Being an old man of questionable taste, I phoned some of the local teenagers for a primer.World of Warcraft has grown over the years and has become one of the biggest sources of Machinima on the virtual Internet. Wait a second, what's that big word "Machinima" you ask? Well, Machinima is a misspelled combination of Machine and Cinema. It's basically the art of taking real time rendering engines (like video games) and creating an animation with them. It's both a simplistic and advanced form of media making. Cheap wow gold online store welcomes you! Here is the world biggest wow gold and wow power leveling trading centre.It throws away a lot of the technical aspects of creating 3D virtual animation and replaces it by recording from something that's both real time and prerendered. Anytime you record something from World of Warcraft you are technically creating Machinima. There are even contests sponsored by Blizzard for Machinima artists.
Machinima doesn't just have to be dramas and comedies either. While technically not accepted as art, raid recordings can fall in the the category of Machinima. They're not art, but they are incredibly useful, especially for showing off or for analyzing your guild's movements. There is a lot that can be done with recordings from inside of the game. Let's find out how.
About Machinima
Machinima is often made using a rendering engine (World of Warcraft in our instance), some screencasting software, and some editing software. The first we already have or should have. You're probably also going to need some friends to help out as well, but those aren't included in this guide. You are going to need some friends if you're recording a raid, unless of course, you're a bad enough person to take on Kel'Thuzad by yourself. For screencasting (recording things on your monitor) you could just take a camcorder and point it at your monitor but that's not going to work really well. You are probably going to want to invest into Fraps which costs $39 dollars and comes with a free trial version. If you're on a budget you can look into Taksi which is an opensource alternative. Even better is if you are a Mac user. The Mac version of WoW comes with a built in video recording with more options than you can imagine.
For editing software it's going to depend really on what you need to get done. If you just want to play around or just record your raid, then you'll want Windows Movie Maker (free with many versions of Windows) or VirtualDub (open source). If you've got the money then there is Sony Vegas and Adobe Premiere, both very expensive programs.Buy wow gold, cheap wow gold, world of warcraft gold. We are professional wow gold store online. The software is needed because you'll want to add titles, transitions, and effects, and you will also want to cut down on the massive filesizes that programs like Fraps creates. For most of us out there who just want to record our raids, instances, or create short clips for friends then there isn't a lot of reason to go all out just yet. The following is a very basic primer to Machinima. There is A LOT to it, more so than this one guide goes into it, but I hope this guide points you in the right direction towards filming your WoW movie dreams.
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