GDAY WORLD VIDCAST #09 – Machinima 101 with Paul Marino and Tom Reynolds

Posted on 27. Feb, 2007 by Cameron Reilly in Video

ThomasR alerted me last week to a machinima festival taking place in Melbourne, so on Saturday I got a leave pass from the family and went to check it out. It was really amazing, lots of great content getting produced out there using gaming engines as a shortcut to producing on-screen characters instead of 3D rendering engines. The event had people such as Gus Sorola (Red Vs. Blue), Eddo Stern (Dark Game), Peter Rasmussen (Stolen Life) and Rod Maher (FRAPS) on stage. After Saturday’s event, I asked Tom to sit down with NY-based machinima guru Paul Marino (Director of the Machinima Film Festival and Executive Director of the Academy of Machinima Arts and Sciences) to give an overview of what machinima is all about, how it gets made, the legal issues and where it is going in the future.

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5 Responses to “GDAY WORLD VIDCAST #09 – Machinima 101 with Paul Marino and Tom Reynolds”

  1. thomasr 27 February 2007 at 1:54 pm #

    Gee thanks for the outtakes at the start Cam.

    Remember this: I AM FAMOUS AND I NEED NO INTRODUCTION.

    Thomas H Reynolds, esq.
    PS am available for children’s parties, corporate events and after hours…. stuff.

  2. MattyT 27 February 2007 at 2:29 pm #

    Goddamn it, why do I always find out about this shiznat after the event!?

    Sounds like it would have been pretty cool Cam… :)

  3. RichH 28 February 2007 at 5:22 pm #

    Nice work fellas… esp like the thoughts on the future of machinima.

  4. Charlie 1 March 2007 at 8:17 pm #

    Please do not send video out on your audio feed, it really chews up my bandwidth

  5. Cameron Reilly 1 March 2007 at 9:37 pm #

    Hey Charlie – I didn’t. This shouldn’t have come down the audio feed. What feedreader are you using and what RSS feed are you subscribed to? Apologies for any inconvenience.


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