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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.

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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.

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.

Welcome to our new blogs!

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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.