Machinima or Machine Cinema is the use of realtime 3D engines, in the case of this post, computer games. Machinima has become increasingly popular as computer game graphics have evolved and is extremely popular in fisrt person games. These Machinima films are created through use of either screen capture filming programs or even through inbuilt video capture abilities within the games itself eg Halo3, World of Warcraft (Usually only on Macs, damn them to heck), Quake and various other games.
A few of the more popular Machinima series are Red Vs Blue which is made using the Halo series of Games and Oxhorns World of Warcraft films. Both of these series are comedy machinima and mostly satirically based around events and features within those games. There have also been a few feature length Machinima include a Star Trek themed movie created using the games Star Trek: Elite Force 2 and Starfleet Command 3.
With more games including the ability to capture video footage it is likely that these Machinima will become increasingly popular to watch and even to create.
Here is an example of Machinima made by Oxhorn using World of Warcraft footage. Enjoy!
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