Tag: AFTRS

  • Fairfax Legal Notice

    Two and a half years ago (October 2005) LAMP allowed website readers to download a small screen shot, PDF (where only the text was visible) of a 880 word article in Australian Financial Review published 6 Oct 2005. The article was entirely about the newly formed LAMP – the BBC background of Gary Hayes (brought…

  • GameJam08 – Nine Podcasts

    GameJam 2008 was run at AFTRS in Sydney on 1 November and featured talks to do with developing for or playing with console, pc games or online games. Creating and using virtual worlds, games, film cross-over, machinima, writing, AI and educational, fun or just plain cool stuff. Below is a selection of those captured on…

  • Podcast – Art & Craft of Previsualisation

    A presentation by Chris Edwards, CEO of LA based Third Floor to the Visual Effects Society in Sydney on 5th June 2008 A special released talk related to three new courses AFTRS are offering in 2008 featuring Previsualisation elements – Animation Directing, Games and Virtual Worlds. This is a podcast of a talk Chris gave…

  • Podcast – Joe Velikovsky “Growing Worlds’

    ‘Growing Worlds” An abridged Presentation on Games Writing and Adaptation by Joe Velikovsky (Note: the first half of the podcast contains loopback echo due to technical issues) In this abridged (20 out of 35 mins) presentation at a LAMP Insight ‘Growing Worlds – Games Adaptation Seminar’  Joe looks specifically at the practical side of games…

  • LAMP Project Atom Finalist – Thursday’s Fictions in Second Life

    Previously highlighted on the LAMP site here The Thursday’s Fictions cross-media jamboree continues on and has been put into the Atom finals awards 2008 as Best Multimodal Production (other 3 entries below). Award Recipients – Names: Richard James Allen, Gary Hayes, and Karen Pearlman Award Recipients – Organisations: The Physical TV Company, AFTRS LAMP (The…

  • LAMP Three Years of Projects: Video

    The AFTRS Laboratory for Advanced Media Production, the first three years of residentials. Around 34 of the 61 projects that were developed over one intensive week to a pitch, flash by in 2 minutes. These images are part of the original 15-20 minute presentation at the end of that week to commissioners, interested stakeholders and…

  • Podcast – Laurel Papworth “Building a Social Network”

    ‘Building a Social Network” Strategies, implementation and management of online communities. Laurel takes us on a whistle-stop tour of the various features and functions of organic social networks and how to identify positive and negative aspects of existing services. She refers to how on entry the motto/tagline, tools and what the community are discussing should…

  • Another üBERGroovy LAMP project launches 25 June 2008

    Over half of all the LAMP projects are in or have been produced to audiences now. üBERgroover.tv was a project that came into our 4th residential on Milson’s Island in 2006 and we have just heard from ex-AFTRS student Tina Lymberis, it’s driving force, of the official launch and plans to take on the world.…

  • Innovating Global Social Media Experiences and Collaborative Entertainment Production

    A rough transcript of a presentation Gary Hayes (LAMP Director) gave as part of the Digital Content Session at the Trilateral KANZ Broadband Summit in Seoul on 19 June 2008. It looks at the emerging nature of Social Media Entertainment but focuses on how creative professionals can keep up with ‘the crowd’. Covers how Film,…

  • Pod and Vodcast – The Game of Writing Games with Matt Costello

    John Banks and Peter Giles interview Matt Costello in two parts at the LAMP: Story of the Future Residential held at Couran Cove, Queensland, Australia in December 2007. The Game of Writing Games with Matt Costello from AFTRSTalks on Vimeo. Matt talks about story worlds and how the game play is very dependent on the…