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2005 Halo Machinima Award Winners 61

Posted by Zonk from the what's-a-puma? dept.
ThatWeasel writes "It was announced on /. almost two months ago and now, finally, the 3rd Annual 'Rockets on Prisoner' Awards have announced this year's Winners. Several video segments have been produced documenting the Nominees and Winners, along with the acceptance speeches from the lucky few who will be receiving golden Master Chief statues for their excellent work in Machinima. With awards Ceremonies like this, who needs the Oscars?"
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  • A question: (Score:4, Informative)

    by drsquare ( 530038 ) on Monday October 24, 2005 @03:01AM (#13861989)
    What is this actually about? It isn't explained either in the summary nor in the article. The title and the summary seem to have nothing in common.

    • Re:A question: (Score:2, Funny)

      by Anonymous Coward
      The title and the summary seem to have nothing in common.

      You must be new here. Welcome to Slashdot!

    • Re:A question: (Score:5, Informative)

      by FidelCatsro ( 861135 ) <fidelcatsro&gmail,com> on Monday October 24, 2005 @03:07AM (#13862009) Journal
      From the Article

      "Welcome: to the Official Website for the 2005 "Rockets on Prisoner" Awards. These awards are given to the best Halo Machinima videos created by the Fans of Halo and Halo 2 on the Xbox and PC"

      Machinima is the type of videos , Rockets on prisoner is the name of the awards , Halo is apparently the game

      • Re:A question: (Score:5, Informative)

        by GoodOmens ( 904827 ) on Monday October 24, 2005 @03:12AM (#13862020) Homepage
        As per Wikipedia: As a production technique, the term concerns the rendering of computer-generated imagery (CGI) using low-end 3D engines (as opposed to high-end and complex 3D engines used by professionals) in video games (typically, engines in first person shooters games have been used). Consequently, the rendering can be done in real-time using PCs (either using the computer of the creator or the viewer), rather than with complex 3D engines using huge render farms. *More can be found here [wikipedia.org]

    • Simply put: (Score:4, Informative)

      by a.different.perspect ( 817184 ) on Monday October 24, 2005 @04:00AM (#13862122) Journal
      Machinima is a genre of cinema made with video games. In the case of productions like Red vs Blue [wikipedia.org], this involves taking video feeds from a game (like Halo in multiplayer) in which "actors" control characters as per a script and subsequently, on a computer, editing the footage and adding an audio layer for dialogue; in other instances, it can mean scripting a game engine (like Half-Life 2's Source). What it always means is, as I said, films from games.
       
      Some history here [wikipedia.org].
    • Heard about this from a friend before... didn't know it was called Machinima until now.

      Basically, they're making film through a game. Each person playing their role, recording their sessions. Maybe another player logged in can be a 'camera man' viewing the whole 'play' (or movie) from a 3rd person point of view (and recording). Afterwards, each actors' and cameraman's sessions can be taken and edited together and that becomes the movie. Dialogue can be added during post-processing I guess.

      Imagine making the

  • Dear lord, those sucked (Score:5, Interesting)

    by Aqua OS X ( 458522 ) on Monday October 24, 2005 @03:30AM (#13862061)
    I know this may come across as flame bate, but damn, some of those were downright painful to watch.

    I don't really have a problem with Red Vs. Blue. Those guys can be fairly funny. But man, I found myself actually felling embarrassed for some of the directors (?) of those machinema flicks.

    They weren't good, and they weren't bad enough to be funny. They were just kind of, umm, "uncomfortable" bad.

    Now, for good machinema, watch Summoner Geeks [devilducky.com]

  • This is the potential of Machinima? (Score:4, Insightful)

    by joetheappleguy ( 865543 ) on Monday October 24, 2005 @03:38AM (#13862077) Homepage
    Over a gig of videos on that site and the 3 random ones I watched were total shit - Lots of Blue vs Red wannabe clones and some boring footage of Halo matches.

    Anything in there with an actual story?

  • Who Needs Oscars? (Score:3, Funny)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 24, 2005 @03:44AM (#13862090)
    With awards Ceremonies like this, who needs the Oscars?
    I dunno...real filmmakers?

    • Re:Who Needs Oscars? (Score:5, Funny)

      by biryokumaru ( 822262 ) * <biryokumaru@gmail.com> on Monday October 24, 2005 @03:55AM (#13862117)

      No, he said "Oscars," not "Sundance Film Festival." I can see how you might get the two confused. One has scantily clad women and colorful blinking lights, and the other has films.

      • No, he said "Oscars," not "Sundance Film Festival." I can see how you might get the two confused. One has scantily clad women and colorful blinking lights, and the other has films.

        Actually, BOTH now have scantily clad women and colorful blinking lights. Sundance sold-out to the big studios long ago.

        If you want to see real films and filmmakers, try the Independent Spirit Awards. No tux's, no Robert Redford ego trips, no union shut-outs--just interesting and innovative movies.

        Okay, granted, there is the occa

  • Bloodspell (Score:5, Informative)

    by Pyromage ( 19360 ) on Monday October 24, 2005 @03:49AM (#13862101) Homepage
    The RvB guys do some good work, especially considering the tools at their disposal, and have fairly good writing for many of their episodes.


    However, I'd like to plug the guys doing a new machinima: Bloodspell [bloodspell.com]. That group has done a number of machinima shorts and features over the years and has constantly been pushing the envelope with machinima. The quality they get out of engines never designed for this is amazing.

  • If you want to watch some good machinima, the original Doom has some great stuff done for it. Try this: Imp Encounter [picapic.net].

  • 2005 Machinima Film Festival (Score:3, Informative)

    by Moe Napoli ( 826364 ) on Monday October 24, 2005 @09:29AM (#13863253)
    A larger appeal (and real-life) Machinima festival [machinima.org] takes place next month in New York. They have their own awards too (the Mackies?).

    Not Halo-specific, and hopefully, with a much better offering of works.
    • I wish I could go attend this! I hope they produce a DVD "best-of" release or something. Because downloading and installing and tweaking all the drivers to render it locally would be a pain in the ass.

      Anyway, folks who're into novel uses of existing technology should take a look at Notacon [notacon.org], a yearly tech gathering in Ohio. You know you want to enter the Anything But Ethernet contest!

      If there's interest from the Machinima community, I'm sure some projector time could be arranged. If some experienced animator
  • I realize they may be receiving a minor slashdotting, but I'm not going to download a video without seeing at least a tiny thumbnail screenshot so I'll know what the hell I'm wasting all this time to see.
    • Now, this is *just* a guess... but I think you're going to see what appears to be a screenshot of Halo (2). I don't know what exactly you're expecting to see on a screenshot, perhaps a script and a length would be more appropriate to understand what you're getting? On the other hand, if you do want to see a coupla hundred halo 2 screen shots... go for it
      • I think you're going to see what appears to be a screenshot of Halo (2)

        If what you're saying is that any of these movies is so visually undifferentiated that it's pointless to see a screenshot, then I don't really understand the point of watching any of them. The videos should be creative enough that there is going to be some screenshot that makes the video stand out from the other videos and the regular game. If this is unrealistic or impossible then I apologize for showing any falsely placed interest an
  • Oh God, I can't erase the memory! It was so awful, so banal to hear dramatic lines delivered in such bored tones.

    And those were the winners.

    I know these aren't professionals, but is it really so hard to inject some emotion?

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