November sees the opening of this year’s MachinimaExpo. What is particularly significant
about the MachinimaExpo is that film entries come from many different games and
MMOGs, not just Second Life.
Of the hundreds of entries, a 5-person jury panel selects
just ten to go forward into competition against each other. The names of the ten
selected machinima will be released later this week.
Last year I attended the Expo and blogged the experience here. It was a really very enjoyable
evening. As I said at the time, the real eye-opener was realising just how much
great machinima is being created outside of SL. The ten nominated films last
year included, for example, entries created in Grand Theft Auto and Pro Evolution
Soccer. The eventual winner, Phil Browne’s adaptation of the HP Lovecraft's classic ‘The Haunter of the Dark’ was created
using iClone.
It would, of course, be remiss of me not to drop in here
that Tutsy’s ‘A Journey Into the Metaverse’ was
awarded second place.
If last year is anything to go by, the ten nominated films
will be of exceptional quality. Personally I would have been proud to have
created any one of the ten! We’ll know the ten soon, and I can’t wait to watch
them…
In the meantime, here is the official trailer for this year’s
MachinimaExpo:
The Official 2012 Machinima Expo Trailer from Ricky Grove on Vimeo.
No comments:
Post a Comment