Machinima

Machinimations.
The line between cinema and gaming becomes ever more blurred, but they meet head on in the ever growing phonemon of Machinima.

'Machinimators' create films using the 3d environments and components of computer games
A cheap way of making movies, gamers and film maker use tools from programmes like Second Life and World of Warcraft, and the recent film festival shows that's its gaining in popularity. It's also being used by big film companies to quickly and cheaply try out ideas before making the actual movie.

Here's the 1st of a series created from the game Medal of Honor: Airborne, and looks like a standard war movie (more or less)

more info at machinima.com


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