What's This I See Before Me

A machinima Swiss army knife?

Machinima Studio is a tool that allows you to design, capture and export your own machinima movie-scenes in an easy and intiutive way.

Mix models, audio and textures from different games into one single scene!

Have not downloaded it, nor tried it, nor looked at the EULA.

Originally found here.

Software Scratch

Before I delve into the new year, these software issues are irritating me beyond belief:

• Ubuntu linux updates on my old PC are consistently broken and have been for over 8 months - the system will only run a very old version (<8.04)
  
• I added a memory card to my flash MP3 player, but the extra card results in instability in the player - constant restarts, and it can never remember what song I was listening to when restarting (really important when listening to those hour long podcasts). The expandable memory is one of the reasons I bought this player. Nice.
  
• Left4Dead is unplayable right now - I have black textures on screen that are horrendous and render the game unplayable. The demo worked? Great?
  
• I get GTAIV - unfortunately it requires Service Pack 3 to play - SP3 renders my machine inoperable - another brick in the wall.
  

At the minimum, it looks like I need a PC upgrade. Unfortunately, that will only solve some of the problems.

Right now I'm playing a game that's over 10 years old. The company no longer exists. At least the game works.

This invective goes out to all software programmers - get off your lazy asses and write some decent code you bottom feeding twits.

More 3D Software - ZenCub3d

Some tutorials for an alpha or tech demo release (wtf releases tutorials for alpha releases?) for a new 3D animation software called ZenCub3d popped up on YouTube. The style is very cartoonish.

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According to the site, the software is free, but only for closed alpha testing. Is this another company entering the 'machinima /animation software' melee?

Two Moviestorm Vids

Both from the same user: Kkffootube.

The Uncomfortable Chair (MS only)
Waiting (MS and Sims)

There has been extensive posts about Moviestorm over at Machinimafordummies.

iClone and Moviestorm, two products dedicated to machinima. Interesting, but I'm still waiting for an open source platform. Blender's produced two movies so far: Elephant Dreams and Plumiferos (the first a short, the second feature length). Perhaps Second Life's gradual movement in that direction is an answer (via MfD).