Machinima?

Hi all,

Does anyone know how to get started with Machinima?
What kind of basic tools should we download to play with it?

Thanks in advance.
Sammy
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Every game has it's own unique tools.

You could just buy a copy of the Movies, which is a
dedicated machinima creation kit.

What is Machinima?

The Movies's Machinima is said to be easy to use. How does it compare with creating animation in truespace or 3ds max?

Thanks in advance.
Sammy
:)

Flameduck: it is the medium in which people record events
within game environments and edit the footage into movies. Like This hilarious little ditty

Sammy: I haven't tried it myself, so I can only speculate. But
I can tell you that 3DSMax and The Movies are worlds apart
and can't really be compared easily.
For example in Max, you model your character from scratch
and then adjust every keyframe for every limb for every pose
he has.
And in that game you choose an avatar, dress him up
how you want and give him a series of pre-animated
motions to go through. As far as I know, you can adjust
certain attributes to the character's actions, like "Do that
faster", "Be angrier" or "Don't punch so hard", etc.

Visit the link I provided to get an idea of what I'm talking about.

Thanks a lot.

Sammy
:)

There are a lot of games that don't require much... older games can be done with video capture software...

The way the guys at redvblue do it is by outputing the video to a recording device, like a camcorder. Then they edit what they got.

Machinima is just using a game engine to create your movie.... so there are people who break out the level editor and change the characters... On a certain level, the cutscenes in games can be considered machinima...

I like to think of it in it's pure form... where you have people who load up... say Halo... and act out their roles live in the game, as actors.

Red Vs Blue is a prime example. Check it out if you have not yet.

Yeah red vs Blue is very well done. Like watching a funny
television show. In fact, I'm gonna go download some right
now. Who's with me?

That's great! Made my day that otherwise be ruined! Thanks! ;-)

Agree. It's rare I can watch something 5 times in a row and laugh harder and harder. That's really a piece of art. I'm gonna watch it again right now. Then I'll rub my @#! and double click...

... for Porn! Porn! PORN!!!

Hehe, yeah I admit I watched it 3 times already.

I wonder where they got the instrument track for that.
It sounds very high-budget.

Any self respecting muso has a decent bunch of chopped up orchestral samples ;]

I'm still shocked that Flamey didn't know something.

Red vs Blue is great, I've been watching it since the first season. I just watched the latest episode today in fact. The ending was especially funny. :-)