Smart New Blog For Virtual Filmmakers

If you've ever thought about making movies in virtual worlds, you may want to swing by Mixin Pixel's new blog at Six Billion Stories. Each week Pixel will shoot a new movie as she explores different facets of machinima production.

From her debut post:

Machinima is basically filmmaking using a real time 3D platform. I use Second Life for the purposes of my documentary filmmaking because what interests me is the choices people make for their virtual lives when they have complete freedom. Even though the graphics are far inferior to many other gaming environments, there are tricks to making it work for you.

There are plenty of resources to show you the basics of machinima. The best place to start is the Second Life Machinima wiki. There you will find plenty of tutorials and useful resources.

This blog will be more appropriate for people looking for more advanced advice on machinima creation and will cover topics such as composition, lighting, camera movement, legal issues, and more general technical issues such as lag reduction to create more visually sumptuous machinima.

[via Six Billion Stories]