Machinima Machinima Artistic computer game modification involves the use of a computer game for the creation of a digital artwork. Also referred to as art modding, and game modding. Art mods are not quite the same as art games, although they do share some similarities. ...more on Wikipedia about "Artistic computer game modification"
Concerned: The Half-Life and Death of Gordon Frohman is a webcomic by Christopher C. Livingston, parodying the popular first-person shooter computer game Half-Life 2. The comic is constructed from game screenshots, with characters posed using Garry's Mod. There are three new issues every week (Monday, Wednesday, and Friday). ...more on Wikipedia about "Concerned"
Fire Team Charlie, a Machinima Production Company, hosted at www.xboxottawa.ca ...more on Wikipedia about "Fire Team Charlie"
The ILL Clan is a Machinima production team, based in Brooklyn, New York City. The clan has produced a number of machinima shorts, as well as several live performances at film festivals, often interacting with the audience. Their work often makes heavy use of improvised dialogue. The team has featured in numerous articles in in various media (mainly print) ** . Perhaps their best known works are the films featuring their characters Lenny and Larry Lumberjack. More recently they have been commissioned to do short works for cable television channels, such as MTV2 and SpikeTV. Their latest production is a series called Trash Talk with ILL Will . ...more on Wikipedia about "ILL Clan"
This is a list of notable web series made with machinima techniques. These are not stand alone movies, but series that are or were updated on a regular basis. The list is categorized by the game or games used to make the series. ...more on Wikipedia about "List of machinima series"
Machinima (a portmanteau word for machine cinema or machine animation) is both a collection of associated production techniques and a film genre (film created by such production techniques). ...more on Wikipedia about "Machinima"
Neverending Nights is a web series machinima created by Adam Freese and Tawmis Logue using the computer game Neverwinter Nights. It tells the tale of Grayson (a fighter) and Peter (a ranger) in their quest to get rich and become famous, in order to live like kings... though, they're really out to acquire as much money as they can... for beer. ...more on Wikipedia about "Neverending Nights"
Over the Counter-Strike is a comedy machinima series filmed using the video game Counter-Strike: Source. The machinima premiered in late 2004 with a small teaser trailer made available on the Red vs Blue site forums. It received mixed reviews, some citing it as an obvious copy of Red vs Blue, others praising it for its rare production quality that was rarely found in non- Rooster Teeth machinimas. As of December 2005, the series' website was no longer available due to the domain expiring. The series has a small cult following to this day, although the creators have denied that there is any chance of bringing the series back, citing a fall-out between some of the actors. On Sunday, January 15, 2005, it was announced by one of the Big Push site administrators and OTCS voice actors, Jameson Holman, that the creators of the company and machinima series had decided to re-open the website and accompanying forums. ...more on Wikipedia about "Over the Counter-Strike"
PANICS, also known as, P.A.N.I.C.S. (short for PEOPLE ACTING NORMAL IN CRAZY-ASS SITUATIONS) is a machinima mini-series made by Rooster Teeth Productions. Like all of Rooster Teeth's series, it is created through the use of machinima, in which the filmmaker uses game engines to "film" their actors. Having used Halo, Halo 2, Marathon 1 and 2 (all for Red vs Blue) and The Sims 2 (for The Strangerhood) the studio used the new videogame F.E.A.R.. The mini-series is a "five parter" which released four episodes online on the Rooster Teeth website, and one (Episode 0, a prequel) with the F.E.A.R. Director's Edition. ...more on Wikipedia about "PANICS"
Red vs Blue: The Blood Gulch Chronicles, also known as RvB, is a machinima science fiction comedy series created by Rooster Teeth Productions, and is primarily produced using Bungie Studios' first-person shooter (FPS) video games Halo: Combat Evolved and Halo 2. Chronicling the story of two opposing teams of soldiers fighting a civil war in the middle of a desolate box canyon, the series is an absurdist parody of FPS games, military life, and other science fiction movies. Begun in 2003 and currently in its fourth season, Red vs Blue has won four awards from the Academy of Machinima Arts and Sciences. The series is generally praised for its originality, and has been credited with bringing new popularity to machinima, helping it to gain more mainstream exposure, and attracting more people to the art form. Lincoln Center's film society director of communications Graham Leggat has called the series "truly as sophisticated as Samuel Beckett". ** ...more on Wikipedia about "Red vs Blue"
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Rooster Teeth Productions is a production group from Buda, Texas, near Austin, Texas, that specializes in machinima movies. So far, they have created Red vs Blue: The Blood Gulch Chronicles, The Strangerhood, and, more recently, the mini-series PANICS. The Rooster Teeth team originally operated a website called "Drunkgamers.com", where gameplay videos featuring voice-overs would set the way for their future work. They became known for a one-minute spoof of an Apple Macintosh campaign advertisement in 2002, a video that they later used to attract people to the launch of Red vs Blue when Computer Gaming World put the video on an included DVD. ...more on Wikipedia about "Rooster Teeth Productions"
Sponsors vs Freeloaders, also called SvF, is a fan-created video series by people who donated money to the web series Red vs Blue. ...more on Wikipedia about "Sponsors vs Freeloaders"
The Codex, also known as The Codex Series is a 20 episode online machinima series, set in the Halo video game universe following the story of a Covenant invasion of a Human world in order to recover a Forerunner artifact, and the story of the Humans resisting that invasion. Since its release on February 9 2005, The Codex has earned a large international fan base. In his September 29, 2005 Long Tail blog entry, Chris Anderson, Editor-in-Chief of Wired magazine described The Codex as the best machinima he had ever seen and an excellent example of his Long Tail theory. The Codex is the highest trafficked peer produced Halo machinima series in existence, ranking second only to the professionally produced Halo machinima powerhouse Red vs Blue. ...more on Wikipedia about "The Codex" You've Got Questions. We've Got shortopedia.
The Strangerhood is a machinima video web comic series made by Rooster Teeth Productions. The animation is made using the computer game The Sims 2 and is a parody of sitcoms and reality television. The series, the name of which is a combination of Stranger and Neighbourhood, details the lives of eight "assorted stereotypes" who wake up living in a neighbourhood called Strangerhood Lane, with no memory of who they are, where they are, or how they got there. The episodes are on average about five minutes long. ...more on Wikipedia about "The Strangerhood"
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