Rocking with Moviestorm

Along with Loris Rizzo the winner and Celestina and AdricAntfarm the two honorary mentions, many other interesting machinimists joined the 1 Minute Machinima Contest and submitted amazing videos. In this post, I'd like to highlight the job of some of them

LizHabana did a great job with "a bad time rev" Watch the video:

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Some amazing Moviestorm Videos

Following are two amazing Moviestorm videos created for the 1 Minute Machinima Contest

Nowhere to go by Celestina




nightmare with happy end by by Hellopiccadilly



The submission time is extended to 14th of june. So, you have still almost 10 days to enter your submission! Good Luck!

The 1 Minute Machinima Contest: Extended for two weeks the submission time

We extended of about two weeks "The 1 Minute Machinima Contest". Now participants have until 14th of june to enter their submissions! The 1 Minute machinima contest is an initiative powered by Koinup and Moviestorm aimed at promoting the machinima diffusion and culture.

Participants of the contest are asked to submit a video created with the Moviestorm software(less than 1 minute lenght) on Koinup. The winner will receive a one year subscription to Moviestorm and will be promoted on both the Moviestorm and Koinup websites. Runners up will also be promoted on both sites.

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Make your machinima with Moviestorm

Machinima has been at the core of Koinup since the launch of the website. Now we're empowering our commitment, by partnering with Moviestorm.

Moviestorm is a virtual movie studio. It's not a game or a virtual world, but it works in much the same way. Thousands of people world wide are using Moviestorm to leverage their machinima skills and create awesome videos!

Moviestorm is a complete suite for machinimists and allow you to:
1. Build Your Set,
2. Choose Your Characters,
3. Direct the Action
4. Film Your Movie

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Stories From The Machine Presents: Machinima 101

In approaching this column, I can't possibly explain how excited I was at the opportunity to officially set some of my time aside to watch all sorts of great Machinima from worlds around the Metaverse! I was surprised to find that the community of passionate, independent Machinimatographers was actually quite small in size, and those that seem to get the most attention are often ones that have significant funding behind them or were produced by professional filmmakers with access to premium tools that you or I could never afford. Sure, those are the ones that Machinima.com focuses on pretty much entirely. While those aren't without their artistic merit, I know from experience that many storytellers just want to use what resources are available to them at little or no cost to simply do what what a storyteller does, and that is film something that expresses their perspective, their voice, and their talents!

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