Ideajuice Studios Blog

An ad for the amazing Blue Kitty slicing machine. Order yours today! Many thanks to Thundergas Menges, Kayden Oconnell and 1angelcares Writer for doing voice over for this on really short notice! Thanks to Evie Fairchild and Chantal Harvey for helping with the acting and double thanks to Evie Fairchild for doing fantastic scoring and foley. And of course thanks to Morgaine Dinova for having such a handy slicing attachment on her avatar!

This is Ideajuice Studios entry in the 2009 48 Hour Film Project (machinima edition).

This years team consisted of just CodeWarrior Carling and Evie Fairchild. The genre we were assigned was science fiction, and all teams were required to use a book as a prop, feature a character named Bobbi Stuart who was a baker, and to use the line of dialog “are you sure about that?”.

We successfully submitted our film on time, and were judged to be the film that made the best use of the line of dialog. We used avatars from many different places, and were granted permission by Madcow Cosmos to use a wonderful set of objects he made for our ‘Asterknot Traning’ facility.

Featuring aliens, children, dogs, kittens, cupcakes and fresh baked bread, we hope you enjoy watching this as much as we enjoyed making it.

A video produced completely with iClone and featuring voice acting by several prominent Second Life personalities. Pooky Amsterdam plays the voice of the Genie, Thundergas Menges plays the voice of the orc, and CodeWarrior Carling plays the remaining parts.

The musical score was written by Evie Fairchild using Sonic Fire Pro. iClone and Crazy Talk work as well as video editing was done by CodeWarrrior Carling.

This is by far Ideajuice Studios most popular machinima to date, and a sequel is already being planned.

A Performance art exhibit produced by the Vaneeesa Blaylock art collective and held in a gallery showing works relating to the theme of identity built by Kali Meads.

Vaneeesa Blaylock is a well known performance artist whose installations focus on the theme of identity. Virtual worlds allow her to explore this theme through the use of avatars in ways that would be difficult or impossible in real life.

This is a short film of her seventh in the series (VB07). “I Advance Masked” was presented on August 15, 2009 in the Ancient Greek Ruins build in Petruchio region in SL, and during the two hour performance drew over 100 visitors.

This is a video recording of an original play written by Z. Sharon Glantz (Lailu Loon in Second Life), performed live in Second Life.

This machinima was put together using footage from two cameras at each of four performances for a total of eight takes.

Shots of two very talented builders putting on a fireworks show at the NCI 4th Birthday bash in Second Life.

A brief video showing some hijinks from Volunteer Appreciation Day in Second Life.

Two very dear friends of mine partnered in VR about a year ago, and I had the honor of filming their wedding.

Although my role was simply to send the footage to Chantal for editing, I couldn’t resist putting this together.

Happy Anniversary you two!

Our assigned genre was thriller/suspense, and ironically we had a lot of real life suspense along the way. We got our film uploaded a scant five minutes before the dealine. A tension filled cast and crew exploded in joy when the successful upload was announced in group chat, only to crash into despair a few minutes later on learning that because of an issue with the film format our entry would be disqualified.

However, the next day, we learned from the contest sponsors that they would allow our entry to be submitted for judging, and the suspensful, thrill filled weekend of movie making mayhem turned out to have a happy ending after all.

We’re thinking of making a thriller/suspense movie about a team of people who have to make a movie in 48 hours….

This was the original build of Ideajuice Studios in Second Life. Then one day, the Lindens noticed that there was water on the mainland, and the next day the water was gone.

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.