Software to develop 3D content are huge and complex, expensive and difficult to learn. CG artists spend years training to become proficient in modelling, animation and effects, not to mention other attributes that an animator has to learn and know how to use well. What if there was a shortcut to an artist over the complex, and work on something simple and accessible? This is where the pre Machinima and animation made by many programs offers (like Iclone, Moviestorm, Muvizu, xtranormal, etc).

aardmancommercials - Pythagasaurus

murakawa - The trashmaster (nouvelle version)

Ian Chisholm - Clear Skies 3 (part 1 of 6)

Hi! Since its release, the idea to migrate the server to a bigger one, on Yourmachinima, now we finally are ready to do it :). Due to this time (schedule to 14/01/2011 UK - Greenwich morning time, between 11:00 am and 13:00 pm. Due this time it's quiet normal that the website could be offline or unreachable, since we have to move all content. We are also preparing a backup and everything point to happen smoothly and fast. We also would like to say that a part of this migration, yourmachinima it's becoming bigger and bigger and we are moving to a 20Gb server powerful! We are looking forward to sell some part of the host, provide hosting service and beyond. Stay tune for the news.

Hi, sorry again. It's not easy, facebook plugin versus Facebook API changes are causing malfunction, so we are running back to normal logins until facebook change API on 31/12/2011. Mean while we implemented the new TOS Term of Service - CONDITIONS OF USE AND USER CONDUCT (as described bellow).

Now Yourmachinima will refine even more the content and user rights on submitted work. Since the begin of this project of unify many CGI techniques of producing movies and short films and some no sense youtube action in allowing some repeated copyright stuff (with no sense at all), we don't promote that kind of works, this kind of attitude. We are not the judge or even the police, but since this website (yourmachinima.com) is growing from thousands to more than 10.000.000 (10 million) views, we need to keep the good spirit and the common sense.

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Finally Ricky Grove announced the closing of entries, and Arf, have been the end of a recount O_o 191 submissions, incredible as the contents of Machinima production is growing exponentially and in quality. The In fact this past year has seen enormous developments and good not only of Machinima in Second Life but as with other platforms such as Iclone, Moviestorm, The Movie, GTA, The Sims, Half Life, Garys Mod, Mass Effect, etc.. Also announced that the next two weeks the results will be published, now falls to the jury to select the works, I guess 50 will be in (good luck and lots of caffeine lol). To follow the Machinexpo selection results here

I'll take this opportunity to let some more lines, maybe because this productions it is outside this Machinexpo (I guess they are on a higher step). From my part, my favorites (Machinima Movies) of 2011 would be too much work to be able to mention here without boring those who read and have not even finished the year:).

But let two of which I think is really good, high quality, excellent script and good execution, involving the viewer and giving a good boost to this growing art. (Of course they are complete movies).

http://www.clearskiesthemovie.com/ - Clear Skies is a groundbreaking machinima produced by Ian Chisholm, which takes place entirely within the galactic setting of EVE Online. The execution of the film is brilliant; Clear Skies is a hybrid between Half-Life 2's character design and EVE Online's backstory. Despite the fact that Clear Skies is set in the EVE Online universe, the film is accessible to virtually any fan of machinima or the sci-fi genre as a whole. Check out what all the hype is about; Clear Skies won't disappoint. This one Episode 3.

And Finally the amazing and high end "The Trashmaster"

A breakneck thriller, well-designed and full of action. A garbage man with a sense of justice, The Trashmaster as a vengeful hero is divided into two lives. No more words is a movie not to miss (do not forget the popcorn: D). The Trashmaster is a 88 minutes feature film made ​​entirely using the images of GTA IV! The film created by Frenchman Mathieu Weschler, took 2 years to complete, making it a true work of art! Finished on 2010 but in 2011 took huge impact on general public.

Hi,

Finally, the work is complete, done. The video is not too long, but I'd say that is long enough:). This time I wanted to go beyond the work of post production and for the desired effect (the immensity of the universe) not even using a virtual platform (eveonline, a massive multiplayer in the vastness of the cosmos with stunning scenery). This is because, for those who don't know Second Life (primary platform where I develop my work, and have some limitations compared to other platforms as well as the limitations of other platforms compared to Second Life). So! You can´t have everything, easier is to "have a little of everything", take some advantage and capabilities of other worlds.
During the production phase has been added plus a 3D platform called Universe Sandbox, this production was an adventure, in all sense. With some few scenarios "from another world," this work, in addition to the script (by me) was a tremendous job of editing some of the already known, * Chroma keying technique, creating layers upon layers. Layers to color correction, effects, or even camera work in After Effects.

