The Straad Players

I was contacted by a guy interested in the movie “Skinningrove – Welcome to The Future.

He asked where the movie was shot so I sent him a link. I met Taran Rampersad “in world” and told him about the Skinningrove project and showed the location of the Skinningrove shoot. Call me a saddo but it was quite exciting to be interviewed on set like some kind of movie mogul. Then Taran said he was going to get a few shots and promptly turned into a penguin. I asked him why and he said that being a small penguin avaar meant it did not get in the way of the screen shots. What a great idea, I’ll use that technique for shooting Machinima. Now I know what to do with that Duck outfit I was conned into buying.

You can see the pictures that this penguin shot by going to www.flickr.com and searching on Institute of Digital Innovation or follow this link:

http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=institute+of+digital+innovation&m=text

The article appears here:

http://www.knowprose.com/node/18380

and through the wonders of RSS

also here:

www.DigitalDivide.net

http://www.reallusion.com/crazytalk/

Lip Sync tool. http://www.reallusion.com/crazytalk/

http://wegame.com/

A free tool for grabbing screen action and a website (YouTube like) for publishing vids. http://wegame.com/ – can store to hard drive for making machinima or upload directly. Great for quick screen grabs but uncertain at present about making machinima.

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http://www.antics3d.com/index.php

A non game, game engine type editor/creator for machinima. Basic version is free.

http://www.antics3d.com/index.php

http://www.moviestorm.co.uk

Currently in Beta A non game, game engine type editor/creator for machinima. Free Download. Expansion packs may need to be purchased.

http://www.moviestorm.co.uk

http://www.reallusion.com/iclone/

A non game, game engine type editor/creator for machinima.

http://www.reallusion.com/iclone/

The Straad Players use Second Life to produce Machinima but there are other engines with different pros and cons. There are some purpose built engines for Machinima and these can be found in the tool category. (click read more)

Read more! »

http://www.tvcm.co.uk/index.php/making

Click the title to read an article on the making of the Straad Players promo movie.

A great open source audio editor free to download here

A Machinima Series. Visually very simple but the dialogue is hilarious. CLICK HERE [ F word warning]