This video is of a virtual U2 concert in Second Life. The creators are not affiliated with U2 but are apparently promoting a charity. The editing is excellent and overall is a nice example of machinima (movies created from footage taken in video games). The video has received over 129,000 views on YouTube.
I noted in a recent post that interest in machinima is broadening rapidly. So, if you would like try your hand at it and to learn some machinima basics, Moo Money, Kiwi Alfa and other members of the Second Life...
FRAPS, the machinima software for Windows - plus a list new commercial and academic islands
With the airing of the pre-Superbowl machinima promotion of CBS’s TV show Two and a Half Men and the Star Trek machinima spot CBS commissioned for State of Play and CES, machinima is obviously getting attention from the “massive media”...
TELUS, the Canadian telecomm company who opened its Second Life store in August of 2006, commissioned a training machinima to assist their internal teams in getting acquainted with virtual worlds. SLBC member, Sparkle Dale took part in the project (among...
A machinima invitation to watch this lifeloggeing love story with its creators in a virtual world: "Someday immediately after a film is complete it will be able to instantly premiere to a worldwide audience in every theater that wants it. And even though it doesn't work that way in real life, Second Life is a place where this is possible today."
Second Life received its own version of the nightly news this week with the launch of The Grid Review, a machinima news blog run by veteran directors moo Money and Nylon Pinkney which promises to run content ranging from "Peter Jennings to Jon Stewart."
Yesterday the winners of the The Second Life Business Magazine machinima contest have been announced. The goal was to produce a commercial within Second Life for whatever product, company or service that exists within Second Life (and I was part of the panel for judging the entries).So here are winners:1st place: Trent Hedges and his [...]
"You fade to gray like Submarines,we suggest you fly away.Do you ever wonder what it means,choosing midnight over day?" -DJ Fresh, "Submarines"
Author: Torley
Keywords: secondlife submarines fresh machinima
Added: August 20, 2006
