The Machinimist of the Week: HiroakiNirvana

Here we are with the amazing "Koinup machinimist of the week". The choice is HiroakiNirvana. You can enjoy Hiroaki amazing gallery of machinima (and photos) here. Hiroaki is highly skilled in creating music videos, with stunning showcases of fantastic Second Life places.....

"Heart Beat"



"Empty Universe"



Along with HiroakiNirvana, we love to mention a very nice machinima created by Glasz called "Singing in the SL Rain". If you're wondering how to get considered for the mention of "Koinup machinimist of the week", have a look here and enjoy our "Desperately Seeking for Machinimist project! Good Luck

Desperately Seeking for Machinima

After the launch of HD support on Koinup, we started to drive more attention to Machinima. Because of this reason, we started the "Desperately Seeking Machinimist" Project. The initiative goal is to support and leverage the Machinima culture among the Koinup community. All the machinimists can join the project. They have only to join the "Desperately Seeking Machinimist"group on Koinup, add their machinima to the pool and on each week, a videomaker will be selected and featured on the Koinup Blog (and on the Koinup Fb page). Along with the 5 "special mentions", the aim of the project is to support the machinima efforts of all the Koinup members. Beyond the machinimists, all the Koinup members can join the project, by watching the videos and leave their feedbacks! GET STARTED HERE

Thanks to Just Art and MondiVirtuali - Media Partners of the Project

Enjoy HD Machinima on Koinup

We just released a new "Koinup brand feature" aimed at improving the machinima experience on the website, both for creators and viewers. Starting from today, if you import a machinima from YouTube (the most favorited and recommended tool to shares video on Koinup) you can embed your videos with "HD" quality. Basically if you have HD videos on Youtube, you can now embed them on Koinup with the same "High Definition". With more than 5K videos published, Koinup is one of the favorited destinations to share and enjoy machinima on the web and now with the improved "video" experience, it will become even more popular among machimists.

Along with the HD broadcasting, this release came with a second interesting feature: "the support for iOS". It does mean that you can now watch all the videos published on Koinup, both on iPad, iPhone and iPod.

if you're a machinimist, and you're looking for a good website to share and let others known about your videos, join now Koinup and start to embed your machinima!

How to enjoy the HD?
If the video supports HD, when you mouse over the video display, you will see a link to switch to HD. Just click and the video will load in higher resolution.



Watch now this interesting Second life Machinima by Nak_Exonar!

A selection of second life machinima you must watch this weekend

Boss published some days ago a brilliant machinima "Trailer of Girls in the SKY" that got a huge success in terms of views and comments (and reviews)





Colemarie Soleil also known as RockerFaerie, who recently released a collaborative music album (with Arai Tasuku), just posted on Koinup a couple of her cinematic amazing surreal visions

Here you can watch her "Cocoon"





Betty Rogan created her first machinima - a cute story with "Little Bee" - Enjoy here

A selection of the top Machinima posted on Koinup in 2010

Along with the amazing digital art, Koinup is a well know destination for machinima-makers and on the website you can watch amazing movies shooted in virtual worlds

The following are some of the most acclaimed machinima published on Koinup in 2010


a Patrovsky flux by Toxic Menges




Stay with me tonight by Rockerfaerie




Valentina by Vive Voom





Virtual Adams first and last birthday by Lorisrizzo



You can enjoy some other amazing videos in the Koinup Top Machinima Section

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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Winners of the "1 Minute Machinima" Contest

We're excited to announce the winners of the "1 Minute Machinima Contest", the video competition powered by Koinup and sponsored by Moviestorm to empower the best machinima talents

According to the jury, made up by Jordi Cardona, author of Hiperia3d News, Poid Mahovlich, machinima expert, Matt Kelland , machinimist and co-founder of Moviestorm, the absolute winner of the "1 Minute Machinima contest" is:

"Virtual Adam's First and Last Birthday" by Lorisrizzo


Lorisrizzo will receive a one year free subscription to all the Moviestorm Premium Service! Congrats Loris! (The winner is invited to contact us at the address: editor at koinup dot com in order to claim the prize)

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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.

Read more about the contest

Talking about Machinima on Radio24

Koinup has been featured on the italian radio broadcast Radio24. The programme was about machinima and I was interviewed by the tech journalist Luca Tremolada. You can listen for some extracts, here (italian only)

Koinup and Moviestorm present “The 1 Minute Machinima Contest”

Koinup, the virtual world and machinima social network and Moviestorm, the 3D movie making software application, are delighted to announce “The 1 Minute Machinima Contest”

Koinup founder Pierluigi Casolari and Moviestorm founder Matt Kelland launched the competition in order to promote Koinup to Moviestorm's community of amateur movie-makers, and to bring awareness of Moviestorm to Koinup's clientele of machinima creators and digital artists.

