VISUAL NARRATIVES

Here is a link to the Moviestorm blog, where they made the announcement yesterday:
http://moviestorm.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/winner-of-moviestorm-bett-2013-future.html

So...Great News...We are going to be getting Moviestorm software for use by Art&Design students at UMD. We won educational licenses... that will be installed in the Digital Arts classroom, the Multimedia Hub, Montague Lab and VizLab.The Moviestorm software will
be good for students interested in 3d animation, digital storytelling, pre-visualization,
game design, filmmaking, and machinima.

What do people do with Moviestorm?

View Movies made with Moviestorm:
http://www.moviestorm.co.uk/community/

More info here:
http://www.moviestorm.co.uk/

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Moviestorm is a software application that lets anyone make 3d animated movies on their computer. Great News...We are going to be able to acquire this software for use in the Digital Arts area and the Multimedia Hub. The Moviestorm software will be a cool addition for students interested in interactive storytelling, game design, filmmaking, and machinima!

View Movies made with Moviestorm:
http://www.moviestorm.co.uk/community/

More info here:
http://www.moviestorm.co.uk/

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The Bard - Act 1: Lament
pilot episode of a planned 5 part fantasy mini-series

http://yourmachinima.com/
Mamachinima International festival

What stories would you tell using this method?

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A Japanese ghost story adapted from Hearn's "Yuki-Onna"(Kwaidan). Directed by Michelle Pettit-Mee. Filmed entirely in the Sims 2, October 2006. Winner of Best Story at the European Machinima Festival '07.

So, what is Machinima?
From the Academy of Machinima Arts and Sciences
http://www.machinima.org/

Machinima (muh-sheen-eh-mah) is filmmaking within a real-time, 3D virtual environment, often using 3D video-game technologies.

By combining the techniques of filmmaking, animation production and the technology of real-time 3D game engines, Machinima makes for a very cost- and time-efficient way to produce films, with a large amount of creative control.

Archive of Machinima Films
http://www.archive.org/details/machinima

Machinima.com is a website, operated by Machinima, Inc., that aims to be a hub for machinima, the art of creating animated videos in real-time virtual 3-D environments. The site features machinima-related articles, news, and Internet forums.
http://www.machinima.com/

New Media Resistance: Machinima and the Avant-Garde
Elijah Horwatt (Cineaction 73/74 2008)
http://cineaction.ca/issue73sample.htm

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