Sunday, March 29th, 2009...6:53 am - Gary Hayes
A Script is Worth a Thousand Machinima Frames
I remember having long conversations with colleagues at the BBC in the mid 90s about automatic script-to-edit and how the ‘words’ themselves would eventually control the whole post production process. I have been following XtraNormal for a few months now as part of my ’storyboard, machinima mix” and great to see it is finally in public beta. It’s slogan is
“If you can type you can make movies”
So I sat down for fifteen minutes and typed a simple script, directly into the great flash tool, added a few expressions to the text and voila, the system renders it up a few more minutes later in glorious 3D cartoon’0′vision (especially like the auto cam – which does a reasonable job of the two shots). Other great features are the ability for others to remix it post render, embeddability (spreadability) and one button re-publishing to YouTube.
What do you think of the results? Remember this is 15 minutes work!
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