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Quake-Based 'Anna' Machinima Publically Released

Posted by simoniker on from the pretty-real-time-pictures dept.

TheNomad writes "Made in Fountainhead Entertainment's Quake III-based tool, Machinimation, 'Anna' is a real-time generated machinima showing the story of a single flower's life, from birth to - well, I won't spoil it for you. There's a showcase of the film over at Machinima.com, and they also have a download page, as well as a FilePlanet mirror." We've recently run an interview with Katherine Anna Kang, Fountainhead boss and ex-id software employee, and also discussed the 2003 Machinima Film Festival Awards, in which 'Anna' won several awards.

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  1. It's here by fexk · · Score: 5, Informative

    www.fileplanet.com/files/130000/137468.shtml

  2. Re:Viewing without Quake, without PC? by ILL+Clinton · · Score: 3, Informative
    Most Machinima movies are released in video format. Not many Machinima makers do their editing in-game anymore.

    Open source sig, feel free to modify and redistribute.

  3. new download link by johnopolis · · Score: 2, Informative

    A new download link has just been added for those that cannot get through the Machinima connection and don't want to register with file planet. http://students.washington.edu/jvenable/Anna.wmv -enjoy

    1. Re:new download link by notsoclever · · Score: 3, Informative

      And to avoid pissing off your admins, try: http://freecache.org/http://students.washington.ed u/jvenable/Anna.wmv

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      There are 10 kinds of people: ones who understand ternary, ones who don't, and ones who think this joke is about binary
  4. Re:wmv9 by Hettch · · Score: 2, Informative

    Did you try xine with all win32 codecs? WMV's generally work for me there. And build it yourself instead of getting a binary package, that may help as well.