So we would differentiate these from real-time video because RTV does not use human players?<div><br></div><div>The reason I brought up blue screens is because if we had a modern equivalent to Who Framed Roger Rabbit (say a sci fi war film with some guy from Unreal in it). Roger Rabbit is animation, but it is not a fully animated film.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I'm going to leave the rest of the defining to Henry for now as he's covered more terrain than I have.</div><div><br></div><div>Regarding your glossary, I think such a book would be incredibly helpful, especially if it is including technical terms used by artists and programmers. Someone who is familiar with all the terms will be able to communicate with fellow artists and programmers (something that seems to be a problem in the industry as well as in education).<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 3:22 AM, Andrew Armstrong <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:andrew@aarmstrong.org">andrew@aarmstrong.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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Oh, hold my own horses, my mini-glossary I did write a mini machinima
definition for myself, I wonder if this fits. Again, I wanted to find
examples (there should be a lot more blue links or references!) but not
too bad re-reading it now for 2 paragraphs despite being a bit "meh" on
the descriptive side of content. Note while I want to get
pronounciations, alternative spellings etc. I've obviously not done it
to any standard here ;)<br>
<br>
Just an example as it were.<br>
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<h3>Machinima<br>
</h3>
<dl>
<dd><i>Pronounced:</i> "Ma-shin-e-ma"
</dd>
</dl>
<p>From the words "Machine", "Animation" and "Cinema", it is the
description of a range of videos made from filming videogames. These
sometimes are specially made for a game to explain some story (released
separately from the game, so thus not a cutscene), or be a fully
released online video of a games content and playthrough (such as <a href="http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22Anachronox%22%20AND%20collection%3Aanimationandcartoons" title="http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22Anachronox%22%20AND%20collection%3Aanimationandcartoons" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Anachronox</a>).
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<p>Most commonly they are fictional films, based sometimes on the
original characters but often new ones, with their own plot and filming
unrelated to the normal game. There are also music videos, films, and
series of works rather then one off's, or series based on the original
characters. Usually the "cast" is played by player avatars in the
multiplayer mode of the game.
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