My Shen Is Ma Shen a Ma n Korn

So did a little machinima viewing today. First up was episode 4 of BloodSpell. This episode enters into some comic relief as our relationship with the main character becomes a little more playful. Plus we get a partial glimpse and introduction to the big ...one...

I also got caught up in TrashTalk episodes, seeing the newly sponsored episodes 8 and 9. I was thinking back to the first episode when after I watched it I was mildly amused. Now I find the show has its stride and I appreciate it a lot more. Ill Will does such a great voice.

Caught episode (note to self, create a macro for the word 'episode', it's word of the year for machinima).. episode 3, module 4 of Spartan Life. It's an interesting perspective on the nature of leet speak and Damien goes right to the gamers to get the scoop. Unfortunately I had a very hard time making out what most of the people were saying, but what I caught was good.

WHoooaaaa. HOLD the Presses. The.... ahhh nevermind. When I was getting the Spartan Life url I saw they finally posted the KORN interview on SpikeTV. I was waiting forever for this. But now I've seen it I was pretty disappointed. It seemed pretty much like some cell phone audio (maybe 1 minute total) to acted out ingame characters. I'm pretty sure the band wasn't even ingame which is part of the appeal of SpartanLife, seeing the interviewee's interact with the environment. Ohh well, I'll blame this one on SpikeTV stifling Chris's creativity for the sake of having KORN.

Finally, gtoon posted a good commentary over at Machinima Premiere on 'Machinima & Commercial Film & TV'. I saw it a while back but have been meaning to point it out. It speaks to machinima filmmakers who should not forget the possibility for new originality in machinima and to make careful consideration on what one wants to achieve and which engine one uses to do so. Or in short, lets not forget to continue to raise the bar.