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3D Game-Based Filmmaking: The Art of Machinima (with CD-ROM) Paperback – July 19, 2004

by Paul Marino (Author)

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The Machinima approach to creating movies promises to revolutionize the computer animation industry and this book will serve as the industry bible for emerging filmmakers. It expertly covers the very latest technology in filmmaking, from the history of Machinima, who the major players are, and where the Machinima movement is going. Conventional filmmakers are quickly adopting this medium as a much easier and economical way to produce animation films. This book contains a wealth of tips, tricks, and solid techniques to creating your own Machinima films from some of the best creative minds in the industry. Numerous hands-on projects are provided to show readers how to expertly create, edit, and view their own films. Some of the hot topics covered include developing actors, preparing sets, incorporating audio, adding special audio and visual effects, using the best post production techniques, using the best game engines, and much more.

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520 pages
Language

English
Publisher

Paraglyph Press
Publication date

July 19, 2004
Dimensions

7 x 1.23 x 9.12 inches
ISBN-10

1932111859
ISBN-13

978-1932111859
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The Machinima approach to creating movies promises to revolutionize the computer animation industry and this book will serve as the industry bible for emerging filmmakers. It expertly covers the very latest technology in filmmaking, from the history of Machinima, who the major players are, and where the Machinima movement is going. Conventional filmmakers are quickly adopting this medium as a much easier and economical way to produce animation films. This book contains a wealth of tips, tricks, and solid techniques to creating your own Machinima films from some of the best creative minds in the industry. Numerous hands-on projects are provided to show readers how to expertly create, edit, and view their own films. Some of the hot topics covered include developing actors, preparing sets, incorporating audio, adding special audio and visual effects, using the best post production techniques, using the best game engines, and much more.

About the Author

Paul Marino is an award-winning Machinima director and designer, having worked in this new medium for the past five years. He now leads the Academy of Machinima Arts and Sciences as its Executive Director and board member. His work with The ILL Clan has received much praise and recognition including taking top honors in Showtime Networks' 2001 Alternative Media Festival & the Pixxelpoint International Computer Animation Festival. He was also selected to participate in Web Lab's Crossover workshop--a week-long intensive advised by industry notables such as David Lynch, Alison Anders, and John Cameron Mitchell.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Paraglyph Press; 1st edition (July 19, 2004)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 520 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1932111859
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1932111859
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.8 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7 x 1.23 x 9.12 inches

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David Reed

Will save beginners from countless Google searches

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 30, 2004

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I heard of machinima about a week ago in the Economist magazine which also featured comments from Paul Marino, this book's author. A week later and I've got the book, but I'm a little let down but what the book has added to my knowledge.

I'd say someone who has only heard of machinima and hasn't designed their own level in a 3D game would get tons of gems from this book. Whereas poor me with a week's worth of Google searches looking for tutorials on UnrealEd 3.0 and so forth - well I only got enough information to round out my status as a serious machinima beginner.

In fairness, however, after a couple of hours with the book I was able to get the finishing touches I was looking for and successfully burned my first machinima movie to DVD. So it was a small boost I got but a very welcome one (the boost included my spending $29 for the full version of Fraps). So, yeah it will give you the tools in one place to get a finished product.

I am disappointed that Marino ends the book with a tutorial on character modeling. The tutorial is well-written but by its end you'll be looking at a cute character cast in concrete (no words on skinning or rigging, etc). Worse this character will be stranded in a program called Silo (by the way blender from blender.org seems just as good and is cross-platform and a free download) with no hint of the challenge of getting this spaceman into a 3D level designer.

The machinima community would be better served with a tutorial on how to get custom sounds and meshes into UnrealEd et al, and how to do lipsynching.

In short too much time spent teaching you how to use tools (tools generally come with their own instructions and tutorials anyway).

I was also disappointed to find no samples of machinima movies on the cd. These are such a pig to download after all. How about including one and then some kind of analysis about what makes that one sample special.

The book is called the Art of Machinima but it seems more like the Activity of Futzing with Tools.

