Weekend Machinima: Lainy Voom Plays With Time In "Push"

Push (Mini Project 4) from Lainy Voom on Vimeo

Watch this movie now if you want strange dreams, and have your imagination expanded. It's called "Push", Lainy Voom's latest short machinima experiment. In this one, she shot footage in just a week, on an extremely modest budget ($50), without a preconceived plan, improvising around the themes of time and memory. As is often the case with Lainy, those limitations were an advantage, yielding a surreal, visually spectacular mood piece. Using a viewer running dynamic shadows was also a great boon in that regard, but Lainy also employs some brilliant technical trickery: in shots 1:17, 1:22, 1:25, and 1:33, for example, she's actually using Second Life water as a moving backdrop. She adjusted the water's size and shape, and replaced the waves with other textures. That way, she tells me, "you can just film it straight in Second Life without post-prodding it." Here's much more of Ms. Lainy's work; my personal favorites that I've written about are "Tale from Midnight City", "Fall", and "The Stolen Child". (Is this the SL machinima Chris Marker watches? I surely hope so.)

Comments

[Mako Kungfu]

Er, 50L budget only if she already had all those items from Grim Bros and Curio Obscura, Casa del Shai, etc. sitting around in her inventory. Otherwise... no way. When you say 50L budget, what is that referencing?

[Hamlet Au]

$50 USD, Mako!

[Simondo Nebestanka]

Wow, superb. Wonderful use of the platform.

[Gwyneth Llewelyn]

This is too good to be merely called "a machinima". Lainy definitely outdid herself this time :) It's barely recognisable as "Second Life"...

[Crap Mariner]

Lots of excellent creations from Pandora Wrigglesworth in there...