Final Product

This it the final product of my machinima, Titled: Big Night In

I hope you enjoy

A bit behind

I seem to have fallen behind on my posts, very far behind. I thought I’d wrap a large amount of weeks into one brief post with many pictures.
For several weeks after the previous post the class searched second life, looking for free items and learning how second life runs.

Along the way I had my first experience with camping pads, I earned some lindens which I then hastily spent on "rave effects", this is merely a large collection of attachable particle effects ranging from simple to page covering and bizarre.




During one particular lesson I left my computer for a while only to return and find my Second Life character lying on a sofa in a Japanese Gay Bar. It didn't seem like my idea of a good time, but the people around my computer thought it should be.

I had the last laugh when I found the spa baths and everyone wanted in.


During another lesson i stumbled across an island which featured many free costumes and items from various movies, here i am kicking Beowulf into the bottomless pit from the movie 300.

In another free costume location, Tony, Sean, Callum, James and I dressed the Mighty Morphing Power Rangers and took to the streets to fight crime.


On a slow day in class I acquired a few more free items and costume. I also found a witty little poster explaining a Zombie Emergency Procedure.

Each class moved into their own apartments and started to fill them each with the furniture they would need for their machinima. I fitted my room with a dance ball and within minutes the room was filled with people dancing in unison to Tony playing the guitar.

To test the speech capabilities of Second Life we plugged in microphones to get reactions out of the characters.

First Lesson With Dale

Our First Official lesson of Second life, we signed up, logged in and left the tutorial island, and went to the Freebies warehouse for freebies. i edited my charater and looked around to find everyone else looked the same, The Freebie Warehouse is a warehouse with large crates of free items for your second life world. There were many new characters from second life who stumbled across this place looking to aquire the free items. I would visit this place again it offered many textures i may need when i come to texturing things in second life.

After aquiring as many free items aas we could i followed Brendan to a strange room with prize giving chairs, i dont remember the name of the place but if we sat on the chairs for 2 minutes we earned a prize word spread across the classroom and a few more came to join us for the free prizes, we sat and viewed the interesting art and showed off our new wardrobes. I probably would not visit again, I can't seem to find it again, but there was not alot to do there but sit, there was not enough things to do to keep the people busy.

As the class was wrapping up I returned to the Victoria University island and visit the apartment. There i found Sean in the apartment testing out his clothing and particle effects, the Victoria University island will be the place for our Machinima so everybody has been given permission to create and build things here. I will visit here as often as i can.

My Machinima World

Worlds: Physical, Social, Personal
Physical
Being
Humans, no shape changing ability yet, perhaps latent. Vary in size due to certain birth defects, average height is 5’8” to 6’2”.
Movement
Humans walk on joints protruding from their ankles called feet, they use these feet to walk, and walk quicker (run), gravity plays an extreme factor in this world
Survival
Rules of sustainability apply to all humans, they must eat and drink and breathe, to obtain sustenance the humans must work and earn money which is a special type of bartering device which surpasses all forms of barter.
Time
Time progresses in the form of 24 hours per day since early in the human’s history. It is absolute, it can not be changed.
Transport
Humans transport themselves by walking, however due to low stamina have created a large machines to transport them called cars
Landforms
The world is hospitable and the humans have flourished
Technical
Mobile phone is the dominant tool carried by people; it allows them to communicate long distances. Keys are used to access doors that have been locked for security
Social
Communication
How do inhabitants communicate? Who owns the means and does everyone have access?
Type of government
Democracy, the humans are fairly oblivious to the state and workings of their government
Built environment
A vast and increasing majority of the environment is urbanised with small sectors or rural land for farmers. In the story the area is urbanised
Social fabric
Things are not so good for the protagonist, and the person in power has little effect on the story.
Play
The inhabitants play music and dance in what is called parties and concerts.
Family
The humans are very big on family the family of the characters in the story are not mentioned
Fashion
The humans wear various types of clothing ranging from bland to outrageous; the characters don’t wear anything too out of the ordinary.
Personal (for the main part character or primary agent)
Appearance
Typical in appearance, one character wears a pink rabbit suit
Social standing
Fairly low in the social standings they don’t stand out as socialites.
Aim in life
The characters very little out of life, one wants his band to succeed, the other wants a stable and fulfilling life.
Place in the world
The protagonist is considered a loser in the scale of life.
Strength and weaknesses
He is humble and shy with good personality and qualities.
Communication
Talking and facial expressions
Sensory perception
All his senses, touch hearing, seeing, taste and smell
Perception, memory
Everyone is normal, they have brains and use them

Character Designs

We did various writing exercises about characters, creating them, building them, growing them.
next we watched the Two Towers documentary for building Gollum

Second Life? i'm still playing First Life

We started playing Second life, it was o.k, i see how we can make a machinima, however i dont like how the camera moves and the fact i have to design my objects, and i have no linden dollars so i cant buy my stuff. i saw my apartment, its ok i can work with it. I stumbled across a Mature adult shop in Second life, a very educational session.... i need linden dollars.

First class based blog

we are going to be using Second life for this project, exciting, i think. is this all for 1 project or is it for more than one, GD and ID are working together and VD adn IS are together, but they talk about different types of things, its confusing