The Virtual Movie Studio

We are always in the process of adding new case studies, which provide excellent examples of Moviestorm in action.

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Iain Friar is a machinima director from the UK. Having started out making comedy sketches, he moved on to more thought-provoking and visually interesting drama. See Iain Friar's machinima blog here.

His most successful movie so far is Clockwork, which has been screened at film festivals around the world, and virtual festivals online. It has won many awards including Ollies for Best Arthouse and Best Shortform movie, and in 2009 won the Machinima Expo Grand Prize.

Damien Valentine is a long-term machinimator. He is currently making the Chronicles of Humanity series, working with Felicia Day (The Guild, Buffy, Dr Horrible).

"Chronicles of Humanity was originally made with The Sims and I was never truly happy with that version, so I thought about switching to Moviestorm for season two. But I was so impressed by Moviestorm's capabilities when seeing what I could do, I decided to go back and remake the whole thing."

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Craig Rintoul from Cambridge, Ontario, is an experienced writer and broadcaster who turned to machinima in 2009 to make his own projects, and has recently begun to specialize in making animated mods.

"I get a kick out of seeing an inanimate object move. I know it's silly, but that’s just so cool to see happen. And to be honest, I get a kick out of people wanting to use my mods. It’s an ego boost, what can I say? Static props are now easy as pie, which is why I am happy to knock one off for someone in under an hour, if I have the spare time. If I have made something and think that others might be interested, I share it."

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Arthur V. Kuhrmeier from Germany is a relative newcomer to Moviestorm, but already he’s made a huge impact with his innovative mods. In his first two months, he’s released 11 videos.

"Only Moviestorm gives me the power to concentrate on what filmmaking means to me: being the director. I can’t even remember how I found it, and I wonder why I didn’t find it before. It’s more like Moviestorm chose me. I was searching the web uncountable times to find an application which allowed me to do what I wanted to. I looked at other packages, and at first I thought “Cool, you can even move every finger.” But then I thought, “do I want to direct ten actors or hundred fingers?” I decided for the actors."

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Jorge Campos, better known to the machinima community as act3scene24, was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. He’s of Mexican descent, and has an amazing array of voices, which he uses to get freelance voice acting work. He also writes and makes short films, when he’s not helping out with his father’s watch and jewellery repair shop.

Although he started a university course in Information Technology, Business and Communications, Jorge’s real passion is story-telling. “After growing up to want to be a ninja and a baseball player,” he grins, “my passion was always story-telling. I wanted to write and direct in Hollywood. I got serious about it when I was about 15 years old and started writing stories in play-format because I didn’t know the screenplay format. When I was about 16, I started buying How-To books to learn writing screenplays and story format even though storytelling for me, was natural.

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