STÖMOL was released on 23 July 2020 in a private inworld premiere, with the Linden public showing taking place the … Continue reading STÖMOL: One year anniversary and some deleted scenes (featuring a guest appearance by Ruth).
Having seen and enjoyed STÖMOL, Sara, a music artist who is active in SL, approached me back in January to … Continue reading Epiphania – Official Music Video (filmed in Second Life)
Some of you will be aware that the acting roles in STÖMOL went to people in my friendship circle in … Continue reading Casting call for a new, feature-length machinima project
At the end of part six of this series, I said I’d write one more entry, “which will be something … Continue reading Huck’s guide to making machinima in Second Life part seven: respecting copyright
In part five of this series I looked at working with other people, which is hard. This time, I’m looking … Continue reading Huck’s guide to making machinima in Second Life part six: filming (and recording) speech
In part four of this series I looked at some of the technical uses that alts – alternative accounts, running … Continue reading Huck’s guide to making machinima in Second Life part five: working with other people
There’s one last thing for me to do on my STÖMOL tick list: publish a web page with the movie … Continue reading STÖMOL
As we pass into the month of July, with just three weeks remaining before the premiere of STÖMOL, it’s time … Continue reading STÖMOL: One more preview clip
As revealed exclusively on New World Notes on Tuesday, here is sneak preview clip from STÖMOL, my upcoming feature length science … Continue reading STÖMOL: Preview clip
Meet Paper. Long-term readers of this blog might recall I created him back in 2016 as part of my review … Continue reading Huck’s guide to making machinima in Second Life part four: working with alts
A great post from co-star Caitlin Tobias about what it was like to be in Stömol! Cait’s World In my … Continue reading Stömol backstage – my life as a Second Life actress
In the previous part of this series, I looked at how to frame shots whether the camera adopts a static … Continue reading Huck’s guide to making machinima in Second Life part three: camera movement
Time to get filming. In part one, I went through the software and hardware I’ve used to record video for … Continue reading Huck’s guide to making machinima in Second Life part two: framing your shot
Now that the trailer for Stömol is done, I can get down to the serious business of procrastinating over doing … Continue reading Huck’s guide to making machinima in Second Life part one: the tools
The official trailer for Stömol got its debut on New World Notes this week. Long-term SL commentator and author, Wagner … Continue reading Stömol: Official trailer released
Things have been a bit quiet on this blog (and on my Flickr stream) recently. You noticed, right? Of course … Continue reading Announcing Stömol
I liked 2077 so much (read my review here) I just had to go back in and create a short … Continue reading 2077: A moving postcard
It’s been a while since I last filmed one of my moving postcards, so here’s a short moving greetings card to … Continue reading Winter in Second Life
Pioneers is my latest machinima. A Mars colonist remembers Earth. Pioneers was filmed in Second Life using the Firestorm viewer and … Continue reading Pioneers – a short film
On the advice of Inara Pey, I went to check out NorderNey. Continue reading Paper plane
Hamlet Au suggested I put together a tutorial on creating animated GIFs in SL, which I thought was a great … Continue reading SL animated GIFs tutorial
An animated GIF for you to enjoy of me being beaten up by the surprisingly strong Elemiah Choche. The GIF … Continue reading Learning respect the hard way
An animated GIF for you to enjoy: made with Gyazo and taken at The Hive. Continue reading Crime scene
Last night I attended Sounds of Poems at the 2016 Fantasy Faire, a fantasy-themed event you’ve probably already heard about … Continue reading Sounds of Poems at Fantasy Faire
I am always keen to answer the call of Wagner James Au, in this case his request for more Second Life … Continue reading Escape for a few days
For the third of my moving postcards, I returned to Nusquam. This pretty sim has been much photographed and blogged … Continue reading Nusquam: A moving postcard
For the second of my ‘moving postcards,’ I went back to New Babbage to film around the central station. You … Continue reading New Babbage: A moving postcard
I aim to create more machinima this year. This will be easier when I do a major upgrade in the … Continue reading Field of dreams: a moving postcard
Here’s my contribution to Xiola Linden’s video share request. Continue reading What Second Life means to me
I’ve been hanging out today taking pictures (and fiddling with sky settings) at the stunning Östan om Solen exhibit by … Continue reading Östan om Solen
