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About Flight Sim Movies
This site provides links to some of the best flight sim movies currently available. The movies are made by filming the action in a flight simulator and editing the shots together in an editing program to make a story. This process can be called Machinima and is a relatively new way of making movies.
The beauty is that almost anyone with a computer can make movies.
The problem is that almost anyone with a computer can make movies!
There are now thousands of home made movies available on streaming sites, so how do you know what is worth watching? Well, this site aims to select the very best flight sim movies from each year to ensure the good ones don't get lost in the deluge. All the movies here are made from flight simulators because, well, that's what we do. Mostly, the movies are from around the World War 2 era, but we are interested in other types.
The main place where movies are selected is from the UBI IL2 Movie Makers Forum but anybody can submit a movie for consideration.
The Team
The site was first published in October 2006 with the help from the team at Wingmen Productions (the guys who got together to make the epic Faith, Hope and Charity). We are now on the third incarnation, and this has been made possible with a team that has developed from the early days:
- Russell (Joe90) Boyd - FSM Manager
- Chris (Bbloke) Hunton - Webmaster
- Steve (Monty-Dan) Worsley - Helps choose movies and provides the sub domain as part of montydan.com
- Bruce (Wiley) Wallace - Awards the 'Olegs' and helps choose movies
- Sjon (GL2) Stevens - Brought the original team together and provides expert opinions
- Michael (310thFalcon) Lockhart - another voice to help decide which movies are good enough
Sit Back and Enjoy The Show!
If some of the movies only have sound and no picture, download and install the Xvid or DivX codec.
2008 IL2 Flight Sim Movie Competition Winners Announced
The Advisory Board of the FSM and IL2MDb websites, who comprise the Judging Panel for the Movie Competition, has announced the Winners:
In first place
The runner up
Both movies have been selected for inclusion here at Flight Sim Movies and also have been awarded Oleg’s. The full details of the Competition Results and Awards can be found on the Competition Web Site.
Add or Read comments 1C Games Developer offers support to IL2 Movie Competition
In a surprise move, 1C Company who developed the flight sim “IL2” has contacted Wiley, administrator of the IL2 Movie Competition, to offer one of their games as a free download to the winner of the competition. This is great news as it not only shows the games companies are taking notice of movie making, they also support the use of their game engine to make movies.
There was also support from the distributor Ubisoft in 2003 when they ran a similar competition.
We look forward with interest to the developments at Ubisoft and 1C when “Storm Of War: Battle Of Britain”, the long awaited sequel to “IL2” is released.
Faith Hope and Charity wins at OMFF 2008
Russell "Joe90" Boyd had a great time representing Wingmen Productions at the Online Machinima Film Festival 2008 which took place in Second Life on 10 May 2008.
Congratulations to all the winners who are listed at mprem.com and a big thanks to the organisers and judges!
Our very own Faith, Hope and Charity made quite an impact and picked up the Best Film award, as well as being a finalist for Best Drama, Best First Film, Best Custom Content and Best Original Sound Design.
Joe90 recorded his experience as a noob in Second Life at HatHead Rickenbacker's Sky Tower Lounge which you can watch on blip.tv:
Faith, Hope and Charity at OMFF 2008
Announcement
The Advisory Board of the Flight Sim Movies and the IL2MovieDataBase websites hereby announces an IL2 movie competition. This is a “Short Movie Fun Event”, with both intangible and tangible prizes (including $100 USD), in which you can express your skills on film for the enjoyment of the viewers and compete against your colleagues for the honor of being the best.Prizes for winners include:
$100 USD
Flight Sim Movies Gold Eagle Award
Free Download of any 1C game (a $50 USD Value)
Specifically considered for placement with the Best of the Best at the Flight Sim Movies website, as well as being nominated for an award of a Golden Oleg.
Multi-featured DVD of the IL2 movie “Faith, Hope, and Charity” (a $15 USD Value)
For more information on how to enter and for the rules, visit the UBI movie makers forum.
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