Machinima Artists Panel - Saturday, May 30, 2009
MechanizedLife, in collaboration with The League of Muses, presents the Machinima Artists Panel.
We have invited five of Second Life’s most creative and prolific Machinima Artists to participate in this interactive discussion about the art of machinima in Second Life.
Moo Money, Pyewacket Bellman, Samlowry Hawks, Osiris Pfalz and CodeWarrior Carling will be on hand to answer every question you’ve ever had about machinima.
Join us Saturday, May 30, 2009 at 2:00 PM SLT. You don’t want to miss this one-of-a-kind event!
MechanizedLife announces a new Flickr contest with over L$40,000 in cash and prizes to be awarded.
The FilterCam HUD, created for all Second Life photographers and machinimists, both amateur and professional, virtually eliminates the need for post-processing by allowing the user to create artistic and dynamic SL(tm) photographs through a simple to use, menu-driven HUD. One of the most notable features of the FilterCam is the ability to personalize in-world snapshots by using the included texture masks or by creating and uploading your own.
This contest gives Second Life’s artists an opportunity to create unique texture masks, suitable for use with the MechanizedLife FilterCam HUD, and upload them to the FilterCam Xchange Flickr group . Masks will be judged by Flickr users based on the number of times each Mask is marked as a favorite.
Individual entries may also be selected to be included in a future FilterCam HUD update, will proper credit given to the mask designer.
Entries will be accepted beginning Wednesday, May 20, 2009 and will be closed as of Midnight on Saturday, May 30, 2009. Voting will also begin on May 30, 2009 and will continue until Midnight on Saturday, June 6, 2009. Winners will be announced at an Award Ceremony and Gala on Sunday, June 7, 2009 at 1:00 pm SLT. See Below for Prizes, Rules, Dates and Instructions:
Prizes
- 1st Prize - L$10,000 plus a MechanizedLife product bundle
- 2nd Prize - L$5,000 plus a MechanizedLife product bundle
- 3rd Prize - L$2,500 plus a MechanizedLife product bundle
- All participants will receive a L$1000 MechanizedLife Gift Certificate
Contest Period
- Submissions may be uploaded to the Flickr group beginning at Midnight SLT on Wednesday, May 20, 2009. Voting will begin on this date.
- The group will be closed to submissions on Saturday, May 30, 2009 at 11:59pm SLT.
- Voting will remain open until Saturday, June 6, 2009 at 11:59 pm SLT.
- Winners will be announced and prizes distributed at an Award Ceremony and Gala on Sunday, June 7, 2009 at 1:00pm SLT.
Official Rules
- Every filter must have some alpha transparency. Completely opaque masks do not work well with FilterCam.
- Every filter posted in the contest group must be released under a free content license to be freely redistributed full permissions.
- Each entry must be tagged with FilterCam Contest and FilterCamXchange.
- We reserve the right to bundle any of the submitted masks into FilterCam for future distribution (credit will be given to the mask designer).
- Participants must allow access to all submitted filters through Flickr and keep the submitted filters in the group, for public accessibility.
- Each filter must be the original work of the submitter and not derived from stock artwork.
- All international trademarks and copyrights must be respected, as well as all Flickr guidelines.
- Winners will be chosen based upon the number of times each filter is marked as a favorite.
- Participants may submit more than one filter mask to the group.
Submission Instructions
- Upload your transparency masks on your Flickr account in .PNG format
- They must be in 1024 x 1024 format
- Submit them to the FilterCam Masks Flickr group
- Examples of photography using your contest submission may be submitted to the open FilterCam Flickr Group. You may provide a link to this photograph from your contest submission.
Downloading and using the masks with FilterCam
- Click on “Download the Original size” to get the .PNG
- Upload image to Second Life
- Follow FilterCam instructions for adding the new mask to your existing FilterCam
Showcase your creativity and innovation. Submit your entries.
Encourage your friends to vote for your submission by marking it as a favorite.
Win amazing cash and prizes!
Good Luck!
My heart is split in half on this sunny monday morning, as we all got the news of your tragic departure. Not a bad way to go for the ultimate self-proclaimed drama queen, but you know, you could have waited a bit longer before leaving us like that.
I will always remember you Rheta. What I thought was just another gushing fangirl revealed herself to be one of the most heartwarming, integer, loving and caring person I ever had the chance to know. It pains me like you have no idea to know that I won’t be able to share a giggle with you and debate about deeply philosophical subjects as we often did.
I will always remember the fake humility behind which you hid your brilliance, your wit, and your incredibly generous heart. A person with such your culture should have never hidden so clumsily but that humility also made you a better person, more empathic and more sensitive than anyone I have ever known in any life.
Rheta, I can barely stop sobbing between each keystroke, but you would be the first to tell me I have to be strong, for you and for everyone that ever loved you, and for everyone you ever loved. But oh Rheta, how cruel is this world if it deprives us of you.
This is not the last time I will talk to you Rheta, not by a longshot. Everytime I will have a difficult choice to make, I will think of what you would tell me. Maybe you didn’t know it my love, but you made the world a better place for us all to live in.
Goodnight, my sweet Rheta… I love you
