Machinima Invade Hollywood's Turf?

Posted by simoniker on Wednesday July 9, 2003 @06:03PM from the avatar-trailer-demands-getting-extreme dept.

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.

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Re:Movies of Games by jkrise · 2003-07-09 18:59 · Score: -1, Offtopic

" Is this just one step closer to a merging of the entertainments?"

No. The real step will come when Linux runs on the XBoz without any modchips, and MS sells them for $50. Then, entertainments would merge, for sure.

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Oh crap! by LoztInSpace · 2003-07-09 19:14 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Will Wright is talking about putting movie-making tools in the next version of The Sims
So now we have "Big Brother the Movie". I've had enough of that BB type of crap as it is.