DIGIPENDENCE - declare yours!

One of my favourite machinima series, “Adventures in Dating” has concluded with its 16th episode, ‘Facing the Future‘. The machima artist behind AiD is Decorgal and this series is one of the first that I learned of when I started to investigate machinima. As someone coming from live action film and television production, and not from gaming, it really enabled me to see how a machinima show could have a production run which paralleled traditional film-making. The level of commitment, dedication and professionalism I witnessed as Decorgal created and showcased (blog, site, mailing list, etc…) her series isn’t often found in more traditional productions and it was truly inspiring. Read about the final episode.

This is simply amazing!

Ten Thousand Pictures of You
Written, Directed & Edited by Robin King
Starring Denise Hoey, David Crow, Ruth Larkin

This pixilation (stop-motion animation using real people) was made in 2006 for Screen South as part of the UK Film Council’s Digital Shorts scheme. As much as possible, it was made ‘in camera’ without digital superimposure, using thousands of printed materials.

The whole film took about a year: roughly three months each for development, prep, shoot and post - although due to the nature of the film, part of the post bled into the shoot. The programs I used were Photoshop, Premiere 6.5 and some bespoke programs I coded myself (a 3D animatic planning program and another to smooth out some of the tracking shots).

To be honest my machine and the software weren’t up to what I needed from them, and I would have a much better time of it now, with my macbookpro, FCP and a tablet…

I used a Canon Eos 350D Digital SLR to shoot, and took roughly 26,000 photos overall.

Thanks to Chris Ollis - go and watch his stuff - for the hat tip.

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