Ideajuice Studios Blog

Ideajuice Studios today made quite an impression over at Moviestorm with our first submission produced entirely with Moviestorm. What started out as a series of exercises and tests to learn how to use the tool turned into an exercise in trying to tell a story visually without any dialog. Along the way, we picked up another tool we’ve been dying to try out – Sonic Fire Pro – and used it to create a dramatically appropriate, but admittedly unrefined score.

This is not something we would usually try to put out as a finished work, but we wanted to show some of our friends how quickly things could be accomplished with the tool, so we decided to put it out there as is. We also thought it would be a good time to set up our Moviestorm account and channel etc. so we posted it on Moviestorm without really expecting much ado.

But when we checked our account, we found some messages about our post and took a look at the comments page on the moviestorm site:

First off.. there was a comment from the Moviestorm people themselves. “Great stuff – we made this a featured movie” . WOW! A featured movie is a movie that will play when you run the moviestorm application at home. While you are deciding what to do, it will show a half a dozen thumbnails of movies you can click on to play. Featured movies show up in other places on their website as well, and we noticed that they even wrote up a facebook comment about us “A Dish Served Hot, is an action movie with no words, but great camerawork & editing”

The Moviestorm community has been very warm in welcoming us with their comments. We have already recieved more comments from them with one submission than in all the time we’ve been on blip.tv . We can’t wait to work with this tool some more and see what we can do when we aren’t just playing around.

Thanks for visiting our blog. We won’t be posting often, but we hope when we do post something you find it entertaining and useful.

Ideajuice Studios is a very small company created by CodeWarrior Carling, an avatar in the Second Life® virtual world, to produce and publish machima made there and with other emerging tools such as iClone, DX Studio and Moviestorm.

Machinima are videos made using game engines or other virtual reality applications by recording the players actions in real time and then editing the resulting footage using normal techniques that apply to any other video.

You can view many of the machinima produced by Ideajuice Studios on other parts of our site. These blogs are more of a place for us to share our thoughts on other things we think will be of interest to our friends and fans.