A brief introduction
What is Machinima and why are companies so interested in using it?
Machinima are animation movie filmed using real time, interactive 3D environments. The first machinima were mainly made for fun and were often in the genre of comedy. However, recently, many companies started to discover commercial machinima. They found that it's much better to tell a story, cheaper and faster than a real movie or traditional animation, and that machinima can easily be integrated with real life video.
Most early machinima that was not filmed for companies were filmed on shooting games, RPG games, sports games and in general games that could not be used by the companies.
Second Life changed that. Users could create anything they wanted in this virtual world. This was ideal for machinima. There are very few dedicated commercial machinima specialists who operate in Second Life, Susi Spicoli (with Susi-Machinima) being one of the early ones.
Machinima are animation movie filmed using real time, interactive 3D environments. The first machinima were mainly made for fun and were often in the genre of comedy. However, recently, many companies started to discover commercial machinima. They found that it's much better to tell a story, cheaper and faster than a real movie or traditional animation, and that machinima can easily be integrated with real life video.
Most early machinima that was not filmed for companies were filmed on shooting games, RPG games, sports games and in general games that could not be used by the companies.
Second Life changed that. Users could create anything they wanted in this virtual world. This was ideal for machinima. There are very few dedicated commercial machinima specialists who operate in Second Life, Susi Spicoli (with Susi-Machinima) being one of the early ones.