To make good-looking machinima, you need both to direct and to do: that is, to script, conceptualise, build, design, light, animate, texture, audition, record, lipsync, direct, choreograph, programme, customise, optimise, and tweak like crazy - and then keep at it for months on end. And if that sounds like making a whole game or CG movie yourself, then you're starting to get the idea.
All the same, machinima quality (just as in films) is neither about engine pixel fill rates, nor coloured shadows, nor even about funky middleware - it's about having a vision, and the determination, imagination & resources to bring it to life.
I say this because I and my "ragtag band of internet misfits" [(c)M.Rein] tried to do just this for the Unreal/PSOne cutscenes/game we were writing, and (all in all) I think we came pretty close... until Infogrames bought GT & pulled the plug on the whole development, nearly bankrupting me in the process. *sigh*
Remember, though Orson Welles undeniably had vision, determination & imagination, he also had a $500,000+ budget from RKO for Citizen Kane... and it still tanked at the box-office!:^o http://www.sparknotes.com/film/citizenkane/context.html
All of which is to say: although film-making can look easy in the classroom, it really isn't - and (for most people) machinima probably won't help make it significantly easier. Sorry to break the bad news, don't shoot the messenger, good luck with your sparkling career, etc.:^o
There's good evidence that Tolkien had his own copies of some Voynich Manuscript pages (my guess is that he got them from Francis Romeril Maddison, the former curator of the Museum of the History of Science at Oxford) - so the many/.ers who've suggested a correlation with LOTR may well actually be correct.:-)
As for Gordon Rugg's article... it's a good place to start building a proof, but it's not yet a proof. FWIW, my money's on the VMs' being a Milanese shorthand plaintext (circa 1460) written in an unusual cipher system (circa 1465)... but what do I know?:-o
Cheers,.....Nick Pelling.....
Online paper about the business case for LEO 1...
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Good luck to Georgina Ferry with her book.
If you want to read more about LEO 1, here's a paper I wrote last year discussing the business case for it.
OK, it was for Uni, but what the hey - Walter Skok gave it 80%, so at least one nerd out there likes it.:-9 [*]
Cheers,.....Nick Pelling.....
[*] *sigh* Walter, I guess I owe you a drink for that...:-)
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To make good-looking machinima, you need both to direct and to do: that is, to script, conceptualise, build, design, light, animate, texture, audition, record, lipsync, direct, choreograph, programme, customise, optimise, and tweak like crazy - and then keep at it for months on end. And if that sounds like making a whole game or CG movie yourself, then you're starting to get the idea.
:^o http://www.sparknotes.com/film/citizenkane/context .html
:^o
.....Nick Pelling.....
All the same, machinima quality (just as in films) is neither about engine pixel fill rates, nor coloured shadows, nor even about funky middleware - it's about having a vision, and the determination, imagination & resources to bring it to life. I say this because I and my "ragtag band of internet misfits" [(c)M.Rein] tried to do just this for the Unreal/PSOne cutscenes/game we were writing, and (all in all) I think we came pretty close... until Infogrames bought GT & pulled the plug on the whole development, nearly bankrupting me in the process. *sigh*
Remember, though Orson Welles undeniably had vision, determination & imagination, he also had a $500,000+ budget from RKO for Citizen Kane... and it still tanked at the box-office!
All of which is to say: although film-making can look easy in the classroom, it really isn't - and (for most people) machinima probably won't help make it significantly easier. Sorry to break the bad news, don't shoot the messenger, good luck with your sparkling career, etc.
Cheers,
There's good evidence that Tolkien had his own copies of some Voynich Manuscript pages (my guess is that he got them from Francis Romeril Maddison, the former curator of the Museum of the History of Science at Oxford) - so the many /.ers who've suggested a correlation with LOTR may well actually be correct. :-)
:-o
.....Nick Pelling.....
As for Gordon Rugg's article... it's a good place to start building a proof, but it's not yet a proof. FWIW, my money's on the VMs' being a Milanese shorthand plaintext (circa 1460) written in an unusual cipher system (circa 1465)... but what do I know?
Cheers,
Good luck to Georgina Ferry with her book.
:-9 [*]
.....Nick Pelling.....
:-)
If you want to read more about LEO 1, here's a paper I wrote last year discussing the business case for it.
OK, it was for Uni, but what the hey - Walter Skok gave it 80%, so at least one nerd out there likes it.
Cheers,
[*] *sigh* Walter, I guess I owe you a drink for that...