Superflufee, your cuddly megastar made of mesh, roaming the virtual world & possibly in love with a prim lady, is moving on to pastures new in what appears to have been an intellectual property faux pas. I say faux pas because it’s ten to midnight here and I didn’t want to say au revoir….. yeah that was cheesy.
Anyway, I say faux pas because here was good brand promotion, Draxtor Despres, Pooky Amsterdam and many others have been exemplifying their excellent machinima of Superflufee over at meshinima.com for quite a while now. This promoted machinima really well, it also promoted the mesh avatar flufee very well, that’s what I mean by brand awareness.
Alas all good things come to an end and it seems as if the people who own the intellectual property rights of the avatar, don’t see the value in the machinima and want to move in a different direction. I don’t know the full ins and outs, I haven’t spoken to Draxtor Despres, Pooky Amsterdam or the IP owners of flufee the avatar, although you will find many flufee items being sold on the marketplace, which brings us back to the brand awareness issue because I wouldn’t know about that if I hadn’t seen the machinima!
Draxtor Despres does discuss this a little on last week’s metareality podcast, it’s near the end of the show and you should be warned that the guys do swear on that show, although the editor does try to bleep them out, Gianna Borgnine does her best to keep Qarl and Draxtor in check most of the time.
I’m not going to take sides on the rights or wrongs of what has happened here, as I said earlier I haven’t spoken to any of the interested parties and therefore I’m not in possession of enough facts,but I’ll admit to being disappointed to see the little fellow no longer making more machinima…. by little fellow I mean Superflufee and not Draxtor Despres!
However Superflufee is far from gone, there are still plenty of places to get your Superflufee fix. There’s a farewell to flufee thread on flufee’s Second Life profile. there’s a youTube channel, there’s a Superflufee page on dio! There’s still plenty of Superflufee around to enjoy. I’ll leave you with Superflufee’s final (as we know it) video. Although maybe there will be a Search For Spock style solution and Superflufee will return to the machinima of Draxtor Despres and Pooky Amsterdam one day. This video also features something missing from some of Second Life videos lately, friendly greetings from the king of friendly greetings himself!