It’s our biggest, most ambitious challenge yet. We’ve always said that Moviestorm was good enough for making TV, and we want you to show us we’re right.
So here’s the...
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Lighten the mood with this fun collection of colorful characters and props, suitable for kids of all ages. Here’s the new Fun Land pack, from Chris Ollis, priced at just 100MSPs for a...
This is a summary of the news item. We’ve reduced the prices on over half the packs in the Marketplace. Packs previously priced at 1300 MSPs are now just 1000 MSPs, and packs priced at 600 MSPs are now 500 MSPs. Rental prices are...
This is a summary of the news item. There are only a couple of weeks to go until Valentine’s Day, so we’ve decided to help you out with that question of what to get for that special someone in your life. Make them a movie....
This is a summary of the news item. In addition to the packs in the Marketplace, there are loads of mods available from other Moviestorm users. All the ones we found are free, so when you subscribe, you’ll get to use all these...
This is a summary of the news item. Valentine’s Day is coming up fast, and how better to express how you feel than with a movie made specially for your loved one? (Apart from chocolates and roses, of course. Don’t...
This is a summary of the news item. Getting hold of extra content for Moviestorm just became a whole lot easier. With the release of Moviestorm 1.2.0.2, you don’t have to go to the Web site and dig out your credit card or...
This is a summary of the news item. The juries have spoken, and we’re very pleased to announce the three winners of Matt’s base pack contest. This was a fascinating competition, which really challenged the imagination and...
This is a summary of the news item. Liven up your movies with this amazing collection of over 200 sound effects from audio specialists Earcom. You’ll get beeps, screams, laughs, creaks, explosions, footsteps, gunshots, burps,...
This is a summary of the news item. Following his dramatic last-minute win in yesterday’s Christmas competition, we received this message from mcornetto.
I would like the Moviestorm credits to be divided up equally between the...
This is a summary of the news item. The Christmas competition ended up as a closely fought fight. On New Year’s morning, we had two movies tied for first place, so we extended the voting until midnight UK time. In the...
This is a summary of the news item. Wow, that’s a tough selection. Usually there are three or four runaway winners, but this time we’ve had a bunch of really different movies, good in different ways. We’ve had music,...
This is a summary of the news item. Here’s the easiest way ever to make a personalised Christmas video - go to GreetingStorm Live on Facebook, pick one of eight template movies, put photos of you or your friends onto the...
This is a summary of the news item. Wondering about Moviestorm subscriptions and content rental? Here’s how it all works, at a glance.
What do I get?
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Moviestorm plus base pack
Photostorm &...
This is a summary of the news item. If you’re a subscriber, you’ll now be able to hire content packs instead of buying them. When you put a pack in your shopping basket, you can choose to have it for a day or a month,...
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Oooh, that Chris Ollis. He loves to whet your appetites, doesn't he?
Earlier this week, he posted these two tasty videos. Check 'em out.
So, go on, spill the beans. What's cooking, Chris?
Your actors will soon be able to sit at a...
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A couple of people in the US have told us that they've tried to use Visa Gift cards and such like on our site, with no success.
Well, after a couple of months investigating, we've come to the conclusion there's absolutely nothing we can do... You get a lot of stuff for free with the basic version of Moviestorm. There's costumes, props, sets, gestures and moods - as the recent Base Pack Contest shows, it's amazing how many different types of movie can be created.
With all these... The eagle-eyed among you will have already seen the Valentine's Day contest. You'll also be poring over the picture that accompanies it, looking for hints of new things to come. Here it is again, without the text over the top.
Yes,... For a while, you've been asking for a way to give Moviestorm packs to your friends. We've now got a system in place so you can do just that.
On the marketplace page, in the account section on the right, you'll see a new option to donate... We're currently putting together a small patch release, 1.2.0.2.
This is mainly animation support for upcoming packs, plus fixes so that Photostorm and Greetingstorm will work on Macs with Tiger or Leopard. There are also some changes to... We want Moviestorm to be easy to use. We try not to dazzle you with an enormously complicated interface, with hundreds of buttons and menus. In some cases, this means that you can't get the level of precision you need for a certain task.... It's taken them quite a while to sort out, but we think PayPal have mostly got our payment systems working properly now. We're still ironing out one or two little glitches that customers are reporting to us, but it should be fine for the... Height is important. More precisely, differences in height. You can use height to create drama, contrast, emotion, interest, beauty, menace - a clever director can do almost anything with a good, varied set. Up until now, Moviestorm didn't... Back in the olden days, when Moviestorm was still a young whipper-snapper of a movie-making tool with very few of the cool features it has today, we made a series of short parody movies to show what Moviestorm was capable of. The movies... Woah, what a totally crazy week that was! We shipped you:Moviestorm 1.2.0.1Female Monster HeadsPhotostorm HolidaysGreetingstorm Photostorm Holidays LiveContent rentalsAnd we managed to squeeze in a Christmas party! We've got one more... 1.2.0.1 - check!Monsters - check!Now we're going to have our Christmas party, then we'll try and get some more stuff out to you by the end of the week. With just a few more working days before we all take a Christmas break, we're aiming to ship a whole bunch of stuff out to you very soon indeed.Moviestorm 1.2.0.1 - mostly a patch release, addressing a few bugs. It's mainly little things,... OK, Santa baby, time to shake it!
A few shots from the 2009 Christmas Party at the Moviestorm Mansion. A few weeks ago, we gave you a bunch of Halloween monsters created by the Marvellous Mister Ollis. Quite rightly, a number of you observed that they were all male. This is because we are all - apart from Lisa, of course - well brought-up... When we rolled out the new marketplace last week, we had a couple of problems with the payment systems. We can't take American Express. This is due to some issue between PayPal and Amex. To be honest, we don't entirely understand it, and... In previous posts, we've alluded to Jeff's design skills. Turns out, he's even more talented than that.
Over on the Photostorm page, under Scene, you'll see he gets a credit for music as well.
He's not just a guy in a suit, you know! Well, we've just done our biggest, most complicated launch yet, and we're bloody pleased that it nearly all went to plan.
However, there are, of course, a few outstanding problems that we'll address as soon as we can. F'rinstance...We... It's all been a bit quiet on the blog for a while. The office, on the other hand, has been a hive of activity, as we gear up for a big release Any Time Now. This will include Moviestorm 1.2 and major changes to the marketplace, so it's... Conor just committed subversion revision number 20,000 to the Moviestorm codebase. That's a lot of code. Over in the forums, there have been some discussions about performance issues, particularly why things sometimes run slowly with relatively simple sets, no mods, few characters, etc. Julian posted this detailed reply, which we figured was... One of the things that's been a long-standing issue is that when you change the ambient lighting, the sky changes colour too. Sometimes, that can create a cool effect, but more often than not, it's not what you wanted. We've finally fixed... Sometimes we wonder about Chris. There he sits at his desk, surrounded by pictures of Bjork, Ne-Yo, Rihanna, and Lily Allen, listening to My Chemical Romance, Green Day, and Bat for Lashes, while browsing Etsy, Hot Topic, Yukka and Vintage... Apologies for the slightly delayed notice: 1.1.7.1 did indeed ship on Friday.
Release notes can be found here.
Modders, please read this if you're having a problem starting the Modders' Workshop. A few of the heads in Chris's Halloween Morphing heads pack are proving a little elusive. Here's how to get to the Cutter, Piggy, Frank, Mouldy and Vampyre characters.
Select the Halloween '09 Monster Morph head - you'll need a male...
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