AMP: Artists' Meeting Place and Resource Collective

Our Story:
Machinima is animation using a game or virtual world engine to create real time action. My associate, Wayne Graves, produced a short series called AV451 for under $400 and poor equipment. Now, our goal now is to do the full-length film with hired talent and proper equipment to give it a crisper, more professional look. Backed by a quality animated film, we are gearing up to start a small online machinima community with writing classes and collaborative projects to further the art.

The AV451 story:
Lieutenant Maverick Burke awakes from cryogenic sleep to find no operating crew and the ship in the hands of a pirate clan. The ex special ops officer finds himself responsible for the remaining passengers of Colonial Transport AV451 and the dark secret it holds.

Why Machinima?
I am always intrigued with new, fresh ways of telling a story. The art of machinima has yet to really reach maturity, so it's almost an open field to play in. It's also relatively cheap to make. The film will be approximately the length of a long feature film at a fraction of the cost. And with online viewership through major machinima sites reaching into the high millions, the potential is exciting. Warner Brothers did a machinima series called "Terminator Salvation: The Machinima Series," so you can be assured that Hollywood is paying attention.

To see how you can participate, go to: http://www.indiegogo.com/Machinima-Project-AV451.

We appreciate anyone willing to help us reach our goals. The rewards range from getting a digital copy of the work, to receiving film credit, to free professional script writing classes through our live-streaming script writing course, and more. Classes will be launched as the completed series and community is launched.

We are also creating a behind-the-scenes looks and a "how-to" course through this process. The course is a detailed look behind the scenes of the machinima film production, including the tools we use, tips and tricks, and anything else related to this project that can help others do the same, or do even better.

A look at series 1:
You can see series 1 at http://av451.com

Thanks for checking out our project. And please pass the good word!