I hear what your saying I really do.

We all need different things to make us feel like what we are doing is worth while, to be honest I have only ever needed my family, anything else has been a bonus.

I like the idea of Expo, I think it will do all the things you mention for those willing to participate.  Personnaly I don't like "Second Life" I have a life and that's demanding enough   I've had a go at the software and never really took to it, if it ain't happening after an evening then for me it ain't going to happen.

Maybe it's me but my gut feeling is it's not my thing.  But like I said I might enter I might not, I'm not worried either way.

Oh and it's nice and warm in my cocoon, real life is full of s!%t so sometimes spending time in it helps deal with life

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Don't forget: Submission is FREE. And it's not a very demanding process, so what have you got to lose? A little time and effort filling in the form, and putting your video on Vimeo. That's about it.



Oh, and you won't necessarily have to come into Second Life to attend! Plans are underway (as stated in the original post) so that you can see the Expo from any browser, without entering SL.

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This isn't a competition, but a fun chance for everyone to help out by promoting the Machinexpo.

Machinexpo 2010 Trailer Guidelines

Concept
* Use a machinima engine to remake a favourite film or TV moment,
* For dialogue, substitute the word ‘expo’ at vital moment(s),
* The film does not need to be any longer than 30s long, but can be longer if necessary (no epic movies, please!),
* Add the expo logo at the end (see below)
* Upload to youtube, add tag #mexpotrailer
* See this page for up-to-date promo info (and logo download) you are welcome / encouraged to include in your video: http://www.machinima-expo.com/promo.htm
* Upload your video on more sites if you’d like.
* Have fun!

The films will be gathered together in a playlist and used to promote the machinexpo 2010


Help
* Examples - Citizen Kane..sub expo for Rosebud, When Harry met Sally she shouts ‘expo expo expo’ in cafe scene, in Star Trek, Spock could say ‘It’s expo Jim, but not as we know it’, ET would say ‘ET phone expo’.
* Subtitles are fine.
* Films with no dialogue can use the word ‘expo’ replacing background text, eg in street signs or posters.
* If your engine / editor makes it difficult to add logo just use text
* Yes, do use your own language, we reach more people that way!
* Remember, if you use music, to choose tracks which youtube won’t object to. See Jamendo for some great creative commons music, or have fun making your own.
* Use the guidelines as inspiration only , if you get stuck just go with the flow and see what happens!


Watch
Have a look at the trailers uploaded so far on the Machinima Expo Youtube Channel

I'd like to see more iClone entries in this year's Expo. So please, if you haven't already submitted your film, do so soon!

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From the Machinima Expo Forums...

"In order to allow Machinima directors and producers to have a little time to submit their film to the MachinExpo 2010, we have decided to extend the submission period for one week. This makes the new deadline:

Tuesday, September 7th at 12PM Pacific Time

In addition, we have decided to extend the submission period for the Spanish/Latin entries to Tuesday, September 14th at 12PM Pacific Time. We feel that because we added Spain and Portugal several weeks after submissions started, it’s only fair to those Spanish and Latin machinima directors to have a bit more time than everyone else.


The Expo has received well over 130 entries to date and are very pleased with the quality of the submissions. We plan on announcing the films that will screen at the Expo along with those films which we will send on to our Jury sometime in September. We are also planning a surprise announcement about a new category of film screening at the Expo this year. More info to come.
-Ricky"

The 2010 Machinima Expo Jury Selections have been announced! Congratulations to Kurzal who's 'Moonlighting' movie is one of the movies on the short list

The Machinima Expo 2010 will be held on November 20 and 21st with movies to be screened at TMUTheater

check out the full list at my blog

The Machinima Expo is November 20th & 21st...make sure you mark your calendars!



This will be a fabulous opportunity to:

• Mingle with machinimakers from across the globe
• Enjoy some outstanding movies from the past year
• Attend informative presentations
• Enjoy a live Wolf & Dulci Hour on November 20th
  

Hi,

I've had the pleasure of being selected on the "Highlight Reel" with "Fallen Angel" to which I was both surprised and humbled to be in such great company

I'm just glad that iClone has been represented really well and I wish all the best to Kurzel - "Moonlighter by Igor Tkachenko" who made it into the Jury Selections, and after watching the other 15 films this one for me is the best!

Good luck to all involved.

Cape!

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Congrats Cape.  Glad to see you participating.  I agree its good to see Iclone make a much bigger splash this year.  I got to get to watching movies to see who I think the winners will be.  Hope to see at the Expo!

Way to go Cape! I'm for sure pulling for Kurzal to do well in the Expo!!!


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