NMR Artist Spotlight: Machinima Guru Lucinda McNary

Lucinda McNary

(Exclusive NMR Interview with Director, Animator, and Machinima Guru Lucinda McNary)

NMR: Tell us a little bit about yourself. When and how did you become involved in filmmaking and machinima?

McNary: I was born in Kansas City, Missouri and both my parents were artists and my father was also an architect.

All I ever wanted to do was draw and paint and then I discovered film making and found I loved animation because of the artistic element.

Machinima Film Vautrin

I went to college and majored in Biology as at one time I wanted to be a doctor. I moved to San Francisco in the mid sixties and then New York in 1968. Then I came back to Kansas City in 1981. I met my husband Mark here and we moved to St. Louis in 1994 and moved back here about 6 years ago as he got a good job here.

I am married and have 18 year old twins, a boy and a girl who we adopted when they were 6 years old.My husband is Mark McNary and he is a DBA and Systems analyst. He is a wonderful husband and a wonderful man.

I got involved in film making through a program called THE MOVIES. I thought it was like a SIMS game. The game was not that good but the film making was and I found I loved film making. Then I heard about Moviestorm and started using this program which I really love. The first movie I made was called Buddy and Pam and it is a love story. I made that with The Movies.

NMR: How do you find your inspiration for your work? Where do you find ideas for your films?McNary: As far as inspiration for my movies, well that just comes from the world around me and I never stop getting ideas for stories. In the past few years though writers have been submitting me scripts and I now make full length feature films with them. I just get so many scripts submitted that I don't have time to write my own anymore but these are very good writers and the movies are great too.

NMR:Tell us about your latest movie projects and Two Moon Graphics. McNary: My latest movie projects are VAUTRIN which has not yet been released and is the story about the Japanese invasion of Nanjing, China in 1937 and was written by Joseph Kwong. I made this movie completely with Moviestorm and was even able to make scenes showing buildings being bombed. I am also working on a movie from a script by Jerry Hawkins called LUMBERTON LAKE which is about a seriel killer who turns out to be a werewolf. Then I also have a film to do from a series of stories by the writer Selena Rosen. I am also writing the script for this movie from Selena's stories. This is a fantasy, science fiction movie.

NMR: What has been your most ambitious achievement?McNary: My most ambitious achievement was Vautrin. It was a very complex movie to make as it is set in 1937 Nanjing, China and I had to do a lot of research to create the sets as there are very few photographs and none in color of Nanjing during this era and of course Nanjing, China has now changed a lot since then.

NMR: What does the future hold for Lucinda McNary?McNary: As far as the future, well I now submit all the full length feature films to film festivals because that is the best way to get a distributor. I am hoping that Vautrin will have a screening in Hollywood next summer as I was invited by a film festival to send it to them. If it is screened in Hollywood next summer, my husband and I will go there to attend it. Lumberton Lake will also be submitted to film festivals. If the movies don't get into film festivals, then I have DVD's made and sell them on Amazon.com. Two of my movies, The Man from Schenectady and Wonder Boy are for sale on Amazon now.

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