The stunning machinima made by Pepa Comata about The 1920s Berlin Project in Second Life has been watched over 10.000 times since it was uploaded two weeks ago!
It has been picked up by a few websites and shared on Facebook and twitter, reaching an audience beyond those who know and use Second Life already.
A nice article about the video was published on ‘The Creators Project’, you can read it by clicking here.
They have close to a million ‘likes’ on Facebook and amongst these readers quite a few were impressed even if some were surprised to learn Second Life was still even around.
One viewer commented;
I’ve been meaning to uninstall Second Life from my pc. Good thing I didn’t.
On twitter the video was also shared and received a few wonderful compliments;
This shows the power of well made, good looking machinima but of course also of networking and social media.
People are impressed and intrigued, not just with our 1920s Berlin sim but also with Second Life still being around and looking this good.
It also shows why it is so important to try and offer as many users as possible a visually pleasing experience when visiting Second Life.
Right now a minority get to experience our virtual world the way it looks in this video.
Having graphics set to ultra and shadows on is something many computers can’t handle.
That is why I hope Sansar will be able to do that for more users or that LL will at least offer a streaming service.
About a year ago, I wrote an article called ‘Music videos shot in Second Life and why we need more of them.’ and in it I mentioned a video by Pepa Cometa as a good example of what is possible.
I’m so glad she choose to accept my invitation to come to Berlin and make this wonderful video.
Let’s hope many more videos like this one are made, they allow us to show the world that SL CAN look good and is about more than just shopping and hanky panky.
Go on, have another look;
This is really a very nice video. i posted the link on G+
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Thank you very much Richardus, I’m happy you enjoyed it 🙂
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I feel happy sharing the video with all those people. I’ve never dreamed it. There is a huge work behind that place in second life (The Berlin 1920s project). I can see also much care, love, fun, creativity of many people there. It is like if I throw a bottle in the sea with a message from Berlin and I am finding out that it reaches far shores… that’s a nice gift for me.Thank you very much to all the people who keep alive the city and to everybody who watched the video 🙂
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As much as I love SL and the awesome things that are on it.. somehow this video manages to get into the uncanny Valley for me, things look real enough that the unreal aspects of it glare out at me. That being said I should really visit one time, this is a cool build!
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Its good to see positive creativity in sl reach a wider off-grid audience, great job Pepa
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Thank you Cyber Twig, .:) I enjoyed showing to others the beautiful place that Berlin 1920s is
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Today in one of the two main governmental tv stations in Germany, your 1920s Berlin sim was featured in a daily morning magazine. It took only 1 minute, but the message was possitive.
I suppose you understand some German. You can open the extracted part of the magazine here:
>> “Volle Kanne” ab ins Netz
Watch between 0:59 to 2:00 min.
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Danke!
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Thank you very much Maddy , was nice and fun watching it with my family 🙂
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