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This week on Hiperia 3D News: "Stay with me tonight"

This week on Koinup media partner Hiperia 3D News, you can enjoy the amazing machinima by RockerFaerie: Stay with me tonight. Watch, now!

If you want your videos to be considered for a dedicated editorial, add them to the Hiperia 3D Machinima Selections on Koinup

Second Life Terms Of Service Changes

On March 30th, Linden Lab, the makers of Second Life, made some substantial changes to their official Terms Of Service that have a strong effect in many areas of in-world activities - including Machinima and Photography. Some believe these changes are simply common sense courtesy, while others claim that TOS 2.0 is disabling the creative pool with their rules, which appear laden with gray areas.

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Featured machinima of the week on Hiperia3D News

This week the featured machinima on the Hiperia 3D News is the work of Arbit for the music video "Plant Her" by Potlatch from the album "Ravenshadow" on Louipimps Records. Read the story

Updates on the Hiperia3D & Koinup Machinima Project

As you probably know, we launched a partnership with Hiperia 3D News to promote the job of machinima directors and profile the best machinima videos available on Koinup. According to the partnership, any week the authoratitive metaverse blog Hiperia 3D News will cover a machinima published on Koinup. (read here how to get featured).

Recently, the machinima artist and virtual world art expert Poid Mahovlich joined the crew. She will help the staff of Hiperia 3D news to pick the most interesting submissions! Join now the Hiperia 3d Machinima selections group and stay tuned with the Hiperia 3D news for further updates

Hiperia3D features the best machinima posted on Koinup

Hiperia3D Machinima Selections is back again and featuring the best machinima videos made in virtual worlds and available at Koinup. If you're a machinimist, probably you may want to get your videos profiled on Hiperia 3d News, one of the most authoritative blogs dedicated to virtual worlds and 3d culture.

In order to get your videos featured, you must post your machinima on Koinup and add them to the Hiperia3D's machinima Selections group. The Hiperia 3D News staff will pick one winner, among the entries, any week, and it will profile the winners on the blog

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Stories From The Machine Presents: A Woman's Trial - by Chantal Harvey

There are many things that can be said of virtual filmmaker Chantal Harvey. Prolific? Immeasurably. Creative? Without question. The encyclopedia of Miss Harvey's work is vastly diverse; From short corporate commercials and public service announcements earlier on, to bizarre comedic romps and short featurettes ripe with passion. More recently in her lengthy career - She has, perhaps, today more films of the Machinima genre than anyone else originating from her platform - over 150 at the time of this writing - and in that collective we bare witness to the evolution of a Machinimist. The volumes of work throughout her virtual life stand as a testament to the path she has walked, and where she stands today.

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A new Frenzoo mini-machinima feature.

These days, Frenzoo released a new feature that further empowers its already vibrant and active community of users. I'm talking about the new Frenzoo mini-machinima utility that allows users to record a few seconds of action in the client and save it automatically as a gif animated. The micro-machinima feature, that it is something as "an animation tool meets a video capturing software", provide Frenzoo members with a new way to share their experience from the client to the web, in a easy and quick way. With this mini-machinima feature, Frenzoo is going to hugely appeal to the large community of virtual worlds users that are more interested in creating contents for the web (pics, machinima, artworks) than inworld stuff. Some of these users are also huge fans of Koinup, too.

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The 2010 MMIF Machinima International Film Fest Kicks Off Today!

And you can watch it LIVE as it happens! Film makers from around the globe who create content in virtual platforms of all types are being showcased in the 2nd Annual MMIF that takes place LIVE in Amsterdam at PlanetArt and simultaneously in Second Life! Can't attend? Don't worry! You can catch all the fabulous fashions, awesome films, Q&A sessions and join the chat with other viewers during the streamcast live online, as it happens, here: http://mbtv.live.nu/

Expect to see films made in iClone 3D, World of Warcraft, Prototype, MovieStorm, Second Life, The Sims 2 and many more as creators converge both in the real world and the virtual world to celebrate the art of film making!

If you can make it into Second Life, you can teleport directly to the MMIF sims here!

Unfortunately, The live venue at PlateArt in Amsterdam is by ticket only. So get yourself comfortable and join some of the most amazing creators in the metaverse NOW!

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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