This particular machinima short, recently released by Sam Goldwater of PolygonFiction, speaks [volumes] for itself. It seems fitting that it’d be posted here at DownloadableSuicide.

Sometimes fan fiction sucks. Correction, most fan fiction sucks. [editor: fan fiction sucks] However, this fan fiction, written by a nine year old going by the name of squirrelking, was so bad that it motivated another guy (blind51de) to visualize it using his l33t Garrys Mod skills for all of us to enjoy. This was the result.

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This is the second episode of This Spartan Life, the machinima talk show within Halo that I talked about earlier. If you haven’t seen episode one yet, I suggest you head over and watch that first.

This second episode (31 min.) features guests Marty O’Donnell, writer and producer of the original scores for the Halo series, and The ILL Clan, pioneers in the art of prerendered and live machinima performances using Quake.

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Today I have a double-feature for you. These gems from Feisar have gotten little to no attention from any of the sites that I visit, and it’s only by luck that I ran across them and am now able to share them with you now. Neither of them would qualify as a typical machinima short film. They’re both thoughtful, emotional and delicately paced. If you think you can handle that, then enjoy a couple of what I think are great examples of this art form’s potential and richness.

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Lit Fuse Films is a machinima group that created some great films such as “War of the Servers” and “Ignis Solus“, which you may be familiar with. Here is a lesser known short that they produced in Garry’s Mod called “Vitamin Orange” that I consider a classic. Perhaps you’ll disagree, but at least you’ll get a laugh.

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Portal: A Day in the Life of a Turret by Smooth Few Films

This is a machinima talk show within Halo that I love. It features DJ Octobit ripping out some great 8-bit tunes, a host by the name of Damian Lacedaemion that interviews all their great guests, their own “Solid Gold Elite Dancers” that use choreography and game glitches to effect dancing, and even some bodyguards to keep the pubescent players at bay in the “unpredictable multiplayer universe”. They talk about things ranging from virtual spaces to machinima itself. Visit thisspartanlife.com for more episodes or wait for them to be syndicated here.

This first episode (28 min.) features guests Bob Stein, founder of the Voyager Company which was one of the first CD-ROM publishers in the coming digital era, and Peggy Ahwesh, creator of She Puppet (2001), a machinima film featuring Peggy playing Tomb Raider with various female voiceovers to create a narrative.

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