Machinima

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Machinima ( ) is an animation technique using real-time screen capturing in computer graphics engines, video games and virtual worlds to create a cinematic production. The term machinima is a portmanteau of the words machine and cinema. According to Guinness World Records, machinima is an art of making animated narrative films from computer graphics, most commonly used by video games. Machinima-based artists, sometimes called machinimists or machinimators, are often fan laborers, by virtue of their reuse of copyrighted materials (see below). Machinima offers to provide an archive of gaming performance and access to the look and feel of software and hardware that may already have become obsolete or even unavailable. For game studies, "Machinima's gestures grant access to gaming's historical conditions of possibility and how machinima offers links to a comparative horizon that informs, changes, and fully participates in videogame culture." The practice of using graphics engines from video...

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