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Pickens

Dated.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 5, 2013

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This type of book can only last about a year. Advances made in technology and software will launch any "how to make machininima" book into obsolescence. What is valuable are the more theoretical sections of the book which talk about time-honored aspects of filming period. But platforms and techniques and styles and the genre itself has exploded (especially in virtual worlds like Second Life) so while Paul Marino will always remain one of the founding fathers of machinima and machinima theory, and tremendously respected, I don't find this book very useful anymore as a practical guide. As history and theory, yes!

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R Zimmer

Great book for beginners and older users but not meant for the pro machinima film maker.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 5, 2013

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well this book teaches you the basics making a 3d animated film, with virtual sets, add actors and cameras, how to record everything in real time. teaches techniques for set design, cineamatography, and character design. the book comes with a disc that has powerful machinima tools. goes in detail on how to edit, produce, and distribute your own production. the disc also includes tutorials. i would have given it 5 stars but it does not cover sims 3 the book covers sims 2. i hope they will revise the book to include sims 3 or a book using sims three by itself.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 12, 2015

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Not impressed. Its outdated its useless, you can find more and better info by googling it.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 8, 2004

Marino does a superb job of detailing Machinima's short history, hitting on the high points in its growth from a spark to a major media storm banging down on mainstream media's door.

3D Game-Based Film Making covers most of the basics in the creation of a machinima film while at the same time informing the reader of the many ways that machinima and conventional filming share some of the same techniques and history but also showing the power that machinima welds that sets it apart.

The tutorials in the book are geared for people just getting their feet wet in this vast new medium. Marino takes a slow but meaningful pace so that readers can "walk through" the lessons and have a chance to review the steps they have just taken without getting lost in the process.

The book does have it's shortfalls but I guess this is due to the world of machinima being so vast. Having some of the tutorials examples on the disc would have been nice to have something to compare you work to. Also having some machinima films to watch so there can be some visual reinforcement of what you are trying to create but I suspect it was due to legal issues that they could not be included.

Overall well worth the price for the beginner who is just getting into the medium. The amount of information is staggering but when you go through it, it enriches the journey of discovery into this brave new world.

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get an early start

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 3, 2004

Did any of you go to various Internet World conventions in the 1990s? Where VRML companies extolled its virtues and described how it was the future. Well, VRML was ahead of its hardware. Its successor appears to be Machinima.

Marino gives a nice explanation of its merits. The convergence of 3 approaches. Traditional filmmaking. Animation. And the 3D game techniques spawned by Quake. The text has enough examples to let you get started as your own film director, given a typical PC made in 2004 as your hardware platform.

It may indeed be as Marino suggests. That we are lucky to be present at the start of an entirely new era of artistic creativity. One that is very democratic. For a minimal outlay of capital, you can script and play out your own film. Essentially limited only by your own ability. The equivalent of music synthesisers that let anyone be a composer.

The illustrations in this book also suggest that these are early years. The relatively low resolution of the images points to room for further advances in resolution and rendering. Also, while the book shows a panoply of things you can do in Machinima, undoubtedly more powerful editing capabilities will emerge later. Which may be all to the good for you. Plenty of room for you to help bring about these advances.

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How to .. if you have the right tools.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on December 6, 2007

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This books is a good beginners guide to Machinima IF you have the right tools that are used and explained in the book. i.e. Unreal Ed, Machinimation (a demo is provided on the CD). If however you do not wish to buy these tools then this books is not the best facilitator to start with.

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DavidStrife

The First Quality Book On Machinima

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on August 26, 2012

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Fairly hard to acquire as it is semi-rare I've found, unless you're prepared to pay quite handsomely for it. The first real book on Machinima, but also the most important alongside Henry's Anthology of papers and articles "The Machinima Reader". It's a good starting point for anyone not familiar to the medium, and will quickly familiarise you with its concepts. There is a subtle difference between film and Machinima, this book acknowledges as such, and even goes into a discussion about the medium holistically, offering a good academic perspective on the subject as well.

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