Fantastic surrealist Machinima - just beautiful
Jan
If you haven’t seen ”The Dumb Man”, stop what you’re doing right now and go watch it.
It’s a surrealist piece with a strong Victorian feel, made in Second Life, and it’s just fantastic. The mood and feel are awesome, the imagery is marvellous, the story’s rather good, and it represents a fantastic use of SL for Machinima creation.
The character design, in particular, shows off the increasing strength of Second Life in creating great-looking characters (at least when they’re static), the lighting’s wonderfully done (it’s by Lainy Voom, creator of “Tale from Midnight City” last year), and generally it represents some fantastic Machinima work.
There’s also an interview with Lainy on the project over at New World Notes. Worth a read. Apparently there’s virtually no post-production in the entire thing!
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I loved this. It’s highly imaginative visual storytelling at its very best. This is the sort of piece for which I think Second Life is ideally suited. Great stuff.
My god, this is one of the best Machinimas I ever saw. Beautiful. In SecondLife? I had no idea… Thanks for that.
holy smack! gorgeous. i feel dumb.
Machiniplex are conducting an interview with the director this coming weekend. If you enjoyed “The Dumb Man” as much as we did, then hop on to skype and join in the discussion.