Hodge Podge of Machinima Stodge

Ya that title makes no sense but either will this post. Well it will, but it won't.

First off, I checked out this video of the new Metal Gear Solid (4) engine in action. Real-time glory...on crappy video, so you can't really see detailed goodness but its implied... in Japanese, but there is subtitles, sort of. Its a good watch if you want to see some next-gen engine features in action, after all, this is the machinima of the future.

Speaking of machinima, this film is getting a lot of attention. More and more the virtualization of everything is allowing us to re-create events of the past, and baseball. Too bad its not really machinima. Which raises the question, with the previous machinima hooked article about Spike Lee having custom video game footage in his film and this 2D video game footage, is it possible for the media to actually change the meaning of machinima from 'filming inside a real-time 3D virtual environment' to 'video game footage'. I think we're already starting to see the answer.

On the flip side, machinima doesn't necessarily mean 'storytelling' either, which is why I love non-traditional things like This Spartan Life and other unique recordings inside 3D environments.

The important thing and meaning of it all, as Rooster Teeth has taught us. If your going to do something, do it well, or you will be hearing about it for weeks after you did it.

That is all.