Watch "Traveling", a Machinima That Beautifully Moves Us Through Beautiful SL Spaces

"Traveling", a new machinima by Pep Lemmon (Jose Pinar IRL), is a beautiful SL travelogue which you should really see as soon as you can (and watch in HD mode if you are able):

There have been many other good SL travelogue montages before, but what I love about Lemmon's version is how we move through these virtual landscapes in long smooth panning shots, as if we're looking at them from a fast-moving car. To me that subtle shift in perspective makes these digital places much more real. Mr. Lemmon also composed the video's twangy, Western-flavored music, which crystallizes that sense of open road adventure even further. This all culminates in shots of SL reduced to its basic graphic components, a great way to show the underlying unreality of these places that Pep Lemmon has just made so real.

"Traveling" is featured in Chantal Harvey's Month of Machinima, but for my money, this is the best of them I've seen; best in awhile, actually. Click here to see all the videos for Month of Machinima.

UPDATE, 7/23: Bumped up for weekend viewing -- enjoy!

Comments

[Ehrman Digfoot]

I think the classic cloud at 1:44 almost crashed the screen recorder. jk :P

Breathtaking work. I was tracking light sources in the Develop menu the other day and was reminded once again of the amount of control we have in this world, the way we can reach out and examine each prim, each piece of geometry, every piece of metadata. That's something I really can't imagine us ever finding in another platform, and this video does an amazing job of capturing both the artistry and the raw technical marvel of our world.

[Nyoko Salome]

is quite nice! :) a rather tron-line view into 'the grid' as we have it...