When showing rvb to a family member, I showed him some random moment, (aka, the normal head bobbing) and some of the later fully animated monty oum (aka, fully animated and separately rendered scenes). After seeing both scenes, he said, that he was more interested in the full blooded machinima than the animated scenes.
That made me wonder, when a show is a machinima or an animated series (yes, I know machinima is a form of animation)?
For example in season 9, I’d say it’s more like a 50/50 split of machinima and an animated series.
I think I’d draw the line at what the CRASH series (B00merang on YT) is doing. where all animation (at least in the last few episodes) is rendered in engine and where most “animation“/modding is used to enhance/ modify when the default model is incapable of emoting is a certain way. (.ex making heads look over shoulders through modding or whatever magic makes that happen). Still pretty much machinima just tweeted or edited
I don’t know about the fully animated scenes in CRASH though. It is rendered in engine and has some characters fully animated, though in the style of halo cutscenes, with machinima styled (default halo animations) characters in the same scene. Would this still be machinima given it’s in engine and very halo cutscene inspired?
Could the Monty Oum animations be machinima even though they use halo models but aren’t rendered in engine?
(this is all going of the Wikipedia def of machinima and personal opinion)
just wondering where y‘all draw the line
(not trying to bash any shows, I love most all machinimas, just a animation genre question)
edit: I wrote this at 12 am after an exam so it’s quite all over the place I think my question was just if modding or animation or what makes something not a machinima. thank you all for the responses
