JUST VIRTUAL » steinway grand piano http://www.justvirtual.com Stories and voices from virtual worlds Wed, 13 Jul 2011 01:09:24 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 True Immersion – Templum Ex Obscurum http://www.justvirtual.com/2008/08/26/true-immersion-templum-ex-obscurum/ http://www.justvirtual.com/2008/08/26/true-immersion-templum-ex-obscurum/#comments Tue, 26 Aug 2008 04:01:13 +0000 Gary Hazlitt http://www.justvirtual.com/?p=336 Templum ex Obscurum_034.bmp

Now I have had some time back in Second Life nice to visit a very special build, hat tip to Bettina over at NPIRL. As well as being inspired to pop over to this wonderfully rich sim designed and built by Baron Grayson I joined in the challenge of photographing it in stills (flickr set here) and video. Some of these are below and of course the video is a quicky mostly single long shot using the space navigator – of course, what else :)

So video, then description followed by some more nice stills :)

A Space Navigator Machinima by  GARY HAZLITT. Second Life Island Creation by  BARON GRAYSON. Steinway Grand Piano and Martin Backpacker Guitar One Take Improvisation by  GARY HAYES © 2008. Medium quality (69.5MB mp4 available here

“filmed in one take, then re-edited, vignette and desaturate filters added in places. Most of the playback made twice speed to improve smoothness as sim had quite low frame rates during capture. Enjoy” The wonderful Second Life 3rd generation sim, Templum ex Obscurum by Baron Grayson, machinima by Gary Hazlitt in one three hour session.

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]]> http://www.justvirtual.com/2008/08/26/true-immersion-templum-ex-obscurum/feed/ 0 New World Expectations – Seventh Heaven ‘Windlight’ Machinima http://www.justvirtual.com/2007/12/26/new-world-expectations-seventh-heaven-windlight-machinima/ http://www.justvirtual.com/2007/12/26/new-world-expectations-seventh-heaven-windlight-machinima/#comments Wed, 26 Dec 2007 02:18:53 +0000 Gary Hazlitt http://www.justvirtual.com/index.php/new-world-expectations-seventh-heaven-windlight-machinima/ I was in the middle of putting together an end of year compilation of some of my builds and sim developments and as I have regularly been using the Windlight viewer and I saw my creations in a whole new light, literally. So I got a good bio friend of mine, Gary Hayes ;-) to do a quick grand piano and classical guitar improvisation so I could put together a film that promises a bright new future for our Second Life world in 2008.

Some creation details for those who like that kind of stuff: I used the wonderful space navigator for nearly all the ‘tracking/pan/crane/dolly’ type shots combined with fraps PAL capture, then converted using Canopus Pro 3 to PAL Quicktime DVs for a final edit in Final Cut Pro. A final save out to DV at same resolution and converts down to MP4s for online distribution. The whole process, capture, processing, editing took just over six hours – I know, I am slacking! The builds and sim terraforms took significantly longer (!) but the music a quick 35 minutes in two single takes, so excuse a few ‘bum’ notes!

A Second Life ‘Windlight’ Machinima, Filmed and Edited by GARY HAZLITT

Higher rez 95MB MP4 640/480 download available here.

Steinway Grand Piano and Classical Guitar improvisations both performed, in one take, by GARY HAYES

All featured sim builds and terraforms created and designed by GARY HAZLITT (some unamed builds still in development)

Gary’s builds or sim creations featured include: Esperance, The Pond, ABC Island, Cog Island, Marni, Thursday’s Fictions, Melbourne Laneways and others.

A Just Virtual Video Production © Gary Hazlitt/Hayes 2007

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