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Aimee Weber · 03-05-2009, 05:49 PM

The future of Second Life? (OK ... distant future.) This was really moving to me.

YouTube - World Builder (high quality)

Nimrod Yaffle · 03-05-2009, 05:50 PM

You always seem to post vids after I stumble them.

Joshua Nightshade · 03-05-2009, 05:59 PM

That was beautiful.

The music was really powerful as well.

Tya · 03-05-2009, 06:07 PM

That was beautiful Aimee, thank you for sharing.

Tya · 03-05-2009, 06:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Joshua Nightshade

That was beautiful.

The music was really powerful as well.

hey get your own words

Don Mill · 03-05-2009, 06:37 PM

I just watched. Amazing.

Willow Matthews · 03-05-2009, 06:45 PM

I got tingles.

Siyu Suen · 03-05-2009, 06:51 PM

Damnit... they should have turned off auto-return

Sean Gorham · 03-05-2009, 07:19 PM

Wow.

Now that is how SL ought to work! Sigh.

I have to wonder if the producers drew any inspiration from SL.

Mnkeeboy · 03-05-2009, 08:25 PM

Awesome video. Thx for sharing!

**Eboni Khan** · 03-05-2009, 10:55 PM

When he started texturing I said "ahh" out loud

Great video.

Aodhan McDunnough · 03-05-2009, 11:13 PM

Fantastic video ... and story.

Phoenix Psaltery · 03-06-2009, 01:28 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nimrod Yaffle

You always seem to post vids after I stumble them.

She's stalking you.

P2

Raindrop Drinkwater · 03-06-2009, 02:25 AM

I loved it.

Khamon · 03-06-2009, 08:34 AM

It's lovely, and supports Speedtree!

ElphieBroome · 03-06-2009, 08:46 AM

That was incredible.

I couldn't stop myself from smiling through the whole creating process...I literally got goosebumps.

The end made me cry, too...
(yeah, I'm a shmuck, heh)

Thank you Aimee for posting it

Trout Recreant · 03-06-2009, 06:33 PM

Very, very cool! Thanks for posting it!

JennL · 03-06-2009, 06:53 PM

wow, beautiful, sad and emotional

Lewis Luminos · 03-08-2009, 06:29 AM

Amazing, and moving. Thankyou.

Lecktor Hannibal · 03-08-2009, 07:09 AM

Awesome video Aimee thanks!

Mukatsuku · 03-09-2009, 09:20 PM

Totally unrealistic

not a single flying penis in sight!!!

Still good though

thanks

Mukatsuku · 03-09-2009, 09:27 PM

BTW, isn't this ripped off an episode of Family Guy?

Charlemagne Allen · 03-09-2009, 10:54 PM

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Though Bruce Branit completed World Builder — a poignant and visually dazzling short movie about a man who literally creates a new reality for the woman he loves — in 2007, it’s likely that far more people have seen it this March than in the last two years combined, thanks to the viral power of Internet distribution.

In World Builder, a beautiful European town square seems to materialize from thin air and the builder’s glowing user interface; visually it compares favorably to scenes from The Matrix and Minority Report. But like the $400 Escape from City 17, it’s another example of what’s possible with low budgets and a high degree of inventiveness. In an email interview, Branit estimated that he spent just a little more than $2,000 of his own money for the stage, the equipment, and the camera. His brother, a cinematographer, called in favors for the live action elements, which were shot in a single day. (The cast and crew worked for free.) Branit finished the rest in the Lightwave 3-D graphics platform, working on it in between paying gigs over a couple years.

Like most indie filmmakers searching for a career-making breakthrough, Branit, a Kansas-based visual effects artist, sought to get World Builder on the festival circuit, but after sending it out nearly 40 times, it was accepted by just five low-profile festivals. He subsequently won awards at four of those, but nothing came of them. Bitter and drained, Branit finally put Builder on his site as a portfolio sample, and just “in case someone else wanted to see it,” he said. By then, “I had sort of put the film behind me.”

The Internet, however, had other plans. Some acquaintances posted a link to World Builder on a Lightwave discussion forum, and it quickly went viral from there.

Within a week, the video had half a million views, and today — just 12 days since it was first uploaded to Vimeo — Branit says it’s reached a million views across all sites where it’s hosted. Word-of-mouth has drawn views from unlikely places — including more than 175,000 views via a weekend link from political blogger Andrew Sullivan, and numerous Second Life bloggers who have promoted it, sensing a thematic affinity. (Branit says he’s not familiar with the user-created virtual world, though; his actual inspiration for the story, he said, is the fanciful concept that construction workers “physically worked to build our world and our reality in the moments before we experience it… one day it occured to me that our new digital tools would be a much better representation of this.”)

In 2000, Branit co-created 405, one of the Net’s first viral videos, and while the effects-laden, SUV-meets-airliner short earned him some attention from the film industry, it ultimately didn’t lead to the feature film deal he was seeking. “We learned a lot about Hollywood after 405,” said Branit. This time, as he sets up a few meetings, “I already have a feature concept for the builder and his love.” While he already has a successful career as a behind-the-scenes effects developer for TV and film, the success of this viral movie may be the thing that builds it up into the big time.

