Play Time With Kara: Machinima Tips

My buddy Lowe Runo, machinima man, was helping me learn how to use my 3DConnexion Space Navigator and made this video using me/my avatar, to show me how it does the slow panning and movements that I need to work on. The space navigator is a glorified kind of 3D mouse that looks like a doorknob and allows for wonderful smooth panning movements essential for realistic looking machinima. He can do a lot with his, but as a novice I've been avoiding it after my initial attempts where I really didn't have control of it. He and others tell me once used to it the space navigator is something a person loves whether for machinima or just playing. You can find out more about it here: http://www.3dconnexion.com/products/spacenavigator.html or direct link here: SpaceNavHere.

Lowe Runo Productions are creators of both animated video graphic features and real world media including production and post production services. If you follow my blog or search it you can see I've posted quite a bit about them and their various work previously. Lowe is absolutely amazing with his space navigator and you can find more of his machinima on Vimeo, Youtube or the teasers and shorts on Flickr plus various other places on the web depending on the content and sites. He is currently also doing real/first life filming and just finished a book on machinima due out later this fall. He and his business partner, Sonicity Fitzroy, have done a lot in the way of education about machinima and although Lowe has released some amazing machinima their focus this past year has been on a lot of education, conferences, the book and such. For some of the best machinima tips around check out this site they developed: http://www.machinimaguild.com/ ...or direct link here and click on the video tab, plus some of the other tabs provide links to great resources for sound and equipment and other tips. MachinimaHelpHereMAG.
Be sure to check out the Machinima Artists Guild and ProMAG as well.
http://slmachinimaarts.ning.com/ Direct link here: MAGHERE.
More on Lowe here: Viemo http://www.vimeo.com/loweruno Direct: LoweHere.
Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lowe_runo/ Direct: LoweFlickr.
and Youtube you'll have to search, as I'm on work lunch and can't pull it up. Have a good day and enjoy the machinima!