Tuesday Machinima: Lyric Lundquist Explores Insilico in Wireframe (And Celebrates Her Birthday This Week!)

The bedeviling Second Life machinima artist known as Lyric Lundquist hasn't made a video in awhile, so this is a double treat: a trip through the cyberpunk landmark metropolis Insilico, created by Skills Hak, rendered even stranger when viewed in wireframe:

Lyric's notes on the production: "The only avatar in the video is Skills Hak, the lagoon was built in Insilico for me as a film haven by Hern Worsley. (Skills generously donated the prims.)" And because this is a Lyric production, there's additional elements layered on top of the Second Life footage: You'll notice the shots with strange black swirls. Those were created by using this scribbler tool. "I used screen capture software to tape myself drawing, then imported it into Final Cut to layer on top of scenes from Second Life. I also created a layer in Photoshop that looked like the glare of the sun, which I layered over wireframe clips to give it a more dreamy kind of feel."

When Lyric showed this machinima to her real life mom, she said it reminded her of an Erector Set from her childhood; hence the video's name, "erek-tor". "I liked the duality of the word," Lyric Lundquist tells me, "because I felt it also spoke to filming in wireframe, which shows the bones of Insilico and how much work it took to erect such a masterful world."

Marvelous stuff. And as it happens, this week is Lyric Lundquist's real life birthday, so as she offers us this gift, do join me in celebrating this young woman with singular talent we're fortunate to have part of Second Life.

Comments

[Stephen Venkman]

Amazing Machinima and process. I'm a wire frame lover and this to me is a masterpiece. Thank you Wagner for the feature and thank you Lyric for sharing your talent. Happy Birthday!

[Nova Dyszel]

absolutely gorgeous, great choice of music too

[Lyric Lundquist]

thank you so much nova and stephen :) this video gets my my blood pumping, looking at second life in wire frame is inspiring.

i'm happy you enjoyed it.