How World Builder Became a Viral Hit « NewTeeVee

MoxZ Mokeev · 03-10-2009, 02:38 PM

That was beautiful and...tearjerking.

LoganBauer · 03-10-2009, 02:51 PM

Each time I see this thread pop up in new posts I try to say something but the words don't come out right. But here it is anyhow.

If you look back at our ideas about "future technology" in the 60's, or even at something like the original Star Trek. You know how we look back at that stuff now and laugh, how they had some small parallels like cellphones/communicators, but the rest of it just looks almost comical?

Not to detract at all from how cool this video is and looks now, but that's the part that really gets me, that I really wonder about - will this, in 40 years, look almost silly? Will we say, "Sure I can do all of that online in Third Life, but it is a lot easier and looks a lot better!" Or will it be like the teleporters in Star Trek; will we still not have VR headsets and still be staring at screens, thinking "Hah, back in 2009 they thought the future would look like that?"

03-05-2009, 05:50 PM	#2 (permalink)
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03-05-2009, 10:55 PM	#11 (permalink)
Eboni Khan Senior Member SLU Supporter Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 3,605 My Mood: SLShopper Ads: 1 SL Join Date: 03/17/2004	When he started texturing I said "ahh" out loud Great video. __________________

03-06-2009, 08:34 AM	#15 (permalink)
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03-05-2009, 05:59 PM	#3 (permalink)
Joshua Nightshade Account Closed Unedited Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 33,567 My Mood:	That was beautiful. The music was really powerful as well.

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Tya Gone makar-rasa Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 3,796 SLShopper Ads: 70 Blog Entries: 12	That was beautiful Aimee, thank you for sharing.

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Don Mill is titmerized(r) Sexist, Mysoginist, Racist, Homophobic.. but Cute Join Date: Sep 2007 Posts: 3,551 Blog Entries: 1	I just watched. Amazing.

03-05-2009, 06:45 PM	#7 (permalink)
Willow Matthews The Indomitable Brooks no nonsense. Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Australia Posts: 2,343 My Mood: Great Mahjong Time Attack Champion! Blooming Gardens Champion! Q*Bert Champion! SL Join Date: July 2006	I got tingles.

03-05-2009, 07:19 PM	#9 (permalink)
Sean Gorham Verti's Minion Sleep? What? But I'm gaming! Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Maine, USA Posts: 1,096 My Mood: SLShopper Ads: 1 SL Join Date: March 5, 2005 Business: CGBG - Cool Gear by Gorham XBOX Leaderboard: 36^th	Wow. Now that is how SL ought to work! Sigh. I have to wonder if the producers drew any inspiration from SL.

03-05-2009, 11:13 PM	#12 (permalink)
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Trout Recreant Oncorhynchus mykiss Incomprehensible gibberish Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: West Coast, USA Posts: 5,998 My Mood: Blog Entries: 3 Awards: 1	Very, very cool! Thanks for posting it!

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Lewis Luminos The Gingerbeard Man Ginger Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: UK Posts: 3,312 My Mood: SL Join Date: 08/11/2008 Blog Entries: 12	Amazing, and moving. Thankyou. __________________ -- Just Add Ginger -- -- Plurk -- -- last.fm -- -- flickr --

03-08-2009, 07:09 AM	#20 (permalink)
Lecktor Hannibal Account Closed Rebooting Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 1,187	Awesome video Aimee thanks!

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Mukatsuku worried home Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: 兵庫、日本 Posts: 8,857 My Mood:	Totally unrealistic not a single flying penis in sight!!! Still good though thanks __________________ -- My Sims Exchange - http://www.thesims3.com/mypage/Mukatsuku My Photography/Graphics Design - http://www.zedpeejay.com Meet-me wiki - http://meetme-english.wetpaint.com

03-09-2009, 09:27 PM	#22 (permalink)
Mukatsuku worried home Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: 兵庫、日本 Posts: 8,857 My Mood:	BTW, isn't this ripped off an episode of Family Guy?

03-10-2009, 02:38 PM	#24 (permalink)
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03-10-2009, 02:51 PM	#25 (permalink)
LoganBauer 11.25° Edit Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 1,265 My Mood: Dancing Queen Champion! SLShopper Ads: 8 SL Join Date: 6/13/04	Each time I see this thread pop up in new posts I try to say something but the words don't come out right. But here it is anyhow. If you look back at our ideas about "future technology" in the 60's, or even at something like the original Star Trek. You know how we look back at that stuff now and laugh, how they had some small parallels like cellphones/communicators, but the rest of it just looks almost comical? Not to detract at all from how cool this video is and looks now, but that's the part that really gets me, that I really wonder about - will this, in 40 years, look almost silly? Will we say, "Sure I can do all of that online in Third Life, but it is a lot easier and looks a lot better!" Or will it be like the teleporters in Star Trek; will we still not have VR headsets and still be staring at screens, thinking "Hah, back in 2009 they thought the future would look like that?" __________________ [Arctic Greenhouse - [Blog] [In World] [XStreet] ]

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