Marco Spitoni - I'm the Freeman (machinima?)

"I've always been in love with the PC game "Half-Life" so I've decided to work out a project that would have been a trailer for an hypothetic feature film of Half-Life. Again, is not live action, althought I would have love to have the chance and the time to work out something like that.

So, here is the teaser, but at the end there won't be any short movie, just a trailer which it will be a lot longer, packed with more contents and telling a little bit about the story."

Escape From City 17 - Part One

Sonic & Knuckles 3D - Mushroom Hill Zone

First-Person Project: The Jacknife Chronicles

Haha, this is soo cool, partly because I can tell where almost all music, animations, textures, models, video effects and so on comes from without seeing the credits. Really impressive use of Gmod aswell.

Modern Warfare 2 - No Russian Machinima

The Making of "Boom De Yada" (Machinima)

Irdeen Productions

#Machinima Collaboration - Part 1

This footage was created two years ago, and since it never got completed, it never got released.

Credits:
Part 1: Olibith
Part 2: Nyhm
Part 3: Ian Beckamn
Part 4: teh_taco
Part 5: Telemora
Part 6: Dopefish
Part 7: BaronSoosdon

Visit #machinima@quakenet

Uncharted 2 Machinima Tools

Among Fables and Men - Atopic Film Festival

We are glad to inform you that your movie "Among Fables & Men" has been selected by Phil Rice for the Atopic Machinima Film Festival and will be screened during the “Carte Blanche to Machiniplex”.

The festival will take place at the Cité des Sciences in Paris, between October the 27^th of October, and November the 4^th . The festival website is http://www.atopicfestival.com/.

To think a short video made in under 5 days, 2 years ago, would still be of any interest today. Thanks a bunch for the pitch Phil! :)

Overman's Blog (Phil Rice)
Among Fables and Men
Among Fables and Men Features

What a wonderful L4D

Download as a menu background for L4D (.zip)

The 2009 International Machinima Expo

"The Second Annual Machinima Expo is now accepting submissions for it’s juried competition. The jury, which is still being assembled, will select 5 Machinima films which will be screened and honored at the Expo in November which will take place in the virtual world of Second Life. There will also be a Grand Prize winner for the festival. We are currently negotiating for prizes and hope to make an announcement soon.

Please note that the submission period will be from July 26th to Sept 30th. We will no longer accept submissions after Sept 30th, 2009."

The 2009 International Machinima Expo: Call For Entries

Planet-Videos.com - Game Movie Awards'08

Planet-Videos.com - Game Movie Awards'08

Escape From City 17 - Part One

PurchaseBrothers (currently down due to too much traffic)

Enclave before it became Enclave

Neotokyo (Source mod)

Neotokyo

2008 Mod of the Year Awards

2008 Mod of the Year Awards
2007 Mod of the Year Awards

Fallout 3 - Wasteland Dancin'

Fallout 3 Wateland Dancin by Airshom

Black Mesa: Source trailer

Download as High-Quality (.wmv)

Black Mesa - Half-Life 2

Machinima.com receives $3.85 millions

Machinima.com has "received $3.85 million in capital from MK Capital and other private investors to help fund business expansion."

The press release indicates five "influential entertainment industry leaders and entrepreneurs" have been appointed to the company's board of directors to assist in the expansion. The new members include Yair Landau, former head of Sony Pictures Digital, Joi Ito, CEO of Creative Commons, Matt Coffin, founder of LowerMyBills.com, Mark Terbeek, partner at MK Capital, and Allen DeBevoise, CEO of Machinima.

Machinima.com Received $3.85 Million to Fund Expansion

Machinima Europe Nominations

Over 150 films have been submitted to Europe’s first machinima festival, Machinima Europe, organised by De Montford University.

Entries for the event, which is supported by the Academy of Machinima Arts Sciences, came from a large selection of countries including Canada, Austria, Finland, Croatia, Slovakia, Japan and Australia.

"We are very pleased with the number, breadth and global spread of the entries,” said Professor Andrew Hugill, director of De Montford’s Institute of Creative Technologies.

“The enthusiasm out there for the festival is contagious and it has been really exciting to see so many different countries involved in creating submissions."


Representatives from ‘Red vs. Blue’ creators Rooster Teeth Productions will also be presenting a special video for the event, which will hold workshops on machinima production as well as screenings of submitted films.

Machinima Europe runs from October 12th to 14th. More information can be found at the festival’s website.

De Montford celebrating Machinima Europe interest

Here's the full list of the nominations:

BEST DIRECTION
Faith Hope and Charity – James Thorpe (UK)
Stolen Life – Nanoflix Productions (Australia)
Fallacies of a Stranger – David Reidel (Germany)
Instinct – Werner Versluys (Belgium)
Pictures of War 2 (Before and Beyond Flight 19) – Steven Worsley (UK)

BEST EXPERIMENTAL
The Ballad of Black Mesa – Zachariah Scott (USA)
Kung-Fu Glitch – ENTTER (Spain/Sweden)
Duel – La-Interactiva (UK)
Cirque du Machinima: Cuckoo Clock – Tom Jantol (Croatia)
Mum's Gone to Iceland – Katy Fosk (UK)

BEST COMMERCIAL/GAME
Comcast Island – Planet Video (UK)
When the Postman Spits Twice – SL-Inworld Productions (Germany)
4 Commercials for mtvU – Oxhorn Brand Movies (USA)
Did That Break Your Concentration – Short Fuze Limited (UK)
You Hypocrite You – Mannea LLC (USA)

