Featured Machinima: “Stay With Me Tonight” By RocketFaerie (Read more...)

This week’s Hiperia3D's Machinima Selections featured machinima of Koinup is for RockerFaerie in recognition of “Stay with me tonight ”

Poid Mahovlich, creative mixed media artist & pro photographer, and also virtual worlds consultant, has selected the nominees for this week’s feature, suggesting machinima for the excellence badge, based on her deep knowledge of this discipline.
You can visit her machinima collection at YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/user/PoidMahovlich and her site at http://poidmahovlich.blogspot.com/

“Stay with me tonight” tells the story of a sad robot longing for a heart and wishing to be real, and features the music of Absolute Entity. 

This machinima has won the excellence badge of Hiperia3D News for Machinima:

If you like it, visit RockerFaerie’s profile or join our group to view more works.

Koinup And Hiperia3D Promote Machinima Directors (Read more...)

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Koinup And Hiperia3D Promote Machinima Directors

April 30, 2010- Koinup is partnering with the virtual worlds magazine Hiperia3D News to promote the most interesting Machinima talents, through the group “Hiperia3D Machinima Selections”. 

Every week, a team made up by Poid Mahovlich and the staff of Hiperia3D News will pick a machinimist for an editorial feature on Hiperia3D News, the same article will be then republished on Koinup Blog, giving additional visibility and traffic to the machinimist picked.

"This is an initiative to benefit the popularity of this art", says Jordi R. Cardona, administrator of Hiperia3D News, "that often reaches a outstanding level of quality, and is carefully designed by directors that surprise us with extraordinary pieces of art".

All you have to do is join the “Hiperia3D Machinima Selections” group, add your videos to the pool, and stay tuned with Hiperia3D News site.

Participants can submit as many videos as they wish, provided that they are machinima videos that have an artistic value or tell a story (ads without artistic value or testing videos are not allowed). You can also join and recommend any machinima you like, yours or from your favorites.

The awarded videos will appear featured on Hiperia3D News and in Koinup, giving you additional exposure and prestige as director, and will have the right to display a badge of the award in their sites or profiles.

The group “Hiperia3D's Machinima Selections” can be accessed through Koinup at ttp://www.koinup.com/group/hiperia3dmachinima

About Hiperia3D News

Being one the main sites to be informed on what's happening on the metaverse, Hiperia3D News covers all kind of information and activity that is related to 3D and virtual worlds, 3D software and hardware, 3D worldbuilding, resources for scenery creation, render applications, artistic inspiration for worldbuilders, X3D, VRML, and showcases of virtual reality artworks.

Hiperia3D News ( http://news.hiperia3d.com/ ) is a Netbeans Community Partner, a Koinup Media Partner, and member of the Association of Virtual Worlds. Having a well respected position in the universe of 3D and virtual worlds, has interviewed many personalities and CEOs of related businesses, associations and software projects.

About Koinup Company
Koinup ( http://www.koinup.com/ ) srl founded by Pierluigi Casolari and Edoardo Turelli, is a web company based in Italy, Brescia. Founded in 2007, Koinup.com is a leader website in the virtual worlds industry, being the main hub for most of the existent virtual worlds and new ones joining as they appear.

Koinup is the first social network to share your virtual life by publishing your machinima, screenshots and virtual stories. It allows users to upload, share and review contents they create within virtual worlds, metaverse, mmorpg and games as Second Life, IMVU, World of Warcraft, The Sims 2 and many others.

Virtual London Grows Once More (Read more...)

Metaversum, developer of Twinity, the virtual world made of real people and real places, is adding new areas to Virtual London on 30 April. From the interiors of St Paul’s Cathedral, a live show from ‘Dimitri from Paris’ to a weekend full of events, there will be something for everybody in Virtual London.

Berlin, 29 April 2010 – After successfully expanding Central London to areas including the Buckingham Palace and the London Eye, Twinity, the virtual world made of real people and real places, is expanding once more to bring in the majestic Strand and the vibrant South Bank to Virtual London’s members and entrepreneurs.

From 30 April on Twinity members will be able to walk from the west end of London along The Strand, among some of the most famous theatres right up to the Millennium Bridge, on to the South Bank to the Shakespeare’s globe, the brick work Tate modern building and back to the Waterloo Bridge. 

As a special attraction the entire interior of the St Paul’s Cathedral will be made available, enabling all members to view the great dome with all its artwork from the inside. The model will also have reproduction of all the areas, artwork and sculptures present in the Cathedral.

 

To celebrate this launch there will be a 30 minute live performance by DJ ‘Dimitri from Paris’ in Virtual London. Known for broadcasting the first ever house music show in France and for producing runway tracks for Chanel, Jean-Paul Gaultier, to name a few, Dimitri will be showcasing tracks from his upcoming album ‘Get Down with the Philly sound’. Twinity users will get a taste of the album before it’s launched to the world.

Twinity will also have a special offer: 5 entrepreneurs or residents based in and around the newly launched areas can win their virtual office, store or apartment at the same address in Virtual London! Real residents should just send their name and real address to london@twinity.com. Of course, these new areas in Virtual London are also open for business: opening a shop, gallery, music venue, bar or restaurant has never had hipper venues in Virtual London.

Join the Virtual London fan page on Facebook for the latest updates: http://www.facebook.com/virtual.london.

The virtual world Twinity is currently in public beta. Register for free membership at www.twinity.com and start exploring the world today.

Three Videos: Syntensity, 3D Print, Seamless3D (Read more...)

Rain Effect 

This video shows the rain effect that is currently being developed in Syntensity, the open source engine for 3D.

3D Printing Video
 
Another amazing video from Shapeways that shows how is the process for 3D printing in the “White, Strong & Flexible” material - the strongest thermoplastic material. The material is a polyamide 12, powder. The machine used is an EOS Formiga P100 SLS machine. SLS stands for Selective Laser Sintering and this is the 3D printing process used by the Formiga.

Seamless3D 2.161 

This video explains the new release of Seamless in action, in the words of its creator, Thyme.

Koinup Launches 3D Wallpapers Nokia Application (Read more...)

 Koinup has just launched the announced application for Nokia mobile phones on Ovi Store.

The most beautiful images of videogames and virtual worlds, in an application that allows users to set as wallpapers hundreds of virtual worlds screenshots, 3d artworks and avatars pictures.

The application is called  “3D Wallpapers”, and downloads avatar art collections of Koinup directly to all Nokia devices.

Available in the "recommended by Nokia" section of the Ovi Store, The 3D Wallpapers app is the 1st mobile application entirely dedicated to "avatar art" (art inspired by videogames, virtual worlds screenshots, 3d art and virtual photography).

The app allows customers to download on their Nokia devices more than 300 wallpapers, picked by the Koinup staff among the many thousands of images published on www.koinup.com

The 3D Wallpapers users will have the chance to browse a selected collections of avatar artworks, created by 3D artists, and hundreds of amazing videogames and virtual worlds screenshots. 

With this application, Koinup wants to promote avatars and virtual worlds as forms of artistic expression and bring it to the masses. A really enjoyable application to discover for all those citizens of virtual worlds that want to find an always growing universe of art into Koinup.

You can download the app from the Nokia Ovi Store:
http://store.ovi.com/content/30802
More info on the project:
http://www.koinup.com/3d-wallpapers