Unfortunately due to a schedule conflict (RL and TZ are bitches!) I cannot attend to the Koinup Machinima Contest ceremony at Orange Island. But the winners are already announced on Koinup. Myself and Tao Takashi each chose a winner and the community chose their own favourite, which was also my first choice.

Here are the top winners:

• The Little Newbie by Alienhearts (community winning machinima)
• “The Cats Will Play” Grindhouse Tribute by Bkiddo
• ChouChou by ChouChou

They will receive a cash prize from Koinup, and a license for MachinimaCam HUD Pro as soon as I can go inworld to deliver it.

There was a very high amount of outstanding work presented for this contest, the choice was very hard. I encourage all participants to continue working on doing machinima, many of you are extremely talented and are showing some real skills for the art.

Again, congratulations to the winners, and thank you all for your very active participation to this contest. Thanks to Tao Takashi for co-judging this contest, and thanks to Pierluigi of Koinup for giving me this opportunity to see all those marvelous pieces of work.

I am proud to announce that I have been requested by Koinup.Com to be a judge and to provide MachinimaCam as prizes for the new Koinup Second Life Music Video Contest.

Here is the integral communique:

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Videos and Music tell more than thousands words! So we had this idea to create a Second Life Music Videos Contest.

The theme is totally free. You can create a video, which features your first 100 days in Second Life, or create a whole story, directing other avatars! Otherwise, you can show us footage from your favorite sims. Or just create a sequences of wonderful images and stream them, as a slideshow, Just remember to add your video a good soundtrack!

You can submit your entries from April, 2 until April, 29.
The winners will be announced on May, 6 here and on the Koinup Blog.

Here are the latest entries.
Rules and Guidelines

• In order to take part in this contest, you must have an account on Koinup. Registration is free and takes only a few seconds.
• All the videos have to be shot in Second Life.
• Add some good soundtracks to your videos. Remember: all the entries have to be music videos!
• All the submissions in the contest must be tagged with this tag:
  secondlifemusicvideoscontest
  (copy this tag and paste it in your entries)
• Videos can’t be shorter than 1 minute or longer than 6 minutes.
• We accept .mpg, .mpeg, .mov, .wmv, .asf, .avi formats up to 150 MB in size. We do not support files with more than 2 audio channels and Windows Media Audio Professional (WMA Pro) audio codec.
• Submissions can’t be videos already hosted on Koinup. We accept videos already published on other websites. So if you have a machinima that meet the rules, you can submit it!
• Videos must remain on Koinup after the end of the contest, but you are free to publish them also on other websites and blogs.

PostScriptum: Don’t you know how to tag pictures? Look here!

Here are the latest entries.

Regarding the music

Some SL musicians has been so kind to gave us permissions to use their tracks as soundtracks of the contest!
Here are the links to download:

• Funk Shepherd & Dizzy Banjo
• Lyn Carlberg
• Melanie Fudge
• Rich Palmer
• Kim Seifert

Pay attention:
you can use these songs, but only for the contest. you have to type credits (authors, titles and links of the tracks you have used)
If you want use other music, we highly suggest to use only contents released with Creative Commons licences. You can find good sources of CC music here:
http://ccmixter.org/
http://creativecommons.org/audio
http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Music_Podcasts

Winners and Prizes

The price is totally Amazing!
20,000 L$ plus the MachinimaCam created by CodeBastard Redgrave.
MachinimaCam is an effective and highly useful tool to control your SL camera and help you to make machinima.

Winners will be selected by our authoritative judges: CodeBastard Redgrave and Tao Takashi.

There will be three winners. Two of them will be selected by our jury. The third one will be the Community winner and will be selected by the Koinup Community.

How become the Community Winner? Well, your video will be the community winners if it will be the coolest once submission will end. Coolest video is the most commented, faved, viewed!
Here you can find exactly what is coolest on Koinup.

Here are the latest entries.

Hope you will be a large number to participate!