Joss Whedon Ripper for BBC

Joss Whedon has been planning a movie for the BBC, “Ripper” starring Anthony Stewart Head, “Giles” from Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Ripper article
http://www.bitsofnews.com/content/view/5910/

Cheerleaders and Robots

Christi Jacobs, a Purdue graduate and former captain of the Prudue cheerleading squad, has set up a summer camp for high school cheerleaders. They’ll work with small humanoid robots. Each robot gets a cheerleading outfit and is programmed by the girls to do a routine. The girls and the robot will perform the routine together.

More info at:
http://news.uns.purdue.edu/x/2007a/070529JacobsCamp.html

Getting the best out of everything

A few days ago Slice of Sci-fi posted one of their regular podcasts with a great review of our machinima movie Stolen Life. We liked the review so much I cut screenshots from stolen Life to it and put it up on YouTube. I made sure to let Sam Sloan know to be sure it was okay with him and SOCF. He said yes it was. In fact he posted the YouTube clip on Slice of Sci-fi.
http://www.sliceofscifi.com/category/news/reviews/reviews_dvd/

First Machinima movie on the IMDB

Stolen Life is the first machinima movie to make it onto the Internet Movie database. In these days of DV video and YouTube it has become much harder to get a movie listed on IMDB. I think it’s a good sign for machinima.

Stolen Life at IMDB
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt1051263/

Scapecast Review of Stolen Life

The Scapecast has just released a special podcast centred around Stolen Life. There is an extensive interview with Claudia Black and a review of Stolen Life by Brent Barrett
“The suspense is real from the start and the mystery deepens as the story develops.”

Season 2, Episode 34:
http://www.scapecast.org/

Chris Jones on Story in Game

Chris Jones, Co-originator of the legendary Tex Murphy interactive adventure series talks briefly about the new possibilities of story in game while in the recording studio for his latest machinima movie stolen Life.

Chris Jones on Story in Game
[At YouTube]

Slice of SciFi Review of Stolen Life

Sam Sloan review’s stolen Life in the latest Slice of SciFi podcast No. 117. He’s a bit tough on machinima but really likes the movie. 

“Jones and Black are perfect playing off one another’s characters. I highly recommend the DVD to everyone who loves sci-fi and future Noir.”

Podcast review -Sam Sloan – Slice of SciFi
http://www.sliceofscifi.com/2007/07/14/slice-of-scifi-117-interview-with-warp-11/

Quake Seduction

This is rare machinima footage of an erotic dance the young warriors do to attract a sexual partner when they have returned from glorious conquests.

See for yourself
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbzkZ2XE2mE

Stolen Life Video Interview

Rianna Gates of BigPond interviews Jackie Turnure and Peter Rasmussen about Stolen Life and its special screening at the Sydney Film Festival. Jackie and Peter talk about the production of Stolen Life and experience of working with machinima and how machinima is the force leading the new independent film industry.

Video Interview for BigPond Gamearena
http://www.gamearena.com.au/videos/latest.php/bigpond-in-the-game-episode-9
 

Interactive Story Telling

I was fascinated to read a post by “3dfilmmaker” at 3dFilmMaker.com
http://www.3dfilmmaker.com/
He talks about the exciting new possibilities of “Interactive story telling” via the medium of Machinima. As 3DFM says the concept of interactive story itself is not new. You only have to visit
The Just Adventure web site
http://www.justadventure.com/
To see how dedicated the adventure game audience is.

I’m very excited to here interactive story telling is on it’s way back. At the outset I was not as big a fan of shooters as I was of story games. One of the most outstanding examples of “Interactive Movies” is the Tex Murphy series of games starring Chris Jones. He coined the phrase. Chris was also Co-author of the series. The Tex Murphy series was a leader in the field. It combined the ability to investigate the scene in three-dimensional space with the latest at that time in multimedia interaction and great science fiction detective stories. 

Chris Jones stars in the feature length machinima movie Stolen Life just released on DVD
http://www.zipworld.com.au/~raz/nima/SL_Tumb/sl_ss.html

Stolen Life Trailer on YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wU5DXScNJHo