Paul Marino (born March 10, 1980) is a film

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, producer, animator,

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, and author currently focused on machinima, the art of using

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s from video games to create films. He is a co-founder and the executive director of the Academy of Machinima Arts & Sciences (AMAS), a non-profit organization formed in 2002 to promote and organize the growth of machinima. Marino also co-founded the ILL Clan, a machinima production group, and, working under the pseudonym ILL Robinson, helped to create a number of the group's machinima pieces. In particular, he directed '' Hardly Workin''', an August 2000 comedy video that won a Best in SHO award in Showtime's alt.SHO.com Alternative Media Festival, held on February 8, 2001, and an award for Best Acting at the AMAS's 2002 Machinima Film Festival. Independently of the ILL Clan, Marino has worked on other machinima projects. Using

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'', he created ''I'm Still Seeing Breen'', a 2005 music video set to

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's song " So Cold". The video aired on MTV2's television program '' Video Mods''. He has worked with Rooster Teeth Productions on their '' Sims 2'' machinima series, ''

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'', as both a voice actor and a

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designer. Rooster Teeth Productions (2006). '' The Strangerhood Season One'' (DVD).

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: Rooster Teeth Productions. Working with Rooster Teeth, he also helped to develop ''

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'', a short spin-off series commissioned in 2005 by the

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. ''Strangerhood Studios'' was the first machinima series to be commissioned for broadcast, and won an award for Best Editing at the 2005 Machinima Film Festival. Marino has since been hired by

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to work in the

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s for games such as ''

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'' and '' Star Wars: The Old Republic''. Marino has also written the first book about machinima, ''3D Game-Based Filmmaking: The Art of Machinima''. Prior to his work in machinima, Marino was an animator who won an Emmy Award for his work with

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Machinima filmography

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