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
Friday night was the concluding night of the 2020 SUPERNOVA Digital Film Festival, and to see it out a live … Continue reading STÖMOL takes second place at SUPERNOVA film festival
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
Yesterday afternoon I spent a very pleasant hour talking to Ivar Zeile, Founder and Creative Director of the SUPERNOVA Digital … Continue reading Interview with Ivar Zeile about STÖMOL
There’s one last thing for me to do on my STÖMOL tick list: publish a web page with the movie … Continue reading STÖMOL
In case you haven’t yet seen it, below is today’s episode of Lab Gab, which was entirely focused on STÖMOL. … Continue reading Lab Gab Episode 30 – 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
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
This remarkable short sci-fi film from 3dar depicts a disturbing convergence of virtual reality and drone/robotic technology. It’s an incredibly … Continue reading Uncanny Valley, a sci-fi VR short
Hamlet Au posted this video yesterday of the media used by Linden Lab CEO Ebbe Altberg at last week’s Collision … Continue reading Trailer for Project Sansar revealed
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
Love love love this anti-griefer video! Continue reading Thank you Hater!
This actually brought a tear to my eye whilst I laughed about it. The world is a better place for geek … Continue reading Geek humour, how I love thee
I’ve re-recorded and uploaded to YouTube the reading I did last night of chapter 11 of my new novel, ‘Your … Continue reading Your clothing is still downloading… Chapter 11 reading
Last Monday was my first go at co-presenting the weekly ‘Sounds of Poems’ event held at Cookie. I presented with … Continue reading Sounds of Poetry
A big thanks to the twenty odd people who turned up last night to listen to the first part of … Continue reading Great showing for ‘Just so that you know’ launch
