Fountainhead Boss On Machinima Perils

Posted by simoniker on Sunday November 16, 2003 @04:31PM from the real-time-shenanigans dept.

Thanks to Machinima.com for their interview with Fountainhead Entertainment boss Katherine Anna Kang, in which the ex-id software biz person discusses their "independent production company that specializes in documentaries and animation... our specialty is Machinima" - that is, "filmmaking within a real-time, 3D virtual environment", often involving videogame engines. Kang laments: "I'm sad that Machinima isn't as popular as I thought it would be by today... the one thing that worries me is that Machinima will be seen as a hobby and not taken seriously, and that very much annoys me." She also mentions: "We may open-source an academic version of [in-house movie tool] Machinimation in the very near future."

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Re:Video Game animation by Anonymous Coward · 2003-11-16 17:32 · Score: 0, Flamebait

An "academic version" implies limitations on use. While it may or may not be "open source", it certainly isn't Free Software. If you believe in Freedom, pray for this company to go under.