INTRODUCTION

Machinima - Machine Generated Cinema. An artform and industry combined.

Machinima produces movies which are made with computer game engine technology and cost little to make. Thus offering the possibility for anyone with a computer to produce their own movies. The advantages over Film Recorded movie making are enourmous because you can get rid of the production crew and all their equipment, you can also dispense with the producer, the director, the editor and even the actors. And, unlike conventional Computer Generated Animation, these movies can be made in real time rather than painstakingly animating frame by frame. Once made they are easily distributed over the internet by splitting them them into their component parts and "rendered" in real-time on a viewer's computer. This allows them to be reproduced exactly as the creator envisioned.

With animated photo real imagery of the human form just around the corner the possibilities are endless.