TimeTraveller™ is a short machinima production being shot on location in Second Life, an on-line virtual world. It is the story of Hunter, an angry young Mohawk man living in the 22nd century. Despite the fact that he possesses an impressive range of traditional skills, Hunter is unable to cope with life in an overcrowded, hyperinflated, technologized world. He embarks on a vision quest that takes him back in time to historical conflicts that have involved First Nations. Though his intention is to right the wrongs of the past, he ends up discovering the complexity of history, and of truth itself.
With this project we hope to learn several things:• How apt is Second Life for the Skins workshop. How quickly can new users learn to use it? To mod it? To use it as a supple storytelling medium?
• Are the skills learned to mod in Second Life useful outside of Second Life, such as in the game industry?
• Are machinima movies a possible outcome of the Skins workshop, separate from the virtual worlds themselves?
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