Back From The Stomach Flu
July 9th, 2007 by Caleb Booker
Wow, that one knocked me on my ass. Thank goodness.
Archive for July, 2007
The Dawn Of The New Media
July 2nd, 2007 by Caleb Booker
1280 x 1024 wallpapers I made from the presskit
This originally appeared in The Second Life Herald, but I’m reprinting it here for posterity. Forgive the frenetic nature of it… I was a little frazzled.
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“We Are The Strange” is going to become a part of the Creative Commons. Remix at will.
by Onder Skall, New Media Journalist
[this review arrived at the Herald offices a few minutes ago - written on a used notecard shipped inside a plywood cube. Audrey in typesetting has been reminding everyone that union rules call for time and a half for staying late, and so we are going to run this as is - think of the scrawled notes part of the experience - then go see M Dot Strange's movie "We Are The Strange" in a venue where you can IM your friends. - the Editrix]
If there was ever going to be a single event to announce the dawning of “the new media”, it was last night at Ars Virtua Gallery in Second Life. A few dozen avatars gathered together and watched a movie. We were sitting on either side of a border between two sims, and right on that line the movie screen projected “We Are The Strange”. It’s an indie animated film by M Dot Strange. Here’s his official bio:
“Legally insane professional weirdo. One man evil animation studio. Like’s ramen and udon noodles, the Oakland A’s, coffee, and wearing mismatched sox. Says the word “hella” like hella. Used to be a video game thug rapper wearing a Powerglove and touring public toilets. Made “We are the Strange” because grey aliens from the future programmed him to do so. Lives with a green screen and a bunch of rattling computers. Made over 70 live action and animated short films and one live action feature before “We are the Strange” Has a bike. M dot Strange is from the future.”
Independent film makers will look to “We Are The Strange” for inspiration for decades to come. The stopmotion was all shot with a Canon 300d and basic Canon lenses, the 3d modeling, animation and rendering was done in Cinema 4d 9.1, compositing with After Effects 6.5 Pro, and editing by Final Cut Pro 5. The final product is 94 minutes long, in full HD 1080 (1920×1080 at 24fps), and took 2 Macs, 7 PC’s, and one guy: M Dot Strange.
He made this entire movie on his own. It took him three years to do it. You’ve never, ever seen anything like it.