Apologies for the lack of blog content of late. We’re doing a bunch of writing and other work which means we don’t have the energy to keep this updated as much as we’d like. But here’s something fun to hopefully make you laugh.
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May 17, 2009
Meet the Spy
Feb 19, 2009
The Spy Who Lives Here
What can I honestly say about this piece of machinima other than it is lame, bad, over-the-top, poorly acted and ridiculous. It’s also a lot of fun.
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Dec 29, 2008
Man vs. Second Life
Join former British marine Adam Steele as he demonstrates how to survive in the harsh regions of Second Life!
*Disclaimer: Adam does not receive any aid from his camera crew while filming on location. Only in the event of an extreme life or death situation will the production team intervene to give medical attention.*
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Dec 15, 2008
World War
Here’s a great little 3d animation piece by Vincent Chai courtesy of Digital Animation Herts Uni UK.
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Feb 3, 2008
Why I Work in Second Life
Recently a few people have been wondering why I made the shift from doing real world video production and take the incredible risk to move into making machinima, mainly in Second Life. Well here’s something I wrote 3 years ago that is kinda indicative of what real world video production had become for me:
You know you’ve made the right decision to turn down a job directing a commercial when:
- It’s exactly the same people that screwed up last year’s attrocity.
- One of the producer’s ideas for Harmony Week is a scene involving a burning flag.
- The 1st AD doesn’t know what a call sheet is.
- The DoP doesn’t think they need a call sheet on a project that is shot over three days using seven locations and a cast and crew of ten.
- None of the actors have done any acting before.
- The script involves a sparking electrical cable.
- The power company doesn’t want to be involved.
- One of the actors pulls out six hours before principal photography is due to start due to a religious belief.
- The grip has pulled out, because he hasn’t been paid by the producer for a past production, and hasn’t told anyone on the production team.
- The commercial was designed by committee.
The choice was actually kinda easy.
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