My Top Twenty Second Life Machinima From 2009

I shared a lot of good-to-great Second Life machinima last year, and believe me, I've probably watched about fifty times as much, which for one reason or another did not get covered here. (And surely many more that I still missed entirely.) Below are my ten personal favorite machinimas, and ten which warrant an honorable mention. My very favorite of 2009 remains one of the very first ones I wrote about this year: Lainy Voom's "Fall", a near-perfect synthesis of story, image, and sound:

Here's the rest of my personal top ten (in no particular order):

• "Strange Fruit: Tribute to Billie Holiday" by Rysan Fall
• "There was a boat..." by Hooqiqi Luik
• "On the Grid" (Documentary short) by Studio Kanzen
• "Prometheus" by Luca Lisci
• "cradle and trap" by Lyric Lundquist
• "Vola Vola" by Berardo Carboni (feature film excerpt)
• "Stolen Child" by Lainy Voom
• "Dear my Father" by Sela Boa (feature film excerpt)
• "My Friends are Robots" by ColeMarie Soleil

After the break, ten more that deserve honorable mention:

• "Pet Shop Boys" by Nath Joneseford
• "4 Jetpacks" by Evo Szuyuan
• "Breathe" by SamLowry Hawks
• "Scripted" by Krrish Spyker
• "Impressions" by Willow Caldera (pictured above)
• "Jabberwocky" by Stephen Bentham
• "New Shoes" by TommyLee Nightfire
• "NeverMore" by  Pyewacket Bellman and Niten Altamura
• "Mac vs. PC in Second Life" by Draxtor Depres
• "Broken-Fixed" by ColeMarie Soleil

What favorites of yours did I miss?

Comments

[Marianne McCann]

For obvious reasons, I'm spoiled and very pleased with this one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4g3N4bqqlA

[Chaffro]

This one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXSzp_HOTrw

[Wayne]

Great stuff. Thanks!

[Ignatius Onomatopoeia]

Don't forget Lyric Lundquist's "Sideways Time."

Found it here at NWN, in fact....great work and a journey into a world that seems more real than RL, at times :)

Moved to "private video" now at YouTube. Damny-damn.

[Gatz Morang]

How can you have a top twenty favorite list of SL machinima without at least one by Toxic Menges?

[Csteph Submariner]

Wot? No Tara Yeats?