shooting film - Cameras record the action going on.
in a realtime 3d – the time needed for the computer to transform the abstract data into a 3-dimensional visible representation is so little that you do not notice it. The whole calculation takes less than 1/10th of a second. Thus the term “realtime”.
virtual environment – the actors aren’t human, but virtual Avatars or Objects, controlled by user input or scripting and act in a virtual world that is simulated using a computer game.
Machinima (pronounced [mə.ˈʃiː.nə.mə] or [mə.ˈʃɪ.nə.mə]), a portmanteau of machine cinema or machine animation, is both a collection of associated production techniques and a film genre defined by those techniques.
Actually, it was a typo thing that led to the integration of the term animation. Originally the word “machinima” was just machine and cinema. But somehow it’s fashionable and nice to have animation in there, right? Read the rest of this entry »
