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Best Tools for Machinima?

Posted by Cliff on from the motion-pictures-on-PCs dept.

wrinkledshirt asks: "As a former Creative Writing major with a huge interest in film, I've been thinking about trying to get into Machinima (com, org, and wiki sites -- basically, using game engines to make movies). Probably the most famous use of it for the Slashdot crowd right now is Red vs Blue, which makes use of Halo, but up until recently, most of the other options have involved FPS game engines, which would require a huge investment in time so as to create non-FPS-genre content for non-FPS-genre movies. Now that Sims 2 is here with its video-recording feature (and the promise of more contemporary realism in the expansion packs) and with Pete Molnyeux's The Movies coming out in 2005, is it possible that an amateur writer could make the Machinimatic movies of his or her dreams? Plus, what would the best tools be? What machine would you need? Would any single game engine help you create your own Citizen Kane?"

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  1. Re:Film & Vids by bairy · · Score: 2, Funny

    you bastard I thought I had the first 'long-ass reply' post :P

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    Get paid to search..It's geniune and
  2. Oh, god. by eeg3 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Now that Sims 2 is here with its video-recording feature (and the promise of more contemporary realism in the expansion packs)

    As if the millions of "cartoonists" taking screen shots of video games and adding moronic thought bubbles wasn't enough of a waste of bandwidth... Now we get to have millions of retards creating movies. *sigh*

    Atleast out of the 1,030,205 dopes, we'll probably get a few, clever gems.

    1. Re:Oh, god. by 88NoSoup4U88 · · Score: 2, Funny

      Wow, sounds like Hollywood to me :)

  3. I started using the Doom 3 engine... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...but everyone who saw my movie said "Hey! You forgot to remove the lens cap!"

  4. Re:Voices? by kfg · · Score: 5, Funny

    is there even anything out there that can do voice simulation?

    People.

    KFG

  5. Re:Voices? by kfg · · Score: 5, Funny

    Your not an actor are you? ;)

    No, but I play one on TV.

    KFG

  6. The Nethack Engine? by Xtifr · · Score: 4, Funny

    I really want to see the movie about the intrepid '@' and his adventures in a world of dangerous 'D's, obnoxious 'o's and ravening 'r's. The scene where he's backed into a dead-end '#' by a swarm of killer 'b's, with nothing but a ')' to defend himself, and then his faithful 'f' saves the day, should have audiences laughing and cheering.

    Heck, there's no way it could possibly be worse than Dungeons & Dragons: the Movie! :)