Here’s the easiest way ever to make a personalised Christmas video - go to GreetingStorm Live on Facebook, pick one of eight template movies, put photos of you or your friends onto the characters, and send it to them!  (Or, if you feel cheeky, someone else’s face.)

If you’re a subscriber, you’ll now be able to hire content packs instead of buying them. When you put a pack in your shopping basket, you can choose to have it for a day or a month, instead of buying it outright.

1 day rental - 20 MSP ($0.20)
1 month rental - 200 MSP ($2.00)
Purchase - 2000 MSP ($20.00)
Purchase - $29.99

Stuck for a last-minute Christmas message?  Want something a little more personal than a cheap card?  No time and no money?

Parental Guidance - Contains Innuendo

Christmas Cuddle  
A cosy night in front of the fire makes it time for a romantic moment.  Personalise both male and female roles to send a loving seasonal greeting to your partner.

Express Your Elf 
She’s a sexy, sassy elf, and she loves to dance.  Personalise the female lead only, and send a sexy seasonal greeting to your partner.

Freezing Balls 
Cripes, it’s chilly outside. What you need about now is a caring friend with warm hands.  Personalise both male and female roles to send a saucy seasonal greeting to your partner. 

Parental Guidance - Contains Innuendo

Grooving in the Grotto 
It’s midnight at the North Pole, and Santa seems distracted by a bevy of dancing beauties.  Personalise all three female roles to send a saucy seasonal greeting to your partner.

Seeing Santa 
It can be cold at the North Pole, but at least Santa seems keen to warm things up!  Personalise both male and female roles to send a loving seasonal greeting to your partner.

As we round off 2009, we’re really going release-crazy. Here’s what’s new on offer today.

Moviestorm 1.2.0.1

Female Monster Heads

Photostorm Christmas

Moviestorm is going to put up 30,000 MS Points to go to three contest winners of a Base Pack Contest (and you don’t even have to be a subscriber to win or use the points). I’ll choose one winner, Moviestorm will choose another, and the last winner will be chosen by a community poll. It is possible that a really good movie will score its director all 30,000 points, or that three directors will walk away with 10,000 points each. Either way, that’s a lot of content! As Moviestorm said in the Christmas Contest announcement, 10,000 points is enough for at least 5 packs, but more if you buy smaller packs. So imagine what you can pick up if you walk away with all 30,000 points!

So - what can you NOT do?

-You cannot use ANY Moviestorm content packs, other than the Base pack that comes free.
-You cannot use ANY Photostorm content packs.
-You cannot use ANY 3rd party mods.
-You cannot use 3rd party special effects software (like After Effects) or plugins for your editor, like Sony Vegas, Premiere, Pinnacle, etc…

But you can…

-You CAN use a 3rd party editor for cutting Moviestorm footage together.
-You CAN use basic transitions and titling from you editor (the rule of thumb here is that it shouldn’t be anything that the free editor on your system - Windows Movie Maker or iMovie - can’t do).
-You CAN import video, music, pictures, sound effects, etc. into Moviestorm as long as it doesn’t involve modding (for example, you can play video on the TV on your set or import your own picture to paintings on the walls, but you can’t replace an asset’s texture files. It has to be done in engine).

So - how do you make sure you’re not using an asset from an addon content pack? Disabling content packs is simple. Here’s what you do:

1) Open Moviestorm.
2) Click on Settings (after you click start on the first splash screen, it’s one of three options, along with New Movie and Load Movie).
3) The Addons tab should be selected (if not, select it). On the bottom you’ll see a checkbox that says “select/deselect all.” Click that. This disables ALL content packs except Base and Core (Core is the pack containing core assets, like puppets skeletons, breathing animations and walls). Base and Core cannot be deselected. For this contest, they should be the ONLY asset packs selected.
4) Restart Moviestorm.

(when you’re done with your movie for this contest you can repeat this process and re-enable all your content packs, no problem )

Your movie can be any genre, any theme, any length. When you upload the movie to Moviestorm, be sure to include “basecontest” as a tag. This is how we will identify movies in the contest. If your movie doesn’t have this tag, it will not compete.

The contest will run from now until January 11, 2010, which gives you just over a month If anyone needs any further clarification on the rules, please ask here and I’ll answer

A good movie is all in the script, the acting and the direction - not just sets and costumes.  I’m betting that you CAN make a great movie using only the Base asset pack. Please prove me right!

Get Moviestorm free now!