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2005 Halo Machinima Award Winners

Posted by Zonk on from the what's-a-puma? dept.

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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  1. A question: by drsquare · · Score: 4, Informative

    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.

    1. Re:A question: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      The title and the summary seem to have nothing in common.

      You must be new here. Welcome to Slashdot!

    2. Re:A question: by FidelCatsro · · Score: 4, Informative

      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

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    3. Re:A question: by GoodOmens · · Score: 5, Informative

      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

  2. Not Quite by Altima(BoB) · · Score: 2, Informative

    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.

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  3. Dear lord, those sucked by Aqua+OS+X · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I know this may come across as flame bate, but damn, some of those were downright painful to watch.

    I don't really have a problem with Red Vs. Blue. Those guys can be fairly funny. But man, I found myself actually felling embarrassed for some of the directors (?) of those machinema flicks.

    They weren't good, and they weren't bad enough to be funny. They were just kind of, umm, "uncomfortable" bad.

    Now, for good machinema, watch Summoner Geeks

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    1. Re:Dear lord, those sucked by biryokumaru · · Score: 4, Informative

      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.

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    2. Re:Dear lord, those sucked by aarku · · Score: 4, Informative

      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.

  4. This is the potential of Machinima? by joetheappleguy · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Over a gig of videos on that site and the 3 random ones I watched were total shit - Lots of Blue vs Red wannabe clones and some boring footage of Halo matches.

    Anything in there with an actual story?

  5. Who Needs Oscars? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny
    With awards Ceremonies like this, who needs the Oscars?
    I dunno...real filmmakers?
    1. Re:Who Needs Oscars? by biryokumaru · · Score: 4, Funny

      No, he said "Oscars," not "Sundance Film Festival." I can see how you might get the two confused. One has scantily clad women and colorful blinking lights, and the other has films.

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  6. Bloodspell by Pyromage · · Score: 4, Informative
    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.

  7. Simply put: by a.different.perspect · · Score: 4, Informative

    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.

  8. Watch this one by athmanb · · Score: 2, Informative

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

    Not epic but well choreographed and funny.

  9. 2005 Machinima Film Festival by Moe+Napoli · · Score: 3, Informative

    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.

  10. Machinima's a great new art form... by Myself · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I wish I could go attend this! I hope they produce a DVD "best-of" release or something. Because downloading and installing and tweaking all the drivers to render it locally would be a pain in the ass.

    Anyway, folks who're into novel uses of existing technology should take a look at Notacon, a yearly tech gathering in Ohio. You know you want to enter the Anything But Ethernet contest!

    If there's interest from the Machinima community, I'm sure some projector time could be arranged. If some experienced animators would like to submit a presentation, the Call For Proposals is open! I'd love to see a public screening of a few films, and maybe an intro-and-how-to.