AVENUE Magazine April 2010

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create a dream and catch it on a video made me smile, and upon first sight, I realized what I could do on machinima.” He creates films primarily by making the video to the rhythm of his ideas without putting anything on paper “changing my vision to become every time more and more effective.” According to Spy, in December 2008, he desired to swim in deeper waters by moving up the level of tools, software, and knowledge. During brief contact with a professional director in real life, he studied the director’s techniques very carefully. Spy bought a space navigator (3D mouse) as an experiment, and after an hour, created a basic video. Next, he sailed into editing programs such as: Adobe Premiere, iMovie, and Final Cut Express for better productions. “Working with scripts of the entire course of

machinima requires camera positions, scripted lines, characters, costumes, scenery, sound, and soundtrack,” said Spy. “I have my own definition of machinima,” said Spy. “Machinima is real time capture, and in time, machinima concepts will evolve.” Understanding art and loving art is all about understanding the context of it or making it understandable to others, which is his main goal even if the viewers don’t fully understand the message. “The Little Fisherman Story I guess it’s quite understandable and easy for anyone to feel the magic and the power of the tale itself, like the moral given at the end,” said Spy. “What the water gives, the water takes.” The Little Fisherman Story is a real life tale from Brazilian folklore. As a child, Spy spent his


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