Serenity Mercier lives in the virtual world Second Life. Her real life counterpart is a creative professional working in theatre, film and digital media. Serenity loves making machinima films, especially on Second Life fashion, which is one of her passions.
Seven Seas Fashion Show and Sim Opening for AvaGardner and Barbra Kunglers' new sim, Fashionate Island, 19 December 2009. Produced by Timeless Agency. Music from Magnatunes Records.
a farewell songI made this short film back in September 2008. For a number of deeply personal reasons, I very nearly left Second Life. Strangely, I had to go to real life images to make sense of my virtual experience.
In December last year, Frolic Mills asked me if I'd be interested in making a machinima film of the Miss Virtual World 2008 pageant. I agreed since I thought it would be a good creative project. All the shots used in the film were captured live inworld, in real time, as the event took place - lag and all. There was no opportunity for multiple takes, so everything you see is what actually happened. (For the contestants, please note that the video capture software runs completely independently o...
Serenity Mercier models fashions from Versteck in Second Life.My first machinima film. I was writing for M2 (Metaverse Messenger) at the time and interviewed Christina Elvehjem of Versteck for a designer profile. Her work and the philosophy behind it inspired me to make this video.
Party in Second Life celebrating the finalists for the Miss SL Universe 2008 competition.A really fun impromptu party thrown by Callie Cline. I edited this very quickly and had it posted within a day or two of the party. Lots of fun capturing the shots on the fly ... along with all the crazy lag!
Virtual Photography Toolkit for Second Life from AMS (Ananke Media Systems) - see http://anankemediasystems.wordpress.com/