SL Machinima Masterpienes: Lainy Voom's "The Stolen Child"

The Stolen Child - WB Yeats from Lainy Voom on Vimeo.

Released in 2009 when dynamic shadow in Second Life was still relatively obscure option relegated to third party viewers, Lainy Voom created this utterly luminous and mesmerizing machinima inspired by a Yeats poem. I have it on good authority that when Linden Lab executives first saw it, they stopped what they were doing and gawked. Lainy told me about her inspirations for making it at the time, and I was surprised how she basically improvised the story on the fly:

"I was actually trying to make a completely different movie," Lainy tells me, "[A] Pre-Raphaelite-inspired 'Lady of Shallot' by Tennyson." After that project creatively floundered, the footage she'd created went unused for awhile. "When I came across 'Stolen Child' something just clicked with some of the visuals, the Gelatto sky settings and the water."

Read more about her technique here.

"I was actually trying to make a completely different movie," Lainy tells me, "[A] Pre-Raphaelite-inspired 'Lady of Shallot' by Tennyson." After that project creatively floundered, the footage she'd created went unused for awhile. "When I came across 'Stolen Child' something just clicked with some of the visuals, the Gelatto sky settings and the water."

Read more about her technique here.

Comments

[Cybele Moon]

just beautiful!!

[Pepa Cometa]

One of my favorite machinimas ever...it's really great. It's amazing it was done in 2009. I'm a big fan of Lainy Voom and I would love she came back to make a new movie in SL.

[amandamagick]

How enchanting! So well done for the time. Thank you for sharing this.