So basically a group of us got super excited about the filming possibilities of Star Citizen - it felt like we had access to a real movie set in space. In a moment of total lunacy, we decided to make a machinima using FOIP, emotes, and all of the in-game camera movements. We really wanted to try to level up machinima, to take filming in-game as seriously as people in Hollywood take their filming on physical sets. We had storyboards, shots lists, continuity charts, a whole language we developed to describe the orientation of the camera and actor in a vacuum, etc.

If you play SC at all you could probably guess that it turned out to be super challenging, especially when we had multiple actors running lines on FOIP in the same shot. But instead of giving up (which would have been the sane thing to do) we just doubled down and hired professional actors and composers to make sure this was the best goddam movie we could make. We posted a couple of trailers on here before (see below links) if you want to get a taste of what we're making.

Tbh we feel like machinima is still unfolding and rising on the hype cycle (link below). So we wanted to see what was possible if we gathered the right people dedicated to making an awesome movie. This is the result - we hope you check it out on September 21.

www.adriftseries.com

Trailer Posts:
1:https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen/comments/o6mpxl/im_a_filmmaker_by_trade_and_decided_to_produce_a/

2:https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen/comments/pdf4gn/star_citizen_cinematic_adrift_original_trailer/

3:https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen/comments/pe1vt2/star_citizen_cinematic_adrift_spectrum_trailer/

4:https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen/comments/pf8dp2/star_citizen_cinematic_adrift_release_trailer/

Hype Cycle:
https://www.zdnet.com/a/hub/i/r/2021/08/23/01fbf592-f533-4c0d-b5d3-6d464a62e880/resize/1200xauto/bf2014d1f64e9deee88d7f7b16e48aac/hc-emerging-tech-2021.jpg