Machinima Links

Machinima Movies


machinima.com - Huge database of popular machinima

"Make Something Unreal" contest finalists - Links to machinima contest finalists

Bitfilm Festival - A number of pieces from Europe's first machinima festival

Anachronox: The Movie

Bloodspell - Strange Company's first feature length Machinima film

Machinima Research


The Acadamy of Machinima Arts and Sciences - The machinima equivalent of the Oscars

Georgia Tech Machinima Class - Georgia Tech Machinima class website

Stanford's "How They Got Game" Project

Machinima Archive - Dedicated to historical preservation of machinima pieces

High Performance Play: The Making of Machinima - Henry Lowood

Animation in Neuen Medien - University of Leipzig

News at Seven - Half Life 2 animated newsreader

Machinima Groups


This Spartan Life - A machinima talk show

Quake done Quick - QdQ makes movies in which the players run through Quake as fast as possible

Machinima Tutorials/Lessons/Instructionals


Filming from unusual angles - A discussion on filming techniques from the group Quake done Quick

Machinima Wiki - Tips, tricks, tutorials, and other tasty machinima treats.

Machinima Blogs


Thinking Machinima - Paul Marino's Machinima Blog

3dFilmMaker.com - Ego Central to Independent Machinima Filmmaker Ken Thai

Quake done Quick - QdQ makes movies in which the players run through Quake as fast as possible

Machinima Deutschland - German Machinima Blog

Machinima Articles


Machinimag - Online magazine for all things machinima

Spielberg and UT - Machinima techniques in AI previsualization

Is Realtime Real, Part 1 - A look at how computer games will bring motion picture quality graphics (hardware)

Is Realtime Real, Part 2 - Realtime previsualization and the staggering potential of machinima

A Brief DOOM Demo History - An article chronicling the art of DOOM demos.

Wikipedia Machinima Entry

Making Filmmaking a Game - Michelle Alexandria

A View From The Shag - Hugh Hancock

Turning a Linear Story into a Game: The Missing Link between Fiction and Interactive Entertainment - Pascal Luban and Joel Meziane

Machinima: Filmmakers Destiny - Paul Marino

Game Turns Player into Indie Moviemakers - Mike Musgrove

Machinima Marches Toward Amusing - Jason Silverman

Games Without Frontiers - Keith Stuart

Millimeter article on real time previsualization by Steve Katz