BEST SERIES
Pirates of Parallel Structure, Sopronouns, Passive Pete Awakens – Mark Marino (USA)
Pathfinders: Operation Husky, Operation Avalanche, Operation Neptune – Machinima Inc (USA)
The Grid Review (Episode 3, 7 and – The ILL Clan (USA)
BloodSpell: Episodes 11, 13 and 14 – Strange Company (UK)
Blink (Episodes 1, 2 and 3) – Brigit Lichtenegger (Netherlands)

BEST SOUND
Ausgedacht (Dreamed Up) – Machinima Studios (Germany)
Innocent Minds – James Dubose (USA)
The Ballad of Black Mesa – Zachariah Scott (USA)
Hark! Hear the Wails – Oxhorn Brand Movies (USA)
Blink (Episodes 1, 2 and 3) – Brigit Lichtenegger (Netherlands)

BEST STORY
Faith Hope and Charity – James Thorpe (UK)
Stolen Life – Nanoflix Productions (Australia)
Instinct – Werner Versluys (Belgium)
Pictures of War 2 (Before and Beyond Flight 19) – Steven Worsley (UK)
The Snow Witch – Britannica Dreams (UK/Canada)

BEST STUDENT
Azerothian Super Villains (Episode 3) – Beckman Movie Productions (USA)
A Child's War – Global Kids (USA)
Waterlogged 3 – Nathan Clark (UK)
Machinima! With Officer Dan (Episode 1) – Amorphous Blob Productions (USA)
Domestic Violence – La-Interactiva (UK)

BEST TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT
BloodSpell: Episode 14 – Strange Company (UK)
Better Life – Indi (UK)
Hindenburg – Paul Carr (Japan)
Machinima Island (Episode 1) – La-Interactiva (UK)
Halo Unyielding Part 1 and 2 – ThatRandomCanadianGuy Productions (Canada)

BEST VISUAL DESIGN
Faith Hope and Charity – James Thorpe (UK)
Stolen Life – Nanoflix Productions (Australia)
Fallacies of a Stranger – David Reidel (Germany)
Pictures of War 2 (Before and Beyond Flight 19) – Steven Worsley (UK)
Blink (Episode 2) – Brigit Lichtenegger (Netherlands)

Machinima Europe nominees - commentary

Spelfest 2006

You might've noticed by now that I've started blogging like once a week, instead of as frequently as I used to. The reason for that is that I just been too busy with work, party and events to be able to blog.

I've also figured out, since I came to Uppsala, there's been some celebration every Saturday. Either it's because someone got a new appartment, or someone else had a birthday. None the less, it's nice and a great way to socialize with people. Although, I'm pretty fed up with Princess Cake by now.

Our concept artist Mattias Snygg couldn't be happier this week, since he got a box full of The Darkness comics that he made. People was walking in and out of his office all day, asking for a signed copy from him. It made you happy, watching him sign each copy with a gleaming smile. He even bougth himself a silver pen for the occasion.

I got myself three signed copies, which two of them were supposed to be given away to friends at Spelfest 2006, but I forgot them at the office. Typical.

Spelfest 2006, 20-21 october at café Street in Stockholm. It was a really nice event and I got the chance to greet and talk to alot of interesting people, aswell as listen to some great music by Boy versus Bacteria. You can download his music from the link at the bottom of this post.

I were suprised to see soo many people from the University of Gotland there, since I only thougth they would exhibit their stuff, not actually be there to present it for people. It was really nice to see them again, and Headbanger become one of the main attractions of the show.

During the friday party, alot of people came from both Grin and Avalanche Studios, and I were supposed to buy Chrille (from Grin) a drink as a thanks for my White Russian he gave me the last time we met. When I asked him what he wanted, he told me to suprise him. So I did. I think it became something like a White Russian with alot of rom, and a little bit cola in it.

Didn't see any DICE people there though, and I were the only representant from Starbreeze there, since most of them stayed behind for the office party during the same day.

I met some of the press people that visited us a couple of weeks ago to, and greeted on some of the independent developers such as Free Launch Design and my personal favourites at Muskedunder :)

Alot of my time during the Saturday, went into playing Free Launch Designs game, Icy Tower, which is suprisingly addictive. The rest of the time went into watching Machinima movies like Mine and Mine 2, that was produced in Battlefield.



Kajfa and Yosh where there to display Sumo and Yosh book about how to draw manga. I've had plenty of times to buy it before, but I never did, so I took the oppurtunity to do so now, and she where kind enough to both sign it and draw a picture of me.

Before venturing back to Uppsala, I managed to loot a huge poster of Ninja Loves Pirate from the Muskedunder team, and the entire team (except one) signed it for me. They even added "Muskedunder <3 Starbreeze" at the bottom of the poster. I'm going to hang it up soon, take a picture of it and post it on the blog for everyone to see.
Also, I must say, the subway system in Stockholm is ridiculous confusing. You're supposed to go in one direction, and then the train starts going backwards towards where you came from, or something. Well, it was confusing.

Oh, and thanks Calle for arranging such a nice event and letting me sleep at your apparment (even if it were only for three hours on your floor, it still was a nice experience).

Yokaj Studio
Boy vs Bacteria
Muskedunder Interactive
Free Lunch Design (Icy Tower)