Fountainhead Boss On Machinima Perils

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

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That's not really Machinima, that's mostly cartoons/video editing done a computer. What she's referring to is videos made entirely within a pre-existing 3d environment like a video game engine. The acting is similar to traditional movies in that there are takes and people can mess it up, it's not being meticulously animated.

hence: Red vs. Blue