Sunday, December 27, 2009

The Joy of Music Illustrates Virtual Worlds for Storytelling

Netherlands-based film maker and machinimist, Chantal Harvey, has posted a fantastic new video that illustrates the amazing potential of Second Life as a complex storytelling platform. The video, which is filmed on IBM's space in Second Life, is an engaging story about a young boy's quest to understand music.

It reminded me a bit of Harry Nilsson's 1971 animated classic "The Point" starring the voices of The Brady Bunch's Mike Lookinland and Ringo Starr from the Beatles, in which a young boy is born with a round head in a world where all people and things have points on the tops of their heads.

The Joy of Music another powerful example of how the potential value of a virtual worlds like Second Life have yet to be fully tapped.

Thanks Bettina!

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