2005 Halo Machinima Award Winners

ThatWeasel writes "It was announced on /. almost two months ago and now, finally, the 3rd Annual 'Rockets on Prisoner' Awards have announced this year's Winners. Several video segments have been produced documenting the Nominees and Winners, along with the acceptance speeches from the lucky few who will be receiving golden Master Chief statues for their excellent work in Machinima. With awards Ceremonies like this, who needs the Oscars?"

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A question:

[drsquare]

What is this actually about? It isn't explained either in the summary nor in the article. The title and the summary seem to have nothing in common.

Re:A question:

[FidelCatsro]

From the Article

"Welcome: to the Official Website for the 2005 "Rockets on Prisoner" Awards. These awards are given to the best Halo Machinima videos created by the Fans of Halo and Halo 2 on the Xbox and PC"

Machinima is the type of videos , Rockets on prisoner is the name of the awards , Halo is apparently the game

Re:A question:

[GoodOmens]

As per Wikipedia: As a production technique, the term concerns the rendering of computer-generated imagery (CGI) using low-end 3D engines (as opposed to high-end and complex 3D engines used by professionals) in video games (typically, engines in first person shooters games have been used). Consequently, the rendering can be done in real-time using PCs (either using the computer of the creator or the viewer), rather than with complex 3D engines using huge render farms. *More can be found here

Not Quite

[Altima(BoB)]

While they seem to be the big dogs in the genre and have garnered a lot of mainstream attention, looks like they only won a couple of awards. (One of them being a "Best Series" award so I guess it's a pretty prominant one. It looks like some series called The Codex was a bigger winner here, with its 20th episode and 18th episode raking in a lot of awards.

Bloodspell

[Pyromage]

The RvB guys do some good work, especially considering the tools at their disposal, and have fairly good writing for many of their episodes.

However, I'd like to plug the guys doing a new machinima: Bloodspell. That group has done a number of machinima shorts and features over the years and has constantly been pushing the envelope with machinima. The quality they get out of engines never designed for this is amazing.

Re:Dear lord, those sucked

[biryokumaru]

I believe their script is taken from a classic fake D&D session transcript... I believe remember reading it on a message board a few years back.

Otherwise, the characters' acting is very well done, and the voice acting is marvelous.

Simply put:

[a.different.perspect]

Machinima is a genre of cinema made with video games. In the case of productions like Red vs Blue, this involves taking video feeds from a game (like Halo in multiplayer) in which "actors" control characters as per a script and subsequently, on a computer, editing the footage and adding an audio layer for dialogue; in other instances, it can mean scripting a game engine (like Half-Life 2's Source). What it always means is, as I said, films from games.
 
Some history here.

Re:Dear lord, those sucked

[aarku]

The voice actors and producers of the original audio recording are the Dead Alewives, a Milwaukee Wisconsin-based sketch comedy troupe. I'd link to their site, but it does not appear to exist anymore.

Watch this one

[athmanb]

http://files.filefront.com/mine/;4157978;;/fileinf o.html

Not epic but well choreographed and funny.

2005 Machinima Film Festival

[Moe Napoli]

A larger appeal (and real-life) Machinima festival takes place next month in New York. They have their own awards too (the Mackies?).

Not Halo-specific, and hopefully, with a much better offering of works.