Machinima

Hello! It's been a while since I last posted, but I was working on a machinima. You may ask, what the hell is a machinima! Machinima are videos captured in a game and by editing these videos and put them together, it tell a story.
Unlike conventional way to capture a video, with machinima, you don't need to spend thousands to buy cameras, hire stars. Everything can be done with your computer and some programs.

"Machinima (pronounced /məˈʃiːnəmə/ or /məˈʃɪnəmə/), a portmanteau of machine cinema,^[1] is a collection of associated production techniques whereby computer-generated imagery (CGI) is rendered using real-time, interactive 3-D engines, such as those of games, instead of professional 3D animation software." - Wikipedia.
Almost any games can be used to create a machinima, there are some that are better suit for it and those that have all the sets, characters that suit your story perfectly. You don't want to tell your space story with a medieval game, since space heroes need space suits and vessels right?!

I have been searching for good game(engines) to create machinima and I have found some. Below is a list of games that I'm using:
- The Movies from Lionhead studio
This game is a simulator that let you be a manager of a movie studio. It is very flexible and there is a good modding community that has tons of contents that you can download and use.



- The Sims2 from Electronic Arts
This game is life simulator that let you manage a family. Again, very flexible, a lot of built in contents with tons of mods and objects to download. Very good with facial expressions.


There are also more popular games like WorldOfWarcraft, SecondLife, Halo, etc that can be used to make machinima, you can find a lot of them on youtube.
If you want to have more informations about machinima, you can go to Machinima.com to get started and ask don't forget to check the forum, because there you can get info for all the popular game.
Making machinima is not only capturing video from game however, you will also need to edit it with a video editing program, search for music that match the mood of the machinima you want to create. It's a lot of thing to learn and do, but the reward to have a short film, made by yourself and tell the story that you want it to, is wonderful. In the next blog, I will talk about the video editing program that I use.
Thank you for your time, cya all later!