Author Archives: CodeWarrior Carling

My Twit Personality

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So I spent the last weekend solving a problem that’s developed over the last couple of years, and become increasingly inconvenient for me. I’m talking about something that all of us have probably experienced, and that is the intrusion of my real life into the virtual paradise I’ve created online.

When I first joined Twitter, it was a way to extend my ability as CodeWarrior Carling to interact with everyone I knew inside Virtual Reality and interact with them outside of Second Life. Over time, I realized more and more that even while inside Second Life, most of my interactions with everyone was also done using instant messages, so why not just cut out the middle man?

Eventually, I stopped going in to Second Life entirely and just talked to everyone I knew using Twiiter, but gradually at first, and then more quickly, I started letting things leak onto my following list from real life. Once the process started, it gained momentum and before too long my real life was hopelessly intertwined with my virtual life.

Now even that was OK for a while, but we all know what happens when you start to let your real life take over from your virtual life, and I made the mistake of going out and meeting some of the people from the real life side of things, and I’m sure all of you can see where this is going. Before I knew it, I was devoting nearly all of my time to real life – talking to real people – and even going out and meeting them in large numbers for an activity called ‘socializing’.

And then – the ultimate shame. I organized an event in real life myself. I made a bunch of friends, had a bunch of fun and now I actually talk to them more than I talk to any of you.

That is I did. I did until this last weekend.

Last weekend I got fed up. I gave the real life an ultimatum. Get out – and get a life of your own. I was doing just fine before you came along, and I’ll be just fine without you.

So @OttawaPete has left to explore the Twitters on his own, and he’s taking all of his real life friends with him. To be honest, I’m a bit sad to see them go, but I really have to give up these childish thoughts of real life, and get back to the serious business of running a machinima film studio and living the good life on my sprawling walled iClone estate. It will be nice to be a pure virtual character once again.

So long @OttawaPete – I’ll be sure to forward any mail.

CodeWarrior Carling, CEO Ideajuice Studios

Can I Keep You

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This is Ideajuice Studios entry for the 48 Hour Film Project Machinima Edition for 2011. This year, all of the members were local Ottawa people I met through Twitter. We brainstormed plot ideas on Twitter using the #IJ48HFP hashtag, and I even threw a real life wrap party when the awards and screening were held.

Wet

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This was Ideajuice Studios 48 Hour Film Project for Machinima entry for the 2010 edition. The main plot was brainstormed by the same people who did the voices. The story line changes significantly between writing and shooting to accomodate the reality of what art assets were readily available.

Moon Falling Down

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Made using Second Life, iClone and 3DS Max. Moon Falling Down is an orivinal song written by Eva Moon Ember, and well known performer in Second Life. This machinima was made with here permission, and features footage of her avatar in Second Life mixed with footage generated through other means.

Blue Kitty Slicing Machine

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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!

Ideajuice Studios Storms Moviestorm

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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.

Asterknot Traning Pogram

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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.

Little Wooden Boy & the Little Jewish Genie

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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.

Burns and Allen

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An iClone video using voices from two great Second Life actors, Kayden Oconnell and MadameThespian Underhill. They perform an awesome version of the famous ‘Whos on First, Whats on Second” skit made famous by Abbot and Costello, but using the voices and personas of George Burns and Gracie Allen in their heyday.

Avatars were generated in iClone by CodeWarrior Carling using the stock avatars and sliders.