A few months back Johnny Ingram from moviestorm came in for a lecture about Machinima. He talked to us a little bit about the history of Machinima, what Machinima, Moviestorm and himself.
Johnny Ingram is a man who made his way up to the top of Moviestorm however he is of humble beginnings, which is what he told us. He started off like any average Joe and then somehow by a twist of fate he bounced into the Machinima world with Moviestorm.
The evening started off by him defining what Machinima is. He defined Machinima as a movie created in a digital world. Later he went on to tell us about the history of machinima. He showed us the first machinima made in Quake called “Diary of a Camper”, that is the video that started the whole machinima scene. Unfortunately it was in such a video file format that was very hard to share and so it was hard to kickstart the machinima scene off on it's own.
Later he went on to show us some Machinima, one of those was a World of Warcraft Machinima describing the dream of the journey of a Tauran warriors quest to save a lady Shaman. The other one was a noir half life film made in Gary's Mod in Half Life 2. Either way the two films showed greater quality and displayed how far Machinima has come along since the first video ever. It was a good display of what current Machinima is capable with the right software and the right director.
Later a demonstration of Moviestorm came on where Johnny gave us a brief tutorial, to be honest I was quite surprised with how easy the interface was and what sort of extents the software could take your Machinima, while it is still hard to control the actions of the character on the stage it is much easier to make the character move and speak than I would have first anticipated.
I found Moviestorm to be a great piece of software for storyboarding rather than creating movies in, although that is still very much possible. It is much easier to manipulate every element inside the stage to make it into a storyboard.
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