Frozen Moments In The Virtual World
Visit Mexico, Ruta MayaMachinima by Kronos Kirkorian
Music by Dizzy Banjo
This is a fun promo put together for a Second Life® project from the Mexico Tourism Board. For those of you having gone through the experience of wandering Second Life not finding anything impressive, hopefully this will point you in the right direction. (Well, this and SL Things To Do.)
Kronos did an amazing job here, which is to be expected at this point. The first time I saw his work was in the hilarious skit “Lip Flap” which, if you haven’t seen it yet, you absolutely can’t miss. I had the good fortune to work with him on the original promo for the vBusiness Expo. We had four locations and I don’t even know how many actors, and he coordinated them all like a seasoned professional.
This latest clip for Mexico shows off his editing talent. You’ll notice that it’s mostly stills, but hardly feels like a boring old slide-show. That’s not exactly an easy thing to pull off!
The whole thing is set against Dizzy Banjo’s soundtrack which, as usual, completely nails it. He did the soundtrack for the vBusiness Expo too, but you might also remember his name as being the audio architect behind the shockingly transcendent experience of Parsec. Here he is again, avoiding the pitfall of competing with the content and instead complimenting it to enhance the whole.
When I look at a clip like the one above, I’m reminded not just of good times and familiar faces, but of the incredibly talented professional artists that you run into around Second Life®. I count myself very lucky to have met folks like these, and might never have done so had we not all taken an interest in this bizarre virtual world experiment.
(Side note: speaking of Parsec, a special thanks to Eshi Otawara for creating the gorgeous build of Parsec that became my blog’s backdrop.)
