This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath, May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet.

Back in the olden days, when Moviestorm was still a young whipper-snapper of a movie-making tool with very few of the cool features it has today, we made a series of short parody movies to show what Moviestorm was capable of. The movies were made by Michelle Pettit-Mee (a leading light of the machinima community, now working as part of Bioware's cinematic design team but back then the Machinimator-in-residence for Moviestorm) and were parodies of well-known scenes from film and television. We had a Pulp Fiction scene, a Phoebe-like Friends song ... and a short sequence that looked suspiciously like Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet.



We released the Romeo and Juliet costumes as part of a very early Content Pack, and they're still kicking around. We've learned a lot since then, though, and we've also improved what Moviestorm is capable of. Since it's Valentine's Day very soon, we thought it was about time that these two old favourites got an upgrade.



As you'd expect, both of these costumes are tintable.

We'll be making these available to you (along with a handful of other new assets) very soon. Stay tuned for some more sneak previews over the next few days!

Miami, here we come!

No, this isn't the next stage of my odyssey around Florida (though I do hope to make the journey down to South Florida and hang out with Phil Overman Rice shortly). It's a preview of a couple of new buildings from an upcoming Moviestorm pack that Paul Kelley's working on, inspired by Miami beachfront locations. These are only quick Max renders, and the perspective's a bit odd, but you get the idea.

And, of course, you can tint them in all sorts of ways, like our other buildings.

No release date yet - but we'll have some announcements about what's in the pipeline later this week.

More new people at Moviestorm

Please join us in welcoming two new members of staff here at Moviestorm Towers.

Paul Kelley is joining Chris in the art team. In the dim and distant past he ran a video games shop, then took time out to travel the world and teach himself to be an artist. He did a stint at Jagex working on Runescape on characters and environments.

Quiz time: One of these is Paul. One of these isn't. You decide...
(There's a really big clue hidden in one of the pictures if you get stuck.)

Dave Holloway is following in the long line of Moviestorm QA staff called Dave. A movie nut with a self-confessed penchant for "everything from the debased to the artistically sublime," he's worked in art, design and QA at a number of games companies, most recently Sony.

Dave won't let us take his photo yet because he wants a haircut first, so we'll post a picture of him later. This'll have to do for now. (We warned you, Dave!)