{"id":1089,"date":"2007-10-21T04:16:17","date_gmt":"2007-10-21T04:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"\/ifbookblog\/?p=1089"},"modified":"2007-10-21T04:16:17","modified_gmt":"2007-10-21T04:16:17","slug":"machinima","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/2007\/10\/21\/machinima\/","title":{"rendered":"machinimacroatia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dmu.ac.uk\/machinima\/festival_info\/index.php\">machinima<\/a> festival to be held in Europe took place at DMU in Leicester &#8211; and in Second Life &#8211;  on 12-14 October. This quickly-growing genre fuses film-making and computer gaming to provide a quick and cost-effective way to create animated films. Bob Stein&#8217;s interview in This Spartan Life is a wonderful example.<br \/>\nBest Experimental award went to Cirque du Machinima: Cuckoo Clock by Tom Jantol of Croatia. it&#8217;s great to see something made in this way which has such a thoroughly non-Hollywood aesthetic. There&#8217;s amazing potential here for writers &#8211; and readers &#8211; to create visualisations of work without teams of techies and budgets of millions.<br \/>\n<embed src='http:\/\/origin.www.atomfilms.com:80\/a\/autoplayer\/shareEmbed.swf?keyword=cirque_du_machinima' width='426' height='350'><\/embed><\/p>\n<div style='border-top:1px solid #343f43; padding:5px 0 7px 0; text-align:center; width:426px; background:#1a3441; color:#fff; font: bold 10px verdana, sans-serif;'><a href='http:\/\/www.atomfilms.com\/?brand=embed' target='_blank' style='color:#fff'>AtomFilms.com<\/a>: <a href='http:\/\/www.atomfilms.com\/films\/comedy.jsp?brand=embed' target='_blank' style='color:#c1ddf2; margin:0 5px;'>Funny Videos<\/a> | <a href='http:\/\/www.atomfilms.com\/films\/animation.jsp?brand=embed' target='_blank' style='color:#c1ddf2; margin:0 5px;'>Funny Cartoons<\/a> | <a href='http:\/\/www.comedycentral.com\/?brand=embed' target='_blank' style='color:#c1ddf2; margin-left:5px;'>Comedy Central<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first machinima festival to be held in Europe took place at DMU in Leicester &#8211; and in Second Life &#8211; on 12-14 October. This quickly-growing genre fuses film-making and computer gaming to provide a quick and cost-effective way to create animated films. Bob Stein&#8217;s interview in This Spartan Life is a wonderful example. Best [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[618,1110],"tags":[2662],"class_list":["post-1089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-machinima","tag-machinima-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}