Raul Crimson’s experiences in Second Life®
Posts tagged Machinima
Do you wanna date my avatar?
Sep 8th
Some days ago i saw this really fun video of The Guild with a song parodying MMOs, well in this case WOW, but is totally adaptable to SL as you can see in the fun version of Lowe Runo below. 
Lyrics are really fun, in The Guild video, the dances and the attitude of the band makes it irresistible and the song is, well, catchy!
About the Lowe Runo Second Life version, it transfers all the fun of the song to a machinima. Thanks to the Guild for the song and laughs and thanks to Lowe for his version.
UPDATE: The great Hyang Zhao shared with me in Plurk this parody of the parody filmed in Second Life too.
Isn’t it cool too? 
The beauty of Second Life®
May 19th
Sometimes you can be upset, tired, bored… Sometimes you wonder why you are still in Second Life… then you see a video like this one, and you remember why you are here, what you love here…
This machinima by Sam Lowry made me smile and remember one of the reasons i have to love Second Life, its beauty, the beauty we build together day by day. Ok, is pretty chaotic too, but well, i presume that’s part of its beauty too.
Sam wrote something as a comment for this video:
Just never forget it’s a chance to live in a world like Second Life…Take care of it
He is right… so right. And i love the song!
Spelling
Sep 10th
I’d like to share with you all this. Is a video i made of one of my latest works.
Is a 3D object i made for Vain Inc Gallery (SLurl), you can find more info about the gallery in some older posts. The theme this month was Muse.
I really love SLphotography, but at the same time i feel a bit limited in it. This time wanted to explore more techniques. We live in a 3D world (well actually in two 3D worlds) so… why not to make something animated?
Also words are important for me, in SL we communicate by words mainly, because the physical language is limited to gestures. Words are important also in this work, how they appear, how they transform in other words… The Muse is expressed by words, by whispers, by spellings…
Fantasy in Vain, a machinima
Aug 31st
Some time ago i posted about Vain Inc Gallery, is a project by two really good photographers and really nice girls, Nyla Rossini and Toko Voom. They have one of the best fashion magazines in Second Life, but also wanted to go further away with and art gallery, a really new concept.
They wanted to have a gallery where different resident creators were showing their vision about a theme monthly. In August 2008 the theme was Fantasy.
Last friday Nyla asked me to make a machinima showing my point of view of the gallery during that month, to keep a record of what was the experience. I was really happy with the idea and this is the result:
I liked it and Nyla and Toko liked it too, so… hope you like it too!
You can visit Vain Inc. Gallery following this SLurl, also you can see the Gallery Guidebook here.
Torley is awesomazing our experience… or something like that
Aug 29th
I want to say it, i’m a big fan of Torley.
Lately some “critics” against Torley appeared in blogs, forums and other places. They criticise his apparent… how to say it?… “fake happiness”. He wrote a really interesting post about that.
I’m not writing this post because i think he needs a defense or something, as you can say in his post he can do it himself alone. Torley is not perfect, but is himself (even if he were a character, what is not), and that’s why i’m think he is so cool.
The photo below is taken in Here, the new Torley’s island. Really nice and interesting place, kinda trippy but full of imagination. Anyway, if you don’t like neon pink and neon green colours… better don’t go then.
Well, i’m sure you know Torley enough, so i’ll just say my opinion about him. First, he rocks! He is the only Linden that pushes our moral up even in the worse moments. Second, his Videotutorials. I learned a lot thanks to them, since basic scripting, nice tricks and some nice things more. Third, his Office Hours, i was there a couple of times, and he always listens and tries to answer your questions. Write yourself the fourth reason in the comments.
Torley published in his YouTube channel a new machinima, and well, i find it so cool that need to share it with you all:
Blowing houses
Jun 30th
Actually this is one of the funniest things to do in Second Life.
Well, not really, but anyway is a fun thing to do, specially because it relaxes a lot. Just rezz your house and blow it!!!
Thanks to Havok 4 (the new physical engine on Second Life servers) it works pretty good, not adding too much lag to the server.
Is quite easy to do: rez a house or a big object made with a lot of prims (you need “MOD” and “COPY” permissions on that object), keeping the object selected unlink it with CTRL + SHIFT + L or via menu Tools > Unlink. Then, keeping all the prims still selected make them Temporary (i’m sure you don’t want to be cleaning all the prims after the explosion, and well, they can fall in other’s plots) and Physical.
When you close the Edit window the object will explode… BOOOOOM!
And remember, never try this without the supervision of an adult.
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