Wagner James Au / New World Notes
Author, strategist, virtual world reporter
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Category: SL Machinima
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Originally published on my Patreon Above: Whitechapel, a steampunk Victorian sim — click here to teleport Just in time for the long weekend (at least here in the US), here's four lovely SL machinimas to watch, montage tributes to Second Life sims shot and edited by Sabina Valeska. "Every time I visit a sim and…
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This lovely machinima montage of an SL sim called Still Water Village (click here to teleport) was shot with the Firestorm viewer on high graphics using the region's shared environment WindLight. But from the moment you press play, you'll also likely notice a unique and appealing fluidity to the shots. That's because this is not…
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I'm sad to read the news that the real life owner of Tutsy Navarantha, acclaimed Second Life-based artist, recently died. Many SL community members have already posted farewells and memorials on his RL Facebook account. He created until close to the very end, such as this poignant image, "Alone Against the World" on Flickr last March.…
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The Second Life machinima of Garbage Princess are fairly lovely and unique — beautifully shot, vibey, long-form videos set in gorgeous SL sims. They're the kind of thing you want to broadcast on your TV while cooking in the kitchen, or perhaps imbibing on your favorite chill out substance. (Here's the first one in the Sim…
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Remember Teal Aurelia's Second Life-based machinima promoting real life pop singer SEMINA, which led to a radio station picking up the song? Here's Teal's behind-the-scenes video, showing how she manually, painstakingly integrates SL footage with her post-production editing and artistry. On her social media, Teal's bio reads: "I make videos. I don't use any AI."…
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This is a beautiful new machinima from auteur Teal Aurelia, but with a special new twist: It's also a promotion for a track from real life pop singer SEMINA, who's had several hits in her home country in the EU, but had her music career undone by the recent pandemic. "[I] was preparing for a…
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Last time I was talking with indie filmmaker Tim Hannan, he was feeding raw footage of Second Life dinosaurs into a gen AI platform to create pretty cool low budget clips. That early attempt was rudimentary, but this new segment he just showed me (watch above) is several steps improved. "Midjourney has a new feature…
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Problem: Machinima is an amazing use case for metaverse platforms, enabling people to create high quality narrative videos on a low budget — if only, that is, the "high quality" part wasn't so challenging. Because any time you capture video in a multiplayer virtual world, you inevitably encounter lag, frame rate drop, and onscreen mesh…
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This spectacular montage machinima may seem like a big budget commercial for Second Life (and it's definitely more dazzling than the actual ad Linden Lab paid for in 2021), but it's actually more interesting than that: It's a showreel of ads for top metaverse brands inside the Second Life economy, created by Teal Aurelia, a…
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It's a Friday miracle! After an absence of some six years, legendary YouTuber Soda Gnome is back with a new Second Life machinima to utterly wreck some "Take on Me" karaoke. First sighted by Redditor u/GeoffreyLannister, we've been missing his wryly goofy humor, a gnome-shaped light amid the sea of fashion and trolling videos. Though…
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