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2005 Machinima Festival This Weekend
An anonymous reader writes that "Village Voice has a small article by Julian Dibbell about the Machinima Film Festival that takes place this Saturday (Nov. 12th) at the Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria. The festival is also holding their annual awards on Friday night. For me, the highlight is their honoring David Wright for creating Keygrip (the program behind the creation of Quake movies like Blahbalicious and Operation Bayshield) - which is a nice nod to machinima's roots. "
Whenever there's a discussion of machinima, I never hear anyone mention Quake, it's all about RvB and Source these days. I'd be suprised if more than two people in the festival have ever heard of Keygrip, or machinima for Quake.
I remember trying Keygrip back in the day, but it felt too difficult and I could never get a grip on it. Har har.
Not this year, i only just released the first episode, but maybe next year. My show, The Monster Within is a machinima I've started work on using Phantasy Star Online.
Where would be the best place for a newbie to start playing around with Machinima? Is there opensource for this? Should I just experiment with it though Sims2? Or is there something better/easier?
The old ones are the best. If you want to watch some great Machinima for Classic Doom, check out Imp Encounter. This is based on a well-known fanfic story written about Doom. The original Doom did not have any scripting ability so Machinima for it has only really taken off in the past couple of years.
were you expecting to see a sig here? perhaps you'd rather see the inside of an ambulance!
The Museum of the Moving Image is pretty cool, I went there when I was on vacation in NY this summer. The highlight of their exhibits (for me anyway) was the original model of the Tyrell Corporation building from Blade Runner. When I saw it I geeked-out, no other way to describe it.
Ceci n'est pas une sig.