Thanks, Russell. Come, see the "Duel" part and tell me what you think; in this stage good advice (from author with obviously good taste:)) is more than wellcome.

Hi Tom. Will be pleased to. Do you want me to email you my advice or post it in the comments?

You can say in comments. This is one of the questions - I will try to make friends of knights (these in heads), while they bodies will continue to fight, and I should make scene when their bodies will destroy each other - but should I their mind (guys in heads) keep alive? ...god, this must sound strange.... :)

OK, will do. Will have a think about it first.

Great anims, great typography, great editing and content !
Congrats ! :)

"You see, nothing was real anymore. The poetry faded." Brilliant, fascinating. One of the best films I've ever seen. The imagination, the verbal and visual wit and the SYNCHRONY!!! I can hardly imagine how long it took you to do this. Or what you used.

VimPickens, thanks, very nice thing to say. See you on Expo this weekend? Beer is on me.

Tom, thanks for the virtual beer; it was a pleasure meeting your persona, both inworld and on LiveStream. What a fantastic experience it was for me attending the MachinExpo, and this piece just continues to amaze me: the text of the prose-poem, the stunning imagery, the care and detail and sheer surreality which of course I adore. It seems that award seems tipped towards straight-forward narrative cinema. Kudos, again, for the cutting-edge, avant-garde quality of this-- and I have to tell you that I'm a fan of stories about dolls, puppets, automatons and their secret sadness as well as their fortunate separation from human folly. BRAVO!

Thanks again, dear Pickens, it was great pleasure to meet you too. I hope I wasn't to rude in my talk session, but, well, they knew me very well before, so it is their fault...:)
About your love for dolls, puppets, automatons, yes, I understand that completely. Same with me. Even more, I promised my self to never ever have one single human person in my movies.
Humans are overrated.

When you add humans into a machinima, whatever platform--Sims, iClone, MS, SL--there is always that Uncanny Valley you have to get around. I promised myself that I would never use humans in any REALISTIC setting in my machinima. Of course I've broken that rule, lol... but so far I've not produced any contemporary, realistic films--yet. ;) No, you were not rude. I love your candor!! :) I only hope you have changed your mind about the potential for artistic films made in Second Life. There are a lot of workarounds needed there, but some of the builds created by artists make for stunning imagery and originality of expression. Tutsy's film, for instance, set at The Spencer Museum's "Petrovsky Flux." The SL art films made for the Shanghai Expo 2010 of environments built by Bryn Oh, Glyph Graves, Marcus Inkpen, Soror Nishi and others I can't remember off the top of my head. Definitely gonna check out iClone. :)