"Ctrl-Alt-Del" is a weird and beautiful new Second Life machinima from the master, Ms. Lainy Voom. Watch as soon as you can, because this is something that Magritte might make, had he lived long enough to make machinima:
Ctrl-Alt-Del from Lainy Voom on Vimeo.
Lainy actually made this, she explains in the video notes, to overcome a creative block on her other projects. The images represent flashes from everyday life, while waiting for inspiration to hit. "The bird represents my muse, but it is also myself/creativity, I guess," she tells me. She improvised the machinima as she went, sometimes putting together several shots in an hour. "Other times I'd hit a scene that didn't work, so I threw it away, then waited until the next day to pick it up again. The whole thing took ten days." And while we'll have to wait to know if "Ctrl-Alt-Del" helped with her creative block, it's safe to say the results of her warm-up therapy came out great.
The machinima, by the way, is dedicated to Aino Baar (Cristina García-Lasuén IRL), the curator who recently brought Second Life machinima to millions of viewers in Shanghai. Technical specs for it after the break:
- Shot with the Emergence viewer.
- WindLight: "Made it hazy/cloudy in the background, decreased ambient lighting, increased gamma, so it looks washed out."
- Post-production: "Mirror effect at 0.12 and 0.24 for the TV channel interference/transitions."
- "Everything else is filmed straight from SL. I was trying out the new avatar alphas, which are great, by the way."
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