Machinima for Dummies: Fantastic surrealist Machinima - just beautiful

Fantastic surrealist Machinima - just beautiful

Hugh "Nomad" Hancock — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 15:52:07 +0000

If you haven’t seen ”The Dumb Man”, stop what you’re doing right now and go watch it.

It’s a surrealist piece with a strong Victorian feel, made in Second Life, and it’s just fantastic. The mood and feel are awesome, the imagery is marvellous, the story’s rather good, and it represents a fantastic use of SL for Machinima creation.

The character design, in particular, shows off the increasing strength of Second Life in creating great-looking characters (at least when they’re static), the lighting’s wonderfully done (it’s by Lainy Voom, creator of “Tale from Midnight City” last year), and generally it represents some fantastic Machinima work.

There’s also an interview with Lainy on the project over at New World Notes. Worth a read. Apparently there’s virtually no post-production in the entire thing!

"Fantastic surrealist Machinima - just beautiful" by Johnnie Ingram

Fri, 25 Jan 2008 12:10:09 +0000

Machiniplex are conducting an interview with the director this coming weekend. If you enjoyed “The Dumb Man” as much as we did, then hop on to skype and join in the discussion.

"Fantastic surrealist Machinima - just beautiful" by Zuckerman

Sat, 19 Jan 2008 14:11:08 +0000

holy smack! gorgeous. i feel dumb.

"Fantastic surrealist Machinima - just beautiful" by Tom

Wed, 16 Jan 2008 19:30:03 +0000

My god, this is one of the best Machinimas I ever saw. Beautiful. In SecondLife? I had no idea… Thanks for that.

"Fantastic surrealist Machinima - just beautiful" by Johnnie Ingram

Wed, 16 Jan 2008 16:09:19 +0000

I loved this. It’s highly imaginative visual storytelling at its very best. This is the sort of piece for which I think Second Life is ideally suited. Great stuff.