Machinima Mashup

I noticed over at Machinima Premiere that Spartan Life has released the interview with Malcolm McLaren. Known mostly for his creation of the Sex Pistols, Malcolm is more revolutionary than that. The episode is a very engaging 'monologue', less interactive than other interviews, but hey, its McLaren. I actually went though it twice, the second time without even watching the screen and just listening to audio, although the visual side of the interview is amazingly subtle but relevant to what is spoken. I found monologue amazingly prophetic.

(the online world is) a world that seemingly can have more integrity, than supposedly the physical world, which we've now decided is horrific. Simply karaoke, artificial, and a world that we feel is bereft of any real passion. A world that is simply there to sell you things...

...This is the real true story of rock and roll. It was not about anything other than how to live your life, as a gangster, in sartorial splendor, and turning the world into a place where normality would never return again.

Think of the melting pot of Machinima being a 'mash-up' (word of the month) of video game technologies, Hugh Hancock's relation of punk rock and machinima, and the 'Internet generation' which is taking hold of these revolutionary aspects and 'turning the world into a place where normality would never return again'. We're not in Kansas anymore.

A couple other things, Overman has posted a review of the Script writing tool Celtix. I'll be trying this tool out very shortly.

The Blender Foundation today released the “Blender Texture Disc”, a collection of high quality textures, into the Public Domain. (bookmark now, because you know you'll come back to it later)

CGchar-animation has an interview With Tim Johnson, Director on "Over The Hedge"

Mass Effect won best game for the Xbox360 at E3! That's huge. Should be a hi res trailer coming out from BioWare soon so you'll get a better idea of the hype.

And if your looking for music for your next film, check out Beatpick.com. "we provide filmmakers with selected indie music". I'm going through their catalog right now!

Final note, if anyone who visits this site has some 'leet webdesign skillz' and a few evenings of time I wouldn't mind some help giving 3DFilmMaker a facelift. Its looking a little old. Lemme know!