Machinima Expo 6 will be taking place on Sunday November 17th from 10am – 4pm. Familiar names to some in Second Life circles will include Draxtor Despres, Pooky Amsterdam and Hypatia Pickens amongst others. However this is not just about Second Life and machinima made on other platforms will also be showcased and up for awards. The event does however end with a party in Second Life.
I’ll post the official press release, schedule, include a reel featuring Draxtor Despres and Jo Yardley and embed the official trailer below.
The official press release informs us:
November 13, 2013
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT PERSON: RICKY GROVE
MACHINIMA EXPO 6 SET TO OPEN THIS SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 17TH
Los Angeles, CA. – The sixth annual Machinima Expo will take place this Sunday, November 17th, from 10am to 4pm (PST). The Expo is a virtual film festival dedicated to the art of machinima, a digital-born 3D medium created inside of a virtual world or game engine. Machinima (a combination of the words “machine” + “cinema”) came originally from game hackers, but has evolved into a unique contemporary digital art form with an international community. The Machinima Expo is designed to bring this community together for a virtual film festival which will feature over 6 hours of machinima film screenings, programming and an awards ceremony.
“We created the Expo to share the best machinima submitted to us from all over the world and to inspire the community to tell their own stories using this unique digital medium”
Ricky Grove, Executive Producer, Machinima Expo 6
Since the Machinima Expo is a virtual film festival (it takes place on the internet) all anyone needs to attend the Expo is an internet connection and a web-browser. The Expo will stream the festival via their Ustream page which is embedded on their website (www.machinima-expo.com), their Facebook page, Twitter page and at Ustream itself. Live chat will be available right next to the streaming video screen.
Expo 6 sponsors include Reallusion (www.reallusion.com), makers of iClone and CrazyTalk, and iPi Soft (ipisoft.com), a company dedicated to creating “motion capture for the masses”.
To find out more about the Machinima Expo 6 or to view any of the 50 machinima films being screened for the festival, visit www.machinima-expo.com
Eleven films have been nominated for the jury award, they have been filmed using a variety of platforms including Half Life, Skyrim and Second Life amongst others.
On top of that a number of reels will be screening films and on reel 6, one of those films is The Drax Files Episode 2 – Jo Yardley! That’s not the only film on this reel it should be noted.
Machinima Expo 6: Screening Reel 6 from Ricky Grove on Vimeo.
However that’s not all, there’s more to this than just watching machinima, there are presentations and producing machinima and much more, here’s the schedule:
- 10am Introduction and Welcome
- Presentation Sessions – Practical Knowledge
- 10:05 “An Expo Look Back” with Damien, Ingrid and Ricky
- 10:13 Presentation 1 “How to Edit Video to Tell a Coherent Story” with Russell Boyd
- 10:44 Presentation 2 “Finding the Experimental in Machinima” with Hypatia Pickens
- 11:14 Presentation 3 “The Sketch-Up to iClone Pipeline” with Geoff Casavant
- 11:56 Presentation 3 “How to Build Sets in Moviestorm” with Damien Valentine
- 12:26pm Susan Johnston on “How to Monetize Your Machinima”
- 01:00 Presentation 4 “On Style in Machinima” with Pooky Amsterdam
- 01:35 The Wolf & Dulci Hour Special Expo Show
- 02:05 Presentation 5 “History of Machinima in 9 Films” with Ricky Grove
- 03:15 Special Panel Discussion “Machinima Now” with Paul Marino, Ricky Grove, Chris Burke & Hugh Hancock
- Film Sessions – Celebrating New Machinima
- 03:40 Harb40 Passion Competition Reel
- 03:50 Special Premiere: A New Film from Phil Rice
- 03:56 Official Jury Nominated Films Teaser
- 04:02 Jury Award Winning Film 1 Announced
- Jury Film 1 Screens
- 04:22 Jury Award Winning 2 Film Announced
- Jury Film 2 Screens
- 04:36 Jury Award Winning Film 3 Announced
- Jury Film 3 Screens
- 05:02 A short look back at the our Expo Grand Prize winning films
- 05:05 The Grand Prize winning film announced
- Grand Prize film screened / Director Interview
- 05:15 End of Expo. Thank you and acknowledgements
- 05:20pm Second Life party (location listed below) SLURL: (http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/vesuvius/100/175/25 /?title=vesuvius)