{"id":5985,"date":"2020-07-26T07:47:22","date_gmt":"2020-07-26T12:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.zoha-islands.com\/?p=5985"},"modified":"2020-07-26T07:47:22","modified_gmt":"2020-07-26T12:47:22","slug":"the-first-feature-length-cyberpunk-thriller-shot-entirely-in-second-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zoha-islands.com\/blog\/the-first-feature-length-cyberpunk-thriller-shot-entirely-in-second-life\/","title":{"rendered":"The First Feature-Length Cyberpunk Thriller Shot Entirely in Second Life!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-header\">Watch Here: <em>ST\u00d6MOL<\/em>, The First Feature-Length Cyberpunk Thriller Shot Entirely in Second Life!<\/h3>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<div class=\"entry-body\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BZMOPUnHnD8\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> Bumped up for weekend viewing!<\/p>\n<p>As promised, New World Notes is very proud to debut the feature-length machinima by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/huckleberryhax\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Huckleberry Hax<\/a>. Put your headphones on, dim the lights, and press play. And join me below for director&#8217;s comments (with potential spoilers) and running comments from the audience in the aisle!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<a id=\"more\"><\/a>\n<div class=\"entry-more\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d8341bf74053ef0264e2ea517b200d image-full img-responsive alignnone\" title=\"STOMOL SL Machinima cyberpunk\" src=\"https:\/\/nwn.blogs.com\/.a\/6a00d8341bf74053ef0264e2ea517b200d-800wi\" alt=\"STOMOL SL Machinima cyberpunk\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Filming started in February 2019. Since then I&#8217;ve shot in 12 different sims as well as a couple of stand-alone sets, one of which I built&#8230; a mixture of animations and static poses were used, from over 40 different content creators.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One of the most challenging aspects of creating the movie was the short lifespan of many sims &#8211; often as brief as a month,&#8221; as Hax explains. &#8220;For example, I was filming at &#8216;Kun-Tei-Ner&#8217; (by Lotus Mastroianni and Fred Hamilton) right up until the hour before they started dismantling it. It&#8217;s a huge barrier to the creation of longer, story-telling machinima in SL. Of course I understand why sim creators do this &#8212; they have money for one sim and they want to move on and do something different.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Another barrier is the dearth of quality animations that are not dance animations or adult animations. This surprised me &#8211; I imagined that, over the lifespan of SL, there would be pretty much any animation I could think of somewhere on the Marketplace, but actually sourcing animations became one of the most time consuming aspects of the movie.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;The main character &#8211; Epi St\u00f6mol &#8211; is looking for two coders,&#8221; he tells me. &#8220;One is a deepfake scripter, the other is able to retrieve old media files.\u00a0<span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">The woman in the scene &#8211; Istinito &#8211; used to be room mate to one of the missing coders.\u00a0<\/span>In the future the movie is set in, old media has been rendered unreadable through corporate software infrastructure, making it hard to work out actual history. It&#8217;s an Orwellian sort of situation, where there is only official history. The movie as a whole is about truth and the triumph of &#8216;fake news.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy From all of us at Zoha Islands and Fruit Islands<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watch Here: ST\u00d6MOL, The First Feature-Length Cyberpunk Thriller Shot Entirely in Second Life! Update: Bumped up for weekend viewing! As promised, New World Notes is very proud to debut the feature-length machinima by Huckleberry Hax. Put your headphones on, dim the lights, and press play. And join me below for director&#8217;s comments (with potential spoilers) &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/zoha-islands.com\/blog\/the-first-feature-length-cyberpunk-thriller-shot-entirely-in-second-life\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6000,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,3,4,5,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zoha-islands.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5985"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zoha-islands.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zoha-islands.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zoha-islands.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zoha-islands.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zoha-islands.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5985\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zoha-islands.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zoha-islands.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zoha-islands.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zoha-islands.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}