SErik

In the course where I worked on the interactive installation Dave with Florian another participants was Friedrich Kirchner. He worked on the Bob Block Show. I saw him using a Gametrak controller and I learned what machinima is. I liked the Gametrak controller, bought one and used it to make live visuals with vvvv. Later on I remembered a little story I wrote that I always wanted to use for a movie. First I thought about doing a stop motion film but I didn’t had the time to do this. And again some time passed and on the search for an idea for my upcoming master thesis I decided to work on an interactive installation which should be realized with machinima. I also thought about two different ways to use machinima: for live visuals and for a live puppet play performance in which I wanted to provide puppeteers an familiar interface. But I was not the first one with these two ideas. In my investigations I found theses two people/projects.

The first one is Friedrich Kirchner who mailed me what he was going to do after I asked him some things about machinima. This is a short video from his puppet show (realized with his moviesandbox):

The other one is Daniel van Gils (aka Hi Squeeky Things) who is doing live a/v performances with Unreal. Here is a short piece of one of his live performances: