What is a Machinima

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A machinima is a film such as a show or a small movie that is made by using videogames. The characters of the film are played the in game avatar then they are put together with audio recorded separately.

This is a great way to film many things considering that in real life films it would be very hard to blow up a helicopter or take down a building but in videogames it’s something that you see daily.          

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   

The videogames that has had the most machinimas made are the games from the halo franchise. This is not surprising do to the ability to customize your character, drive and pilot vehicles, put your weapon down (something way more useful than it sounds) and customize and create in game areas. Halo also has a theater mod which allows you to be a camera that flies over old games.

Machinimas don’t have to be short skirts and movies. The longest running web series is a machinma, it’s called Red vs. Blue and it has had 10 years of yearly seasons. They are now in the 19th episode of season 10 and it’s just as good as the day it begun.

Gabriel Rodriguez