Machinma is an art-form that uses a video game platform to create and tell stories in a movie-like manner. In many ways it’s rather like puppetry, using the game characters as the puppets and the video game environment as the puppet theater. Some of the most popular machinima is produced by Rooster Teeth who produce the hysterical “red vs. blue” based in the halo universe. From the standpoint of video production Machinima provides a brilliant environment for inexpensive prototyping of visual narrative ideas, but it is also an art-form itself.
This is a wonderful example where a classic Monty Python Sketch has been reenacted in the video game Halo
Great example of the story telling power of the video game environment.
Other machinima:
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