Red vs. Blue Makes Green 35
Allen Varney writes in this week's edition of The Escapist about the beauty of Rooster Teeth's machinima, why Red vs. Blue is as good as it is, and why there is money to be made in this burgeoning art form. From the article: "Often, by the time we hear of fortunes being made in a new way, it's already too late to get in. But in machinima, the barrier to entry remains absurdly low, the need for professionalism desperate. If you're funny or interesting, can voice-act well, and produce reliably over the medium term - and you don't quit - there's absolutely nothing blocking you from success." I'm rather fond of some of the supremely odd Machinima based in World of Warcraft - such as Illegal Danish -Super Snacks or the Switcher videos. Any machinima you'd like to recommend to your fellow users?
Not exactly machinima but (Score:4, Interesting)
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Buddha mode off...
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Oh its about games (Score:5, Funny)
Copyright issues? (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Copyright issues? (Score:5, Informative)
- Game companies don't care if you make the machinima..heck, it's even free advertising for them.
- Some productions, like Tra5hta1k by the ILL Clan, use cheap engines (Torque) that you can afford to buy the rights
- Red vs. Blue was found by Bungie, and they arranged for Rooster Teeth to get the rights to their product, so they can sell t-shirts, DVDs, etc. This so far is a unique case. Other Halo machinimas have been turned down by M$, most likely thanks to the upcoming movie.
- Most machinima can't make money directly, but there's an increasing potential for careers in the industry. Recently both Blizzard and BioWare have hired from the machinima community (I'm one of the hires
Double Cliffs:
- Is it legal to take any game, make machinima out of it, and sell it? NO! Has there been any lawsuits yet? No. Has there been cease/desist requests? Yes, a couple that I know of. Asking the legal questions regarding machinima don't get solid answers because there are no solid answers yet. We're still in its infancy.
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Re:Copyright issues? (Score:5, Informative)
www.mprem.com (Machinima Premiere)
www.sims99.com
www.warcraftmovies.com
These are some of the larger community sites. Or you could try finding productions you like, and contacting the producers themselves. At this stage, machinima is above no one
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This Spartan Life has been working with Microsoft, and with the recent movie fall through, they will likely secure DVD rights.
I can't comment too much on it since I'm only their hosting provider. Yesterday I had to setup a user account for Microsoft with ftp access to their site so I think thats a good sign.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use#Fair_use_and _parody/ [wikipedia.org]
So long as you're using the machinima for comedic purposes, you're usually good. You're safer if you're using it to make fun of the game itself, but so long as the company that owns the product in question isn't particularly letigious you're usually in goo
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Case 1: you take a game and use its stock art to create your film. I'm pretty sure you'll get smacked down in court with this method unless you clear it beforehand, or there's some loophole in the game's EULA or something.
Case 2: you take a moddable engine and make all new art, or use capital-f Free art. I think there's less chance of getting sued here, however it's a very grey-looking area, and IANAL, so yeah.
Of course, ther
Machinima Festival Nominees (Score:4, Informative)
Pwned life (Score:5, Interesting)
I still like Battlefield 2: The Pwned Life [google.com]. :-)
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As far as machinima goes, I'm stuck in the past. I've barely seen any machinima since Quake. What little I've seen of Red vs. Blue hasn't impressed me all that much.
South Park Machinima (Score:5, Informative)
South Park did an episode [youtube.com] where they were playing WoW and much of the episode was Machinima. As usual with Matt and Trey, it was great.
A Machinama I Made (Score:1)
Teh Internet is 4 PRON (Score:1)
-Matt
WoW Machinima (Score:2, Informative)
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does the quake the movie count? (Score:1)
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Restroom etiquette (Score:1)
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