Stolen Life Newsletter

Hello again all

The machinima film festival at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image in Melbourne was a great success. On the Saturday we spoke on a panel about writing for games. On the Sunday we screened the trailer and gave a sort of tag team presentation of a case study on the making of Stolen Life.

We did interviews with a local alternative-music radio station and with a magazine who were great fans of Chris Jones and the Tex Murphy series.

It was great to finally meet Paul Marino who runs the New York Machinima Film Festival. And to meet other machinima makers who ranged from avant-guard artists to the creators of the wildly popular Red vs Blue series.

On 29 March Stolen Life will premiere at the cool and groovy Chauvel Cinema in Sydney. This is a cast and crew and industry screening. It will be great to finally show off the entire film to a real audience. This will coincide with some exclusive screenings in other cities around the world.

Also very exciting, Jackie is one of three finalists chosen to present a concept for an interactive adventure at a game conference at Carne. We will also be exploring opportunities to network with potential distributors for stolen Life there. More on that later.

Cheers

Peter and Jackie

Stolen Life
http://www.zipworld.com.au/~raz/nima/SL_Tumb/sl_ss.html

Spare Clever Things

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Weather you’re a Renaissance man or a jack of all trades there’s only enough time for so many ideas in one life. What do you do with extra ideas you don’t have time to pursue?

A while ago now I figured out a really simple way of using robots to build habitats on a planet out of the local dust before the travellers arrived. I made a little animation to show how it worked. There is a one-minute movie clip and a brief outline at:
http://www.zipworld.com.au/~raz/ig_pics/igloo.html

But you can’t be an inventor and make films. You have to choose. That is unless you’re Howard Hughs. Getting an invention to see the light of day takes just as much energy as getting a film made. I know that there’s a scientist somewhere who would find it useful if only to provoke ideas. But it takes so much time and effort just to find them.