forthcoming Mad Max 4. He also talks about the state of the Australian film industry which is in a pretty shocking state at the moment.

George is spot on about what the industry needs. What he doesn’t say, however, is where the money is going to come from.

The experiment of having a pool of government money that is assigned by bureaucrats has produced a plethora of features that even Australian audiences don’t want to watch. The government simply can’t afford to spend the money needed to kickstart the industry and keep it going. Only private capital can do that. Ultimately only a tax concession will rejuvenate Australian film like it did in the late 70s and early 80s when a 150% concession was on offer to investors. It’s not a coincidence that our most successful and most iconic films were created during this era.

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Post Under Video, art October 25, 2009

Trailer

This is a test we did in Blue Mars. It takes the form of a mock film trailer. Blue Mars offers sublime graphics and New Venice, the region where we filmed most of the trailer, looks amazing. If the developers of Blue Mars can implement some decent machinima tools then it has a wonderful potential for making dramatic machimima, which is something Second Life never really achieved to its full potential.

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Post Under Video, art August 14, 2009

Blue Mars developers and artists wanted

Avatar-Reality have just released the SDK for their virtual world, Blue Mars. They are signing up a limited number of content partners to provide compelling social spaces, entertainment experiences, and creative content. They have also announced an art competition with the aim of rewarding and promoting artists and designers with talent and vision. Each participant receives a 3m x 3m x 3m exhibition space in a shared virtual gallery to display their work.

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Post Under art, virtual worlds March 27, 2009

SL Painter Pierrot Beck

Back when we had some free time my wife, Nocifer Janus, and I used to wander around Second Life visiting all the art galleries we could find simply because there are some amazing artists in Second Life. Well here’s one that does house calls – kinda. Great stuff.

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Post Under Video, art, virtual worlds March 24, 2009

Her Morning Elegance


Here’s a very cool stop-motion music video directed by Oren Lavie, Yuval & Merav Nathan. Enjoy.

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Post Under Video, art January 30, 2009

Fall

A wonderful arty piece of machinima from Lainy Voom.

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Post Under Video, art, virtual worlds January 10, 2009

Virtual Seasons Greetings


Here’s a machinima piece documenting some of the things people did to celebrate the Winter/Summer Solstice, Hannukah and Christmas in Second Life. The creativity of its users is probably Second Life’s best asset.

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Post Under Video, art, virtual worlds December 29, 2008

Tiny Nation Wins Jury Award

Ill Clan’s Tiny Nation has won one of the six jury awards at the 2008 Machinima Expo, held in Second Life. Congratulations to everyone involved.

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Post Under art, virtual worlds November 18, 2008

Checking Out… Virtual Starry Night

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A year ago, Robbie Dingo posted an extraordinary clip called “Watch the World(s)”, in which he recreated Vincent Van Gogh’s Starry Night as a 3-dimensional landscape in Second Life. Alas, nothing remains of that wonderful build but the video.

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Post Under CheckingOut, Marketing, art April 28, 2008
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