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Category: machinima
🎙️ Inside the Lobby: talking Hotel Victoria with Huckleberry Hax
A behind-the-scenes conversation about Huck’s newest machinima series.
Five Years Since STÖMOL?! Wait… What?!
Time flies when you’re saving dystopian Second Life
5 Second Life TikTok Accounts You Want to Follow!
As I mentioned in my last blog post, I recently dipped my toes into the TikTok world by creating an account to share short videos made in Second Life. While TikTok isn’t the best platform for long-form machinima, it’s absolutely perfect for fun, bite-sized clips that can capture attention quickly—just like Instagram/Facebook Reels and YouTube…
Where have I been, where should you?
WordPress sent me some sad messages about the poor state of this blog. And yeah, I know….I have been neglecting this site. Sorry, Site! Not blogging here, doesn’t mean I have not been in Second Life. On the contrary, I am actually quite busy! With all the good stuff. Like Mentoring new residents at the…
A tropical beach, cool Norway and scary jellyfish…
In the words of the famous Dutch football player Johan Cruyff, “Every disadvantage has its advantage. Just last month, a mere 10 minutes after the Fantasy Faire opened, my trusty old PC decided to crash and burn. Although the timing was far from ideal, considering its nearly 12-year lifespan it was actually quite remarkable that…
The Fantasy Faire Film Competition is open to votes!
Edit 1: The date of the Award Ceremony is 6th May and not 7th! Edit 2: For the public voting, the film with most amount of LS in their Kiosk will win, not the number of votes! For the second year the Fantasy Faire Film festival organised a film competition. Rules were pretty straight forward….
‘Waarheid, the Exhibition’ open till 31st January!
After the premiere of Waarheid and the release on YouTube (you can watch the movie, for free, here), Huckleberry Hax officially opened WAARHEID the Exhibition. It is cool to see so many people have visited the site already and took pictures! The exhibition consists of the sets Huck built for the movie, the cave being…
My 15 seconds of fame?
With the premiere in sight, next week, things are about to get real.Tomorrow, Friday 9th December, Huckleberry’s new movie WAARHEID will be featured on LabGab, the live chat show about events, news, and other interesting happenings in Second Life, hosted by the lovely Strawberry Linden. Huckleberry, AvaJean Westland, and I are invited to talk about…
Filming WAARHEID, a look behind the scenes
Earlier this week Huckleberry Hax (finally) announced the release date of his new movie ‘WAARHEID’, filmed in Second Life and the sequel to his first blockbuster STÖMOL. So in case you were wondering what I’ve been up to the past two years….the answer is: busy acting and posing for this movie. We also spent a…
Announcing WAARHEID
Originally posted on What the Huck?:
WAARHEID will be the sequel to my 2020 movie, STÖMOL. I am currently just over a year into filming it and I’m aiming for a release about next summer. The film will star Caitlin Tobias, reprising her role as Waarheid from STÖMOL. (Ok – yes – I buckled. I…
Casting call for a new, feature-length machinima project
Originally posted on What the Huck?:
Some of you will be aware that the acting roles in STÖMOL went to people in my friendship circle in Second Life. Making machinima is my hobby, and part of my enjoyment of this hobby is doing it with people I get on with. It’s also just easier to…
Interview Huckleberry Hax with Ivar Zeile about STÖMOL
Originally posted on What the Huck?:
https://vimeo.com/447983110 Yesterday afternoon I spent a very pleasant hour talking to Ivar Zeile, Founder and Creative Director of the SUPERNOVA Digital Film Festival, about STÖMOL and filming in Second Life. STÖMOL has been selected for the festival, and is one of two feature-length films showing. 2020 is the first…
STÖMOL, what a journey it was!
When Huck asked me to pose for a ‘short video clip he had in mind’, in February 2019, we could never have imagined it would turn out in a full feature-length movie complete with a private premiere, an interview in Second Life’s Live Talk-show ‘Lab Gab’ with Strawberry Linden, and interview in Eclipse Magazine ánd…
Voice-acting in a Second Life movie
When talking to Strawberry Linden in last week’s Lab Gab one of the questions was about the voice acting in STÖMOL and if we hired actors for that. The past year, when I told friends about what we were doing, this question also came up a few times ‘how do you film speech?’ Well, we…
STÖMOL release date: 23 July 2020
Originally posted on What the Huck?:
After a long haul that began in February 2019, I’m finally ready to announce a release date for STÖMOL, my feature-length science fiction machinima: 23 July 2020. Stay tuned for further details of the premiere plus a number of events in the days leading up to it. In the…
