“The Movies FR” - the French-speaking community for Moviestorm, The Movies and Muvizu - proudly presents “Palms of the Year 2011”! More »
Jorge Campos, better known to the machinima community as act3scene24, was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. He’s of Mexican descent, and has an amazing array of voices, which he uses to get freelance voice acting work. He also writes and makes short films, when he’s not helping out with his father’s watch and jewelry repair shop. More »
Eduardo Soto-Falcon is an award-winning filmmaker and scriptwriter currently based in Toronto. Before graduating summa cum laude in the Cinema department of Ithaca College, NY, he worked on Like Water for Chocolate (1992), one of the most successful Mexican films of all time, and then went on to work on several major films, including Clear and Present Danger (1994) as well as the self-financed film El Paje (1999). His cult short movie Dhampira (2001) has been cited by critics as one of the most innovative Mexican horror films, alongside Guillermo de Toro’s Cronos. Recently, he has been developing content for Web distribution and low-budget films while continuing to work on the ideas in Dhampira. More »
We’re very pleased to announce the winners of the contest run by music blog Consequence of Sound to make the next official video for Chicago-based rock’n’roll chiptune band I Fight Dragons. More »
The fourth part of our free series of books on filmmaking is now published. It focuses on an area of filmmaking that’s easily overlooked, but is perhaps the most important part of the whole process - editing. More »
Moviestorm 1.5 is now available! More »
In recent weeks, Moviestorm Towers has been echoing to the sound of Chicago-based rock’n'roll chiptune from I Fight Dragons. (To quote the band’s Web site, for those of you not in the proverbial ‘know,’ ‘chiptune’ is new music created on ‘obsolete’ video game ‘soundcards’ such as the Nintendo Gameboy.) This isn’t our usual brand of music, we’ll be honest, but it’s grown on us. More »
Our friends over at Celtx provide some of the best pre-production tools available. They’re not just good, they’re also surprisingly affordable - their desktop application is completely free! They’ve now started up a line of apps for mobile devices, so you can work any time, any place - on the train, on the sofa, or even while you’re right on set. More »
The second volume in Matt Kelland’s series on improving your filmmaking technique with Moviestorm follows on from camerawork and moves onto the set. The first volume was about how your shot selection affects your story-telling; this second volume is about what it is that you film and how to place actors to get the shots that you want. More »