Current Mood: Surprised

It seems much has happened since I last updated the blog… I finally made it to Edmonton, Canada in August, after a seven month wait, to start a fantastic new job as a cinematic designer for BioWare! I’m still surrounded by boxes and haven’t put any pictures on the walls, but the move itself went really smoothly. I must be crazy, but I’m hoping I’ll get a white Christmas this year.

Also lots of good news concerning ‘The Snow Witch’. This past weekend it was awarded Best Story at The European Film Festival - in addition to one of the demo beta movies I filmed with Short Fuze/Moviestorm being nominated for Best Commercial Machinima(‘Did That Break Your Concentration?’).
Simon Taylor, the Snow Witch narrator sent me this link today, a nice piece about machinima and the festival by Dr Tracey Harwood LINK

‘The Snow Witch’ also made it to the cover DVD of Hugh and Johnnie’s super book for ‘Machinima for Dummies’

Hopefully now the move is over, I’ll be able to finish some projects….

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I’ve not had much time to update the blog lately, due to getting ready for a major house move and finishing off the closed beta demo movies for Moviestorm (as shown below). Read the rest of this entry »

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Current Mood: Cool

Just a reminder and an invitation to everyone (machinimators and machinima enthusiasts) that the awards ceremony for The Online Machinima Film Festival takes place this Saturday, May 26th in the virtual world of Second Life. Hathead has outdone himself with an amazing theatre decorated especially for the event. Hope to see you all there.

Here’s the full programme:

OMFF Awards Ceremony Location: Second Life: HatHead Island Theatre.
Direct slurl: http://slurl.com/secondlife/HatHead%20II/243/160/483

Date and Time: Saturday, May 26th, 2007 At 8:00pm BST (British Summer Time), 3:00pm EST, 12:00am PST

Invitation: This is an open invitation to please join us at the awards ceremony in Second Life for the first Online Machinima Film Festival. The full list of finalists will be announced for the first time, with clips from the festival submissions being screened. There will also be live entertainment.

The OMFF is organised by Machinima Premiere, a leading online machinima resource and web community which is sponsoring the One World Action charity fund. For more details about the OWA fund, please visit: http://www.mprem.com/omf/page.php?16

Program of Events

8:00pm - 8:30pm Live jazz entertainment from the incomparable Luigi Volare aka Louis Volare on piano.

8:30pm - Awards Ceremony: Award ceremony hosts, gToon Jun and Sol Bartz (aka Overman) will announce the finalists and present the awards, with a specially designed trophy for the festival, and with a short screening of each winning film.

End of Awards Presentation: OWA Fund Presentation: a cheque will be presented to the One World Action charity.

Party: Everyone will then be welcome to retire to the Sky Lounge for the post awards party and further screenings of the award winning films, where you’ll have the opportunity to meet and socialise with machinimators and fans from all parts of the world and to take part in further entertainment.

New to Second Life? If you are new to Second Life, you can get a free, basic account from the official website: https://secure-web9.secondlife.com/
Further Information: Please IM venue host HatHead Rickenbacker in Second Life for any assistance, or for further information contact michelle[at]mprem[dot]com or admin[at]mprem[dot]com

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Janet a mum from New York wrote to us recently and asked if we could send her a DVD of Teddy Bears Picnic for her daughter’s kindergarten who were having a Teddy Bears Picnic. I could be wrong but I think this is probably the youngest audience to have watched an organised machinima screening….even if it was only a minute long!

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