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On-line Documentary on Machinima

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the bizarre-new-generation-of-movie-making dept.

Hugh "Nomad" Hancock writes "Over at Machinima.com we've released "Artery: Machinima", a 22-minute broadcast TV program on the Machinima movement- film-making in real-time 3D. Originally broadcast on Scottish TV station STV, this documentary includes interviews with Uwe Girlich, the guy who got the whole thing started, sci-fi writer Charlie Stross, who is working with the Machinima group Strange Company, award-winning film director Peter Rasmussen, and Machinima makers including the Ill Clan (Hardly Workin'), Strange Company (Eschaton) and Nanoflix. Plus, lots of swords!" There's also a BitTorrent link to the documentary, courtesy GameTab.

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  1. Squeezing the sausage by jpellino · · Score: 2, Funny

    "...traditional CGI (Computer Ganerated Imagery) techniques... productions can be dsitributed over the internet..."

    Sadly, due to the mind-blowing resources needed to do this, we had to leave something out of our PCs. We 86'd the spel-chekur.

    --
    "Win treats sysadmins better than users. Mac treats users better than sysadmins. Linux treats everyone like sysadmins."
  2. QMT by DarkVein · · Score: 5, Funny

    As an early Quake movie maker, I have to say, I really hate the word "Machinema". I mean, I really hate that word. It's such a lame word, I won't touch game-engine movies because my work would be classified as "Machinema".

    To put it another way, would Steven Speilburg make movies if they were called dingleberries? He can get a Grammy for Best Drama Dingleberry. He'll be featured in documentaries called Dingleberry Magic.

    I really hate that word.

    --

    I'm as mimsy as the next borogove but your mome raths are completely outgrabe.

    1. Re:QMT by realdpk · · Score: 2, Funny

      How do you feel about the word Machinima?

  3. A Major New Art Form by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    It's the equivallent of rendering Star Wars in ASCII. It's time consuming. It looks like crap. And for a brief second, it's geeky cool. But the question is still: why bother?

  4. Re:Bit torrent by timeOday · · Score: 2, Funny

    But hey, what is this!?

    saving: artery-machinima.zip (150.5 MB)
    percent done: 2.0
    time left: 12 hour 15 min 20 sec
    download to: /home/joebob/artery-machinima.zip
    download rate: 6 kB/s
    upload rate: 20 kB/s

    I'm giving more than I'm getting! Has the entire world gone mad?

  5. Re:Plus, lots of swords by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Yeah, cool. And Charlie Stross could be rendered as a giant bipedal lizard with a beard and long hair.