There are dozens of other great examples of Machinima movies from the medium's rich history, too. Of all the films here, this is the one that pays least homage to other filmic media. It's a rather Lynchian surrealist movie that plays down Second Life's limitations in terms of animation, and plays up the range and sheer bizarre possibilities of virtual-world filmmaking. The Dumb Man is a excellent example of what can be done with SL's remarkable creative canvas. The virtual world Second Life plays host to some of the most unique Machinima work around. It cleverly combines limited hand-drawn animation with stylised in-game figures from World of Warcraft to tell a beautiful, simple love story.īecause Machinima made using World of Warcraft mostly uses the "WoW Model Viewer", a tool which only allows recording of a single character at a time to a video file, most WoW Machinima uses clever video compositing and layering techniques to tell its stories, and thus ends up with a surprisingly cel animation-like feel. Much of the most successful drama made using Machinima techniques is wordless, and this one's a prime example of the genre. Unlike other videos on this list it doesn't use any conventional animation, just cleverly-utilised in-game animation. It's made using a combination of video editing and in-game Machinima techniques using The Sims 2. One of the most famous and most accomplished pieces of pure game-based animation, this is a lot less purile and a whole lot funnier than you might initially expect - stick with it. ![]() This is also the most recent video I'm linking here, having been posted about 9 months ago. ![]() It's an excellent example of the quality it's possible to reach using Machinima techniques combined with conventional keyframed animation (a theme we'll be returning to a couple of times in this roundup). Futurama fans will recognise the soundtrack behind this one, which was made in Source Filmmaker, Valve Software's filmmaking tool which uses the characters and sets from the game Team Fortress 2.
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