A 12 member international judging panel led by Professor Alan Robson (RL), Vice Chancellor of the University of Western Australia awarded the top prize to Cisko, ahead of a couple of other spectacular entries by Bradley Dorchester (2nd Prize, L$44,000) and ColeMarie Soleil (3rd Prize, L$42,000).
This challenge co-hosted by White Lebed and Jayjay Zifanwe attracted entries from around the world, and 13 finalists were shortlisted from Texas, Massachusetts, New York, Florida, Barcelona, San Sebastian, Paris, Maastricht, Berlin, Toronto and Perth.
Stunned by the win, Cisko was over the moon, 'I'm overwhelmed...need to calm down. Thank you. I love all of you. I need another drink.'
The judges thought that this was an absolute firecracker of a Machinima with a brilliant and very different approach. This had wonderful humour, amazing visual effects, great quality of editing and remarkable camera control.
With Bradley's work, the judges felt this had wonderful velocity with fantastic cutting to music transients, an epic soundtrack and showed off the "4 main elements" to great effect.
ColeMarie's brilliant modern and edgy piece was another favourite. Responding to the announcement, she said, 'I would like to thank all the artists involved in the creation of the UWA sims,and to UWA in particular, for this terrific opportunity to creatively express myself. To all my friends who gave me my space and understood how much working on this project meant to me, to JayJay for asking me to make this video, and Surrealia Anatine for getting me into machinima to start with. To energy drinks for keep me working late into the night, and Bryn Oh for 'subtle' yet threatening encouragements to finish this video.'
The judging panel had an extremely hard time seperating the entries, and a number of stand-out works had to finish in the finalist position. The overall quality of the entries is emhasised by the more than doubling of the overall prize pool from $L90,000 to $L215,000 within 5 minutes of the completion of the viewing of the finalists by the RL (real life) members of the panel.
Chantal Harvey, Masterdark Footman and Laslopantomik Yao won the Honourable Mention prizes ($L12,000) with Pyewacket Bellman, Iono Allen, Glasz DeCuir & Sophia Yates taking the Finalist prizes ($L7,000).
'I am so thankful to all the wonderful machinimatographers of Second Life who have so artfully put together works of brilliance that I am sure will be able to smash through the SL/RL barrier, and make SL and virtual worlds more relevant and prominent especially in the education sector. Words cannot express how thankful I am to my co-host, White Lebed, without whom the Challenge would not have started, and also to the wonderful people who provided the prizes, including the Casey Family of Western Australia, Dr Chris Thorne (RL), Philip Vought (SL), MidnightRain Glas (SL), Professor Alan Robson and John Stubbs of UWA and a secret benefactor,' said Jayjay.
In the words of Torley Linden as he was being TP'ed out at the end of the ceremony to attend to Viewer 2.0 matters, 'This has been awesometastic!'.
Yes Torley. It has indeed.
JUDGING PANEL
Professor Alan Robson (RL) - Vice-Chancellor, The University of Western Australia
Professor Ted Snell (RL) - Director, Cultural Precinct, The University of Western Australia
A/Professor Wade Halvorson (RL) - Lecturing in Marketing, Business and Electronic Commerce, The University of Western Australia
Colin Campbell Fraser (RL) - Principal Adviser (External Relations and Advocacy),
Vice-Chancellery, The University of Western Australia
Kelly Smith (RL) - Director, International Centre, The University of Western Australia
Jon Stubbs (RL) - Director, Student Services, The University of Western Australia
Susana Willis-Johnson (RL) - Marketing Manager, The University of Western Australia
Dr Carmen Fies (RL) - Assistant Professor, The University of Texas at San Antonio
Torley Linden (SL) - Linden Labs
White Lebed (SL) - Lead of Burning Life Art Department, Director of Special Events at UWA-SL
Raphaella Nightfire (SL) - CEO SW&MB Fashion Productions, CEO Evane Model Agency, Snr Writer Best of SL Magazine
and me, JayJay who made coffee and tea for the panel!
1ST PRIZE (L$65,000 + UWA Goody Bag)
CISKO VANDEVERRE
Berlin, Germany(SEEK)
2ND PRIZE (L$44,000 + UWA Goody Bag)
BRADLEY CURNOW
Perth, Australia
MachinimUWA: Art Architecture, Research, Teaching
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YN1k80dA3I8
3RD PRIZE (L$42,000 + UWA Goody Bag)
COLEMARIE SOLEIL
Florida USA (UWA Machinima Challenge Submission)
HONOURABLE MENTIONS (L$12,000 + UWA Goody Bag)
CHANTAL HARVEY
Maastricht, Netherlands
University of Western Australia in Second Life
LASLOPANTOMIK YAO
Barcelona, Spain
MachinimUWA
MASTERDARK FOOTMAN
Dallas, Texas, USA
(Link Unavailable)
FINALISTS (L$7,000 + UWA Goody Bag)
PYEWACKET BELLMAN
New York City, USA
University of Western Australia in Second Life
SOPHIA YATES
Lancaster, Massachusetts, USA
The Challenge - Architecture, Teaching, Research Arts on the UWA sims
IONO ALLEN
Paris, France
Seek Wisdom
GLASZ DECUIR
San Sebastian, Spain
MachinimUWA: UWA in Second Life, Achieving International Excellence
NOVA DYSZEL
Toronto, Canada
UWA in SL Challange
MASTERDARK FOOTMAN
Dallas, Texas, USA
(Link Unavailable)
SOPHIA YATES
Lancaster, Massachusetts, USA
Second Life Virtual University of Western Australia
After the party Jayjay rushed off to take part in an interview on Metaworld News - he's getting to be quite the media star!
You can view the video here...
Watch live streaming video from metaworld3 at livestream.com
FULL JUDGING PANEL
1. Professor Alan Robson (RL) - Vice-Chancellor, The University of Western Australia
2. Professor Ted Snell (RL) - Director, Cultural Precinct, The University of Western Australia
3. A/Professor Wade Halvorson (RL) - Lecturing in Marketing, Business and Electronic Commerce, The University of Western Australia
4. Colin Campbell Fraser (RL) - Principal Adviser (External Relations and Advocacy),
Vice-Chancellery, The University of Western Australia
5. Kelly Smith (RL) - Director, International Centre, The University of Western Australia
6. Jon Stubbs (RL) - Director, Student Services, The University of Western Australia
7. Susana Willis-Johnson (RL) - Marketing Manager, The University of Western Australia
8. Dr Carmen Fies (RL) - Assistant Professor, The University of Texas at San Antonio
9. Torley Linden (SL) - Linden Labs
10. White Lebed (SL) - Lead of Burning Life Art Department, Curator
11. Raphaella Nightfire (SL) - CEO SW&MB Fashion Productions, CEO Evane Model Agency, Snr Writer Best of SL Magazine
12. Jayjay Zifanwe (SL) - Owner of The University of Western Australia (SL), Creator & co-host of the UWA 3D Art& Design Challenge
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