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Machinima Invade Hollywood's Turf?
Thanks to Wired News for posting an article discussing the rise of machinima, which are "animated movies.. utilizing the [real-time] 3-D graphics engines of games like Quake or Unreal." The article cites prominent machinima such as Jake Hughes' Anachronox: The Movie and the machinima-created music video for Zero 7's 'In The Waiting Line', and according to Bill Rehbock of Nvidia, "..machinima methods, in addition to providing a hobby for aspiring filmmakers, are starting to be used in the creative industries far more than is apparent. For example, George Lucas' Industrial Light and Magic is using the Unreal engine to storyboard Star Wars movies." There's also a significant cash prize for machinima makers as part of Epic's Make Something Unreal competition we mentioned a few weeks back.
Since they went to all the trouble of making the virtual sets, they might as well let us kill stuff in them.
The only hope I have for techniques like this one is a further lowering of the barrier to making movies. As the hobbiest tools get more powerful, we can possibly take a step back from the relentless "hit" machine and let some truly creative ideas into the mix.
Of course, it's really just likely we'll have a whole new breed of porn.
As far as game movies and movies games? 98% garbage.
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they might as well let us kill stuff in them.
Lucas probably didn't want to admit that he knows that everyone that watches to movie wants to go and shoot Jar-Jar.
Finally my home movies will get noticed! Then I'll be the one laughing because I'll be famous... FAMOUS I say...
I give up, some one get me when Elvis returns...
Well this certainly makes the movie to video game adaptation easier.
Machinima
Language: Other
Dale a tu cuerpo alegria Machinima
Que tu cuerpo es pa' darle alegria y cosa buena
Dale a tu cuerpo alegria, Machinima
Hey Machinima!
Dale a tu cuerpo alegria Machinima
Que tu cuerpo es pa' darle alegria y cosa buena
Dale a tu cuerpo alegria, Machinima
Hey Machinima!
Machinima tiene un novio que se llama
Que se llama de apellido Vitorino,
Que en la jura de bandera el muchacho
Se metio con dos amigos
Machinima tiene un novio que se llama
Que se llama de apellido Vitorino,
Y en la jura de bandera el muchacho
Se metio con dos amigos
Dale a tu cuerpo alegria Machinima
Que tu cuerpo es pa' darle alegria y cosa buena
Dale a tu cuerpo alegria, Machinima
Hey Machinima!
Dale a tu cuerpo alegria Machinima
Que tu cuerpo es pa' darle alegria y cosa buena
Dale a tu cuerpo alegria, Machinima
Hey Machinima!!!
MPAA Goon #1: "Those wacky kids on the interweb are undercutting our business again!"
MPAA Goon #2: "Are they finding a new way to pirate our movies?"
MPAA Goon #1: "Worse, they're expressing unauthorized levels of creativity and trying alternatives to film."
MPAA Goon #2: "Those heartless bastards. Don't they know this could result in 20... maybe even 30 dollars in lost profits?"
MPAA Goon #1: "Better get the lawyers."
It's not stupid. It's advanced.
Oh yeah.. that would be sweet... give me a flak cannon and let me run wild through the Gungan army scene :)
It's not enough to bash in heads, you've got to bash in minds. - Captain Hammer
The Quality is a shame. Whoever encodet that crime against my eyes should be sentenced stop using videotools for live.
The Videoterrorist used MPeg-Video-Level1 to encode 640x480 at a rate of 130kByte/s - including audio!
For Heavens Sake, even using most uptodate codecs like MS-Video9 or H.264 its not possible to achieve anything watchable with that specs.
The Encodingclone used INTERLACED material, but the codecs obviously wasn't aware of that... which makes the video incredible fuzzy. A five year old knows that this sucks.
That Eyeball-Necromant even left a LARGE black border around the video - which is also VERY BAD for quality. While the black compresses very well the border to the real video is the problem, MPeg-Video-Level1 wastes incredible amounts of data on those.
This Eyeball-Knife also is totally darkened, nearly not watchable at all. Even raising the Gamma and Brightness with FFMPEG sucks as there is nearly no contrast left after all those encoding failtures.
My personal oppinion: The Ideas are smart, the realisation is ok too, but that ridiciulus encoding makes it impossible to watch. Stay away, don't waste bandwidth.
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You should really watch the "making of" stuff that comes with the LotR DVD set. Those landscapes are real, and I was very surprised at how much of the "CGI" stuff was actually just old-school camera tricks (miniatures and perspective optical illusions). Some of the landscapes are composited, and there are some CG monsters, but there are also quite a lot of cases where they're just super short people in hobbit make-up, or 2D composites of 30' tall miniature sets.
BTW, any filmmaker knows that audiences would rather see a bunch of dialogue than battles. Riiight.
I can see the Hollywood Machine quacking in it's boots over this one
Am I the only one who didn't get a mental image of ducks in galoshes trembling with fear? I hate to pick on typos (I make enough of them myself), but that one was priceless.
Thanks for cheering up my morning!
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