The 1968 cult classic, Night of the Living Dead is being remade or “reanimated” in a first for the film industry.
Mike Schneider one of the project coordinaters and lead animator explains:
“Night of the Living Dead Reanimated is a mass collaborative re-envisioning in which artists from around the world select scenes from the original 1968 film [...]
At AFTRS LAMP we are very interested in Artificial Intelligence as the foundation of NPC or non player charaters. Once you have a good generative scripted character they can interact with ‘participants’ in cinematic games or virtual worlds and drive narrative by having real conversations. So students can also develop AI to automatically create emotional [...]
A hat tip to Dan Taylor over at BBC for pointing out this lovely little viral that allows you the passive, sit-on-the-couch-and-munch-crisps viewer (well fiddle with laptop) to be the star of Spooks. FaceSpook is a personalized video tool where your face is mapped onto a character in an action scene - and all via [...]
Gary Hazlitt and Gazlitt (aka as me!) take a ‘break’ in over fifty worlds comprising the current metaverse, here is the holiday video…cross posted from Personalizemedia.
“I am doing curriculum development (and other things) on the evolving range of social virtual worlds and have recently ventured into fifty of them to review and sample the culture, [...]
LAMP has been advocating the ideals of an integrated content strategy harnessing the virtues of traditional and emerging technologies for a while now and as every new piece of technology emerges, this strategy evolves and comes to incorporate the reality derived from the trend. Today we hear about GM’s OnStar communication diagnostic system , [...]
A project that went through the LAMP treatment in 2006, Emergence from the Synarcade production team, has posted a short documentary mostly about the performative aspects on YouTube (embed below). They already had a successful live show but during the LAMP residential they concentrated on a virtual world parallel version alongside the live performance, interactive [...]
Literature and New Media: trope – promoting new writing in Second Life
www.trope.net.au
When/where: Thursday, 22 May 2008, 12pm – 2pm, Bangarra Theatre, Pier 4/5, Hickson Road, Walsh Bay
trope is a new space in Second Life promoting creative writing in virtual environments. The roundtable features trope’s creators alongside writers selected for the first iteration, discussing the [...]
As LAMP were presenting in mid 07 during various machinima and virtual world seminars the film ” Molotov Alva” has finally been transmitted on a national cable network, HBO in the US yesterday. Click here to go to HBO site to see a preview (for a week or so) and here is the official web [...]
from news.com.au:
An American mother has been indicted in connection with a MySpace hoax that ended with a 13-year-old girl committing suicide after being spurned by a fictitious boy.
A federal grand jury in Los Angeles indicted Lori Drew, 49, on criminal charges of conspiracy and accessing MySpace computers “without authorisation to inflict emotional distress on the [...]
While we are in the ‘realistic’ CG mood here is a video by 1st Ave Machine from February 2007 which has generated nearly 300 000 views on YouTube for a very creepy selection of out-of-this-world plant life. It works as it seems to be handheld camera work and not particularly professionally framed, I think. What [...]
Following on from the watercooler post last week on Second Life running on a Samsung phone it is interesting how in the last month we have virtual worlds appearing on mobile devices at every turn - iPhone etc: below. Will May 08 be known as the month Web 3.0 (the real time, social virtual world [...]
Watch this space…. I am just filtering through a lot of information that has just surfaced about the next generation XBox 360 controller that Microsoft maybe working on.. When I get some conclusive evidence, I will post it up, but in the meantime here is the “general” synopsis…
Firstly I have no idea about the physical [...]
Just for fun, for all you LAMP’ers who are movie makers and game designers, here is a fascinating article on how you should arm yourself to survive a zombie apocalypse if ever needed for your project…
Step one, Know Your Zombies.
The idea of the zombie derives from Voodoo lore. Voodoo (or voudou or vodun) is [...]
“There’s no question that all my synapses were firing in the virtual world and in real reality.” Margot Knight, alternate-reality game heroine
OK this is old news as far as Watercooler timescales are concerned, June 2007, slaps wrist. But as I have just stumbled across it, worth blogging about for reference, because not many have - [...]
A cross-post from the main LAMP blog cause this is cool…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTv975gPvow
A mini ARG (Alternate Reality Game) with virtual world parallel components as part of the 8th LAMP residential in Marysville, Victoria Australia.
We have been running LAMP residential workshops for nearly 3 years now and on the first day we normally run a team bond/building game. [...]
