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as i was looking through the blizzard website i came across this. luckily they are fully supporting people who make machinima assuming they follow some conditions

a helping hand

i have found a useful weblog dedicated to helping people new to machinima

what is machninma?

machinima is the use of models and backgrounds taken from things like computer games which have files that someone half way skilled with a computer should be able to access in a fairly short period of time. it has quickly grown in popularity featuring in shows such as South park (the episode make love not warcraft) and there is even a show which uses soley machinima (xavier renegade angel).

in case i have not explained it aptly enough i have posted a link to several websites below


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machinima
http://www.machinima.org.uk/
http://www.machinima.com/

cash in hand

as is natural whenver new technology appears, one of the first things people do is find a way to make money off of it. popular meems and blogs are selling advertising space and making the owners of the sites a tidy profit.

a new way of doing things

as i have researched the making of machinima i have discovered an interesting fact about the making of all animation. in retrospect this is very obvious but it was a thought that simply had not occured to me as i have as of yet only had expirience in making standard live action films. this is the fact that all voice overs must be done before the creation of any actual images (due to having to have the charecters lip sync properly) and because of this editing and filming are efectivley the same thing.

example

machinima is a relatively new way of making amateur film and is more akin to old fashion special effects so i shall post an example of a short film made using a machinima program

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WX1qyk_-F0U

machinima

there have been some blows done to the production of the film in terms of practicality both towards fitting all the narrative needed into five minutes as well as methods of filming that i may be unable to do to the standard i wish. because of this i have decided to put the current film on indefinite hold and use the new technology of machinima to create a film that is more visualy interesting and narratively practical.

do describe my film in one sentence. "a man searching for his son". i plan to have voice actors in this so my schedule shall remain much unchanged save that i will not have to spend as much time looking for locations as it will simply be scrolling through files on a computer