On
August 4th, 2005 the second annual SummerTech Children's Film
Festival successfully happened on the campus of Manhattanville
College in Purchase, New York. This year's festival focused on
Machinima and Flash works done by our campers and some of our
staff. According to Machinima.com,
Machinima is: "In short, a film made using Machinima (Ma-sheen-EH-ma)
is a film made with computer-generated graphics, similar to those
you can see on the television or on film in titles like "Antz"
and "Toy Story". However, unlike those features, Machinima
uses graphical techniques originally developed for computer games
to generate its visuals, meaning that a film-maker with a home
PC can create feature-length epics that would require millions
of dollars to make using traditional CGI (Computer Generated Imagery)
techniques, thanks to the fact that the Machinima film-maker can
make his or her film in real time, rather than painstakingly animating
frame by frame."
So
that's what some of our campers were doing this summer. Broken
into two, three-week sessions, we created groups of filmmaking
teams who learned about character design, script writing, storyboarding,
acting, voice recording, and of course using character and level
editors from popular 3D gaming engines. The Machinima artists
worked with and were taught by the talented, Brian Mayberry.
Most
of the machinima movies are being submitted to the New
York Machinima Film Fest to be held on November 12th.
Our
Flash artists worked closely with Jim Mortensen on storytelling
and drawing in several one-week courses.
Brian's
work can be found at http://deadonque.com/.
Jim's work can be found at http://meridiandream.com/.
The
evening was also about celebrating another amazing summer. Entertainment
was provided by two great bands, Franny
and The
Mathematicians.
Thank
you to: Manhattanville College, Brett Larson of CBS TV New York,
Paul Marino, Ben Grussi, nVidia, Franny, The Mathematicians, Jim
Mortensen, Brian Mayberry and a super group of junior teachers
for making this evening happen.
See
you next summer!
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