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Thursday, September 14, 2006

Cinema on the Web Part Two

I have a few more sites to show you today.

This isn't film so much as a very clever and entertaining interactive Flash animation:

http://www.changar.com/archives/go.html

This is a new take on the animation following your mouse pointer - a crazy rabbit thinks it's a carrot and hijinx follow. I could play with this for hours.

Take the videogame, The Sims, and set it in a 1920s Hollywood movie studio. Hire actors, buy props and costumes, build sets. Then, give your users the ability to write and animate their own films with your software. Welcome to the wonderful, weird world of The Movies:

http://movies.lionhead.com/

Using the Sandbox utility, game addicts can create their own movies to trade with others. The official site of the game (the URL above) has several interesting, funny or just plain weird little videos, but you can often find them by Googling "machinima" (the term used for movies made using videogame engines). Another good example is a fairly good horror film called Dracula's Guest on this site:

http://www.candlelightstories.com/movies.asp

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