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2007 In Machinima
The following is a list of notable machinima-related events in 2007. Events *January 31 – Phil Rice's work ''Male Restroom Etiquette'', made with the Electronic Arts games ''The Sims 2'' and ''SimCity 4'', was showcased in Animation World Network's Best of the Web 2007.DeMott and Chan. *February 24 – February 25 – The Australian Centre for the Moving Image hosted a machinima film festival, presented by the Academy of Machinima Arts & Sciences.Machinima Film Festival. *October 12 – October 14 – The first Machinima Festival Europe was held in Leicester. *October 24 – ILL Clan as part of the Electric Sheep Company produced 20 minutes of machinima shown during an episode of ''CSI: NY'' entitled "Down the Rabbit Hole", made within the virtual world of ''Second Life''. Notable releases *February 9 – ''The Heretic (video game), The Heretic'' premiered.Episode 1: Seeds of Doubt. *May 18 – ''The Heretic'' ended with episode 7.Episode 7:Children of the Ark. *May 19 – The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Machinima
Machinima, originally machinema () is the use of real-time computer graphics engines to create a cinematic production. Most often, video games are used to generate the computer animation. The word "machinima" is a portmanteau of the words ''machine'' and ''cinema''. Machinima-based artists, sometimes called machinimists or machinimators, are often fan laborers, by virtue of their re-use of copyrighted materials (see below). Machinima offers to provide an archive of gaming performance and access to the look and feel of software and hardware that may already have become obsolete or even unavailable. For game studies, "Machinima's gestures grant access to gaming's historical conditions of possibility and how machinima offers links to a comparative horizon that informs, changes, and fully participates in videogame culture." The practice of using graphics engines from video games arose from the animated software introductions of the 1980s demoscene, Disney Interactive Studios' 199 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
