The latest machinima from NWN favorite Lyric Lundquist is a gorgeously vibrant montage that mixes real world video (mostly shots of nature), machinima taken from Second Life, blended with deep post-processing that's so deep it's difficult to discern where reality ends and virtuality begins. Watch:
"I shot my avatar in black and white by filming my screen with a Sony HD Camera in the oasis that Hern Worsley built at Insilico," she tells me. "Using a real life camera to film the screen adds another layer of reality that I feel screen capturing software doesn't provide." Once she had taken those shots from SL, "I then layered those images with real life video that I took of fire, ink splattered on paper, feathers, leaves, glittering water from a stream, etc." In post-processing she added a filters to different layers of the image, so that "some of the images are so deeply distorted you wouldn't be able to tell what the original image was to start with. For example, maple leaves fluttering in the wind end up looking like glittering electro squares."
By making the final video so expressionistic, Lyric continues to push the very definition of machinima to its extreme. "In the end, I hope it's transporting for the viewer," says Ms. Lunquist. "It was transporting for me to make it, and gave me a place to put some emotions I've been dealing with recently."
See more sumptuous Lyric machinima here and also here and yet again here.
beyond beautiful
Posted by: sparrow lusch | Wednesday, November 17, 2010 at 06:46 PM