Film Festival Recognition for Time Travelers 4 – The Pattern

When a film is being crafted, we are so involved in the process and the many details that go into orchestrating the final production that the days when we submit our film to festivals seems way in the distance. It is never that far away though, and we have been waiting for some results to come to announce that we have gotten Time Travelers 4 into some awesome places.

Los Angeles Movie Awards - Awards in the animation category

Award of Excellence in Animation

Best Animated Characters

Best Voice-Over Rysan Fall as Sebastian

New Media Film Festival

Accepted in Digital Comics, Animation, Trailers and Machinima category.

FlipsideTV Film Festival

Finalist for June Festival

Blue Plum Animation Festival

Official Selection

FILE - Electronic Language International Festival

Selected to be presented in FILE Machinima.

Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education

Winner Digital Storyteller

Film is for us the telling of a story in the best and brightest way we know how. We are thrilled that the painstakingly crafted films we do are also allowing us to transcend machinima categories and become accepted into animation ones.  We will always be doing machinima, we use game engine platforms to film on of course, yet we are expanding our work to lose a categorical definition which in some cases doesn't matter.  We make cartoon films and we do so with the highest standards.  Top quality filmmaking, editing, a terrific story, compelling characters, wonderful sound and great graphics is what make these films sing!

Stay tuned over the summer for more results, we just had to let you in on our good news!

Thank you to all who watch, comment and share because we are spreading the word of the great work that can be done with terrific talent. It is a new medium we are celebrating and one that fits into the genre of animation, we do it in real-time.

Slenquiring minds want to know...

The Second Life Enquirer interviewed Pooky Amsterdam recently! As an admirer of the publication, for their insight and forthright reporting on things we need to know, Pooky was really proud to be in this.

Please have a read and feel free to comment.

This is a stunning platform and moment in time for those of us who are digital to our virtual bones!

SL Enquirer - Spotlight on Pooky Amsterdam

The Legend Sessions

What Makes a Great Film - Great? With Tom Jantol and Russell Boyd.

Expo Rewind is a series of archived programs presented live at past Machinima Expo events. This particular programming has Tom Jantol and Russell Boyd discussing what makes a film great. Introduction by Pooky Amsterdam.

Originally presented at the Machinima Expo 2011 on November 20th.


Expo Rewind: "What Makes a Great Film - Great?" w/Tom Jantol and Russel Boyd from Ricky Grove on Vimeo.

Dateline: Los Angeles – Time Travelers has Laurels

Time Travelers has won an Award of Excellence at the Los Angeles Movie Awards.

Machinima and real–time animation took a huge step with the inclusion in the awards circle for film competition in the animation category. For this genre to be recognized as valid it has to stand head to head and shoulder to shoulder with more traditional forms of animation. As the ability to use story, character development and plot grows along side mastery of the genre, we are confident that we will see this great and breathtaking new medium continue to win awards as a graphic platform of its own, WITHIN animation categories.


Los Angeles Movie Awards extract:

Animation

1st Place Winner
“Escape Of The Gingerbread Man!!!”
Dir. by Tod Polson

Awards of Excellence
“Great American Pigeon Race”
Dir. by Diane Namm

“Time Travelers”
Dir. by Russell Boyd, Pooky Amsterdam & James Canton

“Scarecrow”
Dir. by Bianca Esteve Stephant

This is great news for machinima, for Second Life artists and filmmakers and for PookyMedia. We are so proud to be part of the efforts which we share with the entire machinima community to lift the genre in the eyes of the public and main – stream movie audiences! On to the future indeed!

The Future Will See You Now

Recently, Dennis Shiao asked Pooky to Guest blog for his website.

Talking about how science has always been influenced by the arts, her comments reflect recent filmmaking with the release of Time Travelers 2.

It's All Virtual - The Future Will See You Now