10th Annual 3dmm.com Awards 2008

Finally! It's time to announce the winners of the 10th Annual 3dmm.com Awards!

Looking back on it, 2008 had several really standout movies which are likely on par with the best this community has ever produced. Although general interest in 3D Movie Maker continues to decline, there are still many wonderfully talented and dedicated people in this community who are willing to spend enormous amounts of time and effort to continue this little hobby of all of ours. I congratulate and thank everyone involved, and hope you find this montage of all our work a fitting tribute to the best of 2008.

I have embedded a vimeo version in this post, but I recommend the high-quality MP4 version instead, assuming you have the patience to download a 200mb file. To view the MP4 version, you will need a h264 decoder like Quicktime to play it. For PC users, an alternative to Quicktime that I highly recommend is Media Player Classic Home Cinema. MPC-HC comes as a standalone executable (requires no install if you download the zip version) and has the h264 codec (among many others) already "burned in" to its binaries.

Thanks for viewing, and please leave comments!

A few important notes:

• Jesterfoot directed the introduction. Of the four awards movies I've been a part of, this introduction is definitely the most elaborate. Special thanks to him for volunteering to organize and take the time to put this together.
• Ben Rice assisted with the introduction's animation. He is responsible for the shot of himself giving out his autograph, the shots of Tom Breed and Mczee showing up to the event, and one of the angles of Tuna and Michael walking down the red carpet.
• Jayrod created the model of the theater, and put four of the actors in costumes (Billy, Salvador, Patrick, and Valentine).
• Dominator Dan voiced himself (as well as a small Brad Ross cameo) with lots of room for improvisation.
• Michael Sandford, Tom Breed, and Tuna Hematoma all wrote and voiced their own lines.
• I had to cut "Best Community Member" from the presentation because I couldn't fit all the categories within the length of the music track I laid out. You can find the results for that category in the credits.