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Howdy Gideon, all,

Machinima seems to be on the road to becoming a medium (more than just an artform).  A recent posting at New World Notes describes an approach to using the platform of Second Life (SL) for commercial content, including generating advertising machinima.  A recent SL machinima received much attention as a charity effort (generating contributions for cancer research).  Massively frequently publishes about the form.

A Second Life (SL) user suggested that I create machinima to demonstrate/promote the interactive objects I am scripting.  The piece mentioned in last post is a "get-your-feet-wet" sort of thing, and I am using Camtasia 4 to record and edit. 

For many, including myself, the most interesting development in the technology of SL is found in the OpenSim project. Source code for the SL client-side application (the "viewer") was released last year, speeding up reverse engineering of the virtual reality simulator (the server).  Result: You can now host your own virtual world, on your own PC. 

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Qavimator is an open source animation tool that produces .bvh files that can then be uploaded to SL.