Machinima

As machinima referred to films that are produced with the help of game engines. This made-up word is composed of " machine" and "cinema". When you have installed the game engine, machinima can be played directly in this. To reach a wider audience ( eg avi mov, ) by means of the game engines a video file created and offered on the Internet for download, which by themselves on their youtube channel " Machinima " by the billions videos were viewed.

Development

The first machinima was made ​​possible by the LMPC program ( Little Movie Processing Centre ) of the Leipzig physicist and programmer Uwe Girlich. This was analyzed in 1996, the structure of the game engine Quake. LMPC allows a user to create a film-type scenario or change.

As the first machinima film is Diary of a Camper (1996 ) of the group The Rangers. This movie had not yet set to music, he only had subtitles. Devil's Covenant of Clan Phantasm is the first of several hours machinima film.

Among the best known Machinima counts Apartment Huntin ' (1999) by Ill Clan. This rather short comedy episode drew a series of successors by itself.

The previously common name Quake Movies for this sub-genre was amended in 1998 by Anthony Bailey in Machinema, a synthesis of " machine" and "cinema". Hugh Hancock of Strange Company changed the term due to a typographical error in an e -mail conversation again in machinima from. Subsequent is to have argued included the term " animation".

Characteristics

Machinimas be calculated in contrast to conventional 3D animation movies in real time. The film is in the form of digital information (textures, 3D models, animations, sound, etc.) and is calculated again and again. However, there is the option to save as a machinima video file and disseminate computer- independent.

Festivals

The yearly since 2002 Machinima Film Festival honors the best contributions respectively. They will be published in the episode on DVD. The Machinima Film Festival was held for the last time in 2008. Since 2008, its successor in the Machinima Expo ( MachinExpo ).

Special categories

A special type of Machinima are films in which the main action is carried exclusively by automobiles, airplanes, etc., as well as the backdrop. Characters are only introduced by the dialogue - the protagonists are thus the pilots of the respective vehicles. This Machinima Created mostly in flight simulators, racing games or similar software. Due to the impossibility processes in simulators to script as well, the finished film is produced mostly in a video editing program. A good example of a very humorous simulator Machinima is the movie Bensky & Mutch (dialogs are French, but there are subtitles files available ). Another example is an elaborately staged " flyer epic" called I Promise.

Another category of Machinima are films that are intended to illustrate the playful superiority of clans in multiplayer games to recruit new members for example. These contain mostly with lurid music -backed, fast -cut fight scenes as well as the names of the clan members. An example of such machinima films are mentioned that were created in MMPOG game PlanetSide.

The German post office uses the Machinima "When the Postman spits twice" as a promotional tool. Inworld Productions made ​​on the spot.

The South Park episode " Make Love, Not Warcraft" was created in 2006 mainly in Machinimatechnik. She won the 2007 Primetime Emmy Award from the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences and was broadcast internationally in a row on television.

The Movies

The Movies is a computer game developed by Lionhead Studios, which was released for the PC on 10 November 2005. It is distributed by Activision. Aim of the game is to build a movie studio and produce successful films, but most people use the game mainly to rotate machinima. Namely, there is a very highly detailed film editor: The player may choose from a large number of ready- scripted scenes, performers, costumes or scenery, and combine them as you wish. Since the selection here is not as big of course there are still mods, many sites have voluntarily downloads available for free to the game to expand. So much more is possible than in the original game.

Machinima festival

• Machinima Expo
• Bitfilm Festival
• Ma Machinima International Festival
• Machinima Awards