Virtual Bill Gates in PC vs Mac Machinima
I was recently approached about an upcoming project that would require our team here at Sand Castle Studios to create some custom content within the virtual world of Second Life. While I can’t talk about the project itself yet, I can share with you a machinima by award winning machinimagrapher and long time Mac lover Bernhard Drax (aka Draxtor Despres in SL) that previews the mockup we put together including virtual Bill Gates who calls out Draxtor for secretly using Windows!
Special thanks to Second Life residents and friends Beyers Sellers, Bevan Whitfield, Anonymous Sorbet, Ze Moo, Java Moonwall, Chantal Harvey, Annabelle Fleury, Shava Shuntzu, Cyclic Gearz, Tuna Oddfellow, Wilson Voight, Delphina Audina, Arywn Quandry, and Apatia Hammerer who played the office workers.
Pictures of the filming and sets can be seen here.
For more behind the scenes fun, check out The Office Party, a spoof filmed by Chantal Harvey after the shoot was over.
Does that mean that Bill Gates is working on a project in Second Life?
WHOA! That Gates avatar is impressive! The likeness is astonishing! Will we be seeing more of Gates “journeys” in SL?
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The sets and the Bill Gates avatar look photo realistic. You did a great job, and it you did it all without using MESHES… imagine that.
Thank you for your compliment. However, while the set does look great, were it made with polygon meshes it would have been completed in less than half the time. Also, I would have been able to go even further in detail with the scene had I been able to rely on polygon meshes. Just like I said in my blog post on the subject, polygon mesh support would add functionality to Second Life, not take any away.
Everything look stunning! The machinima is very funny! You should have called this Bill Gates is a griefer! Hehe
HOLY #$^%^&! who created that Bill Gates avatar, you?
Yes, we made the avatar. Glad you liked him!
Very funny. PC users all the way! Mac users don’t really know why they use a mac besides it’s cool to have one. (Sorry Drax)
You guys are MEAN!!! I will now go to Denmark, where my Mac Pro and I can get legally married! And we shall produce machinima happily ever after……
Saw this on NWN and Hamlet is right, that avatar looks so much like Bill it’s scary! Very cool! How did you make it look so realistic?
So glad you liked the avatar. It might sound creepy, but we actually made it by using composites of Bill Gates actual skin/face.