Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Get Outta Winter: New Second Life Machinima By Pat Powers

First published on 2/16/2012


See Vallerie's butt. See Vallerie's butt jiggle. Jiggle, butt, jiggle!

I've created a new Second Life machinima, "Get Outta Winter and Into Second Life."

"Get Outta Winter" is basically hot, almost naked blonde Uncanny Vallerie traveling through various Second Life sims in various ways -- via jetskis, ATVS, dancing cows, swimming, flying and one very silly run. Other than Vallerie's butt, the sims are the real stars of the movie, I wanted to give viewers an idea of how much just plain old fun there is to be had in Second Life, apart from all the sexy sex that people seem to think of when SL is mentioned.

The machinima is designed to be fast and fun, driven by Bob Seger's "Get Outta Denver," basically a visual interpretation of the term "WHEEEEEE!!" It's also a showcase of how inexpensive Second Life is (playing Second Life itself costs nothing) -- all of the vehicles Vallerie rides except the tricycle are freebies, either available at freebie sites or left out just to use on various sims. The most expensive thing you'll see in this machinima is Virtual Vallerie's hair, which cost 300 Lindens (in-game money) which amounts to about a $1.33US. This is actually logical -- hair is complex and difficult to build, requires a certain amount of scripting knowledge and has a great deal to do with how good an avvie looks. The avvie itself was free, as is the "skin" that covers the avvie.

Here are the Second Life URLs (slurls) for the various sims in the machinima and some relevant info about them:

Snowy run scene
Primus Weapons
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Primus%20Weapons/182/74/20 This is a Gorean sim, set in the Northern Forests and full of panther girls and outlaws. Running around as a slave is hazardous in such sims if you do not want to RP being a slave, if you don't know what you're doing, or the secret of slaves in SL Gor (which is that a lot of Goreans would just as soon not cap a slave). There are a couple of other sims (Midgaard and others) linked to it at present.

Wyrldmaker (Suboceana)
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Wyrldmaker/119/83/21
This is a group of 30 sims linked together with a common theme of underwater exploration and also some nifty above-water stuff as well. Has another of freebie vehicles parked at the docks that you can ride ... jetskis, helicopters, sailboats, etc. Definitely worth a visit.

Tricycle Scene, ATV Scene
Kings Bishop
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Kings%20Bishop/38/227/24 Kings Bishop is a public sandbox where anyone can rez their possessions and objects and build their own objects, and learn to build. It's in the middle of a mainland continent and there are all sort of different places nearby, much like a real life city, except with a LOT more variation, as there are not zoning codes and there's no problem with leaving stuff in midair. Also, just to the right of the landing zone is a building filled with freebies, most designed to be useful to builders but also some very useful freebies in general.

Fish and submarine swims
Vernian Sea
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Vernian%20Sea/96/199/73 The Vernian Sea is the underwater portion of the Babbage steampunk sims. Some very cool, visually arresting imagery above ground and below ground. A great place if you like steampunk of the dark and grim sort. Rising from water scene

Flying out of water scene
Caledon Speirling
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Caledon%20Speirling/89/40/18 Part of the Caledon steampunk sims, once again, some very arresting imagery, I used this bit just because it was a nice way to transition from the underwater scenes to the flying scenes.

Diving board scene
Marvil
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Marvil/162/87/28
A sim near Kings Bishop that had a nice diving board to use as a prop to set up the underwater scenes.

dancing cow scene
Omanix, somewhere on Route 13
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Omanix/222/52/50
Another sim near Kings' Bishop that had a roadway that the Dancing Cow could use. There were a lot of other cool vehicles on the sim, but most moved far too slow for the pace of my machinima. Damn, wish I could have used the bus to Nowhere!

Flying scene, water slide scene, tubing scene
Suboceana
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Wyrldmaker/119/83/21
More above-water fun in Suboceana.

Run through steampunk land
Caledon Sky City
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Caledon%20Steam%20SkyCity/110/54/76
Ok, this one was a bit of a cheat. Caledon is actually a group of steampunk sims. Sky City is a very detail-rich, built-up steampunk sim, and not all of it rezzed immediately, most notably, the floor Vallerie should have been running on. But I went ahead and ran her in midair, because I wanted to give a sense of how complex and multilayered these sims can be. So as Vallerie is running, that's the ground way beneath her ... she's actually a story above it ... and there are floating blimps and so forth floating in the sky above her as well.

Volcano Run, Silly run
Corsica 3D
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/CORSICA3D/123/89/23
These locations just happened to be near a Star Trek museum I was looking for, and I thought it would be fun to have Vallerie jump into the caldera of a live volcano and run through a section with some generally weird creatures with her Silly Run.

Ice Skating
Babbage Canals
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Babbage%20Canals/29/83/105
Back to the Babbage sims for some ice skating to close out the running about.

Leap to Doom
Caledon Lionsgate
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Caledon%20Speirling/89/40/18
This is a spectacular steampunk sim, though all I was able to use was a nice leap. You can fall any distance at all in Second Life with no problem, though some of the animations your characters use to get back on their feet can be funny.

Blowing A Kiss
King's Bishop
Taken in one of their builder's sandboxes, where I used the free FORTRESS I got, I think at the Gorean Recruiting Center. (To be fair, it's a SMALL fortress, just one story high, and c'mon, stained glass windows? In a fortress?)


Meeting an octopus somewhere in Suboceana. One of many great scenes I left out of the video.

I had to leave out an AMAZING amount of good stuff to make this video work. I wanted to include some shots of Vallerie flying around in spaceships from Star Wars and Star Trek, but I had major lag when I tried that. There were some amazing sims I wanted to use, but they were full of active roleplayers, and I make it a rule not to interfere with others when making my machinima. I've also made it a rule not to involve others in my productions, as the process of making a machinima is and can be a time-draining pain in the ass, with many retakes.

Along those lines, in some of the sims Vallerie visited, notably the steampunk sims, she was severely out of costume. Some sim mods and owners don't mind that, others will ban you from their sims for being out of costume (Vallerie has in fact been banned, um, once or twice, mostly for excess nakedness). So keep that in mind. Generally most sims that have roleplay also have freebie costumes for visitors. (I know that Babbage does, and it's true of many Gorean sims.) Some sims, like the ones around King's Bishop, have no clothing requirements other than the ones associated with their rating (can't go naked in a sim rated General or Moderate, though in Moderate anything goes so long as the naughty bits are covered. Adult, sky's the limit.)


Gratuitous bondage image to keep this post down with the bondage. I guess when you have naturally curly red hair, you don't shave it off Down There. Image source: Sex and Submission.

No comments:

Post a Comment