Show first-hand some snapshots of post production for your approval. HYBRID .3 (Machinima title sequence) purchased and licensed for this production, all content of this video / film is under a license Creative Commons ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (includes de music).
A big thanks to the UTSA (University of Texas at San Antonio, Artspace http://secondlife.com/destination/utsa-artspace-2), and of course the excellent 3D work by Igor Ballyhoo - Metamorphoses. Also to Inspire Space Park http://secondlife.com/destination/288

The inspirations for this issue, we reread a simple and illuminating phrase of Stephen Crane;
The man said to the universe:
"Sir I exist!"
"However," replied the universe,
"The in-fact has not created me
A Sense of Obligation. "

When I realized and understood that we in our insignificant existence before the universe. "after all who we are?" "What we do here?". In the vastness of the universe, the big bag to the evolution of the Human Brain (intelligence, important to us, but not the biggest creation of the Universe, If you know what I mean), the elemental gods (not wanting to represent any particular, but a representation of supreme entities that draw the Universe, indifferent to Human being, or perhaps not so much. ...

I hope you enjoy,
An embrace of the size of the universe:)
* Chroma key composting (or chroma keying) is a technique for composting (layering) two images together. A color range in the top layer is made transparent, revealing another image behind. The chroma keying technique is commonly used in video production and post-production.

The feeling of feedback given and for what I am looking to the work itself, made me give further information. This work is the culmination of two "major" projects starting in 1986 and continued in 2011 (rematered to UWA Art of the Artists) from the (Original Cognitive Distortion Poem), when I wrote a series of poems in the '80s. Perhaps a premeditated way of rubbing on the brink of madness to be able to feel discernment. What started as an anonymous blog, becomes to be very common, well attended and a lot to give to readers (the blog it is discontinued). Of course the meaning of poems and novels are beyond this scope and now I wanted to give up and made it less personal and by the requirements of the UWA Festival - the Challenge of the University of Western Australia in Second Life for the IV Edition. I took a series of poems old and persistent, a composition of the mixture of sense and desire, to discover and go beyond the viewers point. It is extremely rewarding when our work is recognized, but it's strange to feel that there was still something that I can do more.... :)

As some requests to understand clear the voice and the poem meaning, I did the subtitles on YouTube for better understanding (lol or not). I hope you enjoy. Greetings and thanks for everything!

Transcription of the poem

"I'm only here to glorify what they encounter,
and in the end I loose myself between time and space.
Overcome barriers and see the unchanging distance
The reason? And you?

welcome to universe,
complex with attitude,
In tons of uncontrolled poetry,
the universe exist,
compose the phonetics and words.

full of all, full of nothing,
the knowledge of the emptiness,
the unexpected, the inevitable, the unexplored,
today there is anything different in the air.

Maybe a drop of rain that falls and refresh this burning passion.
Or a ray of sun shine entering baldly into the eyes,
as your gazed pointed, perhaps drops and trickles from my eyes uncontrollably.

You can always have a wonder of the thousand windows of the four corners of the house.
The house is universe,
Where dwell enclosed, within this, physical body.
from the Synthesis, here there comes,
the statement, outline,
very unexpectedly as they lost the mean,
Draw from the graphite,
Brilliant and dazzling.

Where goes the infinite, in a compressed matter,
where the Big bag explodes.
At the binning of everything,
It appears... It appears that the burst and meanders through the mind

The insane feeling.
What causes, impulsive movement,
and the thought conclusive.
From gestures to the words.
Endures the basic. Endures the basic. Endures the basic.

The word that packs,
The gesture that never acts.
Do you understand now why
the feeling is unsustainable
to make the point of an different desire for well-being?

With desire and affection, the Universe brings Hyperbole
That will open your eyes again,
By Remarkable Incident.
Direction in body, soul and mind
Free, in wild journey.

There was a clear expressed sense to extend the offering.
Think of him as, sweet, fresh and strong.
Listed symptoms of passion, burns.
and persistent with basic concepts.

Aesthetic beauty."

Poem by spyvspy aoen aka André Lopes

Special Thanks to Maya Paris - Veparella - Secondlife
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/SBCC/109/80/1801

Music By Krzysztof Kurkowski - Spacer robotów
http://www.jamendo.com/en/track/339316
License Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Video Editing and Voice by spyVspy aeon
All content of this artwork is licensed

3D Artists in video credits