Falco Rocks: Real Life Filmmaker Merges Second Life Machinima With Masterful Post-Production Effects

Falco Tomsen is the Second Life name of Adam Falco, a German filmmaker who's been making amazing SL machinima for the last couple years. (But as often happens, I just accidentally encountered his work only recently.) Falco leverages his real life post-production skills to add incredible visual polish, sound editing, and special effects to the raw footage take from Second Life. Watch his show reel:

A visual effects supervisor for TV-Spot in Germany, discovering Second Life for Falco, he says grinning, "was important for me at least like Columbus. Second Life unleashed all my creativity with absolute freedom from what is unfortunately not possible in real life." He makes his machinima as an artist's labor of love, "inspired by stories and dreams of the people that I love". His main post-production tool is Avid Media Composer, but "if necessary, paradoxically, I could realize my ideas with a hammer and chisel."

To see how his post-production effects merge with Second Life in a completed work, watch this machinima he made for the opening of a medieval sim called Hyboria (after the break):

Next up is a vampire-themed short called "Abso the Vampire", expected later next month.

Comments

[Hitomi Tiponi]

I usually love the machinimas featured here but The Spirit of Hyperborea left me cold. Just looked like somebody ramming a lot of shots in together - and am not sure the lighting/graphics were that good. Loved the music though.

[Zora85 Willis]

I do not know Falco tomsen personally, but I knew him through his works, and is a true artist, art can not be understood on the basis of a single work and more specifically to the effects work in it, I think there is much confusion. We are always looking for what we can impress without ensuring the true message of a work. Today there are apparently fewer artists, because our perspective to see things is rather simplistic. We should see beyond, to implement the interpretative note to a work that is able to stimulate our thinking.
The real magic of a work it is to different interpretations but also to share in the unique position to provide strong emotions. I myself have wept after seeing a clip of her, for example, "Our Sicily - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkUS-8lq8yc -

Dear Hitomi, I advise you these links, for me two great artists in Second Life.

Better Life - Director Rob Wright
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6D9K9xTmt0
Mary's Life - Director Falco Tomsen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyecweU6Ziw
Beauty Avatar - Director Falco Tomsen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90o7CEyUTrk

bye bye