Machinima definitions and example sentences on Wordnik

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There's a popular trend that's taken off in the last couple of years called machinima, which is about using games or low-cost 3D software to create short 3D films on ordinary home computers (it's a combination of 'machine' and 'animate').

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Global Kids, for example, used machinima -- a practice by which game engines are deployed to create real time digital animation -- to document the story of a child soldier in Uganda and circulate it via YouTube and other platforms to call attention to the plight of youth in the developing world.
When Reitz Lange, the producers of the Gossip Girl "machinima" videos needed to create a dry cleaners set in Second Life, I suggested that they green the virtual store. — AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed
Understanding Islam through Virtual Worlds: the machinima, graphic novel and report! — The Click Heard Round the World
Several people at the event remarked that before they saw the machinima, they were a bit unclear on the point of the project, but afterwards they got it. — The Click Heard Round the World
This session will cover all the tech of making machinima - from hardware and software to in-game strategies to post production issues. — Michael Verdi