After a long absence from SL machinima, avatar auteur Robbie Dingo returns with a decidedly eerie effort. (Quite different, in other words, from the heart-wrenching shorts, as here and here, that he first made his name with.)
A much higher quality version, by the way, is viewable here. Created as a favor to promote a Resident author's innovative horror novel, Dingo's video crescendos with a truly cool visual effect. Watch it first, then read on, to learn how he did it.
"[The f]loating paper effect was blue screened," Dingo explains. "The 100 meter long shot from window to tree was taken first-- without paper. Next, a large prim was made, textured as a page, made flexible, and was rotated via a script within a very large, full-bright, blue box. The camera was also randomly rotated and zoomed in/out whilst fixed on the page and capturing footage. The best takes from each of these parts were then layered externally, removing the blue.
"The whole film, from storyboard, through set design/character/props, to filming, sound design and post production took only three (long and full) days. However that shot was particularly tricky and took up a fair percentage of this. I especially found it difficult to get continuous, smooth running footage through the forrest on my Mac. Actually," he admits, "the superimposed paper covers up a load of unwanted artifacts and glitches!"
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